Ex libris of the writer and Hellenist Pouqueville
Dapper Olfert Description exacte des isles de L´Archipel et de quelque autres adjacentes dont les principales sont Chypre,rhodes,Candie,Samos,Chio.... Amsterdam George Gallet 1703
First french edition.folio.Engraved frontispiece mounted in old paper,34 maps and views most of them folded.42 engravings in text,3 leaves,556 pages, 2 leaves.Manuscript ex libris of Pouqueville,writer and hellenist, member of the "savants" group accompaniying Napoleon in his expedition to Egypt.laterly was appointed Consul at Ioannina(Greece) and in Patras (1815).Fine copy in original calf binding.Internally a fine and clean copy ofthis classical work
Dapper(1636-89) was a physician,geographer and scholar. he wrote several works about Asia,America,Africa and Greece at a time that interest was focused on Greece for its struggle against Turkish at Candia for a 27 years siege.
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