Jean CHARDIN
Voyages du chevalier Chardin en Perse, et autres lieux de l'Orient (…) Nouvelle édition, soigneusement conférée sur les trois éditions originales, augmentée d'une Notice de la Perse, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à ce jour, de Notes, etc. par L. Langlès[Travels of Chevalier Chardin in Persia, and Other Regions of the Orient (…) New edition, carefully collated with the three original editions, enlarged with a Notice on Persia from the earliest times to the present day, with Notes, etc., by L. Langlès]
Le Normant|Paris 1811|12.5 x 20.5 cm pour les 10 volumes de texte - 34,5 x 52 cm pour le volume d'atlas|10 volumes reliés + 1 atlas
Generally regarded as the most complete early edition of Chardin’s Travels, this imposing publication in ten volumes with a separate atlas was prepared in 1811 by Louis-Mathieu Langlès. The orientalist added a historical survey of Persia from the earliest times and an extensive critical apparatus, confronting Chardin’s text with the historical, geographical and philological scholarship of his own day. It remained the standard edition until Philip Stewart’s complete modernised and annotated text appeared in 2018.
The ten text volumes are bound in contemporary full tree calf, smooth spines richly decorated...
€5,000