Bruyn, Cornelis de.

2 volumes, folio (335 x 206mm.), [8], 252; [2], 253-468pp., title-pages printed in red and black, illustration: engraved frontispiece, portrait of the author, head-piece, 3 double-page maps, 115 plates (many folding or double-page, composed of several subjects), illustrations in text, binding: contemporary calf, spines gilt in compartments, without the half-title to volume 2 and the binder's instruction leaf, small amount of worming in inner margins at beginning of volume 1, long tear in one plate and in Aaa2 (volume 2)(both without loss), a few plates very slightly trimmed at fore-edge, short tear at foot of one map without loss, bindings slightly rubbed

Cohen-de Ricci 610; Wilson p.33

first edition in french. In 1701 Bruyn left the Netherlands on his second journey, travelling first to Archangel, then on to Moscow, where he stayed a year, and then to Persia. After a year at Isfahan, he spent three months at Persepolis recording the ruins of the Achaemenid palace, the reliefs and cuneiform inscriptions. In 1705 he went on to the Dutch Indies, before returning to The Hague in 1708. His account of this second journey was first published in 1711, Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie. In 1714 he published a short work, Aenmerkingen over de Printverbeeldingen van de Overblijfzelen van het Oude Persepolis, in which he defended himself against criticism of his engravings of Persepolis in particular.