Paris, Gervaise Clouzier, 1673
A brief but valuable description of Safavid Persia in the years 1664-65.
Daulier Deslandes (1621-1715) visited Persia in 1663, joining the French jeweller Jean Baptiste Tavernier (1605-89) on his sixth voyage to the Orient, apparently entrusted with the interests of other merchants who had invested in Tavernier's commercial venture. Later, after settling in Paris, he published Les Beautez … His account is noted for its recording of precise distances in Persia and clear descriptions of the principal cities enhanced by engravings. The unconnected narrative of the adventures of a pilot on the king's galleys was added with Daulier's consent (pp. 83-135).
With a fine provenance, from the Bosanquet family, renowned Huguenot bankers with strong connections to the East India Company. Richard Bosanquet (1735-1809), son of David and his wife Dorcas Melchior, was a partner in the Hamburg merchants Bosanquet & Fatio, and a Director of the East India Company.
First edition; small 4to, xii, 133, [ii] pp., frontispiece, 7 etched plates (5 folding) by Israel Silvestre and Antoine Paillet after the author, folding engraved map, contemporary calf gilt, neat repairs to joints and corners, a very good copy.
Brunet, I, 723-4; Wilson p.54; Weber II 340; not in Ghani.
Daulier Deslandes (1621-1715) visited Persia in 1663, joining the French jeweller Jean Baptiste Tavernier (1605-89) on his sixth voyage to the Orient, apparently entrusted with the interests of other merchants who had invested in Tavernier's commercial venture. Later, after settling in Paris, he published Les Beautez … His account is noted for its recording of precise distances in Persia and clear descriptions of the principal cities enhanced by engravings. The unconnected narrative of the adventures of a pilot on the king's galleys was added with Daulier's consent (pp. 83-135).
With a fine provenance, from the Bosanquet family, renowned Huguenot bankers with strong connections to the East India Company. Richard Bosanquet (1735-1809), son of David and his wife Dorcas Melchior, was a partner in the Hamburg merchants Bosanquet & Fatio, and a Director of the East India Company.
First edition; small 4to, xii, 133, [ii] pp., frontispiece, 7 etched plates (5 folding) by Israel Silvestre and Antoine Paillet after the author, folding engraved map, contemporary calf gilt, neat repairs to joints and corners, a very good copy.
Brunet, I, 723-4; Wilson p.54; Weber II 340; not in Ghani.
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