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
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Type of record: Book
Title: 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
Other titles: The coronation of Solyman III
Classmark: BC Trv q/CHA
Creator(s): Chardin, Sir John (1643-1713)
Related people: Sulayman I, Shah of Iran, 1658 or 9-1694
Publisher: printed for Moses Pitt
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1686
Language: English
Size and medium: [13], 264, 331-417 [i.e. 351], [9], 154, [5]p., frontis. port., maps, plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/281150
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001310089705181
Description
No more published.
First issue of the first English edition, with 'Directions for the book-binder for placing the cuts' in later, corrected state. A French edition was published simultaneously, but no more of the author's travels were issued before the Amsterdam edition of 1711.
The plates, mostly folding, include additional, engraved title.
"Solyman III" is normally described in reference works as Soleyman I.
Pages 265-330 are omitted in the pagination of the first sequence. "The coronation of Solyman III. the present king of Persia." has separate titlepage and pagination. With a frontispiece portrait of Sir John Chardin, maps of the journey, plates of buildings in Persia and separate indexes to both parts.
Indexed in: Wing(2) C2043.
Additional description
Plate 12, a folding plate originally, trimmed in this copy to size of volume by cropping fore margins
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