Chardin (Jean): Journal du Voyage ... en Perse aux Indes Orientales, par la Mer Noire & par la Colchide, Premiere Partie [all published], folio, Moses Pitt, 1686 [Wing C2041], engraved frontispiece, additional title, folding map and 21 plates by P.P. Bouche, 16 folding (plate 14 tipped in onto blank verso of plate 13 and also browned, light worming affecting lower margins throughout, title repaired at outer margin, preliminaries slightly soiled), contemporary calf, cardinal's arms stamped in gilt on both covers (rubbed, joints split).

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Chardin (Jean): Journal du Voyage ... en Perse aux Indes Orientales, par la Mer Noire & par la Colchide, Premiere Partie [all published], folio, Moses Pitt, 1686 [Wing C2041], engraved frontispiece, additional title, folding map and 21 plates by P.P. Bouche, 16 folding (plate 14 tipped in onto blank verso of plate 13 and also browned, light worming affecting lower margins throughout, title repaired at outer margin, preliminaries slightly soiled), contemporary calf, cardinal's arms stamped in gilt on both covers (rubbed, joints split).

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Collation: a-b2, B-2P2, 2Q1, 3A-4Y2. Plates numbered 3-18 (with 6 bis plates).

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