Author: Bruyn, Cornelis de.
Title: Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and part of the East-Indies. Containing, an accurate description of whatever is most remarkable in those countries.
Description: London: printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, S. Birt, C. Davis, J. Clarke, S. Harding D. Browne, A. Millar, J. Shuckburgh, and T. Osborne, 1737. 0. Hardcover. Folio. Two volumes. I: [vi], 246pp.; II: [ii], 223, [xii]pp. Text printed in double-columns. First English edition, originally published in Dutch (Amsterdam 1711) and preceded by a French translation (Amsterdam 1718). Contemporary calf. With engraved allegorical frontispiece by Bernard Picart, portrait of De Bruyn by Valck after Kneller, 3 double-page maps (route from Amsterdam to Moscow and Ispahan, Russian Empire, route from the Gulf of Hormuz to Java), 43 illustrations in the text and 261 engravings on 104 sheets (28 double-page or folding and including the long folding panoramas of Archangel, Astrakhan, Persepolis and Moscow). Ghani p. 221; Wilson p. 33; Lipperheide 547 (Dutch edition), ESTC T110676 Good.

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