拍品 157
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LE BRUYN. TRAVELS INTO MUSCOVY, PERSIA, AND PART OF THE EAST INDIES, 1737, 2 VOL.

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1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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描述

  • Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and part of the East Indies... to which is added, an account of the journey of Mr Isbrants ... through Russia and Tartary, to China ... with remarks on the travels of Sir John Chardin, and Mr Kempfer. London: A. Bettesworth et al., 1737
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 2 volumes, folio (348 x 220mm.), engraved frontispiece, portrait of the author, and 117 plates and maps (60 double-page, 13 folding), 44 engraved illustrations in text, contemporary calf, some browning and spotting, bindings worn and crudely repaired, new endpapers, spine of volume one splitting, lower cover of volume 2 detached

Condition

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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拍品資料及來源

Volume one contains folding panoramic views of Moscow (p.38) and Isfahan (p.194), both almost two metres long.