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LE BRUN, CORNELIUS. 1652-1727/28. Travels Into Muscovy, Persia, and Part of the East Indies. London: A. Bettesworth, C. Hitch and others, 1737.

LE BRUN, CORNELIUS. 1652-1727/28. Travels Into Muscovy, Persia, and Part of the East Indies. London: A. Bettesworth, C. Hitch and others, 1737. 2 volumes. Folio (343 x 223 mm). Engraved frontispiece, portrait, 3 double-page engraved maps and 262 engraved views on 119 plates, many double-page, and including 11 large folding panoramas, with 43 engraved illustrations in the text. Some plates mounted on new guards, a few creased, some margins lightly browned. Contemporary speckled calf, spines worn and rubbed, joints cracked, covers lightly rubbed but reattached, modern end-papers. Provenance: Thomas Abney [British barrister, 1691-1750] (signature on both title pages). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of an account of an important expedition through Russia, Persia, and India, with plates devoted to ancient sites, townscapes and Natural History, including large panoramas of Moscow, Isfahan, and 4 sheet series of Persepolis. For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website