JACKSON, A. V., AND ABRAHAM YOHANNAN, EDS.

A catalogue of the collection of Persian manuscripts, including also some Turkish and Arabic, presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, by Alexander Smith Cochran. Prepared and edited by…

New York, Columbia University Press, 1914. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxv, [1], 187, [1], plus 5-page publisher's catalogue; 13 plates; original maroon cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine; a near fine copy with light wear to extremities. Part of the publisher's Indo-Iranian series.

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Book number: 32853

Keywords: Persian manuscripts mss. paintings painted miniatures illuminated illuminations Books on Books about Books Checklist Bibliography MOMA Indo-Iranian series Cochran Collections

JACKSON, A. V. WILLIAMS (ABRAHAM VALENTINE WILLIAMS) (1862-1937)

From Constantinople to the Home of Omar Khayyam

New York. The MacMillan Company 1911. 1st Edition. Description: 317 p. Subjects: Omar Khayyam. Middle East--Description and travel. Iran--Description and travel. Finely photo plate illustrated throughout. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.Weight in Kg appr.: 1

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Book number: 74139

JACKSON, A.V. [ABRAHAM VALENTINE]; WILLIAMS (EDITOR); DUTT, ROMESH CHUNDER; SMITH, VINCENT A.; LANE-POOLE, STANLEY; ELLIOT, HENRY MIERS; HUNTER, WILLIAM WILSON; LYALL, ALFRED COMYN

History of India in Nine Volumes: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century, B.C. ;... To the Mohammedan Conquest, Including the Invasion of Alexander the Great; Mediaeval India from the Mohammedan Conquest to the Reign of Akbar the Great;... To the Fall of the Moghul Empire; the Mohammedan Period As Described by Its Own Historians; from the First European Settlements to the Founding of the English East India Company; the European Struggle for Indian Supremacy in the Seventeenth Century; from the Close of the Seventeenth Century to the Present Time; Historic Accounts of India by Foreign Travellers Classic, Oriental, and Occidental

The Grolier Society, Publishers, London, 1906. Limited. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Limited edition, 487 of 1000. No dust jackets as issued. Set very good overall, volumes 1 & 9 good. Some leather loss to rear spine of vol. 1, front hinge repaired, vol. 1 rear inside hinge repaired with tape by previous owner, spine head of vol. 9 repaired, edge wear to all volumes. Owner bookplates and blind stamps inside, ink stamp on rear flyleaf, card laid into each volume with matching stamp, apparently designating date of acquisition and collection volume # of previous owner. All bindings sound, text clean & unmarked, no foxing. 1906 Half-Leather. Complete in 9 volumes. Over 3300 pages total. xvii, 341; ix, 420; xiv, 281; viii, 293; xiii, 369; xxv, 325; xi, 310; xx, 510; xiv, 344. 10 1/4" x 7 1/2". Tall 8vo. Original half-leather binding: red morocco spines & corners, red & gold marbled boards, gilt spine lettering & decorations, gilt top page ridge, deckled page ridge, marbled endpapers match boards. An important and scarce set, edited by a well known American specialist in Indo-Iranian languages. Written by various authors, it covers the full range of Indian history from its beginnings to the time of the set's publication in 1906-07. Throughout are engravings and period photographs. Acquired from the private collection of Dr. Daniel Sperber, a prominent nuclear theorist and physicist.

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Book number: 1536675

Catalogue: 1st Catalog

Keywords: History History::Ancient History::Asian History History::Ancient History::Asian