Epic of the Persian Kings: The Art of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Sat 11 September 2010 to Sun 9 January 2011
Mellon Gallery (13)
This autumn, a landmark exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum explores the monumental artistic legacy of one of the world’s greatest literary epics: the 1000 year-old Persian ‘Book of Kings’, or Shahnameh. (more…)
Volume I: Mounted Woodburytype photographic frontispiece, 35 engraved illustrations from the author’s photographs, folding map on linen.
Volume II: Engraved double-page frontispiece, 33 engraved illustrations (some double-page), folding ethnological map of Central Asia on linen. Half-calf, gilt. pp. xxix, (iii), 684; xv, 731. 8vo. (2 volumes).
This is the first edition, London 1885. There was a later Boston printing in the same year.
Russian Central Asia; including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv.
De Lesdain has undertaken a journey with his 19 year old bride in 1904-1905 and lasting seventeen months. The publisher John Murray was moved to write in his preface: ‘That a lady of nineteen should have faced and sustained the hardships of travel in a wild and unknown region …. can hardly fail to arouse a feeling of admiration and surprise’.
From Peking to Sikkim; through the Ordos, the Gobi Desert, and Tibet.
A 19th century rare book by A.W. Hughes, treating on the subjects of history, politics, travel and geography of regions including: Baluchistan and Pakistan, Persia and Afghanistan, as well as Central Asia.
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