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

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $3,000

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

printer

Henrik van Krooneveld

Place

Delft

Publication

1698

Description

FIRST EDITION. Dutch. Broad margins. Frontispiece portrait of Cornelius de Bruyn. 214 copper plates, including 16 fold-outs

references

Rohricht, p.277 (no. 1184); Laor 967; cf. Blackmer Catalogue no.47. Sold not subject to return

summary

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

pp. 20, 398, (8). Tear to bottom of pp. 99-100. Contemporary calf, scuffed. Spine in compartments, gilt extra, distressed. Folio.

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