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Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and part of the East-Indies. Containing, an accurate description of whatever is most remarkable in those countries. And embellished with above 320 copper plates ... to which is added an account of the journey of Mr. Isbrants, ambassador from Muscovy, through Russia and Tartary, to China; together with remarks on the travels of Sir John Chardin, and Mr. Kempfer, and a letter written to the author on that subject ... / By Cornelius Le Bruyn. Translated from the original French ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bruyn, Cornelis de, 1652-1727.
- Language:
- Dutch
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Ides, Evert Ysbrants.
- Chardin, John, Sir, 1643-1713.
- Chardin, John.
- Kaempfer, Engelbert, 1651-1716.
- Kaempfer, Engelbert.
- Voyages and travels.
- East Indies--Description and travel.
- East Indies.
- Soviet Union--Description and travel.
- Soviet Union.
- Iran--Description and travel.
- Iran.
- Asia--Description and travel.
- Asia.
- China--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- China.
- Russia--Description and travel.
- Russia.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 35 cm (folio)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for A. Bettesworth ; C. Hitch ; S. Birt ; C. Davis ; J. Clarke ; S. Harding ; D. Browne ; A. Millar ; J. Shuckburgh ; and T. Osborne, 1737.
- Notes:
- Irregular paging: v.1, nos. 225-228 repeated; p. 236-240 numbered 326, 263-266.
- Translation of Voyages de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales, itself a translation of Reizen over Moskovie.
- Vol. 1: [6], 246 [i.e. 250] p., [65] leaves of plates (some folded); v. 2: [2], 223, [13] p., [59] leaves of plates (some folded).
- Includes index.
- Irregular paging: v. 1, p. 225ff.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Breck bequest.
- Athenaeum copy: Vol. 1 & 2 inscribed "S. Breck" on front pastedown.
- OCLC:
- 4619995
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