Beautés de l’Histoire de la Perse depuis Cyrus jusqu’à nos Jours, ou, Tableau des conquêtes et révolutions de cet empire, ses événemens mémorables, traits remarquables de la vie de ses grands hommes, religion, lois, gouvernement, moeurs et coutumes de ce pays dans tous les âges, ses manufactures, son industrie, son commerce, etc. : orné de douze belles gravures : a l’usage de la jeunesse. TWO VOLUMES.

Beaumont, Francois-Marie Marchand de.

Book ID: 33065

£600.00

8vo. Volume I: 352 pp., / Volume II: 330 pp., [1], 12 illustrated engraved plates including two frontispieces, half-titles, contemporary full calf, title gilt ornate decorated spine, marbled end papers and edges, previous owner’s inscription verso front endpaper, very small tear to lower corner of page 271 without loss, occasional spotting, otherwise set in very good condition, Librairie d'éducation d'Alexis Eymery, Paris, 1825.

Synopsis

Second edition of this detailed history of Persia China and Japan for young persons, covering all aspects such as the great philosophers, government, customs, sciences, art and commerce, compiled by François-Marie Marchant de Beaumont (1769-1832), who published similar works on the Netherlands, China, and Japan.
Bibliographic reference: Ghani, p. 93; for the first edition of 1820.