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Anon (James Morier). THE ADVENTURES OF HAJI BABA OF ISPAHAN. |
£28 |
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462pp. Map. Smalll 8vo. Reprint of 1824 novel in 19th century binding with leather spine and corners. Very good indeed. A most attractive copy. 1835 Reprint, Richard Bentley. |
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Anon. TRAVELS IN SOUTH-WESTERN ASIA. |
£65 |
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165pp. Small 8vo. 4 full-page engraved plates. The travels and observations of a Captain Blisset through Palestine, Persia and by camel train to Mecca. Inscribed 'Ann Steptoe, a reward given for diligence in sewing'. Very good. A clean copy in the original cloth. 1831 First edition, C.J.G.& F.Rivington, Booksellers to the Society for Promoting Christiam Knowledge. |
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Atkinson, James (translates). THE SHAH NAMEH |
£24 |
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of the Persian Poet Firdausi. 412pp. Very good. 1886 The Chandos Classics, Frederick Warne. |
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Binyon, Lawrence, Wilkinson, J.V.S and Gray, Basil. PERSIAN MINIATURE PAINTINGS |
£450 |
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including a critical and descriptive catalogue of the miniatures exhibited at Burlington House, January-March, 1931. 212pp. Folio. Index. A sumptuous catalogue with 2 plates in colour and 113 in b/w. Fine. 1933 Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. |
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Blunt, Wilfrid. ISFAHAN. |
£18 |
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Pearl of Persia. 208pp. Index. 55 photographs in black and white and 36 in colour. Fine in slightly chipped dw. 1974 Second impression, Elek. |
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Blunt, Wilfrid. ISFAHAN. |
£24 |
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Pearl of Persia. 208pp. Index. 55 photographs in black and white and 36 in colour. Fine in slightly chipped dw. 1966 First edition, Elek. |
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Bosly, Caroline. RUGS TO RICHES. |
£16 |
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An Insider's Guide to Oriental Rugs. 248pp. Index. Illustrated in colour and b/w. Fully revised and updated. Fine in fine dw. 1987 Third edition, Unwin Hyman. |
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Brend Barbara. PERSPECTIVES ON PERSIAN PAINTING. |
£48 |
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Illustrations to Amir Khusrau's 'Khamsah'. 324pp. Index. 24 colour and 104 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 2002 First edition, Routledge Curzon. |
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Burton, Sir Richard (translates). THE GULISTAN |
£25 |
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or Rose Garden of the Sheikh Sa'di of Shiraz. 256pp. Translated from the Persian. With 9 full-page stylish drawings by John Kettelwell. Very good. A little light spotting. 1928 First thus, Philip Allan. |
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Curzon, George Nathaniel. CURZON'S PERSIA. |
£18 |
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192pp. Edited with an introduction by Peter King. Selections from `Persia and the Persian Question' originally published in 1892. 30 year old Curzon travelled nearly 2,000 miles on horseback. Profusely illustrated. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First thus, Sidgwick & Jackson. |
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English, Barbara. JOHN COMPANY'S LAST WAR. |
£15 |
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A Victorian Military Adventure. 192pp. 20 b/w illustrations and 5 maps. Outram's 1856 campaign in Persia. Very good. 1971 First edition, Collins. |
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Fitzgerald, Edward. THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. |
£55 |
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4to. Illustrated with 15 colour plates of paintings by Frank Brangwyn tipped in. De-luxe edition on art paper. Very good. Inscription. 1920 First edition thus, T.N.Foulis. |
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Gray, Basil. PERSIAN PAINTING. |
£16 |
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92pp. 15 b/w plates. Very good. 1930 First edition, Ernest Benn. |
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Gray, Basil. PERSIAN PAINTING. |
£16 |
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190pp. 4to. Card covers. Fully illustrated in colour. Fine 1961 Bookking International. |
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Greaves, R.L. PERSIA AND THE DEFENCE OF INDIA 1884-1892. |
£65 |
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A Study in the Foreign Policy of the Third Marquis of Salisbury. 301pp. Index. Fine in near-fine dw. 1959 First edition, The Athlone Press. |
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Hedin, Sven. OVERLAND TO INDIA. |
£240 |
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In 2 volumes. 416pp and 342pp. Index. Travels throughout Persia. With many illustrations and two folding maps. Front hinges slack and frontispiece of vol 2 loose but a very clean bright set. Attractive bookplate. 1910 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Heude, Lt. William. A VOYAGE UP THE PERSIAN GULF AND A JOURNEY OVERLAND FROM INDIA TO ENGLAND IN 1817. |
£24 |
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252 + xi pp. Facsimile reprint of 1819 original. Fine in fine dw. 1993 Garnet Publishing. |
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Holland, Tom. PERSIAN FIRE. |
