NOUVELLE BIBLIOTHEQUE - Voyages du chevalier Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de lOrient / De voyages ou choix des voyages les plus intéressans”, a Paris, Chez Lecointe, 1830. Complete, 10 volumes (I to XX), in 18mo, pp. 214+215+208+211+216+226+216+216+212+239. Text in French, without images. Jean Chardin, a French jeweler and traveler, whose ten-volume book is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Persia and the Near East in general. With a keen sense of observation, his travel stories are still of great interest today; they are an important source on the Persian culture and civilization of the time. Semi-leather binding, rather rubbed and dull, carton marbled covers. Sparse worm marks. Yellow edged pages, in very good condition, clean and tight.