CHARDIN (Jean).
Diary of Knight Chardin's journey to Persia and the East Indies, via the Black Sea and Colchis. First part which contains the journey from Paris to Isfahan. Second edition revised and corrected. In Amsterdam, by Abraham Wolfgang, 1686; in-12, period brown calf (a little rubbed and three small epiderminations), decorated back with nerves. First edition in-12 of the first part alone, published separately at the time by Jean Chardin. 10 ff., 496 pp., 4 ff. Edition illustrated with a frontispiece title (the portrait is missing), vignette at the head of the epistle to the king and 16 folding plates, one of which is half missing.
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