Russia
BRUYN, Cornelis de.
Reizen over Moskovie, door Persia en Indie: verrykt met driehondert kunstplaten.
Wetstein, Amsterdam, 1714. Folio (33.5 x 22.5 cm). [viii] including title, 472, [xii] pp., engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait, 2 engraved folding maps, 260 engravings on 109 sheets including 54 double-page and 13 folding. Contemporary blind-stamped vellum lettered in ink; upper joint expertly repaired.
FINE EXAMPLE IN CONTEMPORARY DUTCH VELLUM, richly illustrated and with striking large panoramic plates, like the celebrated panoramas of Moscow and Ispahan. De Bruyn, a Dutch painter, had previously made a lengthy tour to the Levant. In 1701, at the age of fifty, he undertook the present extensive journey to Persia and India via Moscow, arriving in Persia in 1703. Here in the second edition of the author's native language, the book contains observations on cities, customs, flora and fauna, and antiquities, particularly the ruins of Persopolis. De Bruyn was possibly the first European traveller to visit Pasargarde. Ghani 221; Schwab 74; cf. Lipperheide 547.
Price: £ 9500
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