DE BRUYN, Cornelis. - Lot 207

DE BRUYN, Cornelis. Voyages of Corneille Le Brun through Muscovy, Persia, and the East Indies. Amsterdam, Wetstein Brothers, 1718. 2 small folio volumes. [5] ff. (including title and frontis.), 252 pp. and [1] ff. 253-469 pp. Contemporary speckled fawn basane, 6-rib spine, fawn title page, richly ornamented caissons, speckled edges (defects including rubbing, epidermis, dull corners, upper jaw t.1 split, split without mq. to text p. 303-4, side margins of some plates short with small lacks on figures 58 to 60, 61 to 64, and 105, 106, 3 vol. plates with faded margins, 2 plates lacking). First edition in French, illustrated with over 260 hors-texte views and figures (costumed figures and scenes; flora and fauna, etc.), plus an engraved frontispiece reproducing a drawing by B. Picart dated 1711, an engraved portrait of the author by G. Valck, and three double-page maps illustrating the Russian Empire by Eberhard Isbrand Ides, the route from Amsterdam to Muscovy and thence to Isfahan and Gamron, and the route from Gamron to Batavia and from Batavia to Gamron. Copy conforms to the table of illustrations, except for missing figures 39 and 40. Particularly well present are: a frontispiece, a portrait of the author, 2 very large views of Moscow and Isfahan. [Persia].