Une Description de la Ville d'Ispahan, Capitale de Perse.
is an 84-page section of French travel writing dating from the end
of the seventeenth century and printed in 1686, then 1711 in Amsterdam.
High-resolution images of: The 1711 edition of: Voyages de Monsieur le chevalier Chardin, en Perse,
pages 1 to 84 of Volume III.
A selection of A4 jpegs are shown here. The entire gallery of digitised
pages is now on-line:
Gallery
Please contact me if you require further information on this part of the project. I also have high-resolution TIF Files of these French printed page images, with an average size of:
42 000 kilobytes each.
Any reproduction must carry this statement, please:
Reproduced from the Laboratory for Digital Philology project on Cities in French Literature, Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections, George Square, EDINBURGH EH8 9LJ
Contact: Charlie Mansfield.
Full Bibliographical References for the 2 Books
Author: Chardin, John, Sir, 1643-1713.
Brief Description: Journal du voyage du Chevalier Chardin en Perse & aux Indes orientales, par la mer noire & par la Colchide. Premiere partie, qui contient le voyage de Paris à Ispahan.
A Londres : Chez Moses Pitt, MDCLXXXVI [1686] [12], 150, 181-269, 262-263, [1], 269-349, [7] p., 18 folded leaves of plates :
EUL Special Collections Shelfmark: JY 681 Number of Items: 1 Photography: follow numbered list eg (1)
(1) First page , which reads Voicy la prémiére partie de mes Rela- tions de Perfe
(2) Fold-out illustration near page 258
(3) Illustrations between pages 324 and 325 1 long fold-out, 1 small.
(4) The 2 fold-outs after page 332
TOTAL 6 images.
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Author: Chardin, John, Sir, 1643-1713.
Brief Description: Voyages de Monsieur le chevalier Chardin, en Perse, et autres lieux de l'orient : Contenant le voyage de Paris à Ispahan, capitale de l'empire de Perse. Enrichi d'un grand nombre de belles figures en taille-douce, repre´sentat les antiquitez & les choses remarquables du pais. A Amsterdam : chez Jean Louis de Lorme, 1711. 3 v : 25 cm.
EUL Special Collections Shelfmark: SD 6470-6472 Number of Items: 3
Photography: Just Volume 3 Pages 1 to 84 and all intervening plates. Note, some images fold-out
