JAUBERT, Pierre Amédée Emilien Probe.
Voyage en Arménie et en Perse, fait dans les années 1805 et 1806 ... accompagné d'une carte des pays compris entre Constantinople at Téhéran ... suivi d'une notice sur le Ghilan et le Mazenderan ...
Paris, Pélicier et Nepveu, 1821. 8vo. With 10 lithographed plates showing portraits, costumes, and views, most of them designed by Orlowski and lithographed by Aubry, 1 large engraved folding map showing the region between Constantinople and Teheran engraved by Flahaut. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. [2], XII, 506, [2] pp.
€ 4,500
Interesting work relating a journey made into Persia and Armenia by the French interpreter and diplomat Pierre Amédée Emilien Probe Jaubert (1779-1847). He was one of the interpreters working for Napoleon and he played an important role in the negotiations Napoleon carried on in the East to become accepted as the emperor in that part of the world. For this purpose he was sent on a mission in 1805 to Persia to negotiate with the sjah, where he finally arrived after an imprisonment of nearly half a year. 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 of Persian at the Collège de France, director of the École des langues orientales, and a translator of different oriental languages.
The binding shows minor signs of wear, with some (ink) stains on the front endpapers (not affecting any other leaves), slightly foxed throughout. Otherwise in good conditon. Atabey 613; Chadenat 1628 (3782 & 5075 same edition, other copies); Diba Collection, A Persian bibliography (London 1981), p. 236; Numa Broc II, p. 261; Schwab 287.
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