Du Khorassan Au Pays Des Backhtiaris. Trois Mois De Vouage En Perse 4 Vols. (From Khorasan to the Land of the Backtiaris. Three Months Journey in Persia)
Paris: Hachette et Cie. 1911. First edition. Hardcover. 41/250. Folio. [10] viii,228pp., plates, [4] 250 [3]pp., plates, [4] 271pp., plates, [4] 323 [1]pp., 55 plates. Bound in burgundy half cloth over marbled paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on spines; raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Two frontispieces in color with decorative full-page lithos on versos. Printed to vellum paper. Original color-illustrated wraps, including decorative spines with tan lettering bound in. Multicolored ribbon markers. Decorative head and endpieces, and initials rendered lithography and in offset.
Exceptional and significant work giving an richly illustrated account of three months of travel in Persia. Volumes one and two deliberate on Persia's geography, agriculture, commerce, industry, political and military situation as well as religious customs. Volumes three and four are an account of the 1907 return to Persia via Ishqabad, Mashhad, etc., and return via Isfhan, Tehran and the Caspian Sea. On his second voyage D'Allemagne was accompanied by Jean Vinchon taking photographs and field notes which became the basis of this work.
The work is beautifully illustrated with 255 full page illustrations on plates, including several maps, 26 full page color lithographs, 18 high-quality color offset reproductions, all with captioned tissue guards. In addition the set contains a multitude of in-text illustrations, including full page reproductions, rendered in lithography and high quality offset. The collection represents an important ethnographic collection, featuring Persian rugs and ceramics.
Henry-René D'Allemagne was a French historian, librarian, author and collector who amassed a large collection of Islamic items, acquired by P. T. Brooke-Sewell who presented it to the British Museum in 1956. Text in French. Light wear along edges of bindings and blocks lightly age-toned. Very good+ to fine condition. Item #54890
Price: $6,000.00