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Iranian History and Early Photography: Three Glass Lantern Slides of Qajar Tehran Royal Palace Gardens and Isfahan's Khaju Bridge circa 1905

1905Best.-Nr. 145291905. Collection of three original photographic glass lantern slides depicting the Qajar royal palace gardens in Tehran an elevated view of the capital's developing neighborhoods and the seventeenth-century Khaju Bridge in Isfahan circa 1905. The Tehran images date from the reign of Mozaffar al-Din Shah Qajar 1896-1907 shortly before the Persian Constitutional Revolution and the establishment of a national parliament in 1906. One records a man in traditional Persian clothing walking through the royal palace gardens while another titled "The Shah's Gardens and the New Neighborhoods" presents an elevated view across Tehran's urban landscape. The third slide depicts the Khaju Bridge commissioned by Shah Abbas II around 1650 recording one of the principal surviving monuments of Safavid architecture in Isfahan. The three views preserve early twentieth-century photographic records of Persian royal grounds urban development and historic infrastructure circulated through European and American lantern-slide publishers. Three original gelatin silver bromide positive glass lantern slides each measuring approximately 3¼" x 4" dating to circa 1905. The first depicts a Persian man wearing traditional nineteenth-century clothing and walking through the Qajar royal palace gardens in Tehran. The second presents an elevated perspective over the palace gardens and surrounding city captioned "The Shah's Gardens and the New Neighborhoods" showing the relationship between the royal precinct and Tehran's expanding residential districts. The first two images are associated with Arthur Radiguet and the Parisian optical firm Maison Molteni subsequently operating as Molteni Radiguet & Massiot. The third slide produced by the New York optical firm T. H. McAllister depicts the Khaju Bridge spanning the Zayandeh River in Isfahan. Constructed under Shah Abbas II around 1650 on the site of an earlier crossing the bridge incorporates 23 arches and served as a roadway dam and public gathering place connecting the Khaju quarter with the opposite bank near the historic Zoroastrian district. Its arcaded construction central pavilion and water-regulating features distinguish it among the architectural projects of Safavid Isfahan. The two Tehran views were distributed through the French optical industry associated with Arthur Radiguet who died in 1905 and the Maison Molteni a manufacturer of photographic projection apparatus and lantern slides. The Khaju Bridge image was produced by T. H. McAllister a New York firm specializing in optical instruments and photographic lantern-slide production. Such glass transparencies were used in illustrated lectures geographical instruction and public presentations projecting photographic images onto screens through optical lanterns. The elevated Tehran view records the city's development before the extensive urban alterations of the Pahlavi period while the palace garden scene preserves details of Qajar-era royal grounds and contemporary dress. The Isfahan image records a Safavid bridge that continued to serve the city more than two centuries after its construction. All three original glass positives are in very good condition. unknown books

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AV William Jackson; Iran A VABAA

Iranian History and Zoroastrianism: A. V. Williams Jackson's Persia Past and Present First Edition 1906

