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25. (Armenia - Persia) -
Jaubert, Pierre-Amédée Emilien:
Voyage en Arménie et en Perse, fait dans les années 1805 et 1806. Accompagné
d’une carte des pays compris entre Constantinople et Téhéran, dressée par M. le
Chef d’Escadron Lapie, suivi d’une notice sur le Ghilan et le Mazenderan, par M.
le Colonel Trezel. Paris: Pélicier & Nepvu, 1821; 8 vo; pp. 1 leaf blank, 2 leaves
(half title & title), xii, 506 p. of text, 1 errata-leaf; with a portrait frontispiece,
9 lithographed plates and 1 large copper-engraved folding map; contemporary
red half chagrin, spine gilt with raised bands and gilt title-lettering, upper board
with gilt-stamped coat of arms („Ville de Paris Collége Municipal Chaptal“);
boards and outer joints slightly rubbed; internally with some occasional foxing;
map with small tear (expertly restored); former owner’s name on front fly leaf
and his engraved book-plate on front paste-down endpaper; it is more than a
good copy indeed, a scarce copy of the first edition. 2.500,--
A very important work! Pierre-Amédée Emilien Jaubert (1757 - 1852), French orientalist, was
one of the most distinguished pupils of Silvestre de Sacy. Jaubert acted as interpreter to Napoleon
in Egypt in 1798 - 1799, and on his return to Paris held various posts under government. In 1802
he accompanied Sebastiani on his Eastern mission; and in 1804 he was at Constantinople. Next
year he was despatched to Persia to arrange an alliance with the shah; but on the way he was
seized and imprisoned in a dry cistern for four months by the Pasha of Bayazid. The Pasha’s death
freed Jaubert, who successfully accomplished his mission and rejoined Napoleon at Warsaw in
1807. On the eve of Napoleon’s downfall he was appointed Chargé d’Affaires at Constantinople
in 1815. The rest of his life Jaubert spent in study, in writing and teaching. He became professor
of Persian in the Collège de France, and director of the Ècole des langues orientales. The early
lithographs in this work depict mostly costume figures plus portraits and views. A German translation
of this work appeard in 1822. Atabey 613; Wilson 109; Pratt: Armenia & the Armenians, p.
11; Henze II, p. 705; Library Catalogue RGS, p. 241; Diba Collection, p. 312; Schwab 287.
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