BRUYN (Cornelius de).

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BRUYN (Cornelius de).
Journey to the Levant - Trips through Moscovia, Persia and the East Indies. Rouen, Charles Ferrand, 1725. Two parts in five volumes in-4 of (8) ff, 648 pp., (6) ff; (1) ff, 565 pp., (6) ff; (1) ff, 520 pp., (8) ff; (1) ff, 522 pp., (6) ff; (1) ff, 498 pp., (7) ff, contemporary brown calf binding, decorated spines, red edges. Collective edition, partly original. Portrait, 5 maps and 84 plates engraved out of text, costumes, views, scenes, natural history. Joint relation of the two trips of the painter Corneille De Bruyn, made to the Levant, then to Moscovia, Persia and India. It is augmented by a Memoir by M. de l'Isle on the Caspian Sea, the relationship of a journey by M. des Mouceaux and the itinerary of M. Isbrants through Russia and the Tartarie. De Bruyn was one of the first to give details of the Samoyeds, a people from the extreme north-east of Europe and the contiguous part of Asia. He drew, more accurately than Kaempfer and Chardin, the ruins of Persepolis and the tombs of the Persian kings. The work is particularly sought after for its beautiful and rich illustration. Traces of wear on the bindings. Beginning of crack in the lower jaw of volume III. Volume I with a different fl euron in the spine decoration, but the whole is perfectly homogeneous. Inside in perfect condition (light but not serious wetness on some leaves of volume III, small tear without missing a map, minimal marginal worm work on about twenty leaves (volume IV).
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