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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
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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
Footnotes
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.