Oct 27, 2020 - Sale 2549

Sale 2549 - Lot 175

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Chardin, Sir Jean (1643-1713)
Voyages en Perse et autres Lieux de l'Orient.

Amsterdam: Jean Louis de Lorme, 1711.

Three large quarto volumes, frontispiece with portrait in the first volume, each title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, illustrated with numerous folding, full-page, and smaller engravings throughout, approximately seventy-five, some lacking, uncut copies in original marbled paper-covered boards, leather spines, boards detached, waterstaining to contents, some tears, to a few plates with loss, 10 3/4 x 8 in. [together with] Chardin's Journal du Voyage en Perse & aux Indes Orientales, par la Mer Noire & par la Colchide. London: Moses Pitt, 1686, first edition, folio, [pi]2, a-b2, B-Z2, Aa-Pp2, Qq1, Aaa-Zzz2, 4A-4Y2; with engraved title, lacking the portrait, with ten folding plates and two full-page plates, a total of fourteen plates of eighteen; bound in later boards, detached, 12 x 7 3/4 in. (4)