Lot 379

A. V. Williams Jackson, Persia past and present. London 1906.

Estimate
€ 200
Starting Price
€ 140
Lot: 379
Category: Geography and work of views
Artist: A. V. Williams Jackson
Jackson, A. V. Williams: Persia past and present. A book of travel and research. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1906. 22,8 x 14,7 cm. With a frontispiece and 133 plates containing photographic illustrations, plus 1 folded colour map. XXXI pp., 1 blank page, 471 pp., 1 blank page, 1 leaf (advertisements). Original blue linen.

(The cover is scuffed and bumped. Slightly stained. The map has a small tear. The plate on p. 170 has been bound the wrong way round.)

Jackson was a professor of Indo-Iranian languages at Columbia University. His grammar of the Avestan language is still regarded today as a seminal work in the field.