Description exacte des isles de l'archipel, et quelques autres adjacentes; dont les principales sont Chypre, Rhodes, Candie, Samos, Chio, Negrepont, Lemnos, Paros, Delos, Patmos, avec un grand nombre d'autres [...]. Enrichie de plusieurs cartes des isles, et de figures en taille-douce qui représentent les habits de leurs habitants, les plantes et les animaux les moins connus.

Folio: [8 incl. engr. title]-556-[3] pp.; 34 pl. (sl. marg. dampstaining, some sl. foxing).

Contemp. marbled calf, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, red edges (sl. dampstaining, sl. rubbed, joints split, tail missing, wormholes to lower cover).

First French ed. (1st 1688) of this work on the Greek islands. Illustrated with an engr. title, a large fold. map "Carte de l'Archipel et isles de l'Archipel", 33 maps and views a.o. "Cyprus insula", "Insularum archipelagi septentrionalis", "Archipelagi meridionalis", "Het eylant Rhodus", "Salinas of soutpannen", etc. (of which some fold.) and 43 in-texto showing views (Pelagnisi, Dromi, Paris, Schiros, Andro, Sara, Tino, Santorini...), maps, costumes, fauna and flora. Remarkable geographical work by O. Dapper (1639-1689) written in his very own characteristic style. Interesting description summarizing everything known of the archipel (isles) in that time. Title in red and black.
Ref. Chadenat 1085. - Tiele, p. 72 (31 pl.). - Blackmer [sale cat.] 90. - Cp. Navari 190 (1st ed., mentionning our ed.). - Not in Legrand, Bibliogr. ionienne.
Prov. De Villiers (armorial bookpl.).