Voyage en Orient - Tome 1 (French Edition)

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Full tawny mottled calf, triple gilt fillet around the covers, ribbed spines decorated with gilt cobwebs, lettering pieces in red and lemon yellow morocco, inner gilt border, red edges. The first complete Edition, partly original, of the best description of Persia from the 17th century.

This famous book of travels was the first to give an exact knowledge of the situation of this particularly popular region in the 18th century. Brunet, I, ; Chadenat ; Atabey The edition we quote is quite beautiful, and the copies well bound are hard to find. Son of a Protestant jeweler working on Place Dauphine in Paris, Jean Chardin quickly showed a strong predilection for travels, where the attraction to new horizons combined with the hope of starting a profitable business.

He took two long trips in Middle-East. His second trip to Middle-East took place between and In , he published in London the travel journal of his second trip to Isfahan of which Bayle made a strong praise , then, in , a much more complete edition containing, in addition to the same travel journal, a very meticulous presentation of Persia, with chapters on its literature, history, religion and political life, including a specific description of Isfahan and the travel narrative of a trip in Hormuz.

He had brought with him a skilled drawer, and was accompanied with him in all his explorations, and he was then able to bring back exact reproductions of monuments, of costumes, of the ruins of Persepolis, of arms, of utensils…. It was claimed that the academician Charpentier had helped Chardin in writing his book.

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Be as it may, what truly belongs to this illustrious traveler, are the precious materials gathered with so much intelligence and courage, these searches, observations, these curious and authentic information about the history, the administration, the legislation, the habits, the sciences, the arts, the customs of a country almost unknown until then.