Jaubert Amedee,”Voyage en Armenie et en Perse, fait dans les annees 1805 et 1806”, Paris, Chez Pelicier et Nepveu, 1821. First Edition. Tall 8vo (22,5x15cm), half title, pp.xij,506. period carton binding rubbed, with wear along joints, covers partly detached. Text complete with 5 (of 10) plates. Jaubert, orientalist, was the envoy of Napoleon in the Court of Persia, in charge of an important diplomatic mission to negotiate with the Shah in order to assert the position of France in this region. He had travelled through the Black sea to Trebizond and Armenia in his way towards Persia, writing an account that is practically the first of a European for these parts of the Ottoman Empire, after Tournefort. Atabey 613, not in Blackmer