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JAUBERT, Pierre Amédée (1779-1847). Voyage en Arménie et en Perse fait dans les années 1805 et 1806. Paris: by Rignoux for Pélicier and Nepveu, 1821. 8° (205 x 125mm). Folding engraved map, lithographic frontispiece portrait and 9 lithographic plates after Orlowski, Vernet, and others. (Light scattered spotting, a little more on the map.) Polished calf by Simier Fils, spine and sides ruled and tooled in gilt and blind (extremities rubbed, sides lightly scuffed, upper corners worn). Provenance: an early reader (a few careful ink corrections).
FIRST EDITION. Jaubert became Napoleon's 'favourite orientalist adviser and dragoman' during the Egyptian Campaign of 1798-1799, and contributed a study of Bedouins to the Description de l'Egypte. In 1805, he was dispatched to Qajar Persia in the 'Jaubert Mission' to arrange an alliance with Shah Fat'h Ali, but en route was seized and imprisoned in a dry cistern for four months by the Pasha of Dogubeyazit. Nevertheless, he successfully accomplished his mission before rejoining Napoleon in the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807. In later years, he also wrote a Turkish grammar (1823) and an account of Constantinople (1830). Atabey 613 (this copy).
FIRST EDITION. Jaubert became Napoleon's 'favourite orientalist adviser and dragoman' during the Egyptian Campaign of 1798-1799, and contributed a study of Bedouins to the Description de l'Egypte. In 1805, he was dispatched to Qajar Persia in the 'Jaubert Mission' to arrange an alliance with Shah Fat'h Ali, but en route was seized and imprisoned in a dry cistern for four months by the Pasha of Dogubeyazit. Nevertheless, he successfully accomplished his mission before rejoining Napoleon in the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807. In later years, he also wrote a Turkish grammar (1823) and an account of Constantinople (1830). Atabey 613 (this copy).