BRUYN, Cornelius de [a.k.a. BRUIJN].
A Voyage to the Levant:
or, travels in the principal parts of Asia Minor, the Islands of Scio, Rhodes, Cyprus, &c. with an account of the most considerable cities of Egypt, Syria and the Holy Land.
Description
First English edition, folio (335 x 222 mm), engraved allegorical title after R. du Val, engraved portrait of the author after Sir Godfrey Kneller, folding engraved general map and 213 engravings on 98 plates (many folding or double-page) showing costumes, views, including panoramas, antiquities, numerous engraved illustrations in text, contemporary calf, rebacked, some edge-wear, corners worn, lightly rubbed, plate 4, Smyrna, with small area of loss to blank margin, plate 21, Magnesia, with small area of loss to blank fore-margin and slightly to image, usual creasing to large panoramas, generally a clean, attractive example.
Bibliography
Blackmer 2251; Rohricht 1184; Tobler p.114; Gay 2101; Nordenskiold Collection 3, 358; Cohen de Ricci 610; Lipperheide 546.
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