[CHARDIN (Jean)]. - Lot 49

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[CHARDIN (Jean)]. - Lot 49
[CHARDIN (Jean)]. Journal du voyage du Chevalier Chardin en Perse & aux Indes Orientales, par la Mer Noire & par la Colchide. First part, which contains the journey from Paris to Ispahan. In London, by Moses Pitt, 1686. Small folio, speckled calf, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). First edition in-folio, published the same year as the original in-12. A portrait of the author, a title-frontispiece, an allegorical vignette bearing the bust of the king of England to whom the work is dedicated, two other header vignettes and sixteen engraved plates, some of them double or folded (including a map at the head); lettrines and caps. These plates are the following: "Pontus-Euxinus" map (no. 3), "Teflis" (no. 4), "He who is God" (no. 5), "Tifflis" (no. 6), "Irivan" (no. 7), "Ancient Tower in Irivan" (no. 8), "Ecs-Miazin" (no. 9-10), "Tauris" (no. 11), "Sultania" (no. 12), "Kom" (no. 13), "Tombs of the last two kings of Persia" (no. 14), "Sepulchre of Abas Second" (no. 15), "Sepulchre of Sefy First" (no. 16), "Kachan" (no. 17) & "The Caravan-Seray of Cachan" (no. 18). A few small tears to the plates, one of which (no. 4) is missing in the margin. Hage-Chahine, 909.
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