Apr 20, 2006 - Sale 2075

Sale 2075 - Lot 43

Price Realized: $ 9,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
LE BRUN [i. e., DE BRUYN], CORNELIUS. Voyages . . . par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales. 115 engraved plates, most with multiple subjects, many double-page or folding; 44 engraved text illustrations; 3 double page maps. [12], 252; [2], 253-469 pages, including engraved portrait of the author and allegorical frontispiece. 2 volumes. Folio, 392x250 mm, contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, expertly rebacked retaining original backstrips; scattered marginalia in ink in Volume 2, including annotations in margins of a few plates. excellent set, with wide margins. Amsterdam: Wetstein brothers, 1718

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first edition in french