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Olfert Dapper (1636-1689)

This copy is the first edition in German of Olfert Dapper’s “Description of Africa” (first published in Dutch in Amsterdam in 1668). Dapper was a Dutch physician and writer. Despite never traveling outside of the Netherlands, he wrote extensively on world history and geography. Dapper spoke many languages and often produced translations of his work. Best known for his maps of Africa and its surrounding islands and territories, Dapper used the travel reports of missionaries to inform his work.

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