Reizen van Cornelis de Bruyn…door Klein Asia…Aegypten, Syrien en Palestina ["Travels of Cornelis de Bruyn…through Asia Minor…Egypt, Syria and Palestine."]

AUCTION 43 | Thursday, April 02nd, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 142

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

Reizen van Cornelis de Bruyn…door Klein Asia…Aegypten, Syrien en Palestina ["Travels of Cornelis de Bruyn…through Asia Minor…Egypt, Syria and Palestine."]

FIRST EDITION. Dutch. Broad margins. Frontispiece portrait of Cornelius de Bruyn. 214 copper plates, including 16 fold-outs pp. 20, 398, (8). Tear to bottom of pp. 99-100. Contemporary calf, scuffed. Spine in compartments, gilt extra, distressed. Folio. Rohricht, p.277 (no. 1184); Laor 967; cf. Blackmer Catalogue no.47. Sold not subject to return

Delft: Henrik van Krooneveld 1698

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,000

The Dutch traveller and painter Cornelis de Bruyn (1652-1726) spent the years 1678-1685 in the Levant. Primarily a landscape artist, his many fine panoramas include Smyrna, Constantinople, the Bosphorus, Rhodes, Tyre, Alexandria, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Aleppo, Palmyra, etc. In addition, the artist was fascinated by the costume of the Arabs, Greeks and Turks