191 - [The Levant]. BRUN or BRUYN, Cornelis De Bruyn, also known as Corneille LE BRUN.

[The Levant]. BRUN or BRUYN, Cornelis De Bruyn, also known as Corneille LE BRUN. The Travels of Corneille Le Bruyn to the Levant, that is to say, to the Principal Places of Asia Minor, to the Islands of Chios, Rhodes, Cyprus, etc., as well as to the Most Notable Cities of Egypt, Syria, and the Holy Land; Enriched with a large number of illustrations The Hague, published by P. Gosse & J. Neaulme, 1732. 5 volumes in-4., titles in red and black, beautiful engraved headbands. Contemporary mottled havana calfskin, ribbed spine, fawn title label, gilt title and volume numbers, ornate panels, edges mottled with red (some defects in the bindings, including scuffing, worn caps and corners, split joints; occasional light foxing, some oxidized leaves, marginal defects including small wormholes and restorations in vol. 1, the margin of a short plate slightly touching the title page in vol. 2, one map that is detached and creased with a tear no missing material at the folds and another with a tear but no missing material (vol. 3), a tear with no missing material crossing the plate *Le Moy-doen* in vol. 4, a few pagination errors). A 1732 edition in 5 volumes, in-4 format, published in The Hague. A rare edition. A work transcribing and recounting, at times with humor, the first journey undertaken between 1674 and 1693 by the Dutch traveler, writer, painter, and engraver, Corneille Le Brun (1652–1727), who traveled through the Levant (2 volumes covering *Description of Asia Minor, the Islands of Chios, Rhodes, Cyprus, as well as Egypt, Syria, and the Holy Land) to the East Indies via Muscovy and Persia (comprising 3 volumes covering Russia, Persia—with remarkable plates of Persepolis—and the Indies). His drawings of Jerusalem and the interiors of the pyramids were the first to be published in Europe, and the 1700 original was the first to feature etchings printed in color using Johannes Teyler’s process (two copies). The illustrations consist of 90 black copperplate engravings, including the author’s portrait as the frontispiece of Volume 1 and 4 fold-out maps. Volume I. Portrait of the author, (9) ff., 648 pp., (6) ff. of tables, 13 plates (out of 14), including a fold-out map Volume II. (1) folio, 565 pp., (6) folios of tables, 18 plates Volume III. (1) folio, 520 pp., (8) folios of tables, 15 plates, including 2 fold-out maps Volume IV. (1) folio, 522 pp., (6) folios, 30 plates, including one fold-out map Volume V. (1) folio, 498 pp., (7) folios, 13 plates. Volume II includes an additional plate (p. 308) not listed in the Notice: a large fold-out view of Mount Tabor with vignettes depicting buildings.