Lot 649: LE BRUYN, Cornelis de (1652-?1726). 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 ... Done

LE BRUYN, Cornelis de (1652-?1726). 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 ... Done into English, by W. J. London: Jacob Tonson, 1702. 2°. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, portrait of the author, folding map, 100 engraved plates, many folding or double-page, including 2 very large folding panoramas of Constantinople and Jerusalem, illustrations (a few plates torn, one with loss of lower segment, a few holes, frontispiece and some plates detached and trimmed). Contemporary calf (rather worn, joints split, rubbed and scratched). Provenance: William Boothby (early signature on title). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. The first edition (in Dutch) was printed in Delft in 1698. Atabey 160; Blackmer 225: "very interesting plates"; Brunet III, 911; Cohen-De Ricci 610; Lipperheide 546; Tobler p.114; Weber 402.

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