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MESOPOTAMIA - ASIA MINOR - ARABIA. DAPPER, OLFERT. Naukeurige beschryving van Asie behelsende de gewesten van Mesopotamie, Babylonie, Assyrie, Anatolie, of Klein Asie: beneffens eene volkome beschrijving van gansch gelukkigh, woest, en petreesch of steenigh Arabie... (I-II). Amsterdam (Jacob van Meurs) 1680.

Folio (370x235 mm.). (6), 1-357, (3), 1-324, (4) pp. Engraved extra title, title printed in red and black, 1 engraved double page plan (delineato regionis Bassora...), 2 folding engraved double page maps, 13 double page engraved plates, some folding (all, minor foxing), 22 engraved vignettes in text (some offsetting from vignettes to text).
Contemporary brown full calf, somewhat worn, some cracks in the joints, slightly faded richly gilt spine in seven compartments, redspeckled edges. 1 page with small burnhole, 1 page with small hole in outer margin, partly some foxing, partly some staining in upper inner margin or upper margin. Bookplate of Julius Graf von Zech. Large paper copy printed on thick paper.

Atabey 322. First edition. The plates includes views of the chief cities of Asia Minor, including Smyrna, Magnesia, Abydos, also Bagdad and Ninive.

Provenance: From the library of Ove Hassler (1904-87), Dean in Linköping, Sweden, and his son, Eivind Hassler (1939-2009).

Auktionsnummer:

6160

Datum:

2016-06-21