DAPPER, OLFERT. 1636-1689.
Description Exacte des Isles de L'Archipel et de Quelques Autres Adjacentes. Amsterdam: George Gallet, 1703.
Folio (350 x 231 mm). Half-title, additional engraved half-title, title printed in red and black, 34 engraved plates (18 double-page, 1 folding), numerous engraved illustrations in text. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in six compartments. Rubbed, lower joint cracked, upper joint starting, renewed endpapers.
FIRST FRENCH EDITION. Dapper was a Dutch physician who wrote a number of illustrated books on history and the geography of parts of the world that he never visited. In fact, he never left his home country. Blackmer 453.