Dapper, Olfert. Asia, Or accurate and thorough description of the gantry Syria and Palestine, or praised country. Wherein the Landcreated Phoenicia, Celesyria, Commagene ... next to those countries Perea or Ober-Jordan, Galilea etc. introduced. 2 parts in 1 volume. 3 Bl., 456 pp., 3 Bl; 1 Bl., 220 pp., 2 Bl. With copper title, 28 partly double-leaf copper plates, 40 half-sided text coppers and 8, partly folded copper engraved cards. Title in red and black. 31 x 20 cm. Blind embossed pigskin d. C. (pebbled, bruised with flaws, back restored) over wooden lid, with gold emboded RSchild and 2 brass clasps. Nuremberg, Wittwe Jacob von Meursen, 1681. VD17 39:133144U. Lipperheide Lc 3. Tiele 101, note. Tobler 212. Graesse II, 335. – First German edition. The copper title with the imprint of the first edition of 1681 ("Syria and the Promised Land"). The double-leafed copper with views of Aleoppo, Damascus, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Triplos, Mount Thabor, Carmel. The volume II with the stung folding panorama of Jerusalem. – Front inner joint open, moist and stained, slightly sticky and finger stained as well as wavy. Both titles with hs. Ownership notes.