Voyage au Levant, c’est à dire dans les principaux endroits de l’Asie Mineure dans les isles de Chio, de Rhodes, de Chypres…D’Egypte, de Syrie et de la Terre Sainte.

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 311

BRUYN, (BRUN), CORNELIUS DE.

Voyage au Levant, c’est à dire dans les principaux endroits de l’Asie Mineure dans les isles de Chio, de Rhodes, de Chypres…D’Egypte, de Syrie et de la Terre Sainte.

French text printed in double columns. Historiated initials, headpieces, tailpieces. Additional engraved title. Engraved frontispiece portrait of de Bruyn. Extensive copper-engraved plates, including many fold-out plates. Penciled collation notes. Lightly browned. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt, worn and scuffed. Folio. Rohricht 1184; Laor 967; Blackmer Catalogue 47.

Paris: G. Cavelier 1714

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,800

The Dutch traveller and painter Cornelius de Bruyn (1652-1726) spent the years 1678-85 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 native costume of the Arabs, Greeks and Turks. The Holy Land is extensively described here over 173 pages, with a multitude of illustrations.