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ARABIC AND PERSIAN MALCOLM (JOHN)
The History of Persia [in Persian], 2 vol. in 1, [Bombay], 1870[-1873]

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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ARABIC AND PERSIAN

MALCOLM (JOHN) The History of Persia [in Persian], 2 vol. in 1, translated from the English into Persian by Isma'il Hayrat, large folding lithographed map, 29 albumen print plates (mostly after the original plates in the English editions), all mounted as issued within decorative lithographed borders with captions, one lithographed plate, institutional blindstamp to most plates and a few text leaves, early half morocco, some scuffmarks, folio (330 x 221mm.), [Bombay], 1870[-1873]

Footnotes

VERY SCARCE PERSIAN TRANSLATION OF JOHN MALCOLM'S THE HISTORY OF PERSIA.

"The translation of Malcolm's history was the outcome of a British Mission to Iran in the 1860s for the purpose of establishing a telegraph line connecting India to Great Britain through Iran... The head of the mission Major General Frederic Jon Goldsmid, was the guest of the governor of Kirman, Muhammad Isma'il Khan Vakil-al-Mulk. Enjoying the governor's hospitality Goldsmid asked him how he could repay him. In response Vakil-al-Mul requested a Persian translation of Malcolm's History..." (Farzin Vejdani, Making History in Iran, 2014, p.25). Mirza Isma'il Hayrat travelled extensively throughout the Arabian peninsula before securing a job as a translator for the Bombay administration, and later a teacher at the Elphinstone College.

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