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Lot 34

BRUYN (CORNELIS DE)
Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie

19 June 2013, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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BRUYN (CORNELIS DE)

Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie, first edition in Dutch, title printed in red and black, engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved portrait of the author by G. Valck after Godfrey Kneller, 2 folding engraved maps, 108 engraved plates (many double-page, some folding and panoramas), and engraved illustrations in the text (depicting 260 numbered subjects, others unnumbered), contemporary gilt-tooled calf-backed marbled boards, rubbed, folio (400 x 250mm.), Amsterdam, Willem and David Goeree, 1711

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Exceptionally clean copy of the first edition of De Bruyn's narrative of his travels to Russia, Asia Minor, Persia and India undertaken between 1701 and 1707. The work is "largely valued for the engravings executed from De Bruyn's drawings" (Howgego), including panoramas (Moscow, Isfahan, Persepolis, Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, and others), city views, costume and natural history subjects.

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