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London: Macmillan & co, 1963. Thirdt edition (hardback), volume 2 (of 2) only. 8vo (23cm by 15cm), xx, 616pp. 16 plates and a folding map. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. Bookplate to the front pastedown, minor spotting to the edges of the boards, else the book is in very good condition. The dustwrapper is in good condition (a little rubbed and scuffed, label removed from the spine panel). Please note that this is volume 2 only.
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A History of Persia, volume II (2).
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New York: Barnes & Noble, 1969. Reprint of 3rd edn. 2 vols. 8vo (9 x 6 ins). Original gilt lettered blue cloth (VG), dustwrapper (lightly chipped and creased at edges - in protective covers). Pp. xxxix + 563 [&] xx + 616, illus with b&w plates and 2 folding maps (no inscriptions).
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A History of Persia (Complete in Two Vols.)
by SYKES, Brigadier-General Sir Percy [Molesworth]
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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1951. Third Edition Reprinted. Hardcover. Good+. 8vo. Pp. xxxix, 563; xx, 616. Frontis. plates. Illustrated with numerous black & white photo plates, drawings in the text, and a fold-out map at the back of each volume. With preliminary and final essays, list of authorities and index. Blue cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spines. Covers lightly scuffed, board edges rubbed, Teheran bookseller tag on each front pastedown ("Librairie Orientale, Vladimir Kachine, Avenue Ferdovci [Ferdowsi]"), leaves minimally age toned, Vol. 1 with pencil annotations to endpapers, Vol. 2 a few leaves with pencil highlighting. Reprint of the 1930 "third edition with supplementary essays." Scholarly enthusiasm for Persia was a family trait: Sykes' sister, Ella Constance Sykes, was herself a Fellow of the Geographical Society and also a well-regarded expert on Persia (Persia and Its People, Macmillan, 1910), as well as greater Central Asia. Their overland travel from England to…
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London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1951. 2 volumes. Third edition, revised and supplemented with additional essays, reprinted. Numerous illustrations on plates and in the text and with two folding maps. 8vo, publisher’s original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on spines. xxxix, 563; xvi, 616 pp. A very fine and handsome set, as pristine, internally fine and fresh, the bindings, both cloth and giltwork handsome, sturdy and bright. A VERY SCARCE AND IMPORTANT WORK ON PERSIA. In these volumes, Sykes seeks “to fill what is undoubtedly a serious gap” in the early twentieth century research of Persian history. John Malcom’s comprehensive HISTORY OF PERSIA had been published just over a century before, and in the interim many notable advances in the study of the Persian region had been made, such as gaining the ability to translate “the mystery of cuneiform inscriptions.” Sykes combines history of Persia, Elam, Media, Macedonia, Assyria, and other regions with details of the…
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