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| ALI, SYED AMEER Persian Culture London, The Persia Society/John Hogg. N.d. (ca 1913). 32 pages. 8vo/22cm. Dark green wrappers, light wear and soil, internally fine. The Right Honorable Syed Ameer Ali (1849-1928) was descended from noted Persians but made his career in India and England. as a judge, lecturer and British official. He was one of the first leaders to recognize that Muslims should organize themselves if they were to have an honored place in Indian national life. He retired to Britain in 1904 where he became the Law Lord of the Privy Council. Copies of this lecture are scarce. USD 44.00 [Appr.: EURO 29.75 | £UK 26.5 | JP¥ 3912] Book number: 002407 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| BARTH, FREDRIK The Land Use Pattern of Migratory Tribes of South Persia Trondheim, Norwegian Geographical Society. Reprint from Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind XVII 1959-60, Hefte 1-4. 11pp, 1 map, 1 graph. Tall vo/24.5cm. Lightly soiled, otherwise VG. Uses the Basseri tribe of Fars as an example of the extensive migrations of the pastoral nomads of South Persia. Norwegian born Fredrik Barth (1928- ), internationally renowned theoretical anthropologist is a professor at Boston University. USD 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 | £UK 6.75 | JP¥ 978] Book number: 002526 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| F.L. BIRD Modern Persia and Its Capital and an Account of an Ascent of Mount Devavend, the Persian Olympus Wash DC, National Geographic Society. 1921. Entire issue of National Geographic Magazine, Vol XXXIX, No 4 (April 1921), pp353-416, 47 photo illustrations. The issue is entirely devoted to Persia. The only other article, Persian Caravan Sketches: The Land of the Lion and the Sun as Seen on a Summer Caravan Trip, is by Harold F. Weston on pp417-468, and includes a map and 63 illustrations of which 16 are in color (some colored by the author). Tall 8vo/25.5cm. F.L. Bird had been an instructor at an American college in Teheran for five years. Harold F. Weston had been employed by the YMCA in Mesopotamia since 1916. Both articles present views of a Persia (called Iran since the 1930s) very different from the present. USD 19.00 [Appr.: EURO 13 | £UK 11.5 | JP¥ 1689] Book number: 002425 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| BROWNE, EDWARD GRANVILLE Account of A Rare Manuscript History of the Seljuqs Hertford, Stephen Austin and Sons Limited. 1906. Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, July 1902 (pp 567-610) and October 1902 (pp 840-887). 82pp, 2 text illustrations. 8vo/21.5cm. Printed grey wrappers, light soil, small almost unreadable round stamp of Lahore publisher, almost no wear and internally fine. An abstract of a manuscript in the Charles Schefer collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale by the distinguished early Persianist, Edward Granville Browne (1862-1925). The author of the manuscript was, Najmu'd-Din Abu Bakr Muhammad b. ali b. Sulayman..ar-Rawandi. It was composed about 1202-02 and is essentially a history of the Seljuqs from the beginning of their dynasty to the author's own time, (A.D.1027-1197). Rare copy printed by Stephen Austin, one of the first printers in England to have fonts of oriental scripts. USD 115.00 [Appr.: EURO 77.5 | £UK 69 | JP¥ 10226] Book number: 001680 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| MITCHELL, S. AUGUSTUS, JR. Map of Persia, Turkey in Asia, Afghanistan, Beloochistan Philadelphia, S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. 1860. 12 3/4" x 15 1/2" (image including 3/4" decorative floral border is 10 1/2" by 13 1/4") with 3 1/2" x 3" inset map of Palestine or the Hold Land. Scale appears to be 1"= ca.220 miles. Hand colored. Borders lightly browning but otherwise in very good condition. S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. took over the map publishing firm of his father, Samuel Augustus Mitchell, in 1860 and parlayed it into one of the most prolific American map publishing firms in the country. USD 58.00 [Appr.: EURO 39 | £UK 35 | JP¥ 5157] Book number: 002498 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| ROSS, SIR E. DENISON The Persians Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1931. First Edition. 