177 - [Iran]. CHARDIN, Jean.

[Iran]. CHARDIN, Jean. Journal of Chevalier Chardin’s Journey to Persia and the East Indies via the Black Sea and Colchis, Including the Journey from Paris to Isfahan. Second revised and corrected edition. Amsterdam: Abraham Wolfgang, 1686. In-12, [10] ff., 496 pp. (excluding pp. 219–220), [4] ff. (index and note to the bookbinder), 17 plates including a frontispiece and a fold-out map (out of 18; the author’s portrait is missing). Modern black half-maroquin, ribbed spine, gilt title (jaws, cuts, and corners rubbed, title page lined, small holes from marginal worms extending into the text on pp. 283–303 and the plate depicting the view of Tiflis, but the plate has been restored; tears at the folds on some plates have been restored; very slight foxing). Amsterdam edition of the first part of Chardin’s famous travels in Persia (from Paris to Isfahan), reprinted in in-12 format based on the folio edition published in London in 1686 by Moses Pitt. The complete 10-volume in-12 edition was published in Amsterdam in 1711. The illustrations consist of 17 black copperplate engravings, including a frontispiece depicting Colchis, a map of the Black Sea, and 15 plates illustrating views of Tiflis, Yerevan, the Taurus Mountains, Sultanieh, and Qom Engraved headpieces and initial letters. Most are based on drawings by Guillaume-Joseph Grelot, who accompanied Chardin on his journey. Brunet, I, 1802.