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ASIA -- DAPPER, O. Naukeurige beschryving van Asie. Behelsende de gewesten van Mesopotamie, Babylonie, Assyrie, Anatolie, Of Klein Asie. Beneffens eene volkome beschrijving van gansch gelukkigh, woest, en petreesch of steenigh Arabie. Amst., J. v. Meurs, 1680. 2 parts in 1 vol. (6), 357, (3); 324, (4) pp. W. engr. front. (laid down), 15 double-p./fold. engr. plates (incl. 3 maps) & 22 lge engr. in text. Sm-fol. Old hcf. w. vellum sides. (Libr. tickets on spine, margins trimmed (but acceptable), ti.-p. a bit soiled, margins of plate Tower of Bable cut short/in the plate, small wormhole in first 9 lvs. and after p. 284 in the 2nd part, but actually not a very bad copy).
First edition. With views on i.a. Bagdad, Town and Tower of Babel, Ephesus, Smyrna, Muscat, Aden and the Red Sea. Olfert Dapper (1636-1689), Dutch physician and scholar, devoted most of his life to geographical studies without ever leaving his home town of Amsterdam. Using the most reliable eye-witness accounts and his own extensive library of travel books he composed authoratitive works on Asia, Africa and America. - Tiele 300.€ 1000
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