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Jean-Baptiste Chardin (Also known as Sir John Chardin). Journal du voyage du Chevalier Chardin en Perse et aux Indes Ori...
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Chardin's Early Accounts of Travel in the
Near East
Jean-Baptiste Chardin (Also known as Sir John Chardin).
Journal du voyage du Chevalier Chardin en Perse et aux Indes
Orientales, par la Mer Noire & par la Colchide. Premiere partie
[all published], qui contient le voyage de Paris à
Ispahan. Amsterdam: Chez Abraham Wolfgangh, 1686.
Second edition with revisions and corrections. Twelvemo. [20,
including frontispiece and added engraved title], 496, [8, index]
pages. Eighteen wood engravings including an additional engraved
title, frontispiece portrait of the author, and sixteen folding
maps and plates, as called for. Contemporary vellum with fore-edge
extensions. An internally bright, clean and tight copy with a few
small tears on the title page. The vellum covers display the usual
spotting and soiling, though they are undamaged and in very good
condition. Sir John Chardin (1643-1712) made his journeys to the
East between 1664-1669 and 1671-1677. and acquired considerable
wealth as agent for the purchase of jewels to Shah Solyman III.
Driven from France by the persecution of Protestants, he was well
received in London and soon appointed court jeweler. "Montesquieu,
Rousseau, Gibbon, and Helvetius acknowledge the value of his
writings; and Sir William Jones says he gave the best account of
Mahometan nations ever published. Extracts from his works appear in
all the chief collections of travels, but there is no complete
English translation" (D.N.B.). Wing C2041.
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