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The beginning of the renewed contacts between France and Persia

JAUBERT, Pierre-Amédée Emilien.
Voyage en Arménie et en Perse, fait dans les années 1805 et 1806. Suivi d'une notice sur le Ghilan et le Mazenderan, par M. le colonel Trezel.

10 lithographed plates showing portraits, costumes and views, most of them designed by Orlowski and Preaux and lithographed by Aubry, Paris and H. Vernet, one large engraved folding map showing the region between Constantinople and Teheran engraved by Flahaut after Lapie and dated 1821.

10 lithographed plates showing portraits, costumes and views, most of them designed by Orlowski and Preaux and lithographed by Aubry, Paris and H. Vernet, one large engraved folding map showing the region between Constantinople and Teheran engraved by Flahaut after Lapie and dated 1821.

10 lithographed plates showing portraits, costumes and views, most of them designed by Orlowski and Preaux and lithographed by Aubry, Paris and H. Vernet, one large engraved folding map showing the region between Constantinople and Teheran engraved by Flahaut after Lapie and dated 1821.

10 lithographed plates showing portraits, costumes and views, most of them designed by Orlowski and Preaux and lithographed by Aubry, Paris and H. Vernet, one large engraved folding map showing the region between Constantinople and Teheran engraved by Flahaut after Lapie and dated 1821.

10 lithographed plates showing portraits, costumes and views, most of them designed by Orlowski and Preaux and lithographed by Aubry, Paris and H. Vernet, one large engraved folding map showing the region between Constantinople and Teheran engraved by Flahaut after Lapie and dated 1821.



Paris, Pélicier et Nepveu, 1821. 8vo. Contemporary half green morocco, spine with gilt ornaments and title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. 10 lithographed plates showing portraits, costumes and views, most of them designed by Orlowski and Preaux and lithographed by Aubry, Paris and H. Vernet, one large engraved folding map showing the region between Constantinople and Teheran engraved by Flahaut after Lapie and dated 1821. (2), XII, 506, (2) pp.

First edition of this rare work relating to a journey made into Persia and Armenia by the French interpreter, orientalist and diplomat Pierre-Amédée Emilien Jaubert (1779-1847). He was one of the interpreters working for Napoleon during his campains in Egypt and he played an important role in the negotiations Napoleon carried on in the East to gain a stronger position in that part of the world. For this purpose he was sent on a mission in 1805 to Persia to negotiate with the shah, where he finally arrived after an imprisonment of nearly half a year and where he was received with great honor. In 1818 he travelled into the Orient again, this time with a totally different purpose: to research the Tibetan sheep and the cashmir wool they produced.
Jaubert was a distinguished and well-known professor at the important Collège de France and translator of different oriental languages. A German translation of this work appeared in 1822.

Good copy with engraved bookplate of Paul Lagrave.
Chadenat 1628, 3782 & 5075 (same edition, other copies); Diba Collection, p. 312; Numa Broc II, p. 261; Atabey, 613; Schwab 287.

Related Subjects: Armenia  Asia  Cartography  Middle East  Napoleon 

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