DE BRUYN, Cornelis. - Lot 208

DE BRUYN, Cornelis. A New and more correct translation of... Le Brun's Travels into Moscovy, Persia and divers parts of the East-Indies... London, J. Warcus, 1759. Small folio. (1)-343 pp. text in columns. 19th century blond half calf with English corners, spine ribbed with gilt fillets and fleurons, cold roulette on covers, marbled edges (rubbing to corners and hinges, marginal wetness to title leaf with angular loss, marginal paper strip cut to frontispiece, scattered freckles, a few engraving titles redacted in ink, small tear pp. 163-164). Second edition of the English translation. Illustrated with 1 frontispiece and 33 very large black etchings, mostly double-page with engraved panoramic views and/or 2 figures engraved on the same plate. Fine costume figures, large folding panoramic view of Astrakhan, Armenian funeral, Armenian woman. The plates are taken from the 1737 edition. An important work, notably on Persian antiquities and the city of Persepolis. The frontispiece A Samoiede Man is one of the plates. Without Le Brun's portrait and the map. Pagination errors (pp. 224-228 marked 242-246, 326-327 marked 327-326) without missing text. Colas, Attabey. [Perse].