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Sir John Chardin's Travels in Persia, With an Introduction…
Chardin, Sir John and Sir Percy Sykes · London
- Author
- Chardin, Sir John and Sir Percy Sykes
- Date
- 1927
- Place
- London
- Publisher
- The Argonaut Press
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 4to.(7.5" x 10.125") Limited Edition #334/975. Quarter vellum over lt green/blue cloth with gilt decoration of a perisan lion within a gilt wreath towards head of upper board, rear blank. Spine with gilt title/author towards head, gilt publisher at foot, double gilt rule to head and foot of spine. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, foot of spine rubbed with tiny loss of color. Engraved, colored title page. Deckled edges. Illustrated with 9 engravings. Limited Edition
- Format
- Attestation page states: "This Edition of Sir John Chardin's Travels in Persia is the third pubication of the Argonaut Press and is limited to 975 copies on Japon vellum, numbered 1 to 975. The design appearing on the title-page is from an old Persian tile. The volume has been printed by Walter Lewis, M.A., at the University Press, Cambridge, in the year 1927. This copy is Number 334"
- Category
- Travel & Exploration
- Record
- S.I.7385
Sir John Chardin's Travels in Persia, With an Introduction
Author: Chardin, Sir John (16 November 1643 – 5 January 1713) and Sir Percy Sykes
From Wiki: Jean Chardin (16 November 1643 – 5 January 1713), born Jean-Baptiste Chardin, and also known as Sir John Chardin, was a French jeweller and traveller whose ten-volume book The Travels of Sir John Chardin is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Safavid Iran and the Near East in general.
Brigadier-General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes, KCIE, CB, CMG, FRGS (28 February 1867 – 11 June 1945) was a British soldier, diplomat, and scholar with a considerable literary output. He wrote historical, geographical, and biographical works, as well as describing his travels in Persia and Central Asia
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