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TRAVELS PRINTED IN 1714. DE BRUIN, CORNELIS. Cornelis De Bruins reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie: Verrykt met driehondert kunstplaten, vertoonende de beroemste lantschappen en steden, ook de byzondere dragten, beesten, gewaffen en planten, die daar gevonden worden: Voor at derzelver oudheden, en wel voornamentlyk heel uitvoerig, die van het heerlyke en van oudts de geheele werrelt door besaemde hof van Persepolis, by den persianen Tchilminar genaemt. Alles door den auteur zelf met groote naeukeurigheit na´t leven afgetekent, en nooit voor dezen in´t ligt gebragt.
Amsterdam, by Rudolph en Gerard Wetstein, Joannes Oosterwyk, Hendrik van de Gaete, 1714.

4to. 338 x 230 mm. (6), 472, (12) pp.Title printed with red and black. Illustrated with woodcut vignettes and 36 engravings in the text. 1 engraved portrait, 21 engraved plates, of wich 1 folding, 1 folding engraved map.

Contemporary vellum with sparsely tooled spine with hand-written title, boards with tooled frames and designs, sprinkled edges. Brown stain in margin of title and front fly leaves. Small stain in margin p. 379. 2 of the plates loose. Old owner´s signature on front fly leaf.

The title names three hundred plates, but this must be a printer´s mistake -according to the list there should be about 109. This copy thus lacks c. 90 plates.

Cornelis De Bruijn (1652-1726 or -27), Dutch painter and traveller. His second tour began in 1701, with a visit to Archangelsk. He then spent some time in Moscow, where he painted the portraits of Peter the Great´s nieces. In april 1703 he left Moscow, sailing down the Moscow, Oka and Volga rivers, eventually reaching Astrakhan. His travels took him as far as Java, from where he returned to the Netherlands via Persia and Russia.

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Auktionsnummer:

490890

Datum:

2017-10-13