Olfert Dapper (Dutch, 1689-1639) - View of Jaffa, Etching, 1677.

Olfert Dapper (Dutch, 1689-1639) - View of Jaffa, Etching, 1677.

Olfert Dapper (Netherlands, 1689-1639) - View of Jaffa, Etching, 1677.

Tittle: Jaffa, Vulgo Joppen, Volgens de Afteeckening Gedaen Int Laer

Jaffa as seen from the sea.

30x36cm.

Amsterdam Jacob Meurs 1677. Copper engraved view of Jaffa from Olfert Dappers Asia...Naukeurige beschryving van gantsch Syrie, en Palestyn of Heilige Lant. Double page, black & white, verso blank. The view looks at the city from the sea, large ship firing a broadside in the foreground. Good impression, folded to fit binding, lower margin short (approx 5mm).  Dapper was born in a working-class district of Amsterdam, in around 1635. He was baptised at the Lutheran church in January 1636. In May 1658, he enrolled at Utrecht University and two years later was signing himself doctor medicina, although there is no evidence that he ever received any medical training. Unlike his contemporaries, he never had his portrait reproduced in his books. Following a growing publishing trend in Amsterdam, Dapper was just over thirty when he embarked on the geographical research that was to occupy him for the rest of his life. He threw himself into a vast undertaking, tackling first Africa (1668), then China (1670), Persia and Georgia (1672), Asia (1677) Arabia (1680) the Greek Archipelago and The Morea both in 1688 Middle East Israel Jaffa Joppen Tel Aviv.