Voyages du chevalier Chardin, en Perse, et autres lieux de l'Orient, enrichis d'un grand nombre de belles figures en taille-douce, représentant les antiquités et les choses remarquables du pays.
Chardin, John,Sir,1643-1713.
JamesII,King of England,1633-1701,dedicatee.
Blondeau,active 18th century-19th century,engraver.
Chardin, John,Sir,1643-1713.Couronnement de Soleiman troisième.
Langlès, L.(Louis),1763-1824.
Lapie,M.(Pierre),1779-1850,artist.
Loggan, David,1635-1700?,artist.
Macret, Jean César,1768-engraver.
Zampi, Giuseppe Maria.
Paris : Le Normant, imprimeur-libraire,
1811.
Pagination. Vol. 1: xlviii, 235, 256-452 p. Vol. 2: [4], 463, [1] p. Vol. 3: [4], 464 p. Vol. 4: [4], 464 p. Vol. 5: [4], 500 p. Vol. 6: [4], 496 p. Vol. 7: [4], 492 p. Vol. 8: [4], 519, [1] p. Vol. 9: [4], 573, [1] p. Vol. 10: [4], 396, [7], 398-430 p. Atlas: [4] p., [65] leaves of plates (10 folded).
Misprinted page numbers. Vol. 1: xx instead of xxi. Vol. 5: 318 instead of 381.
With half title in all vols.
Unnumbered preliminary pages in vols. 2-10 and Atlas include half-title and title page.
With engraved head-pieces in vols. 1-3 and 9 and engraved initial in vol. 1. Head-piece in vol. 1, p. 1 signed "C. Macret 1807".
Text and register in vol. 1 continuous despite disruption to pagination. Vol. 1 includes dedication to King James II of England (1779-1850) and preface reprinted from the first edition in French of 1686. Also contains "avertissement" reprinted from the 1735 Amsterdam edition, and preface reprinted from the 1711 and 1735 Amsterdam editions. Vol. 1, pp. 192-325 contain "Relation de la religion des Mingreliens" by Giuseppe Maria Zampi of the Theatine order, a missionary in the Georgian region of Mingrelia.
Vol. 4, pp. 358-381 contain astronomical tables.
"Description de la religion des Persans" has divisional title page in vol. 6, p. 165. Pagination and register continuous.
"Description particulière de la ville d'Ispahan, capitale de Perse" has divisional title page in vol. 7, p. 271. Pagination and register continuous.
Vol. 8 includes "additions" by the editor L. Langlès relating to Isfahan and Tehran, pp. 144-170.
"Premier voyage d'Ispahan a Bander-Abassi" has divisional title page in vol. 8, p. 171. Pagination and register continuous.
"Le couronnement de Soleïmaan, troisième roi de Perse, et ce qui s'est passé de plus mémorable dans les deux premières années de son règne" has divisional title page in vol. 9, p. 377. Pagination and register continuous.
Vol. 10 includes: letter by M. François Petis de la Croix; "notice chronologique de la Perse" by the editor, L. Langlès; index to the travels of John Chardin; index to the notes and additions by Langlès; corrections to Langlès's notes; explanation of the plates in the Atlas; catalogue of the works of Langlès. Text is continuous in vol. 10 despite disruption to pagination, but three leaves of "corrections et additions" with pages unnumbered appear to have been inserted following p. 396 (between leaves 2B6 and 2B7). Verso of third leaf (sixth unnumbered page) contains note by Langlès stating that these pages were printed and added after printing of vol. 10 had been completed.
Atlas has slightly different publisher statement: "de l'imprimerie de Le Normant, Rue de Seine, No. 8." Leaves of plates in Atlas include engraved portrait of author, with inscription "Johannes Chardin miles. Natus Parisiis 6/16 Novembrs. 1645." and signed "Dessiné par C. Macret, d'après D. Loggan" and "César Macret sculpt. Rue des Fossés M. de la Prince, No. 18. 1810"; folded map of Persia signed "Dressée par M. Lapie, Geographe. 1810" and "Gravée par Blondeau graveur de S.A.S. le Pce. De Neufchâtel et de Wallengin"; map of the Euxine (Black) Sea, followed by plates numbered II-LXXXII. Plate LXXXII signed "Langlès direxit" and "Miller sculpsit". Some plates signed "Macret sculp." Numbered plates not in order. Many plates include cross-references to text. Plate LVIII, "Bas-reliefs des ruines de Persepolis", spans two folded leaves; first folded leaf is unnumbered. Two plates depicting the ruins at Persepolis have duplicate numbering (numbered LIII) and duplicate title: "IIme. vue des ruines de Persepolis". According to list of plates in vol. 10, pp. 403-404, one of the plates should be numbered LII and entitled "Première vue des ruines de Persepolis". Plates entitled "Couronnement de Soleïmân" and numbered "LXXXI" and "LXXXI. Bis." are misnumbered: they should be numbered LXXX and LXXX Bis.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sulaymān I, Shah of Iran, 1658 or 1659-1694
France Paris.