1906Best.-Nr. 144731906. Jackson A. V. Williams. Persia Past and Present: A Book of Travel and Research 1906. First edition of the American scholar's account of his 1903 journey through Persia combining firsthand observations of Zoroastrian religious communities with investigations of ancient Persian history archaeology language and literature. Jackson 1862-1937 professor of Indo-Iranian languages at Columbia University and an authority on Zoroastrianism and the Avesta traveled to Persia principally to meet Zoroastrians and examine the religious traditions and historical sites associated with their faith. His narrative follows a journey through Qajar Iran during the reign of Mozaffar al-Din Shah 1896-1907 recording religious practices archaeological monuments and conditions in Persian cities and provincial settlements. Published three years after his travels the book preserves observations of Zoroastrian communities in Yazd and other regions shortly before the Persian Constitutional Revolution transformed the country's political institutions. Jackson A. V. Williams. Persia Past and Present: A Book of Travel and Research. New York: The Macmillan Company 1906. First edition. One volume 8vo 471 pp. complete with all 136 illustrated plates 220 photographic illustrations and a large color folding map of Persia and Afghanistan at the rear. Original dark blue cloth binding with gilt pictorial decoration on the front cover gilt lettering on the spine and top edge gilt. Jackson's itinerary includes Tabriz Lake Urmia Hamadan Isfahan Persepolis Shiraz Yazd Tehran and Mazandaran. His chapters examine Zoroastrian religious customs in Yazd ancient fire temples the Behistun inscription the ruins of Persepolis and the tomb of Cyrus the Great at Pasargadae. The photographic illustrations and plates reproduce archaeological remains religious sites historical monuments and contemporary Persian landscapes while the folding map provides geographical context for his travels. Jackson's investigations connected the study of ancient Iranian religious texts with surviving Zoroastrian practices in early twentieth-century Persia. His descriptions of the Zoroastrians of Yazd their religious observances and their historical relationship to pre-Islamic Persian traditions extend beyond conventional travel writing into the comparative study of religion and Iranian antiquity. His accounts of Achaemenid monuments and inscriptions also record the condition of major archaeological sites before extensive twentieth-century excavation and restoration. The original binding shows rubbing to the corners and edges some cover soiling not affecting the gilt illustration fraying at the spine ends and cuts at the spine tail. Hinges have been repaired. Complete with the illustrations and folding map present; overall in very good condition. unknown books

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Persian Mosque; IranABAA

Safavid Persia and Islamic Architectural History: Monumental Mosque and Courtyard Illustrations from Atlas Historique 1720

1720Best.-Nr. 144611720. Chatelain Henri Abraham. Atlas Historique 1720. Original large-format engraving depicting the architectural design and interior arrangement of a Persian mosque during the late Safavid period 1501-1736. Published for European readers in the early eighteenth century the plate presents several views of the mosque including its exterior interior and monumental central courtyard surrounded by arched structures. The illustrations record architectural features associated with Persian Islamic religious buildings particularly the arrangement of open courtyards arcaded galleries and enclosed spaces for worship. Accompanying French explanatory text identifies and describes elements of the complex documenting how Persian religious architecture was presented to European audiences during the reign of Shah Sultan Husayn 1694-1722. Chatelain Henri Abraham. Atlas Historique ou Nouvelle Introduction à l'Histoire à la Chronologie et à la Géographie Ancienne et Moderne. Paris 1720. Original copperplate engraving measuring 54 x 43 cm. The large sheet combines multiple architectural perspectives of a Persian mosque with descriptive text in French. The principal illustrations show the building's exterior and interior while a separate view presents its spacious central courtyard enclosed by arched galleries and surrounding structures. Architectural details repeated arches and the arrangement of the mosque's principal spaces are rendered through precise engraved linework. The plate was issued in connection with Chatelain's Atlas Historique an illustrated geographical and historical encyclopedia published in Amsterdam between 1705 and 1720. Its text was compiled by Nicolas Gueudeville and Garillon with supplementary contributions by H. P. de Limiers while Chatelain produced maps and engravings many of his maps drawing upon the cartographic work of Guillaume de l'Isle. The engraving dates from the final years of Safavid rule when Persian mosque architecture was widely associated with the monumental religious buildings developed under Shah Abbas I and his successors particularly in Isfahan. Chatelain's Atlas Historique combined geography chronology genealogy topography heraldry and architectural illustration to introduce European readers to the histories and cultures of different regions. This plate's combination of exterior elevations interior views courtyard architecture and French explanations provides a detailed example of early eighteenth-century European documentation of Persian Islamic architecture. In very good condition. unknown books

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Poet Hafez; IranABAA

Persian History: Friedrich Justin Bertuch View of Shiraz and the Tomb of Hafez circa 1790 to 1830

