Jaubert A.: “Voyage en Arménie et en Perse fait dans les années 1805 et 1806”. Paris 1821 First edition. 8vo, pp.504. Contemporary leather over boards, slightly rubbed. Complete with half title, frontispiece .10 lithographed plates after Orlowski, Vernet and Preault, presenting early views of Eastern Anatolia and Persia and the separately published huge (92x42cm !!) folded map of Asia Minor by Lapie. Overall very good. Jaubert was sent as Napoleon’s ambassador to Persia, in order to negotiate an alliance against England. To avoid the English cruisers, he had followed a fist time taken route through the Black sea and Armenia. He was among the first to visit all the Pontic coast and through Trebizond and Gumushane (Argyroupolis) he continued his travel to Armenia and Persia. (….).The big map by Lapie, the famous French Geographer of the time and chief of the Military Depot, was the best achieved in the first half of 19th century and it is often missing, but it is present here. Atabey 613, not in Blackmer. Scarce