A new and accurate description of Persia, and other eastern nations. Containing The Natural History of those Countries; the Religion, Temper, Manners and Customs of their Inhabitants; their Apparel, Exercises and Games; Arts, Trades, Manufacture, and Commerce. With Genuine Copies of the Instructions given by the English, French, and other European Powers, to their Respective Embassadors at that Court, and at those of China, Japan, and other Neighbouring Empires; no less Useful and Instructive for carrying on the Commerce in those Parts, than Entertaining to the Curious. Illustrated with a great number of cuts of habits, towns, beasts, birds, ruins, prospects at sea, &c.

  • Chardin, John, Sir, 1643-1713.
Date:
1724
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Voyages du chevalier Chardin en Perse, et autres lieux de l'Orient. Selections. English

Publication/Creation

London : printed for A. Bettesworth and J. Batley in Pater-Noster-Row; J. Brotherton and W. Meadows in Cornhill; C. Rivington in St. Paul's-Church-Yard; and J. Hooke in Fleet-Street, 1724.

Physical description

2v.,plates ; 80.

References note

ESTC T93276

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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