142pp, Preface, bibliography, 19 black & white illustrations, index, folding map. Small 8vo/19.5cm. Brown cloth gilt, light wear, in edgeworn, slightly soiled and price clipped dj, blob on ffep, otherwise internally fine.A short comprehensive account of the history, geography and culture of Persia published in aniticipation of the Exhibition of Persian Art held at Burlington House, London in 1931. Sir Edward Denison Ross (1871-1940) was Professor of Persian at University College, London in the 1890s and later first Director of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London from 1916 to 1938 (the name was changed in 1936 to School of Oriental & African Studies or SOAS). Ghani (p.321) considers it "well written and very useful for its purpose.". USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 1601] Book number: 002897 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| ROSS, SIR E. DENISON The Persians Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1931. First Edition. 142pp, Preface, bibliography, 19 black & white illustrations, index, folding map. Small 8vo/19.5cm. Brown cloth gilt, head of spine beginning fray, otherwise very light wear and internally fine.A short comprehensive account of the history, geography and culture of Persia published in aniticipation of the Exhibition of Persian Art held at Burlington House, London in 1931. Sir Edward Denison Ross (1871-1940) was Professor of Persian at University College, London in the 1890s and later first Director of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London from 1916 to 1938 (the name was changed in 1936 to School of Oriental & African Studies or SOAS). Ghani (p.321) considers it "well written and very useful for its purpose.". USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9 | JP¥ 1334] Book number: 004463 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| ROSS, SIR E. DENISON, EDITOR Sir Anthony Sherley and His Persian Adventure. Including some Contemporary Narratives relating Thereto London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. 1933. Broadway Travellers Series edited by E.Denison Ross and Eileen Powers. First Edition. xxxviii, 293pp, 2 maps (1 folding), frontis portrait and 7 other plates, Prefatory Note, Bibliographical Introduction, Bibliography, Part I-The Life of Anthony Sherley. Part II-Narratives Relating to Sir Anthony Sherley Journey into Persia: 1. The Anonymous True Report; 2. William Parry's New and Large Discourse; 3. Abel Pincon's Relations; George Manwaring's True Discourse. 3 appendices, index. 8vo/22.5cm. Red cloth gilt with usual BT series gilt device at tail of spine, light soil and fading of spine, internally fine except prices added in small hand next to most books in BTseries list on verso of half-title. Anthony Sherley (1565-1635) and his brother Robert (1582-1628) went to Persia in 1598 to persuade the Persian ruler Shah Abbas to unite with the Christian princes of Europe against the Turks, and to promote trade between Persia and England. Anthony was made an ambassador by Shah Abbas and returned to Europe. From that point there is much controversy in the sources including in the text of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Sir Edward Denison Ross (1871-1940) had been Professor of Persian in the University of London and at the time of writing was serving as the first Director of the School of Oriental Studies in London (now SOAS). Ghani pp 322-323 gives a great deal of detail in his review. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 | £UK 24 | JP¥ 3557] Book number: 002903 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| WILBER, DONALD N. Persepolis: The Archaeology of Parsa, Seat of the Persian Kings New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company. 1969. Second Printing. xiii, [v], 120pp, illustrated endpapers, frontispiece and more than eighty photo illustrations, 2 maps and plans, bibliography, index. Tall 8vo/24cm. Black cloth gilt, minor spotting front board, internally fine. Donald Newton Wilber (1908-1997) spent a number of years in Iran and has written extensively about its architecture, gardens and history. Ghani p 705; Navabpour 91. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9 | JP¥ 1334] Book number: 002360 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. | ||
| WILLS, C.J. In the Land of the Lion and Sun, or Modern Persia. Being Experiences of Life in Persia from 1866 to 1881 London, New York and Melbourne, Ward, Lock and Co. 1891. New [Second] Edition (1883). xix, 446 + [xiv publisher's list] pp, frontis and 14 full page plates from photographs and native drawings, glossary, 4 appendices, index. 12mo/19cm. Blue-green cloth gilt, spine lettering faded with small closed split at head, light rubbing at extremities, in mylar protector, internally clean, tight and entirely unopened. Charles James Wills (1842-1912) was one the Medical Officers in Her Majesty's Telegraph Department in Persia. He came to South Persia with the Godsmid Mission and travelled widely. Ghani (Iran and the West) states that his work was superior as a travel book to some of its contemporaries" (p399). USD 54.00 [Appr.: EURO 36.5 | £UK 32.5 | JP¥ 4802] Book number: 002426 Click here to order or inquire at James Hurley, Books. |
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