Le Normant

First edition of the prophecies of Isaiah in Antoine-Eugène Genoude's translation, with a dedication to the King, a preliminary discourse on Hebrew poetry and on Isaiah, and notes on the eloquence of Holy Scripture. Copy bound without "La délivrance d'Israël", "Chœur imité de l'Écriture", "À Son Altesse Royale Madame, Duchesse d'Angoulême", the table of contents, and the errata leaf.

Fine binding in full long-grained red morocco, gilt roll-tooled border alternating lotus, palmettes, and fleurs-de-lys on the covers, gilt arms of Charles X at the center of each cover, smooth spine with five compartments, special small gilt tools depicting a bow...

First edition, complete with the large folding map — often missing — and the facsimile in Arabic. Copy originally issued in plain temporary wrappers, therefore without the printed covers, as specified by the publisher’s sale notice.
Contemporary green half sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with three gilt tools and fillets. Rubbing; hinges of volume 1 mostly cracked along the upper joint with some small losses. Internally very fresh. Untrimmed copy bound as issued in quires.

The supporting documents occupy pages 217 to 370 of volume 3.

First edition, very difficult to find complete, as the third volume was published eight years after the first two.

Bound in full mottled bronze-green calf, smooth spines richly decorated with gilt floral compartments, red morocco labels for title and volume number, gilt rolls on the caps, joints slightly rubbed, gilt roll-tooled borders on the covers entirely adorned with oblong geometric patterns in blind, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt Greek-key borders framing the pastedowns, bookplate mounted on the pastedown of the first volume, gilt fillets on the edges, all edges gilt, contemporary bindings.

Contains anecdotes about Rousseau, Poivre, Turgot, Helvétius, Benjamin...

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...

First edition.
Copy in its original wrappers with printed title labels at head of spines.
Some discreet restorations to spines and wrappers' edges.
Occasional foxing.