DAPPER, O. (OLFERT) - ASIA MINOR.

Asia, Oder genaue und gründliche Beschreibung der gantzen Syrien und Palestins, oder Gelobten Landes. Worinnen die Landschaften Phönicien, Celesyrien, Commagene, Pierien, Cyrestica, Seleucis, Cassiotis, Chalibonitis, Chalcis, Abilene, Apamene, Laodicis, Palmyrene, etc. Neben den Ländern Perea oder Ober-Jordan, Galiläa des absonderliche Palestina, Judäa und Idumena...Vorgestellet...Städte, Flüsse, Berge, Thiere, Sitten...mit schönen Landkarten und Abbildungen der vornehmsten Städte...(2 Theile).

Nürnberg Johann Hofmann, 1688-89. (The engraved allergorical title having: Amsterdam, Beÿ Jacob von Meursen nachgelassene Witve, 1681).

Folio. Cont. full calf, raised bands, old repairs to top and bottom of spine. Richly gilt compartments. Crowned royal monogram on covers inside gilt frames, gilt stamps at corners. Some wears to covers, scratches. Engraved allegorical title, printed title in red/black. 200,(4) pp; titlepage,400,(8) pp., 10 double-page engraved maps and plans, 29 engraved plates (of which 21 are double-page) and 29 half-page engravings in the text. The first ab. 35 leaves with a small wormtract in outer margin. A few scattered brownspots, otherwise clean.

Dappers well-known work on Asia Minor (here in the second German edition) was originally issued in Dutch. This German edition was translated and edited by Jacob von Meursen, who also engraved the plates. It partly depends on the older texts by Josephus, Eusebius, Hieronymus and Adricom's work on the Holy Land from 1589.

Order-nr.: 28653