1790Best.-Nr. 143591790. Bertuch Friedrich Justin. Engraved views of Shiraz and the tomb of Hafez circa 1790 to 1830 present the Persian city and the burial place of its celebrated fourteenth-century poet to a European readership through Bertuch's illustrated educational publishing project. Issued as part of a series published in monthly installments across twelve volumes the plate is accompanied by explanatory text in German French English and Italian. The English text describes Persia as one of "the remarkable empires" of Asia and supplies contemporary European descriptions of Shiraz and the burial place of Hafez preserving both the geographical information and cultural perceptions through which European readers encountered Persia. Bertuch Friedrich Justin. Engraved views of Shiraz and the Tomb of Hafez. Circa 1790-1830. Page measures 8.5 x 7.25 inches. The sheet contains two separate engraved views. The first presents Shiraz spread across a broad valley beneath surrounding mountains with camels and travelers occupying the foreground. Its accompanying English text describes Shiraz as "situated in an extensive and beautiful valley; but now-a-days its ancient splendor is greatly gone to decay." The second view depicts the tomb of the Persian poet Hafez amid tall trees and distant hills. Two original double-sided sheets of descriptive text accompany the engraving with parallel accounts in German French English and Italian. The text identifies the burial site as containing the tomb of Hafez together with those of two of his disciples and a prince. Originally published by Friedrich Justin Bertuch as part of his long-running illustrated series intended to disseminate information about the natural world geography history and different cultures the plate records the transmission of information about Persia to a multilingual European audience around the turn of the nineteenth century. Its treatment of Hafez is particularly tied to the period's growing European attention to Persian literature: the engraving presents the poet not through his verse but through his burial place making the Shiraz landscape and Hafez's tomb part of the visual geography through which European readers encountered Persian culture. The survival of the two original multilingual text sheets preserves the explanatory apparatus issued with the images and allows the engraved views to be read alongside their contemporary descriptions. Engraving with a few marks and one .25-inch brown spot; accompanying sheets present. Overall good condition. unknown books

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Iran Persia Qajar TapestryABAA

Iranian Visual Culture and Kingship Monumental Qajar Textile Reviving Safavid Imperial Iconography of Shah Abbas I Nineteenth Century

1890Best.-Nr. 146641890. Hand painted Persian textile depicting Shah Abbas I nineteenth century a monumental example of Qajar period revivalist visual culture that reinterprets Safavid imperial iconography to articulate Persian kingship martial virtue and historical memory. Centered on one of the most mythologized rulers in Iranian history the composition presents a continuous figural narrative in which Shah Abbas I appears mounted on horseback in a royal hunt sword drawn as he confronts a lion while turbaned cavalry attendants bearing spears observe. A secondary vignette shows the Shah pursuing a wild boar reinforcing long standing Persian associations between sovereignty mastery over nature and military prowess. Rendered in a frontal highly legible style with flattened perspective and rhythmic repetition the imagery translates the visual language of Persian manuscript illustration into large scale textile form reflecting nineteenth century Qajar engagement with earlier Safavid models of centralized authority and dynastic legitimacy. Hand painted Persian figural textile. Qajar period nineteenth century. Approximately 117.5 x 51 inches 9.8 x 4.25 feet. The upper register introduces a martial tableau of Persian warriors confronting Indian soldiers mounted on elephants imagery that evokes enduring visual memory of imperial expansion and recalls narratives associated with Nader Shah's eighteenth century campaigns against the Mughal Empire. In the Qajar period particularly in the later nineteenth century Safavid rulers such as Shah Abbas were repeatedly invoked across painting lacquer and textile production as symbols of national continuity and restored sovereignty. This textile operates within that historicist framework layering Safavid royal imagery with later martial memory to construct a composite vision of Persian power across centuries. Minor edge tears including one approximately 1 inch and three approximately 3 inches within the border and along the edge not affecting the central figural imagery; colors remain bold and composition visually strong. Overall condition: very good. unknown books

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