A RESIDENCE OF EIGHT YEARS IN PERSIA, AMONG THE NESTORIAN CHRISTIANS; WITH NOTICE OF THE MUHAMMEDANS

Author: Perkins Justin
Title: A RESIDENCE OF EIGHT YEARS IN PERSIA, AMONG THE NESTORIAN CHRISTIANS; WITH NOTICE OF THE MUHAMMEDANS
Publication: Andover: Allen, Morrill & Wardwell, 1843
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hardcover. Octavo, 9.5 in. x 5.75 in., pp. xviii, [2], 512. Illustrated with frontis portrait of the King of Persia, one fold-out map, and twenty-seven plates, twenty-three of which are brightly hand-colored. Includes several pictures of women in full Persian garb. Original buckram boards with floral design stamped in blind to front and back. Gilt tille on spine. Ex-library from a college with number on spine and usual interior markings. Previous owner's name in ink to top of title page. Sunning to spine and top of boards. Tanned endpapers. Scattered foxing, but generally clean and easy to read. Pp. 267-271 and plate opposite p. 318 partially detached. Light age-toning and extra creases to map. Good.

Perkins was widely recognized as a scholar of the Syriac language and the various ethnic groups of Iran, especially the Nestorians, Christian Aramaic speakers. He was an ethnically aware watercolorist whose colorful drawings of various ethnic groups of northwest Iran are in this book, showing ethnic costumes - their colors and fabrics - during the mid-19th century. He lived in Persia from 1833 to 1841.

Seller ID: 82935

Subject: Cultural Studies

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