
Lot 87•
LE BRUYN (CORNELIUS) A Voyage to the Levant: or, Travels in the Principal Parts of Asia Minor, Jacob Tonson, and Thomas Bennet, 1702
4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
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LE BRUYN (CORNELIUS)
A Voyage to the Levant: or, Travels in the Principal Parts of Asia Minor, engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait of the author, folding engraved map, 96 engraved plates (many folding on several sheets joined, or double-page, some with more than one subject), numerous engraved illustrations in text, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, covers detached [Atabey 160; Cobham-Jeffery p.7; Lipperheide 546], small folio (339 x 215mm.), Jacob Tonson, and Thomas Bennet, 1702
Footnotes
The first edition in English, the attractive plates including fine panoramic views of Constantinople (2), Scutari, Smyrna, Aleppo, Palmyra, Rhodes (2), Chios, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and others. See illustration on preceding page.
Provenance: Robert Davies, eighteenth century ownership inscription on title, and initials "R.D." in margin of portrait.