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BROWNE, Edward Granville (1862-1926). A Year among the Persians ... in the years 1887-8. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1893. 8 (228 x 140mm). Folding coloured frontispiece map (affected by short clean tear), advertisement leaf at end. Original blue buckram, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, uncut (corners bumped, spine rubbed at extremities).
FIRST EDITION. Edward Granville Browne, Persian scholar and orientalist, was elected to a fellowship at Pembroke College in 1887, and this enabled him to pay for his first and, as it proved, only visit to Persia (October 1887 to October 1888). "This country became thenceforth the central object of his studies and absorbing interest of his life. He visited Tabriz, Teheran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Jezd, and Kirman, avoiding European society as much as possible, and throwing himself with ever-increasing interest into the company of Persians, mystics, dervishes, and Kalandars, whose friendship and confidence he gained to a degree hitherto unparalled" (DNB). Although his book, describing this momentous year, was slow to gain the attention it deserved, no reprint appearing until 1926, it is now considered a great classic.
FIRST EDITION. Edward Granville Browne, Persian scholar and orientalist, was elected to a fellowship at Pembroke College in 1887, and this enabled him to pay for his first and, as it proved, only visit to Persia (October 1887 to October 1888). "This country became thenceforth the central object of his studies and absorbing interest of his life. He visited Tabriz, Teheran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Jezd, and Kirman, avoiding European society as much as possible, and throwing himself with ever-increasing interest into the company of Persians, mystics, dervishes, and Kalandars, whose friendship and confidence he gained to a degree hitherto unparalled" (DNB). Although his book, describing this momentous year, was slow to gain the attention it deserved, no reprint appearing until 1926, it is now considered a great classic.