Author

BRUYN, Cornelis de.

Title

Voyages au Levant, c'est-'a-dire, dans les
princpaux endroirs de l'Asie Mineure, dans les Isles de Chio, Rhodes, & Chypre &c. De meme que dans les plus considérables villes d'Egypte, Syrie, & Terre-Sainte.

Published, Date

Bauche le fils, Paris1725.

Description

First collected edition. 5 volumes, 4to., titles in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 folding maps, 84 engraved plates (11 folding), contemporary mottled calf gilt, red morocco labels, neat repair to upper joint volume 2, an excellent set.

Note

The first two volumes contain the voyage to the Levant, the remainder contain the voyage to Moscow and Persia. volume 5 also contains a long extract from Mouceaux's voyages. The work is reputedly edited by Antoine Banier whose notes are highly regarded.

References

Atabey 161; Brunet III, 991; this edition not in Blackmer.

Stock Number

85392