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de l’ Imprimerie de le Normant, Paris, 1811
Recent leather., Short marginal tears and minor worm tracks with tape repairs to half-title and title, occasional light spotting and soiling, occasional marginal tiny wormtracks, folding plates backed onto linen, otherwise plates are clean., Folio, Half-title, 85 engravings on 64 sheets (9 folding), including 1 map, portrait of Chardin, 18 sheets with double-illustrations and 1 sheet with 4. , Volume : Atlas volume only
This 1811 reprint of Chardin’s classic account of life and society in Persia, complete with new plates, co-incided with renewed French imperial ambitions, aimed at rivaling the British possessions in India.
Brunet calls for 81 plates.
Chardin a Frenchman was the son of a jeweller. He set out in company with a Lyon merchant named Raisin in 1665 for Persia and India. After a highly successful journey, during which he had received the patronage of Shah Abbas II of Persia, he returned to France in 1670. He set out again for Persia in August 1671. This second journey was much more adventurous than the first and did not reach Isfahan till June 1673. In Isfahan he was appointed the Shah's personal jeweler by Suleiman I. During this time he was allowed to engage in an extended tour through much of Persia. Through the course of this tour Chardain was able to study the culture, government and religion in detail. After four years spent in research throughout Persia, he again visited India, and returned to Europe. In 1681, he settle in London, where he was appointed jeweller to the court of Charles II. Sir John Chardin's narrative has received the highest praise from the most competent authorities for its fullness, comprehensiveness and fidelity; and it furnished Montesquieu, Rousseau, Gibbon and Helvétius with most important material.
, Weber 381; Graesse II 13; Wilson 40; Brunet I 1802.
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