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Coloured Engraving,"Chios, Olfert Dapper", 1636-1689

Coloured Engraving,"Chios, Olfert Dapper", 1636-1689

This wonderful coloured engraving by Olfert Dapper" is an exact description of the island of Chios. Part of the

Exact description of the islands of the archipelago, and of some others adjacent; the principal ones being Cyprus, Rhodes, Candia, Samos, Chios, Negrepont, Lemnos, Paros, Delos, Patmos.  Amsterdam: George Gallet, 1703 

The first edition was published in Dutch in 1688. Olfert Dapper (1635/6?-1689) was a Dutch physician and scholar who devoted himself to geographical and historical studies which were notable for their fine plates and illustrations, as here, though he never visited the places he described. His other works included Syria and Palestine, Asia Minor and Mesopotamia and the Morea.

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