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32000 SEK

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RUSSIA - CHINA. LE BRUN (BRUYN), C. DE. Voyages... par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales... on y a ajoûté la route qu´a suivie mr. Isbrants, ambassadeur de Moscovie, en traversant la Russie & La Tartarie, pour se rendre à la Chine. Et quelques remarques contre mrs. Chardin & Kempfer... I-II. Amsterdam (chez les freres Wetstein) 1718.

Folio (c. 382x265 mm.). (8), 1-252, (2), 253-469, (1 blank) pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait G. Valck after G. Kneller, engraved allegorical frontispiece B. Picart, 2 titles printed in red and black, 1 engraved headpiece (to the dedication), 3 engraved double-page maps, 115 engraved plates (with illustrations numbered 1-262 and 11 unnumbered), of which 62 double-page and 16 folding, 44 engravings in text.
Contemporary brown calf, worn, covers detached, gilt borders, gilt edges of covers, faded gilt spine in seven compartments, damages at head and foot, marbled edges. Large paper copy.

Cohen-De Ricci p. 610. First edition in French of this important account of Le Brun´s voyage to Russia, Persia, India, and Java.
Includes large folding panoramas of Moscow and Isfahan.

Provenance: Gustaf Oscar Ludvig (Gösta) Nobel (1886-1955), youngest son of Ludvig and Edla Nobel, was in Baku between 1914-17 and later took over as Managing Director over Branobel or "The Nobel Brothers Company". The oil company was founded in Baku by his father and the two brothers Alfred and Robert. He and his family had to flee Russia 1918 during the Russian revolution.

Auktionsnummer:

6114

Datum:

2019-12-11