Chardin, Jean [John]. - Le couronnement de Soleïmaan troisième [IIIme], roy de Perse. Et ce qui s'est passé de plus memorable dans les deux premieres années de son Regne.

Tehran, Imperial Organization for Social Services, 1976. [Paris, Claude Barbin, 1671]. Hardcover. Small octavo. Pp. (xxxviii), 460, (6). Frontispiece, head-and tail-pieces, illustrated initials. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's handsome brown boards, gilt ornament on both covers, spine with red dyed lettering-piece, and gilt ornaments, decorative endpapers, signature on title-page. In a very fine condition. A very attractive copy, practically unused. ~ Facsimile reprint of the 1671, Paris edition, reprinted from a copy in the Central Library of Tehran University. Published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the coronation of Reza Shah the Great in a limited edition of 1000 copies. The Pahlavi Commemorative Reprint Series. Jean Chardin (1643-1713), born Jean-Baptiste Chardin, also known as Sir John Chardin, was a French jeweller and traveller whose 10-volume book "The Travels of Sir John Chardin" is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Persia and the Near East. I-2 OUT .

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