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BRUYN (CORNELIS DE)
Reizen... door de vermaardste Deelen van Klein Asia, de Eylanden Scio, Rhodus, Cyprus... Mitsgaders de voornaamste Steden van Aegypten, Syrien en Palestina

19 June 2013, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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BRUYN (CORNELIS DE)

Reizen... door de vermaardste Deelen van Klein Asia, de Eylanden Scio, Rhodus, Cyprus... Mitsgaders de voornaamste Steden van Aegypten, Syrien en Palestina, first edition, engraved allegorical frontispiece by J. Mulder after R. du Val, engraved portrait of the author by Valck after Geoffrey Kneller, double-page map, 100 engraved plates (many double-page or folding) after drawings by de Bruyn, some illustrations in the letterpress, some browning and spotting, stain to approximately 20 text leaves, contemporary calf-backed boards, spine gilt with red gilt morocco spine label, worn [Atabey 159; Cobham-Jeffery, p.7; Röhricht 1184], small folio, Delft, Henrik van Krooneveld, 1698

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First edition of De Bruyn's well-illustrated record of his travels through Europe and the Levant undertaken between 1674 and 1685. A Dutch painter he was responsible for the drawings used for the plates, many of which were engraved by Jan and Casper Luyken. Includes folding panoramas of Constantinople, Rhodes, Chios, Alexandria, Smyrna, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem. See illustration overleaf.

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