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.

BRUYN, (BRUN), CORNELIUS DE.

G. Cavelier

Paris

1714

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.

Rohricht 1184; Laor 967; Blackmer Catalogue 47.

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.