137 - Corneille LE BRUN. Journey 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… Paris, Guillaume Cavelier, 1714. - Travels… through Muscovy, Persia, and the East Indies… Amsterdam, Wetstein Brothers, 1718. 2 volumes in one book. - Set of 2 folio volumes, brown calfskin, spine with 6 decorated raised bands (contemporary binding damaged).

Corneille LE BRUN. Journey 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… Paris, Guillaume Cavelier, 1714. - Travels… through Muscovy, Persia, and the East Indies… Amsterdam, Wetstein Brothers, 1718. 2 volumes in one book. - Set of 2 folio volumes, brown calfskin, spine with 6 decorated raised bands (contemporary binding damaged). Blackmer, 225 / Brunet, III-911 / Chahine, 2706, 2708 /// (8)-408-(3) // I. (4f.)-252 / II. (1f.)-253 to 468 A compilation of the two journeys Corneille Le Brun undertook to the East. Second French edition of *Voyage au Levant* and first edition of *Voyage… par la Moscovie*. Corneille Le Brun, a Dutch traveling painter, undertook his first journey to the East in 1678. He returned with numerous drawings said to be more instructive than the observations he made there and recorded in his work. This first journey includes a frontispiece engraved by Mulder after Du Val, a portrait engraved by Valck after Kneller, an allegorical plate on the fine arts, a fold-out map, and 218 copperplate engravings, either as inserts or within the text, including plates featuring one or more subjects. In total, the work contains 31 figures in the text, 51 plates outside the text, 25 double-page spreads, and 18 fold-out plates offering bird’s-eye views of Aleppo, Alexandria, Bethlehem, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Palmyra, Rhodes, Smyrna, Tyre… A few years later, he published a second account of his travels to Muscovy, Persia, and the East Indies, which contains a frontispiece, a portrait (missing here), 3 maps, and 316 engravings—262 of which are numbered—on 115 separate plates, 43 in the text, and 11 on 4 separate plates. The 262 numbered engravings are distributed across 54 plates outside the text, 47 double plates, and 14 fold-out plates. Binding is damaged with old restorations. The edge of one plate is frayed; two plates are torn, and two others have adhesive marks in the first volume. The portrait, the Note to the Bookbinder, and a separate plate containing two engravings are missing from the second volume. Ex libris stamped later on the front covers.