CHARDIN, Sir John (1643-1712). Voyages... en Perse et autres lieux de l'orient. Amsterdam: Jean Louis de Lorme, 1711. 3 vols., 4o (251 x 191 mm). Engraved portrait by S. Thomassin, title-pages printed in red and black with repeated engraved vignette, 3 headpiece engraved vignettes and 78 numbered engravings (landscape views, archaeological scenes, buildings and narrative scenes), many of them large and folding. (Plate nos. 7 and 9 each with edges re-attached by the binder, no. 19 with numeral cropped away, some of the folding plates with very minor fold tears and with creasing from careless folding; some minor dampstaining to text.) Eighteenth-century fawn calf gilt, black morocco gilt spine labels (very slightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION of the three-volume edition. The first volume, in edited form, was published in London by Moses Pitt in 1686. Provenance: Dareste de Saconay (bookplates). Brunet I, 1802 ("Les exemplaires bien conditionnes en sont peu communs.")

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CHARDIN, Sir John (1643-1712). Voyages... en Perse et autres lieux de l'orient. Amsterdam: Jean Louis de Lorme, 1711. 3 vols., 4^o (251 x 191 mm). Engraved portrait by S. Thomassin, title-pages printed in red and black with repeated engraved vignette, 3 headpiece engraved vignettes and 78 numbered engravings (landscape views, archaeological scenes, buildings and narrative scenes), many of them large and folding. (Plate nos. 7 and 9 each with edges re-attached by the binder, no. 19 with numeral cropped away, some of the folding plates with very minor fold tears and with creasing from careless folding; some minor dampstaining to text.) Eighteenth-century fawn calf gilt, black morocco gilt spine labels (very slightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION of the three-volume edition. The first volume, in edited form, was published in London by Moses Pitt in 1686. Provenance: Dareste de Saconay (bookplates). Brunet I, 1802 ("Les exemplaires bien conditionnes en sont peu communs.")