JACKSON, Abraham Valentine Williams (1862-1937). From Constantinople to the home of Omar Khayyam: Travels in Transcaucasia and Northern Persia for historic and literary research. New York: Macmillan, 1911. 8 (227 x 150mm). Coloured frontispiece, plates, inset maps, large folding coloured map at end. (Map with 3 short tears.) Original cloth gilt, with frontispiece reproduced on front cover, t.e.g., others uncut (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY, front blank signed by the author and inscribed to "Isabel S. Kass, my former student in the India and Persia History course, it is a pleasure to make this an autograph copy, May 13, 1914."

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JACKSON, Abraham Valentine Williams (1862-1937). From Constantinople to the home of Omar Khayyam: Travels in Transcaucasia and Northern Persia for historic and literary research. New York: Macmillan, 1911. 8 (227 x 150mm). Coloured frontispiece, plates, inset maps, large folding coloured map at end. (Map with 3 short tears.) Original cloth gilt, with frontispiece reproduced on front cover, t.e.g., others uncut (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY, front blank signed by the author and inscribed to "Isabel S. Kass, my former student in the India and Persia History course, it is a pleasure to make this an autograph copy, May 13, 1914."

FIRST EDITION. The record of a journey made through Northern Iran, Transcaspia, and Turkistan in 1907 and 1908, much of it along the route travelled by Alexander the Great; "while Omar's home, as a goal to visit, gave to the journey the semblance, at least, of a pilgrimage".