Naukeurige beschryving van Asie
Subtitle: behelsende de gewesten van Mesopotamie, Babylonie, Assyrie, Anatolie, of Klein Asie, beneffens eene volkome beschrijving van gansch Gelukkigh, Woest, en Petreesch of Steenigh Arabie...
By: Getrokken uit verscheide oude en nieuwe schrijvers, door Dr. Olfert Dapper
Contributors: Kip, Johannes, 1653-1722; Vasteau, Charles, 17th cent; Decker, Cornelis Gerritsz., ca. 1620-1678; Meurs, Jacob van, 1619-1680
Publisher: by Jacob van Meurs
Published: 1680
Place of publication: t' Amtserdam [sic]
Language: dut
Number of pages: 357
Other titles: Arabie, Mesopotamie, Babylonie, Assyrie, Anatolie
Notes: Printed in double columns.

Added engraved t. p. Some plates and in-text ill. signed by Johannes Kip, Charles Vasteau, Cornelis Decker. Map of Arabia signed by Meurs.

Signatures: *p4s a-2yp4s A-2Sp4s.

Includes indexes.

Errata, last p. of both sections.

The [15] plates are double page, tipped onto stubs at centerfold in c. 1, bound in at left margin and folded in c. 2.

Binding, c. 1: vellum, blind tooled with double frames and central medallions. Edges sprinkled red & blue. Two pairs of cloth ties at foredge. Copy 2: vellum, blind tooled with double frames and central medallions, with additional tooling in gilt along margins of boards and on spine. Edges sprinkled red & blue. Two ribbon place markers.

Copy 1 has bookplate and signature of David Dunlop, and printed label of John Landwehr. Signature of Meyer Elte (bookseller at The Hague), dated April 1919.

Copy 2 has bookplate of marquess of Donegall (i.e. Arthur Chichester, 1st marquess, d. 1799; Franks 5730); it is signed by Samuel Yates as engraver. Theodore Besterman's calligraphic label, signed P.S. Property stamp of American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.