Apr 11, 2011 - Sale 2243

Sale 2243 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 3,120
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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
CHARDIN, JOHN, Sir. The Travels . . . into Persia and the East-Indies, through the Black Sea, and the Country of Colchis. 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 III. 11 double- and 5 single-page engraved plates; double-page engraved map of the Black Sea and surrounding region. [18], 417, [7]; [2], 154, [5] pages, including engraved additional title and portrait. Folio, contemporary calf, rebacked, front free endpaper renewed; view of Tiflis and map browned, contents otherwise generally clean. London: Moses Pitt, 1686

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first edition in english. all published. Pages 242-54 describe the author's travels in Armenia, with views of Yerevan and Etchmiatsin. Wing C2043; Boghossian, Iconographie Arménienne 96, 97, 121, 124, 169; Ghani, pages 70-72.