Beschreibung:

World.- Le Brun (Corneille) Voyages...par laMoscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales, 2 vol., first edition in French, half-titleto vol.1, engraved portrait by Valck after Kneller and allegorical frontispiece by Picart, titles in red and black, engraved head-piece to dedication, 3 folding maps, and 103 plates only, many with several subjects and double-page and/or folding, numerous engraved illustrations in text, lacking Z3 in vol.1 and binder's leaf at end of vol.2, panorama of Moscow defective (lacking most of left-hand part), some tears (mostly to folds and repaired), some soiling, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, vol.2 a little worn, lacking labels, folio, Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1718; sold not subject to return ⁂ Including large folding views of Persepolis and panoramas of Ispahan, Archangel, Astrakan and Batavia.