LE BRUN

VOYAGE AU LEVANT
C’est a dire Dans Les Principaux endroits de
L’ASIE MINEURE, Dans les ISLES DE CHIO, DE RHODES, DE CHYPRE &c.

LE BRUN; Corneille

Delft, 1700

FIRST FRENCH EDITION, folio (332 x 204mm.), engraved frontispiece, portrait, folding map and 97 plates, many folding, engraved illustrations in the text

Cornelis le Bruyn, the Dutch painter and traveller, spent some years between 1678 and 1685 in the Levant. He was primarily a landscape artist and this manifests itself in several fine panoramas. The costume plates are mostly of different types of Greek and Turkish head-dresses.