Cornelius Le Bruyn | Voyage au Levant, Delft, 1700, 18th-century calf rebacked

Cornelius Le Bruyn

Voyage au Levant, c'est-à-dire, dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie Mineure, dans les isles de Chio, Rhodes, & Chypre &c.... Delft: Henri de Kroonevelt, 1700 

FIRST FRENCH EDITION, folio (389 x 250 mm), additional engraved allegorical title by J. Mulder after R. du Val, engraved folding map, engraved portrait of the author by G. Valck after Godfrey Kneller, 98 engraved plates (many folding or double-page), INCLUDING EXTENSIVE FOLDING PANORAMAS OF CONSTANTINOPLE AND JERUSALEM, numerous text engravings, eighteenth century calf gilt, rebacked to style, some toning and foxing

This edition of Le Bruyn's Voyage was translated from the Dutch of 1698. Le Brun was expatriated from Holland from 1674 until 1693, and spent from 1678 through 1685 travelling throughout the Mediterranean. Nearly all of the illustrations of his journey are based on his own designs. The plates and text engravings are notable for both their extraordinarily detailed topographical and city panoramas (some of which unfold to nearly two meters) and for their accurate depictions of costumes.

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STCN 833383469