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AFRICA & THE MIDDLE EAST (LOTS 150-168)
CHARDIN, John, Sir (1643-1713). Voyages du Chevalier Chardin, en Perse, et autres Lieux de l' Orient. Paris: de l' Imprimerie de le Normant, 1811. Atlas volume only, 2°(482 x 315mm). 'Nouvelle edition.' Half-title. 85 engravings on 64 sheets (9 folding), including 1 map, portrait of Chardin, 18 sheets with double-illustrations and 1 sheet with 4. (Short marginal tears and minor worm tracks with tape repairs to half-title and title, occasional light spotting and soiling, occasional marginal tiny wormtracks, folding plates backed onto linen.) Recent leather (extremities lightly rubbed).
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CHARDIN, John, Sir (1643-1713). Voyages du Chevalier Chardin, en Perse, et autres Lieux de l' Orient. Paris: de l' Imprimerie de le Normant, 1811. Atlas volume only, 2°(482 x 315mm). 'Nouvelle edition.' Half-title. 85 engravings on 64 sheets (9 folding), including 1 map, portrait of Chardin, 18 sheets with double-illustrations and 1 sheet with 4. (Short marginal tears and minor worm tracks with tape repairs to half-title and title, occasional light spotting and soiling, occasional marginal tiny wormtracks, folding plates backed onto linen.) Recent leather (extremities lightly rubbed).
This 1811 reprint of Chardin's classic account of life and society in Persia, complete with new plates, co-incided with renewed French imperial ambitions, aimed at rivalling the British possessions in India. The plate count is ambiguous; Brunet I 1802 calls for 81 plates.
This 1811 reprint of Chardin's classic account of life and society in Persia, complete with new plates, co-incided with renewed French imperial ambitions, aimed at rivalling the British possessions in India. The plate count is ambiguous; Brunet I 1802 calls for 81 plates.