[Travels - Greece] - Dapper, Olfert - Naukeurige beschryving van Morea, eertijts Peloponnesus,
Estimation :
€1500/2000
Adjudication :
1700 €
Description
en de eilanden gelegen onder de kusten van Morea, en binnen en buiten de Golf van Venetien: waer onder de voornaemste Korfu, Cefalonia, Sant Maura, Zanten (...) behelzende derzelver lantschappen, steden, rivieren, poelen, bergen, gewassen, dieren (...). Amsterdam, Wolfgang, Waesbergen, Boom, Someren en Goethals, 1688, folio, cont. blindstamped vellum (corners sl. bumped), central ornament on covers, spine on 6 raised bands, gilt red leather title label, [8]- 48, pp. 33/40, 32, pp. 25/56, pp. 25-168, [12]-120-pp. 105/116-pp. 121/164-[6-2 bl.] pp. (minor spotting, single wormholes in lower margins, sm. hole in blank part of Y3, inner margin of p. 9/10 strenghtened; pl. “Kaep van Matapan” lacking). Good copy. Cfr. ill. 1st edition of a description of greece and the eastern part of the Mediterranean by O. dapper (1639-1689). Engr. ills: front., 6 full-page pl., 29 half-page ills in text and 10 (of 11) double-page pls: maps, i.a. one of the Peloponesus, “nova et accurata Moreae olim Peloponnesus” by J. Blaeu (some tears, repaired at verso), “caarte vande golf van venetien”, “Pianta dell. isola di corfu con parte della grecia” and views as “de stad en vesting van navarino”, “de stadt Modon”, “de stad Napoli di Romania”, “De stad en kasteel van Korfu”, etc. Title in red & black, text in 2 cols. Ref. Tiele 303. Haitsma Mulier/VanderLem 141i. STCN (i.a. BL). BnF. NUC.
