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5 volumes. [16], 648, [12]; [2]. 565, [12]; [6], 520, [12]; [2], 522, [12]; [2], 498, [14] pp With frontispiece portrait; 80 (of 84) engraved plates (9 of them folding), many with multiple images; 2 (of 5) engraved maps, both folding. (4to) 28x20 cm (11x7¾"), period calf.

Le Bruyn [or Brun] left for Italy on 1 November 1674; he remained there for four years before departing for Smyrna, whence he visited Asia Minor, and Egypt. In 1684 he returned to Venice, where he lived for eight years and studied painting with Carl Loth. On March 19, 1693 he arrived in the Hague; he spent the next five years writing his first travelogue (Reizen van Corn. de Bruyn door de vermaardste deelen van Klein Asia, de eylanden Scio, Rhodus, Cyprus enz. mitsg. de voornaamste steden van Aegypten, Syrien en Palestina, Delft, 1698) and preparing the 215 engravings that illustrate it. A French version (Voyage au Levant dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie Mineure) was published by H. de Krooneveld in Delft in 1700.  Bookplates of Anthony Godwin Hale and Mr. Dashwood.