Haverkamp S.: Algemeene Historie der zaaken Asie, africe en Europe en in derzelver koningryken, landschappen, staaten…..de Histori van het Ryk van Macedonie,en der Vrye Staten, landen en Steden van GRIEKENLAND… The Hague 1736-38 First edition. Royal FOLIO, complete in three volumes [14], 368p., [32], [14], 310p., [36], [4], 384p., [32], three engraved titles, one portrait, one hundred twenty eight (128) copper engraved numismatic plates, seventy seven (77) copper engraved contemporary half calf and the fine big Folio eleven (11) folded maps of Greek areas.Contemporary full vellum very slightly soiled and slightly dusty, text and plates clean and bright, overall in a very good plus condition, a nice set. The first comprehensive history of Macedonia and Greece from Kassandros reign to the fall of the Hellenistic world.Siwart Haverkamp (1684-1742) was a famous Dutch scholar based in Leiden Academy who spent his life studying the Hellenistic world after the death of Alexander. It is a major contribution to that part of Greek history, still less known at that time. The scientific study is very richly illustrated with more than two hundreds (200) big copper engravings, mostly with Greek coins and portraits of Greek rulers, but the eleven originally drawn big folded maps of several parts of Greece,which had never been reprinted, transform this academic work in a fantastic early Atlas of geographical maps of Greece.Unknown to Zacharakis, the eleven big copper engraved maps, as follows:two maps, in first volume, with the paths of Alexander in Asia (each one 38x32cm and covering from Greece to India), and nine more maps, as follows, in volume two:1:Macedonie Griekenland 49x38cm, 2: Land van Athenen, Megara, Korinthen,47x37cm, 3: Corinthia en Argia 43x35cm, 4: Sicyonia en Achaia Proper 41x33cm, 5: Elis 41x33cm, 6: Messenia 43x35cm, 7: Laconia 41x33cm, 8: Arcadia 41x34cm, 9: Creta 41x22cm.One of the rarest work on Greek history, richly illustrated and coupled with eleven (11) folio copper engraved maps of Greece of the outmost rarity.