Voyages du Chevalier Chardin (Amsterdam, 1735) CHARDIN, Sir John.- Voyages du Chevalier Chardin, en Perse, et autres lieux de l’Orient.- Nouvelle edition, augmentée du Couronnement de Soliman III. & d’un grand nombre de passages tirés du manuscrit de l’auteur, qui ne se trouvent point dans les editions précédentes.- A Amsterdam: Aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1735.- 4 vols.: il.; 26 cm.- E. Jean Chardin (1643-1713), a French jeweler and traveler, born in Paris, traveled extensively in the Middle East, mainly in Persia, but also in India. Chardin began to publish his travels initially in London (1685) and as early as the following year in Amsterdam. The account, which has been repeatedly reprinted, translated and successively enlarged, is considered a reference in academic studies on Persia, in particular, and on the Middle East in general (the Parisian edition of Langlès consists of 10 volumes). In-4th edition, illustrated with two identical allegorical portraits (volumes I and III), keeping the 79 copperplate prints intact and well folded, most of them foldable, located according to the index of volume I. The collection of each of the volumes is as follows: I - [12], 390 p .: 1 portrait, XVIII engravings; II - [4], 559, [1 br.] P .: engravings XXXIII to LXXVIII; III - [6], 437 p .: 1 portrait, engravings XIX to XXXII; IV - [6], 324, [29, 1 br.] P .: picture LXXIX. First volume without half-title (unlike the other three volumes). A 19th century thin calf bindings, with mottled patina, probably English made, a little worn with weak joints and damage (partial loss) in the spine of volume II. Provenance: ex-libris heraldic of Syston Park; Roberto Gulbenkian Library. Brunet, I, 1802.