DAPPER, Olfert. Navigation Page.

 
 
DAPPER, Olfert.
Naukeurige beschryving der eilanden, in de archipel der Middelantsche zee, en ontrent dezelve, gelegen. Waer onder de voornaemste Cyprus, Rhodus, Kandien, Samos, Scio, Negroponte, Lemnos, Paros, Delos, Patmos, en andere, in groten getale, behelzende der zelver benamingen, gelegentheden, steden, kastelen, gedenkwaerdige aeloude en hedendaeghse geschiedenissen, bestieringen, veroveringen, gewassen, dieren, &c.
Amsterdam, Wolfgangh, Waesbergen, Boom, Someren en Goethals, 1688. Folio. Contemporary vellum, spine ribbed with red morocco title label, sides with blind stamped outer and inner double fillet borders and central blind stamped ornament. Condition: A very good copy.
Engraved title, title page in red & black, large folding engraved map, 17 engraved double page engraved maps and plates, 14 full page engraved plates and 47 engraved illustrations in text.
First edition of the well-known and extensive work on the Mediterranean islands. Containing beautifully and detailed executed maps and descriptions of Cyprus, Rhodos, Samos, Lemnos, Paros and many more. Dapper's book is a magnificent production as far as printing is concerned and at the same time an interesting source for the islands of the Mediterranean Archipelago. Dapper never visited the places he described in his book . He compiled his descriptions from the writings of known travellers, or from the accounts of seamen.
Some of the plates in this work are based on the designs from Boschini's L'Archipelago (Venice,1658). A French translation was published in Amsterdam in 1703.
 
Price: CyP. 5500.00