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BRUIN (Cornelis de): VOYAGES ... PAR LA MOSCOVIE, EN PERSE, ET AUX INDES ORIENTALES, Amsterdam, chez les Freres Wetstein, 1718
LARGE PAPER COPY, first edition in French, 2 vols., folio (400 x 260mm.), half-title in vol.I, engraved frontispiece by B. Picart, titles printed in red and black, engraved portrait by G. Valck after G. Kneller, 3 double-page engraved maps and 114 plates, 71 folding, with 291 illustrations, engraved head piece and 44 illustrations in the text (lacks half-title and final blank in vol.II, some leaves slightly soiled and spotted, contemporary speckled calf (rebacked preserving original gilt spines and repaired, inner hinges cracked)
Lipperheide Kaa 6; Russica B2186; Mezhov 12448 (2)
LARGE PAPER COPY, first edition in French, 2 vols., folio (400 x 260mm.), half-title in vol.I, engraved frontispiece by B. Picart, titles printed in red and black, engraved portrait by G. Valck after G. Kneller, 3 double-page engraved maps and 114 plates, 71 folding, with 291 illustrations, engraved head piece and 44 illustrations in the text (lacks half-title and final blank in vol.II, some leaves slightly soiled and spotted, contemporary speckled calf (rebacked preserving original gilt spines and repaired, inner hinges cracked)
Lipperheide Kaa 6; Russica B2186; Mezhov 12448 (2)