Beschreibung:

LE BRUN (BRUYN), CORNEILLE. Voyage au Levant, s'est-à-dire, dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie Mineure, dans les isles de Chio, Rhodes, & Chypre &c. De même que dans les plus considerables villes d'Egypte, de Syrie, et de la Terre Sainte,... Paris (Guillaume Cavelier) 1714. Folio (about 325x197 mm.). (12), 1-408, (8, last 2 blank) pp. Engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, engraved portrait, engraved folding map, 214 engraved illustrations on 97 plates and in text (all, about 45 folding panoramas or double-page, some creases). Contemporary brown full calf, worn, some cracks in the joints, somewhat faded gilt spine in seven compartments, some damage at head, redspeckled edges. Bookplate of Gösta Nobel. Blackmer 225 (with 98 plates and 216 numbered or lettered subjects); Nordenskiöld Collection, 3:358; Lipperheide 546 (Dutch first edition 1698); Cohen-De Ricci 610. First published in Dutch 1698, first French edition 1700 and an English in 1702. The present copy is in the second French edition. With large panoramic views of Alexandria, Constantinople, Betlehem, Jerusalem, Aleppo, Palmyra and others; and double-page plates of Constantinople, the Pyramides and others. Provenance: Gustaf Oscar Ludvig (Gösta) Nobel (1886-1955), youngest son of Ludvig and Edla Nobel, was in Baku between 1914-17 and later took over as Managing Director over Branobel or "The Nobel Brothers Company". The oil company was founded in Baku by his father and the two brothers Alfred and Robert. He and his family had to flee Russia 1918 during the Russian revolution.