Dr. O. Dapper - Naukeurige Beschryving Van gantsch Syrie en Palestyn of Heilige Lant

Dr. O. Dapper - [Beschrijving van Heilige Land ]: Naukeurige Beschryving Van gantsch Syrie en Palestyn of Heilige Lant: Behelsende de Gewesten van Fenicie, Celesyrie, Kommagene, Pierie, Cyrestika, Seleucis, Kassiotis, Chalibonitis, Chalcis, Abilene, Apamene, Laodicis, Palmyrene, etc [...] - Franeker - Uitgeverij Van Wijnen - 1995 - Reprint - Hardcover - 22 x 33,5 cm.

Condition: Excellent.

Large format facsimile reprint of the book, originally published in Amsterdam, "By Jacob van Meurs, Boekverkoper [= bookseller], anno 1677". Travel description of the country, people and culture of the Middle East; Syria, Lebanon, Galilee, Palestine, modern-day Israel, by Olfert Dapper (1639-1689). With a list of subscribers. Limited edition. Two volumes in one artificial-leather bookbinding.

¶ Illustrated with black and white reproductions of the (sometimes fold-out) copper engravings; maps, city-plans; Jerusalem (with the Temple of Solomon), Damascus, inhabitants in national costumes and 'Balhaovas' (= self-mutilating Muslims), etc.