ABOUT PERSIA AND ITS PEOPLE A description of their Manners, Customs, and Home Life, including Engagements, Marriages, Modes of Traveling, Forms of Punishments, Superstitions, etc

Book Description

Rock Island: Lutheran Augustana Book concern, 1899. 300 pages. Illustrated in half-tone from photographs. 8vo, blue cloth with black design and gilt-lettering; small spot on spine. First edition. Knanishu, a Nestorian Christian, gave lectures on his home and religion. The book is illustrated with an array of photographs, many credited to "T. H. McAllister, Optician, N.Y." On the inner rear free endpaper is the inscription "From S. K. Nweeya of Oroomiah City, Persia, Asia" in English, Persian and Syriac. A fine, bright copy.

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