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171187123Amsterdam: Chez Jean Louis de Lorn 1711. Hardcover. A well worn broken set. Heavily worn spines with numerous superfical cracks to leather rendering some spine titles partly or completely illegible. Leaves generally clean and for the most part free of foxing. Most bindgings tight. An about good to fair set thus. All plates and illustrations appear present. Some of folding maps and illustrations have a few tears. Common personal book plate to front paste-downs. Owner name hand written in ink to front free endpapers. Seven volumes of ten only. Small octavo in brown quarter leather and brown mottled marbled paper-backed boards; numerous b&w plates many folding; 18 cm; Volumes 346-10 only. In French. A landmark work of its time. Some of the longest widest folding plates we've seen! Travel. Early European travellers in the Middlea and Near East. Turkey -- Description and travel. Iran -- Description and travel. Iran. Chez Jean Louis de Lorn hardcover
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248846Nouvelle edition. Amsterdam Aux Dépens de la Compagnie 1735. 4to. 2 engraved frontispieces. 78 of 79 engraved plates of which many folding. Finely bound in contemporary three calf. Spines richly gilt in compartments. Plate no xlii not present otherwise a fine and well preserved set. . unknown
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7549A Amsterdam 1735. 4to. 3 cont.full mottled calf. Raised bands richly gilt backs. Extremities with small traces of use slight weakening to parts of hinge top of spine on vol. II with loss of leather ca 1x2 cm. Internally fine on good paper. 2 engr.frontisp. with portraits 3 engr.titlevign. 3 large engr. textvignettes. 1239043594437 pp. and 78 mostly large folded engraved plates mapsplansviews etc. - To this second edition was published a 4th volume which contains the author's previously published work "Couronnement de Soliman III" and extracts from the author's manuscript this supplementary volume is not present here but the 3 volumes contain the whole travel and all the plates belonging to these 3 volumes. <br/><br/><em>Rare second edition of Chardin's travels regarded as being one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Persia and the Near East in general. "Thought to have been read by writers such as Montesquieu and Rousseau Chardin's account stands apart from those of other travellers to the region Caucasus at this time through its awareness of cultural difference and relativity and in its desire to place accuracy above romanticism." Speake The Literature of Travel and Exploration 1.Chardin set out from Paris for Persia and India. He reached Ispahan 1673 spent four years in Persia visited India and returned by the Good Hope in 1677. The first volume contains the trip from Paris to Isfahan the second contains a particular description of Isfahan and the relation of the author's two voyages from Ispahan to Bander-Abassi the third contains a general description of the Persian empire and the particular descriptions of the sciences and arts which are in use therein of political military and civil government.Born in Paris in a Hugenot Protestant family Jean Chardin 1643-1713 undertook his travels to Persia because of his father's position as a jeweler and shareholder in the French East India Company. The younger Chardin set out in 1664 traveling through Turkey the Black Sea Georgia and Armenia. Soon after his arrival in Persia he received a commission to create jewelry for Shah Abbas II who died in 1666 and was succeeded by Shah Safi. After witnessing the latter's coronation Chardin went on India and finally returned to Paris in 1670. In 1671 he published an account of the coronation and in the same year set off for Persia again arriving in Isfahan in 1673 and remaining there for several years before once more visiting India and returning home in 1677. With the persecution of the Hugenots in France he moved to England in 1680"Travel restarted with 17th-century missionaries whose medical and pedagogical expertise helped counterbalance Orthodox or pagan reservations. Dominican Prefects Dortelli D'Ascoli and Giovanni da Lucca 1630s extended Giorgio Interiano's description of Circassia and Abkhazia. Theatine proselytisers targeted Mingrelia/western Georgia Capuchins the eastern provinces - the Vatican's Fide Press further contributed by printing the first Georgian books Chikobava/Vateishvili. Many including mission-head Don Pietro Avitabile 1626-1638 recounted their experiences. Prefect to Mingrelia Joseph Marie Zampi a 23-year denizen from approximately 1645 contributed a third significant source in his description of Mingrelian religious practice. This he handed to Jean Chardin 1643-1713 in 1672. A French traveller who became English! ambassador in Holland Chardin translated and incorporated it as a substantial part of his own description of a sometimes perilous journey through Transcaucasia 1672-3 which reflects Ottoman and Persian influence in western and eastern parts respectively - a Turkish organized slave-trade flourished from various Mingrelian ports. Linguistically Zampi revealingly observed that the ecclesiastical language Georgian was as difficult for even the Mingrelian priesthood to understand as Latin was for Italian peasants!" Speake The Literature of Travel and Exploration 1 199-202.Brunet 1802Graesse II P. 121 </em> hardcover
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197948324Cleveland OH: Cleveland Museum of Art 1979. 142 b/w and full color plates. 423 pp. Softcover. Oblong 8vo. White illustrative paper wrappers. Bumped and rubbed at head heel and corners; mildly edgeworn; a couple spots of soiling to edge of text block; interior tight clean and bright. Very good/No jacket issued. Cleveland Museum of Art paperback books
1959UCHAPHE00HMRHarper Torchbooks 1959. Fair. Chardin Teilhard de. The Phenomenon of Man. New York: Harper Torchbooks 1959. 318pp. Indexed. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Fair with rubbed browned and bumped edges. Harper Torchbooks paperback books
192714070608London: The Argonaut Press 1927. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Number 628 of 975 copies quarto size 318 pp. Sir John Chardin 1643-1712 was a French merchant and traveler; the publication of the first volume of his "Voyages du chevalier Jean Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l'Orient" simultaneously in French and English in 1686 permitted Chardin to "position himself as one of the most important arbiters of European commercial and colonial expansion. Over the next decade two successive editions of his 'Travels' were published in England along with reprints of his 1671 'Le Couronnement de Soleiman Troisieme.' In 1711 with the publication of the four-volume edition of his 'Travels' Chardin provided a full and authoritative account and abbreviated editions followed in rapid succession testifying to a nearly insatiable European interest in oriental studies and culture. By the time of his death in 1712 Chardin's chronicles of life and society in Persia had become one of the fundamental texts for this burgeoning field of study and his meticulous accounts of the country earned him the praise of Gibbon Montesquieu and Voltaire" ODNB. <br/><br/>This edition reprints the edition of 1720 correcting some printer's errors and updating the spelling of some names and includes facsimiles of the title-pages for the 1724 and 1720 editions as well as a portrait of the author by David Loggan and several plates. Printed by Walter Lewis M.A. at the University Press Cambridge. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original quarter vellum and blue cloth covered boards gilt decoration stamped to upper board backstrip lettered in gilt fore- and bottom edges uncut vintage small booksellers ticket to front free endpaper "Chas. E. Lauriat Co. Boston" silk ribbon marker title page with hand-coloured woodcut vignette includes two facsimiles and six plates two of which fold-out; on "Japon Vellum" paper quarto size 10.5" by 8" pagination: i-v vi-xxx 1 2-287 1 colophon limited edition this number 628 of 975 copies the third publication of the Argonaut Press. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: A near fine copy corners are straight with only a hint of rubbing text block is tight and square with solid hinges gilt is bright internally bright covers are clean except for some sunning at the top edges and a small light mark to the front board prior owner name with the date of "May 1936" with "D.J.M." below on the front free endpaper; overall a near fine copy. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Argonaut Press hardcover books
