Le Bruyn (Cornelius) Voyage au Levant, first French edition, additional engraved title, engraved portrait, folding engraved map, 97 engraved plates, many folding, one with small marginal loss not affecting image, engraved illustrations, woodcut initials and headpieces, large tear and loss to title with neat repair and restoration, faint off-setting, scattered spotting, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [cf.Atabey 159, 160 (other editions); cf.Blackmer 225 (1714 edition)], folio, Delft, Henri de Kroonevelt, 1700.

⁂ The first French edition of this classic on Middle Eastern travel. The first English edition was published later in 1702.

"Bruyn, painter and traveller, left Holland for Italy in 1674. In 1678 he went on to Smyrna and travelled in the Levant for some years until his return to Italy in 1685 where he settled in Venice for 8 years. He returned to Holland in 1693. The very interesting plates in this work are almost all after designs by de Bruyn, who specialized in landscapes and interiors." (Blackmer)