Bruyn, C. de. Reizen van Cornelis de Bruyn,

Door de vermaardste deelen van Klein Asia, de Eylanden Scio, Rhodus, Cyprus, Metelino, Stanchio &c; Mitsgaders de voornaamste steden van Aegypten, Syrien, en Palestina (...). Delft, H. van Krooneveld, 1698. 1st (and only) Dutch ed. (22),398,(8) p. Engr. allegorical frontisp. by J. Mulder after R. du Val, fold. engr. map of the Mediterranean region, engr. portrait of the author by Gerrit Valck after G. Kneller and 210 copper engr. on 100 plates (numb. 1-210), in-text, full-p., double-p. and fold., incl. large panoramic fold. views of a.o. Constantinople, Scio, Jerusalem and Aleppo. Cont. calf (very worn, joints splitting). Folio.

Missing plate 37, a few plates protruding along fore edge. Foxing and browning, plus a few other minor defects. The Dutch painter and traveler Cornelis de Bruyn spent some years between 1678 and 1685 in the Levant. De Bruyn was primarily a landscape artist and this manifests itself in the several fine panoramas plates. De Bruyn's costume plates are mostly of the different types of Greek and Turkish head dresses. Many of the engravings are by Jan and Caspar Luiken after de Bruyn's drawings.