1811 : LARGE FOLIO CHARDIN ATLAS VOLUME - PERSIA AND ORIENT - HANDSOME PLATES
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:7048696 | Year Printed: 1811 |
| Topic: Atlases |
1811 : LARGE FOLIO CHARDIN ATLAS VOLUME - PERSIA AND ORIENT
The "Travels of Sir John Chardin is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Persia and the Near East in general."
John Chardin. Voyages en Perse, et autres lieux de lO̕rient. Paris, De li̕mipremirie de Le Normant, 1811. ATLAS VOLUME ONLY without text volumes ...21 x 14 inches. Board separated and spine falling off, quite worn; internally 63 plates including 9 folding and a map and engraved portrait by Macret after Loggan, but evidently lacking a folding map. First pages detached front text block and binding not attached to text block, some foxing, offsetting, and toning. Despite condition issues, a very interesting and important Atlas volume.
The "Travels of Sir John Chardin is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Persia and the Near East in general."
John Chardin. Voyages en Perse, et autres lieux de lO̕rient. Paris, De li̕mipremirie de Le Normant, 1811. ATLAS VOLUME ONLY without text volumes ...21 x 14 inches. Board separated and spine falling off, quite worn; internally 63 plates including 9 folding and a map and engraved portrait by Macret after Loggan, but evidently lacking a folding map. First pages detached front text block and binding not attached to text block, some foxing, offsetting, and toning. Despite condition issues, a very interesting and important Atlas volume.