£12 |
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The First World Empire and the Battle for the West. 418pp. Index. 14 maps and 33 colour illustrations. The wars between the Greeks and the Persians. Fine in fine dw. Inscription. 2005 Reprint, Little, Brown. |
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Hopkirk, Peter. ON SECRET SERVICE EAST OF CONSTANTINOPLE. |
£28 |
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The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire. 431pp. 31 illustrations and 3 maps. German moves towards India. Fine in fine dw. 1994 First edition, John Murray. |
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Hopkirk, Peter. ON SECRET SERVICE EAST OF CONSTANTINOPLE. |
£24 |
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The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire. 431pp. 31 illustrations and 3 maps. German moves towards India. Fine in fine dw. Small rubber stamp of owner's name. 1994 First edition, John Murray. |
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Hunt, Capt. G.H. OUTRAM AND HAVELOCK'S PERSIAN CAMPAIGN |
£180 |
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to which is Prefixed a Summary of Persian History….by George Townsend. 352pp. 7 colour-printed plates. 1862 prize label from The Scottish Institute. In full leather binding of the period. Very good. An excellent copy. 1858 Second edition, G.Routledge & Co. |
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Kroger, Jens. NISHAPUR. |
£38 |
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Glass of the Early Islamic Period. 256pp. 4to. Index. 316 b/w illustrations. Catalogue of finds from the museum's excavations in Iran. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. |
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Lewis, G.Griffin. THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF ORIENTAL RUGS. |
£35 |
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375pp. Index. 32 illustrations in colour and 160 in b/w. Folding map. In original decorated boards. Top edge gilt. Spine rubbed and darkening but otherwise very good. 1920 Revised edition, Lippincott, Philadelphia. |
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Malcolm, Sir John. SKETCHES OF PERSIA. |
£80 |
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287pp + 16pp Murray catalogue. Murray's 'Colonial and Home Library'. In the original red cloth. Very good indeed. 1845, John Murray. |
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Morier, James. THE ADVENTURES OF HAJI BABA OF ISPAHAN.. |
£10 |
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450pp. Map. Smalll 8vo. World's Classics reprint of novel in full leather binding. Fine. 1963 Oxford University Press. |
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Morris, James, Wood, Roger and Wright, Denis. PERSIA. |
£25 |
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4to. Long essay by Morris, 151 fine black and white photographs by Roger Wood, each fully annotated by Denis Wright. Fine in very good dw. 1969 First Thames & Hudson. |
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Moynihan, Elizabeth B. (edits). PARADISE AS A GARDEN IN PERSIA AND MUGHAL INDIA.. |
£14 |
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168pp. Index. Illustrated in b/w. Owner's name. Very good. 1980 Scolar Press. |
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Paine, Sheila. THE AFGHAN AMULET. |
£12 |
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Travels from the Hindu Kush to Razgrad. 278pp. Index. A 1990 journey of textile expert through Afghanistan, Iran, Kurdistan and Turkey. Fine in fine dw. 1994 First US, St. Martin's Press. |
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Pinder-Wilson, R.H. PERSIAN PAINTING of the Fifteenth Century. |
£15 |
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24pp. 4to. Card covers. 10 colour plates tipped in. Faber Gallery of Oriental Art. Fine. 1958 First edition, Faber & Faber. |
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Pottinger, George. THE AFGHAN CONNECTION. |
£14 |
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Major Eldred Pottinger. 239pp. Index. 24 b/w illustrations, 2 maps and 2 plans. Hero of the defence of Herat in 1837-38 against a Persian army with Russian advisers. Top edge dusted. Otherwise fine in fine dw. 1983 First edition, Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh. |
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Robinson, B.W. PERSIAN MINIATURE PAINTING |
£18 |
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from collections in the British Isles. 120pp. 52 black and white plates. Colour frontispiece. Index. Concordance. Details of 184 items in an exhibition at the V&A. Card covers. Fine in fine dw. 1967, First edition, HMSO. |
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Robinson, B.W. PERSIAN PAINTINGS IN THE INDIA OFFICE LIBRARY. |
£48 |
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A Descriptive Catalogue. 271pp. Index. Over 1,300 entries, extensively illustrated in colour and b/w. The collection was acquired by the East India Company from the library of Tipu and the collections of Warrern Hastings and Richard Johnson. Fine in very good dw. 1976 First edition, Sotheby Parke Burnet. |
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Robinson, B.W. PERSIAN PAINTINGS IN THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY. |
£48 |
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A Descriptive Catalogue. 365pp. Index. Over 1,500 entries, extensively illustrated in colour and b/w. Fine in very good dw. 1980 First edition, Sotheby Parke Burnet. |
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Ross, E.Denison (edits). SIR ANTHONY SHERLEY AND HIS PERSIAN ADVENTURE. |
