Author

BRUYN [BRUIN], Cornelis de.

Title

Reizen Door de vermaardste Deelen van Klein Asia, De Eylanden Scio, Rhodus, Cyprus, Metelino, Stanchio, [et]c.
Mitsgaders de vorrnaamste Steden van AEgypten, Syrien en Palestina Verrijkt met meer als 200. kopere Konstplaaten ... Alles door de Autheur selfs na het leven afgetekend.

Published, Date

Henrik van Krooneveld, Delft,1698.

Description

First edition. Large paper copy. Engraved title, portrait, 214 engravings on 100 plates chiefly by Jan and Caspar Luyken after de Bruyn (some folding, and/or double-page), engravings in text, folding map and Smyrna panorama supplied from a smaller copy, contemporary calf rebacked to style.

Note

One of the most spectacular Levant books with fine large panoramic plates of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Chios, Alexandria, Rhodes, etc. Bruyn, painter and traveller, left Holland in 1674 to travel through Europe and the Levant, returning via Italy in 1685, arriving back in Holland in 1693.

References

Atabey 159; this edition not in Blackmer.

Stock Number

76071