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LE BRUYN (CORNELIUS) Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and Part of the East-Indies, 2 vol., A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, 1737 image 1
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LE BRUYN (CORNELIUS)
Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and Part of the East-Indies, 2 vol., A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, 1737

19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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LE BRUYN (CORNELIUS)

Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and Part of the East-Indies, 2 vol., engraved frontispiece, portrait of the author, 3 double-page engraved maps, 108 (of 114) engraved plates (many double-page, several panoramas), engraved illustrations in the text, contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt tooled in 7 compartments within raised bands, joints neatly repaired, folio (345 x 222mm.), A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, 1737

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The first English edition of an account of an important expedition through Russia, Persia, and India, including large panoramas of Moscow, Isfahan, and Persopolis.

Provenance: Edward Lord Suffield, bookplate; "JMR", twentieth century bookplate.

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