BRUYN, Cornelis de.
Paris: Guillaume Cavelier, 1714. Two sheets conjoined, total 295 x 1030mm. Narrow lateral margins. A fine engraved panorama of Aleppo in Syria. In 1675 the Dutch painter Cornelis de Bruyn (1652-1727) set out from Livorno on a journey through the Levant, visiting Jerusalem, Constantinople, Egypt, Greece and Cyprus. returning in 1684. His account was first published in Dutch in 1698 as 'Reizen van Cornelis de Bruyn. door Klein Asia.van Aegypten, Syrien en Palestina'. This example comes from a French edition, 'Voyage au Levant, c'est-a-dire, dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie Mineure, dans les isles de Chio, Rhodes, & Chypre &c'. On a second tour de Bruyn visited Russia, from where he travelled south to Persia then east to Java.
HONDIUS, Jodocus II.
Amsterdam: Henricus Hondius, 1633, German text edition. Coloured. 380 x 510mm. A superb and detailed map of the British Isles, with three attractive Baroque title cartouches with swags and putti, one holding an inset of the Orkneys, the other two for the scale and title. This map was engraved in 1617 by the son of the Jodocus Hondius who engraved John Speed's county maps. Published separately, it originally had borders with ten costume vignettes and fourteen town plans, and is known by only two examples. In 1631 Jodocus's brother Henricus cut the borders off the printing plate so that it would fit into an atlas, adding his name and date, and issuing it in an 'Appendix' that year. This example comes from the next complete edition of the Mercator/Hondius two-volume atlas, 1633. SHIRLEY No. 435; KOEMAN: 1:311.1.
Paris: Guillaume Cavelier, 1714. 230 x 630mm. Narrow lateral margins. A panoramic view of ruins at Alexandria, with 'Pompey's Pillar' at the centre. In 1675 the Dutch painter Cornelis de Bruyn (1652-1727) set out from Livorno on a journey through the Levant, visiting Jerusalem, Constantinople, Egypt, Greece and Cyprus. returning in 1684. His account was first published in Dutch in 1698 as 'Reizen van Cornelis de Bruyn. door Klein Asia.van Aegypten, Syrien en Palestina'. This example comes from a French edition, 'Voyage au Levant, c'est-a-dire, dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie Mineure, dans les isles de Chio, Rhodes, & Chypre &c'. On a second tour de Bruyn visited Russia, from where he travelled south to Persia then east to Java.