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
New edition, partly original, expanded with a survey of Persia from the earliest times to the present day, together with annotations by the Orientalist and librarian Louis-Mathieu Langlès (cf. Quérard II, 133; Schwab p. 18; lacking in Blackmer and Atabey).
Contemporary full mottled calf, smooth spines gilt with decorative rolls and tools, black morocco-style shagreen lettering- and volume-pieces, gilt rolls on the caps (partly faded), gilt dentelle borders on the boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges.
For the folio atlas: contemporary half calf in fawn, smooth spine gilt with rolls and tools, brown lettering-piece, spine with some rubbing and restorations,
€5,000