Corneille de bruyn (3 risultati)

169 pages.

Leather. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First collected French edition of de Bruyn's travels. Five large quarto volumes (each 8 x 9.75 inches) bound in period calf, which is slightly rubbed. Spine in 6 compartments, with gilt faded and some chipping to the heads and tails. Compete with 648, 565, 520, 522, and 498 pp. The excellent engraved illustrations include two allegorical frontispieces, 5 maps (of which 4 are folding) and 84 plates (of which 12 are folding), showing costumes, especially of Greek and Turkish women, views of monuments and historical sites, scenes of everyday life, fauna and flora. de Bruyn (1656-1726/7) was a Dutch artist and traveller, who undertook two major journeys to Asia. This is the first collected edition of de Bruyn's voyages to the Middle East, Russia, and the East Indies augmented by accounts not included in the earlier editions. On his first trip, from 1684 to 1693, de Bruyn visited Rome before traveling through the Ottoman territories of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. Illustrations include the first pictures of the interior of the great pyramid that were widely circulated in Europe, as well as views of Cairo, Alexandria, Jerusalem, and Constantinople. During his second tour, starting in 1701, de Bruyn travelled to Moscow, visited the Samoyeds in norther Russia, and sailed down the Volga to Astrakhan. Leaving Russia for Persia, de Bruyn made drawings of Isfahan and the ruins of Persepolis, destroyed by Alexander the Great, which were widely praised in Europe. From there, he continued to Java (Indonesia) which was then part of the Dutch east Indies, before ultimately returning to the Netherlands. His publications are regarded as some of the best illustrated works on the Levant. …

Magnifica veduta di Smyrna in Turchia, con navi in primo piano. Incisione in rame su carta vergata a mano mm 278 x 986. Tratta dalla prima edizione francese di "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., de meme que dans les plus considerables villes d'Egypte, de Syrie, et de la Terre Sainte."; líopera fu pubblicata per la prima volta in olandese nel 1698 col titolo "Reizen door de vermaardste Deelen van Klein Asiaî. Nel 1702 apparve anche un'edizione inglese. Cornelis de Bruijn fu un artista e viaggiatore olandese. CompÏ due grandi viaggi e pubblicÚ libri illustrati con le sue osservazioni di persone, edifici, piante e animali. Conosciuto soprattutto come paesaggista, viaggiÚ molto fin da giovane a Vienna, poi a Roma, quindi a Smirne, Costantinopoli, Egitto, Gerusalemme, Siria, Libano e Turchia. Ovunque andasse, Le Bruyn ritraeva le scene che lo circondavano; era particolarmente interessato ai luoghi dell'antichit? o di interesse storico, e le sue sono le prime immagini dell'interno di una piramide e di Gerusalemme ad essere ampiamente disponibili per gli occidentali. Dopo un soggiorno di otto anni a Venezia, Le Bruyn tornÚ all'Aia nel 1693 per pubblicare questo primo libro. Dal 1701 iniziÚ un secondo viaggio in Russia e in Persia. Bellíesemplare ben inchiostrato, lievissime tracce di aloni al marg. sin. Antichi strappetti restaurati profesionalmente alle pieghe dei marg. Nr.cat: MG_0419.…