Naukeurige beschryving van Morea, eertijts Peloponnesus; 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, en andere in grooten Getale
Amsterdam: voor Wolfgangh, Waesbergen, Boom, Someren En Goethals, 1688. Item #050581
Behelzende derzelver lantschappen, steden, rivieren, poelen, bergen, gewassen, direren, &c. Met de kaerten van Morea, Golf van Venetien, en verscheide eilanden: beneffens afbeeldingen van steden en kastelen, als Patraffo, Modon, Koron, Navarino, Napoli di Romania en Malvasia, Korinthen, Misitra, &c. 2 parts in one: [4 leaves] 40, 32, 25-56, 25-168p; [12] 1-120, (105)-(116) 121-164 [6]p.), b/w plates and maps (including 6 foldouts). Two folded plates have a bit of tape reinforcement on the folds. Added engraved titlepage. Besides the maps, the plates offer views, coinage, and other aspects of this Greek area. Bound quarto with black cloth, gilt spine lettering, and marbled endpapers. Major 17th-century account of the environs of the Greek Peloponnesus done by Dapper (1636-1689), a Dutch physician and travel writer, who actually never left the Netherlands in his lifetime but assembled his guides from earlier explorers and geographers.
Price: $2,500.00