Author:
PHILLOTT Lieut Col D.C.
Title:
The Baz-Nama-Yi Nasiri A Persian Treatise On Falconry
Price:
£1200.00
Year:
1908
Edition:
1st Edn,
Publisher:
Bernard Quaritch
Summary:
xxiv 195 pages, TEG, frontis + 24 b/w illus full page and in the text, lge 8vo, spotting to end papers, old stain approx. 2cm x 2cm to bottom blank outer corner margin affecting first 8 pages, light green cloth with large gilt block of a Persian hawking scene reproduced from the frontis to upper cover, even fading to spine and lesser so to boards. limited to 500 copies. A translation of the Persian The Falcon Book of Nasir. "An excellent account about the handling of hawks during early periods of Persia" Swift 463.01
Ref:
20320