![TAVERNIER, Jean-Baptiste (1605-1689). Les Six Voyages ... en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes, pendant l'espace de quarante ans. Paris [but Amsterdam?], 1679. 3 vols., 12° (153 x 92mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait, 44 (of 45?) plates, many folding, and 2 folding maps. (A little light spotting, a few marginal tears.) 18th-century straight-grained crimson morocco gilt, covers with triple fillet border, spine compartments directly lettered with title, volume number and date, marbled endpapers, blue silk markers, gilt edges (extremities only a little rubbed).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2011/CSK/2011_CSK_02362_0328_000(tavernier_jean-baptiste_les_six_voyages_en_turquie_en_perse_et_aux_ind051510).jpg?w=1)
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TAVERNIER, Jean-Baptiste (1605-1689). Les Six Voyages ... en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes, pendant l'espace de quarante ans. Paris [but Amsterdam?], 1679. 3 vols., 12° (153 x 92mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait, 44 (of 45?) plates, many folding, and 2 folding maps. (A little light spotting, a few marginal tears.) 18th-century straight-grained crimson morocco gilt, covers with triple fillet border, spine compartments directly lettered with title, volume number and date, marbled endpapers, blue silk markers, gilt edges (extremities only a little rubbed).
FIRST SMALL FORMAT EDITION, FINELY BOUND IN CRIMSON MOROCCO. The number of plates is greater than indicated in the plate lists in vols. I and II, and the plate count itself appears to vary. Copies sold in recent years are recorded as having either 42, 44 or 45 plates. Vol. III includes the Nouvelle relation de l'interieur du serrail du Grand Seigneur. Atabey 1201 (this copy, wrongly recorded as having 42 rather than 44 plates; binding illustrated); Brunet V, 681; Weber II, 277; this edition not in Blackmer. (3)
FIRST SMALL FORMAT EDITION, FINELY BOUND IN CRIMSON MOROCCO. The number of plates is greater than indicated in the plate lists in vols. I and II, and the plate count itself appears to vary. Copies sold in recent years are recorded as having either 42, 44 or 45 plates. Vol. III includes the Nouvelle relation de l'interieur du serrail du Grand Seigneur. Atabey 1201 (this copy, wrongly recorded as having 42 rather than 44 plates; binding illustrated); Brunet V, 681; Weber II, 277; this edition not in Blackmer. (3)