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]; [4], 154, [5] pages, including engraved additional title and portrait. Folio, 300x194 mm, modern crude reversed leather; conspicuous dampstaining at beginning and end, clean tears in a few text leaves, last index leaf torn and mounted without text loss, view of Tiflis bound upside down, view of Yerevan separated at fold, views of Soltaniyeh and Kashan loose. London: Moses Pitt, 1686