£28 |
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Including some Contemporary Narratives Relating thereto. 293pp. Index. 8 plates and 2 maps. A journey from London to Isfahan in 1598-1606. First reprinting of a 1613 publication in the Broadway Travellers series. Very good. 1933 First thus Routledge. |
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Sakisian, Armenag Bey. LA MINIATURE PERSANE du XIIe au XVIIe Siecle. |
£250 |
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Ouvrage accompagne de la reproduction de 193 miniatures. 191pp. Index. Folio. 190 illustrations in monochrome. Bound with leather spine and corners and marbled boards. Finely printed on high quality paper, this copy refers to a de luxe edition of 25 copies but is not numbered. Very good indeed. A lovely copy of a very scarce book. 1929, Les Editions G.van Oest, Paris et Bruxelles. |
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Shuster, W.Morgan. THE STRANGLING OF PERSIA. |
£35 |
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423pp. Index. 85 illustrations and a map. Account of American mission which was sent as a counter-weight to Russian and British interests. Ex-college library copy. Very good. 1912 First, The Century Co., New York. |
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Sinclair, Ronald. ADVENTURES IN PERSIA. |
£14 |
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To India by the Back Door. 216pp. Ex-intelligence officer travels from Beirut to India by car in 1926. On his death the author was revealed to be Reginald Teague-Jones who had been condemned by the Bolsheviks as the British agent in Baku. Very good in very good dw. 1988 First edition, Witherby. |
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Smith George. HENRY MARTYN, |
£25 |
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Saint and Scholar. First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans 1781-1812. 580pp. Index. Portrait fronispiece and 9 illustrations. Ex college library copy. Mission service in Serampore, Patna, Cawnpore and Persia. Poor boards rubbed and marked and front hinge split. 1892 First edition, Religious Tract Society. |
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Smith George. HENRY MARTYN, |
£35 |
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Saint and Scholar. First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans 1781-1812. 580pp. Index. Portrait frontispiece and 9 illustrations. Mission service in Serampore, Patna, Cawnpore and Persia. Front endpaper removed. Otherwise very good. 1892 First edition, Religious Tract Society. |
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Standish, John F. PERSIA AND THE GULF. |
£12 |
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Retrospect and Prospect. 214pp. Index. Card covers. Chapters on British influence and the Persian War of 1856-57. Fine. 1998 Curzon Press. |
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Welch, Stuart Cary. PERSIAN PAINTING. |
£16 |
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Five Royal Safavid Manuscripts of the Sixteenth Century 127pp. 48 illustrations in colour. Card covers. Fine. 1996 Reprint, George Braziller, New York |
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Welch, Stuart Cary. ROYAL PERSIAN MANUSCRIPTS. |
£16 |
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127pp. 48 illustrations in colour. Card covers. Fine. Owner's name. 1978 Thames & Hudson. |
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Welch, Stuart Cary. ROYAL PERSIAN MANUSCRIPTS. |
£8 |
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127pp. 48 illustrations in colour. Card covers. Very good but sellophane peeling from wrappers. 1978 Thames & Hudson. |
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Welch, Stuart Cary. WONDERS OF THE AGE. |
£16 |
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Masterpieces of Early Safavid Painting, 1501-1576. Exhibition catalogue. With many full-page illustrations in colour and black and white. 224pp. Card covers. Very good indeed. 1979 First Fogg Art Museum, Harvard. |
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Wilkinson, J.V.S. with an introduction by Lawrence Binyon. THE SHAH NAMAH OF FIRDAUSI. |
£55 |
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92pp. 4to. 24 full-page illustrations, 7 in colour. Near fine in very good dw. 1931 Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. |
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Willey, Peter. THE CASTLES OF THE ASSASSINS. |
£25 |
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328pp. 32 b/w photographs, 12 maps and plans (including a large folding map). A record of the Alamut Valley Expedition to Northern Persia. Very good in slightly chipped dw. 1963 First edition, Harrap. |
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Wilson, Sir Arnold. PERSIA. |
£28 |
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400pp. Index. Ex-college library copy. Very good indeed. 1933 First Scribner, New York. |
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Wright, Denis. THE ENGLISH AMONGST THE PERSIANS |
£12 |
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during the Quajar Period 1787-1921. Diplomacy, trade in competition with the Russians. Fine in fine dw. 1977 Reprint year of publication, Heinemann. |
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Wynn, Anthony. PERSIA IN THE GREAT GAME. |
£14 |
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Sir Percy Sykes, Explorer, Consul, Soldier, Spy. 346pp. Index. 32 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 2003 First edition, John Murray. |
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