The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies, : the first volume, containing the author's voyage from Paris to Ispahan. To which is added, The coronation of this present King of Persia, Solyman the Third..
Chardin, John,Sir,1643-1713.
Logan, David,active 1645-1671.
London : printed for Moses Pitt in Duke-Street Westminster,
1686..
Published in English and French concurrently in 1686 as (pt. 1) of the Travels. Three other volumes, with general title page "Voyages de Mons. le Chevalier Chardin", were published in Amsterdam in 1711. The last volume, announced by Chardin in his preface to this edition, was never published. (Cf. DNB).
With an additional title page engraved (plate).
With a title-page vignette.
Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author (plate) signed: D: Loggan ad vivum sculp.
"The coronation of Solyman III. the present King of Persia" (caption title) begins text and new pagination on 5A1r (caption title is *4). It is a translation of Chardin's "Le couronnement de Soleiman troisième", first published in Paris in 1671.
Title-page may be a cancel.
Includes two indexes, one (*1-3) bound following part 1; the other (4U2-4) bound at the end.
Wing (2nd ed., 1994)
ESTC
Sulaymān, I, Shah of Iran, 1658 or 1659-1694.