Voyage en Perse. Troisième édition.

Paris, V. Lecou, 1854

€ 150 / 200

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Lot description

Lge 8vo; front. and 21 pl. protected with tissue guards (some foxing).

Contemp. half red shagreen, blind ruled red buckram on covers, gilt orn. spine with raised bands, a.e.g. (sl. rubbed, sm. stains).

Third edition of the travel account of a voyage executed by the Prince Soltykov in Persia in 1838. Illustrated with 22 lithographs on tinted background, after the author's drawings, representing Teheran, the bazaar of Zanjan, a Circassian prince, "danse nocturne at Miana", Tbilisi or Tiflis, "le roi allant se promener", the young prince Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, etc.
Ref. Vicaire VII:575. - Not in Carteret.