BRUN or BRUYN (Cornelis De Bruyn, also known as Corneille LE - Lot 30

BRUN or BRUYN (Cornelis De Bruyn, also known as Corneille LE BRUN). Voyages au Levant, c'est-à-dire, dans les Principaux endroits de l'Asie Mineure, dans les Isles de Chio, de Rhodes, de Chypre &c. De même que dans les plus Considerables Villes d'Egypte, Syrie, & Terre Sainte (...) le tout dessiné d'après nature. A La Haye, Chez P. Gosse & J. Neaulme, 1732. Complete in 5 volumes in-4. Fine engraved bust portrait of the author in Volume I, titles in red and black, numerous etchings and maps engraved in black. Finely speckled English fawn basane, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt flowered caissons, red morocco title-pieces, gilt title and tomaison, gilt roulette framing the boards. Rare. An uncommon edition. Transcribes and recounts, sometimes humorously, the first voyage made between 1674 and 1693 by the Dutch traveler, writer, painter and engraver Corneille Le Brun (1652-1727). His drawings of Jerusalem and the interior of the pyramids were the first to be published in Europe, and this work (for the 1700 original) the first in the world to contain etchings printed in color using a process by Johannes Teyler (for 2 copies). Provenance: English library of Robert d'Aroy, Earl of Holdernesse, with his ex libris engraved with the arms on the endpapers. Motto "Un dieu, un roy". Binding slightly worn, but a good, fresh copy.