[Travel - Navy]. CHARDIN (Jean). Travels of Monsieur le Chev - Lot 61

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[Travel - Navy]. CHARDIN (Jean). Travels of Monsieur le Chev - Lot 61
[Travel - Navy]. CHARDIN (Jean). Travels of Monsieur le Chevalier Chardin in Persia and in other places of the East, containing the journey from Paris to Ispahan, Capital of the Empire of Persia. Enriched with a great number of beautiful figures in intaglio, representing the Antiquities and remarkable things of the country. Amsterdam, Jean louis de Lorme, 1711. 3 volumes in-4° of [10]-279 ; 454 ; 254-[26] pages, brown calf, spine with ornamented nerves (period binding). Famous relations, written with much charm and pleasure. The voyages are illustrated with a frontispiece portrait by Chardin, a folding map, 3 large pictorial bands and 78 engraved plates, most of them folding, showing the Persian cities, the reception feast of the author in Teflis, the caravanserai of Cachan, the ancient tombs of the ancient kings, ruins of Persepolis, etc. These three trips undertaken since 1665 are of great importance for the history of Persia and Armenia. Bindings worn, hinges split, 2 plates torn without missing. (Brunet I, 1802) (Chadenat, 35) (Boucher de la Richarderie, IV, 451).
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