- 161
Le Bruyn, Cornelius.
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- Voyage au Levant, c'est à dire dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie Mineure, dans les isles de Chio, de Rhodes, de Chypre &c.... [et] d'Egypte, de Syrie, et de la Terre Sainte. Delft: H. de Kroonevelt, 1700
- paper
First edition in French, large paper copy, folio (403 x 270mm.), engraved frontispiece, map and 96 plates (of 97), including 17 folding panoramas and 27 double-page plates, 26 engraved illustrations, contemporary calf, a few library stamps (including on titles) of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, [cf. Atabey 159-161 (various editions); cf. Blackmer 225], lacking portrait and penultimate plate (at p.401), occasional soiling and browning, binding worn
Catalogue Note
A rare large paper copy with fine panoramas of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Smyrna, Alexandria, Aleppo, Scio, etc.