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

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, red morocco title-label on the upper board, marbled paper sides, marbled edges.

In the first text volume, pagination skips from pp. 235 to 256 without loss; pp. 213–220 are transposed; all the plates in the atlas, including portrait and map, have been renumbered in blue ink stencil from 1 to 65; some occasional foxing on the plates.

Our atlas volume contains 1 portrait, 1 folding map, and 83 views and figures on 63 plates (numbered [1] to 82, including one 81bis, with some numbering errors). Most figures are full-page; several plates include two or more subjects; nine plates are large folding plates.

A pleasing copy, attractively bound at the time, with the atlas in a different contemporary binding.

This is the finest edition of Chardin’s account of his travels. It is enriched with notes on Persia by the celebrated Orientalist Louis-Mathieu Langlès. "Chardin was of French origin, the son of a jeweller. He went to the Levant to purchase gem stones in 1665, and after a successful journey set out again in 1671, spending seven years on his travels, much of the time in company with Guillaume Grelot, whom he met in Constantinople. After his return of his travels he settled in London" [Leonora Navari].