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: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $2,100

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author

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

printer

Henrik van Krooneveld

Place

Delft

Publication

1698

Description

FIRST EDITION. Dutch text printed in double columns. Historiated initials, headpieces, tailpieces. Additional engraved title. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Cornelius de Bruyn. 214 copper-engraved plates, including 24 fold-out plates.

references

Rohricht, p. 277 (no. 1184); Laor 967; cf. Blackmer Catalogue no. 47

summary

The Dutch traveller and painter Cornelis 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 costume of the Arabs, Greeks and Turks. A significant work in the travel-literature of the Holy Land and the Near East.

pp. (22), 398, (8). Trace foxed, browned, few taped repairs, plates creased in places, gutter split. Later calf-backed marbled boards, scuffed, boards detached. Folio

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