Lot Essay
The opening folio indicates that the book is on the recent observations of Aqa Mirza Yahya Khan on Guy wa Chawgan. Yahya Khan was the Secretary (munshi) of the British Embassy.
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AFTER A MANUSCRIPT SIGNED HAJJI MUHAMMAD REZA'I KNOWN AS SULTAN AL-KUTTAB, TEHRAN, QAJAR IRAN, AH 1314/1896-97 AD
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'ARIFI (D. 1449 AD): GUY WA CHAWGAN (THE BALL AND POLO MALLET)
AFTER A MANUSCRIPT SIGNED HAJJI MUHAMMAD REZA'I KNOWN AS SULTAN AL-KUTTAB, TEHRAN, QAJAR IRAN, AH 1314/1896-97 AD
Poetry, lithographic copy printed from Aqa Mirza Yahya Khan's observations, 13ff., the Persian text in black nasta'liq arranged in two columns, with five full-page illustrations including a portrait of Muzaffar al-Din Shah, colophon signed and dated, opening and final folios with information about the patron and the printing press, with floral paper doublures, in blue cloth binding
Folio 8 1/8 x 6 3/8in. (20.5 x 16cm.)
AFTER A MANUSCRIPT SIGNED HAJJI MUHAMMAD REZA'I KNOWN AS SULTAN AL-KUTTAB, TEHRAN, QAJAR IRAN, AH 1314/1896-97 AD
Poetry, lithographic copy printed from Aqa Mirza Yahya Khan's observations, 13ff., the Persian text in black nasta'liq arranged in two columns, with five full-page illustrations including a portrait of Muzaffar al-Din Shah, colophon signed and dated, opening and final folios with information about the patron and the printing press, with floral paper doublures, in blue cloth binding
Folio 8 1/8 x 6 3/8in. (20.5 x 16cm.)
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