Карта голландского писателя Олферта Даппера, отпечатанная в 1672 году в Амстердаме. Изображено Каспийское море и прилегающие земли. Date: 1681 ( undated ) Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 37,8 x 32,6 Даппер (Dapper), Олферт (1636? – 29.12.1689, Амстердам) – голландский врач, писатель и географ. Учился в университете в Утрехте и, получив там медицинскую степень, поселился в Амстердаме. Автор переводов (Геродот) и нескольких обширных и интересных географических сочинений-компиляций об экзотических странах, в которых, однако, сам он не бывал, но писал о них по доступным ему источникам – описаниям, отчетам и свидетельствам путешественников, дипломатов, купцов и миссионеров: «Описание Африки» («Beschrijving van Africa, Syrie en Palestina of het heilige land», 1668), «Описание Китайской Империи» («Beschrijving van tween en terie gezantschap naar China»), «Описание Азии» («Beschryving van Klein Azie»). Его труды включали в себя карты и иллюстрации. В Париже существует музей Даппера, а в Амстердаме, историю которого он написал, одна из улиц названа в его честь – Dapperstraat. CASPIAN SEA IRAN RUSSIA CENTRAL ASIA 1681 DAPPER UNUSUAL ANTIQUE ORIGINAL MAP Description Der Caspische oder Hyrcanische See. Description: Striking and highly detailed unusual 1681 Olfert Dapper's copper engraved map of the Caspian Sea. The map is presented in sea chart style with rhumb lines radiating from the central compass rose, which orients the map with north to the left. The towns and cities on the coastlines are named in both Roman and Cyrillic lettering. The map is embellished with several sailing ships and a large title cartouche flanked by a large group of diverse Asian people. The Caspian Sea remained a mystery through much of cartographic history. It was originally thought to be a huge gulf in the northern ocean and was not recognized as a landlocked sea until the late medieval period. It was then presented in a variety of shapes and sizes, nearly always on an east-west axis. It was not accurately mapped until the early 18th century when the surveys of Karl van Verden were commissioned by Russia. Source: Olfert Dapper. Umbstдndliche und eigentliche Beschreibung von Asia: in sich haltend die Landschafften Mesopotamien, Babylonien, Assyrien, Anatolien oder Klein-Asien ... ins Hochteutsche getreulichst ьbers. Von J. Ch. Beern. Nьrnberg, Ch. S. Froberg fьr J. Hoffmann, 1681. Date: 1681 ( undated ) Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 37,8 x 32,6 Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Sheet with chains. Sheet uncolored. Wide margins. Corners partially missing. Small foxing and bwoening. Small tears. Sheet folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Mapmaker: Olfert Dapper (1636 - December 29, 1689) was a Dutch geographer, polyglot, and historian. Born in Amsterdam, he attended the University of Utrecht, where he was registered as a student in 1658. Two years later he began signing doctor medicinж, but there in no evidence that he ever received any medical training or education. Dapper published a five-volume book about the history of Amsterdam entitled, Historische Beschrijving der Stadt Amsterdam and in 1665 published a Dutch translation from the Greek of the Histories of Herodotus. His best-known work, Naukeurige Beschrijvingen der Afrikaensche gewesten (Description of Africa), was published in 1668 and subsequently published in English by John Ogilby in 1670 and in French in 1686. Although Dapper never traveled to Africa, he took advantage of numerous reports from adventurers in order to compile this authoritative work over the course of three years.