The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies : the first volume, containing the author's voyage from Paris to Ispahan : to which is added, The coronation of this present King of Persia, Solyman the Third.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chardin, John, Sir, 1643-1713

Contributor:

Loggan, David, 1635-1700?

Chardin, John, Sir, 1643-1713.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Voyages du chevalier Chardin en Perse, et autres lieux de l'Orient. Ptie. 1 English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sulaymān I, Shah of Iran, 1648-1694.

Sulaymān.

Middle East--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Middle East.

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

Iran.

Physical Description:

14 unnumbered pages, 264, 331-417 pages, 9 unnumbered pages, 154 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 19 unnumbered leaves of plates (most foldled) : illustrations, portrait ; (folio)

Other Title:

Coronation of Solyman III. the present King of Persia

Travels into Persia and the East-Indies. PU

Fingerprint:

e.n- e.n- eri- laOr (3) 1686 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Moses Pitt in Duke-Street Westminster, 1686.

Notes:

Published in English and French concurrently in 1686 as (pt. 1) of the Travels. Three other volumes, with general title page "Voyages de Mons. le Chevalier Chardin", were published in Amsterdam in 1711. The last volume, announced by Chardin in his preface to this edition, was never published. (Cf. DNB).

With an additional title page engraved (plate).

With a title-page vignette.

Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author (plate) signed: D: Loggan ad vivum sculp.

"The coronation of Solyman III. the present King of Persia" (caption title) begins text and new pagination on 5A1r (caption title is *4). It is a translation of Chardin's "Le couronnement de Soleiman troisième", first published in Paris in 1671.

Title-page may be a cancel.

The first of four parts; the remainder were separately published in another ed., 1711; and all four parts were first collected and published in 1811.

Includes two indexes, one (*1-3) bound following part 1; the other (4U2-4) bound at the end.

Signatures: pi² ([pi]1 engraved) a-c² B-3I² [chi]1 (engraved) 3H-3X² 4A-4Y² (*)⁴ (- (*)4); ²[chi]² 5A-5U⁴.

Nos. 265-330 omitted in the paging of pt. 1; royal patent ([1] leaf), beginning "He who is, He is God", engraved, inserted following p. 216.

Cited in:

Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), C2043

ESTC, R12885

Related Work:

Chardin, John, Sir, 1643-1713. Couronnement de Soleiman troisième.

OCLC:

228722562