DE BRUYN, Cornelis. - Lot 160

DE BRUYN, Cornelis. Voyages of Corneille Le Brun through Muscovy, Persia, and the East Indies. Amsterdam, Wetstein Brothers, 1718. 2 volumes small folio, (6) ff. (including title, frontispiece, and portrait of the author), 252 pp. + (1) f. (title), 253-469 pp. plates. Contemporary speckled fawn basane, 6-rib spine, red title-pieces, richly decorated caissons, speckled edges (bindings worn). First edition in French, lavishly illustrated with copper engravings in and out of text, representing views and figures (costumed figures and scenes; flora and fauna, etc.). This includes over 262 figures on 114 plates, mostly with 2, 3 or even four figures per plate; an engraved frontispiece reproducing a drawing by B. Picart dated 1711; a portrait of the author engraved by G. Valck and three fold-out maps illustrating the Empire of Russia by Eberhard Isbrand Ides, the route from Amsterdam to Muscovy to Isfahan and Gamron, and the route from Gamron to Batavia and from Batavia to Gamron. Copy conforms to the table of illustrations. In particular, there is a frontispiece, a portrait of the author and 2 very large views of Moscow and Isfahan.