Klubbat för:

32000 SEK

Estimate

25 000-30 000 SEK

Description

BRUYN (BRUIN), CORNELIS DE. Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie: verykt met driehondert kunstplaten, vertoonende de beroemste lantschappen en steden, ook de byzondere dragten, beesten, gewassen en planten, die daar gevonden worden: voor al derzelver oudheden, en wel voornamntlyk heel uitvoerig, die van het heerlykke en van oudts de geheele werrelt door besaemde hof van Persepolis, by den persianen Tschlminar genaemt... Amsterdam (by Rudolph en Gerard Wetstein - Joannes Oosterwyk - Hendrik van de Gaete) 1714.

Folio (about 330x210 mm.). Engraved frontispiece (dated 1711) by B. Picart, title printed in red and black, 1 engraved portrait of de Bruyn engraved by G. Valck after G. Kneller, 260 numbered engraved partly folding plates (on about 110 plates, many double or triple, a few slightly browned, about 10 somewhat worn in outer margin), 2 large engraved folding maps and 34 large text engravings.

Contemporary brown full calf, worn, cracks in the joints, richly gilt spine in six compartments, some damages at head and foot, redspeckled edges. A few minor tears in lower margins, some minor foxing.

Provenance: From the library of Ove Hassler (1904-87), Dean in Linköping, Sweden, and his son, Eivind Hassler (1939-2009).

Auktionsnummer:

6145

Date:

2016-06-21