PERSIA PAST AND PRESENT: A BOOK OF TRAVEL AND RESEARCH

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First Edition. Medium 8vo (9 x 6.25 ins); pp xxxi + 471 + [2]; with 136 illustrated plates containing 220 photographic images and the large colour folding map of Persia and Afghanistan, by Keith Johnston, indicating the route taken by Jackson. Publisher's navy blue cloth with gilt embossed illustration to front cover, gilt title lettering to spine slightly dulled and head of spine worn; tips of corners bumped and rubbed. Top edge of the pages gilt; rear hinge rather tender. A VG copy. Jackson was an American scholar and professor of Indo Iranian languages at Columbia University, and a leading authority on ancient Persian history, language, and literature. His grammar of Avestan, the language used in the Zoroastrian scriptures, is still considered the text work on the subject. Jackson travelled to Persia twice, the first time in 1903, to meet Zoroastrians living in Iran and study their customs and religion. N° de ref. del artículo 16247

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