Lot 297
Le Brun, Cornelius
Auction: 13 January 2010 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Voyage au Levant, c'est à dire, dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie mineure, dans les isles de Chio, Rhodes, Chypre, &c., de même que dans les plus considérables villes d'Egypte, Syrie & Terre Sainte. Paris: J.B.C. Bauche. Rouen: C. Ferrand, 1725. First collected edition, 5 volumes, 4to, [xviii, 648, xii; [ii], 565, [ii], [xii]; [vi], 520, [xii]; [ii], 522, [xii]; [ii], 498, [xiv]], titles printed in red and black, engraved portrait, 5 maps [4 folding] and 85 engraved plates [12 double page], contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, Northern Lighthouse Board gilt stamp at head of spines, occasional light spotting or paper discolouration, upper margin with occasional small wormholes
Footnote
Note: First collected edition, comprising the Dutch traveller and painter's account of his travels in the Levant, Muscovy, Persia, Cyprus and the East Indies. Atabey 161; cf. Blackmer 225 (1714 edition).