Bruyn, Cornelis de (c. 1652-1726 or 1727).

folio (322 x 204mm.), [18], 398, [8]pp., illustration: engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait of the author by Valck after Sir Godfrey Kneller, one folding engraved map, 101 engraved plates (many folding or double-page, with more than one subject), binding: contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, one plate loose, short tear in one other plate, some light spotting and browning, mostly in margins, joints split, sides rubbed  

Johan Wilhelm Lutkens, ownership inscription dated London, 23 August 1700; engraved trade card of David Mortier, "Bookseller at y^e Sign of Erasmus's head near Bedford house, all sorts of French and Latin Books"

Atabey 159; Cobham-Jeffery p. 7; Röhricht 1184; cf. Lipperheide 546; cf. Blackmer 225 (second French edition) 

first edition. Bruyn, a landscape artist, left the Netherlands in 1674 for Rome, where he worked with other Dutch and Flemish painters. Then in 1677 he travelled to the Middle East, visiting Turkey, the Greek Islands, Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Cyprus. In 1684 he went to Venice, where he painted for several years, returning to The Hague in 1693. The many fine panoramas include views of Smyrna, Constantinople, the Bosphorus, Rhodes, Tyre, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Aleppo and Palmyra. The plates, some showing three or four subjects, illustrate costumes, natural history, views and plans. Many of the plates, all after Bruyn's drawings, are by Jan and Caspar Luyken.