Lot 3107
  • 3107

Bruyn, Cornelis de.

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description

  • A Voyage to the Levant: or, travels in the principal parts of Asia Minor... Done into English by W.J. London: for Jacob Tonson and Thomas Bennet, 1702
folio (331 x 222mm.), [6], 288, [8]pp., illustration: engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait of the author, one folding engraved map, 96 engraved plates (many folding or double-page, some with more than one subject), engraved illustrations in text, binding: eighteenth-century mottled panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments, a few plates loose or partly detached, binding rubbed, some abrasions on upper cover

Provenance

"Chr. Wren"; signature on title-page of Christopher Wren (1675-1747), the eldest surviving son of Sir Christopher Wren (see ODNB).

Literature

Atabey 60

Catalogue Note

first edition in english. The translator W.J. appears to be unknown.