Voyages de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales. : Ouvrage enrichi de plus de 320 tailles douces ... On y a ajoûté la route qu'a suivie mr. Isbrants, ambassadeur de Moscovie, en traversant la Russie & la Tartarie, pour se rendre à la Chine. Et quelques remarques contre Mrs. Chardin & Kempfer. Avec une lettre écrite à l'auteur, sur ce sujet ...

By: Bruyn, Cornelis de, 1652-1727 [author.]
Contributor(s): Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733 [illustrator.] | Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651 or 1652-1726 [engraver.] | Keyser, Jacob, active 1704-1738 [engraver.] | Ides, Evert Ysbrants [cartographer.] | Wetstein, Rudolf, active 1701-1736 [printer.] | Wetstein, Gerard, 1680-1755 [printer.]
Language: French Original language: Dutch Publisher: A Amsterdam, : Chez les Freres Wetstein,, 1718.Description: 2 v. ([8], 469, [1] p., [5], 260 plates (partly folded)) : ill., maps, port. ; fol.Uniform titles: Reizen over Moskovie. French Subject(s): Ides, Evert Ysbrants | Chardin, John, Sir, 1643-1713 | Kaempfer, Engelbert, 1651-1716 | Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800 | Middle East -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 | Russia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 | Iran -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 | East Indies -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800Ownership: ME volumes have anonymous armorial bookplate and gold stamp on covers (“Loyalte na honte”) of Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 9th Earl of Lincoln, subsequently 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, KG, PC (16 April 1720 – 22 February 1794)
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Book Book British Museum
Middle East Rare 1465C VOL. 1 (RARE) (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available ME000000018783
Book Book British Museum
Middle East Rare 1465C VOL. 2 (RARE) (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available ME000000018784

With engraved port. by G. Valck after Kneller, frontispiece by B. Picart and maps engraved by J. Keyser after E. Isbrantz Ides.

Title pages in red and black; printer's device.

With half-title page.

Numerous engraved illustrations throughout text.

Includes index.

Plates and maps partly folded.

Translation of the author's "Reizen over Moskovie ..." 1711.

ME volumes have anonymous armorial bookplate and gold stamp on covers (“Loyalte na honte”) of Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 9th Earl of Lincoln, subsequently 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, KG, PC (16 April 1720 – 22 February 1794).