BRUYN, Cornelis de. Travels into Muscovy, Persia, And Part of the East-Indies... embellished With above 320 Copper Plates... To which is added, An Account of the Journey of Mr. Isbrants... with Remarks on the Travels of Sir John Chardin, and Mr. Kempfer. London: for A.Bettesworth, C.Hitch and others, 1737. 2 volumes in 1, 2° (350 x 230mm). Collation: [1] A-Rrr 2 Sss1; [1] B-3P 2 . Engraved emblematic frontispiece, 3 double-page maps, 121 plates (13 folding, 50 double-page) and 44 illustrations. (Small tear to upper blank margin of R2 in vol.I, frontispiece and seven of the folding plates creased, plate numbered 32 with small tears to left-hand margin, a few plates somewhat browned.) Contemporary light-brown speckled calf gilt (joints split, extremities rubbed). Provenance : Sir John Mordaunt, Bart. of Walton, Warks. (armorial bookplate). A fine copy internally, including a very early description of a member of the kangaroo family and a depiction of a female of the species. Plate numbered 213 of a 'Filander', with a description on vol.II, p.101: "When I was at our general's country seat, I saw a certain animal called Filander , which has something very extraordinary in it. There were several that ran loose with rabbits, and had their holes under a small hill, encompassed with a rail. This animal which I have represented in plate 213, has its hind leggs much longer than the fore, and has the same skin as a large hare. It has a head like a fox, and a pointed tail; but what is most extraordinary in it is, that it has a bag under its belly; into which the young ones retreat even when they are very large." What constitutes a perfect copy of this work seems open to question: the 'above 320 copper plates' called for on the title refer to the number of images. Most of the plates include more than one image, and one includes as many as eight. In this copy the frontispiece, portrait of Le Bruyn, 10 of the images printed as plates (on 4 leaves) and the 45 images printed as 44 illustrations (the plate printed on p.142 vol.I bears to images) are not numbered; the maps are numbered 1-3 and the remaining images printed as plates are numbered 1-262 (on 117 leaves): a total of 322 images.
BRUYN, Cornelis de. Travels into Muscovy, Persia, And Part of the East-Indies... embellished With above 320 Copper Plates... To which is added, An Account of the Journey of Mr. Isbrants... with Remarks on the Travels of Sir John Chardin, and Mr. Kempfer. London: for A.Bettesworth, C.Hitch and others, 1737. 2 volumes in 1, 2° (350 x 230mm). Collation: [1] A-Rrr 2 Sss1; [1] B-3P 2 . Engraved emblematic frontispiece, 3 double-page maps, 121 plates (13 folding, 50 double-page) and 44 illustrations. (Small tear to upper blank margin of R2 in vol.I, frontispiece and seven of the folding plates creased, plate numbered 32 with small tears to left-hand margin, a few plates somewhat browned.) Contemporary light-brown speckled calf gilt (joints split, extremities rubbed). Provenance : Sir John Mordaunt, Bart. of Walton, Warks. (armorial bookplate). A fine copy internally, including a very early description of a member of the kangaroo family and a depiction of a female of the species. Plate numbered 213 of a 'Filander', with a description on vol.II, p.101: "When I was at our general's country seat, I saw a certain animal called Filander , which has something very extraordinary in it. There were several that ran loose with rabbits, and had their holes under a small hill, encompassed with a rail. This animal which I have represented in plate 213, has its hind leggs much longer than the fore, and has the same skin as a large hare. It has a head like a fox, and a pointed tail; but what is most extraordinary in it is, that it has a bag under its belly; into which the young ones retreat even when they are very large." What constitutes a perfect copy of this work seems open to question: the 'above 320 copper plates' called for on the title refer to the number of images. Most of the plates include more than one image, and one includes as many as eight. In this copy the frontispiece, portrait of Le Bruyn, 10 of the images printed as plates (on 4 leaves) and the 45 images printed as 44 illustrations (the plate printed on p.142 vol.I bears to images) are not numbered; the maps are numbered 1-3 and the remaining images printed as plates are numbered 1-262 (on 117 leaves): a total of 322 images.
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