Lot n° 517
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2000 - 3000
EUR
Travels - Lot 517
Travels
LE BRUN (Corneille)
Voyages of Corneille Le Brun through Muscovy, Persia and the East Indies. Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1718.
2 volumes in folio: 4f., 252pp / 1f., 253-469pp; illustrated with a frontispiece by Picart, a portrait engraved by Valck after Kneller, 3 double-page maps, 108 folding plates (51 - 57) including 2 very large panoramic types (Moscow and Ispahan), and figures in the text.
Marbled basane, ornate smooth spines, red title-pieces, bronze tomaisons, rubbing and epidermis on boards, triple cold fillet framing the boards, cold roulette on the edges, dull corners, blue speckled edges.
First French edition (Brunet III, 911).
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