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1845 · Best.-Nr. ECLEX9FQPCMI — London: J. Madden and Co. 1845. Modern half calf marbled Period Binders Bath England. 8vo. With a wood-engraved illustration on the title-page to each volume 15 plates 2 folding engraved maps and 3 wood-engraved illustrations in text. The 15 plates 4 tinted lithographs and 11 wood engravings consists of 2 frontispieces a folding plate a double-page plate and 11 single-page plates. 2 volumes. First edition of an important travelogue on Persia giving detailed accounts of its history antiquities and archaeological sites. It was written by Clement August de Bode member of the Russian legislation at Tehran"The author travelled in 1841 from Tehran to Esfahan Persepolis Shiraz Kazeroun Shushtar Dezful Susa Khorramabad Boroujerd and back to Tehran. It this work is mostly a travel book however the author gives a good picture of tribal life and especially the political situation in Fars; principally the hostility between the Qashqai tribe which controlled the countryside and the Qavam ol Molk family which controlled Shiraz. There are also descriptions of historical sites and monuments along the way" Ghani. "It is with the view of rescuing from a second oblivion this once classical ground that the author has endeavoured to draw aside a corner of the veil which still covers this mysterious region" preface.With views showing the interior of an Arab tent near the tomb of Cyrus a mosque at Natens the ruins of a bridge over the Táb near Arreján the pavilion of Finn near Kashan bas-reliefs a Sasaian toll-gate in the Bakhtiyari mountains Iliyats milking their sheep and churning butter the tomb of the prophet Daniel at Súsa Cufic inscriptions at Khorremabád and much more. The maps illustrate de Bode's routes from Kazeroun to Shushtar and from Shushtar to Búrújird.In a supplement he published his observations on the routes of Timur and Alexander the Great who crossed southwestern Persia during their conquering marches.A very good set.l Ghani Iran and the West I p. 93; Houtsma E.J. Brill's first encyclopedia of Islam 1913-1936 volume V p. 52; not in Diba; on the author: Howgego 1800-1850 G2. J. Madden and Co., unknown