Lot 08005

DAPPER Olfert, “Description Exacte des Isles de lArchipel […] Chypre, Rhodes, Candie, Samos, Chio […] Traduite du Flamand”, Amsterdam: George Gallet, 1703.

First French edition, in Folio (39x26cm.), [8] 556 [4] pp. Engraved frontispiece dated 1702; most engravings & maps are missing, slight foxing inside, uncut page edges. Hard-bound book with contemporary carton boards, rather worn. Handwritten title with ink on upper spine. Slight worm activity. Dappers work is as much a lamentfor the present state of Greeces past glories as it is an architectural & archaeological guide. Atabey, 323; Blackmer, 453.