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Olfert Dapper (d.1690)

Gedenkwaerdig bedryf der Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Maetschappye. Amsterdam: Jacob van Meurs, 1670-1671. 3 parts in one volume, 2 (30.3 x 19.5cm.) Title in red and black, instructions to the binder slip pasted on verso of final leaf. Engraved additional title, 39 maps, plans and plates, 5 folding and 28 double-page, 57 engraved illustrations. (Small repairs to outer blank margins of a few leaves.) Contemporary Dutch speckled calf, spine gilt in seven compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with repeat pattern of stylised foliage around a central lozenge-stamp (light scuffing to joints). FIRST EDITION.

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