A new and accurate description of Persia : and other eastern nations. Containing The Natural History of those Countries; the Religion, Temper, Manners and Customs of their Inhabitants; their Apparel, Exercises and Games; Arts, Trades, Manufacture, and Commerce. With Genuine Copies of the Instructions given by the English, French, and other European Powers, to their Respective Embassadors at that Court, and at those of China, Japan, and other Neighbouring Empires; no less Useful and Instructive for carrying on the Commerce in those Parts, than Entertaining to the Curious. Illustrated with a great number of cuts of habits, towns, beasts, birds, ruins, prospects at sea, &c.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chardin, John, Sir, 1643-1713.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Standardized Title:

Voyages du chevalier Chardin en Perse, et autres lieux de l'Orient. Selections. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chardin, John, Sir, 1643-1713--Travel--Iran.

Chardin, John, Sir, 1643-1713.

Travel.

Iran--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Iran.

Physical Description:

2v.,plates ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for A. Bettesworth and J. Batley in Pater-Noster-Row; J. Brotherton and W. Meadows in Cornhill; C. Rivington in St. Paul's-Church-Yard; and J. Hooke in Fleet-Street, 1724.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Drop-head title on p.1: 'The travels of Sir John Chardin'.

Edmund Lloyd's translation of part of vols.3 and 4 of the Amsterdam edition of the 'Voyages', 1711.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T93276.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.