Kri Kri/ Cretan Ibex.

Dapper, Olfert. "Caprus Aegagrus Creticus" Amsterdam Wolfgangh, Waesbergen, Boom. Someren en Goethals 1688
Copper engraved illustration of the Cretan Ibex or Kri kri. Set in apage of Dutch text [page 260]

From Olfert Dapper's" Naukeurige Beschryving der Eilanden in de Archipel der Middelantsche Zee"1688. Single page, folio, text to verso. Dark impression. wide margins. Slight offsetting from facing engraving.

The Kri Kri or Cretan ibex is the only ibex or wild goat in Europe and a protected species endemic to Crete, possibly coming from Asia around 8000-7500BC
. To protect the remaining population the Samaria Gorge was declared a National Park in 1962.
There are also sancturies for them in Agias Theodoras and elsewhere on remote islets of Greece in an effort to protect the gene pool as they happily breed with domestic goats.
Olfert Dapper: "Naukeurige Beschryving der Eilanden inde Archipel der Miidlantsche Zee" 1688 first edition with Dutch text.
126 by 162mm (5 by 6½ inches).   ref: 1080  €40