The Gulistan, (Rose-Garden) of Shekh Sadi of Shiraz. A new edition carefully collated with the original mss. by..
by (SAADI). EASTWICK, E.B
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Hertford: Stephen Austin, 1850.. First edition thus, 8vo, iv, 13, (1), 127, (257) pp. Newspaper cutting concerning an 1876 Persian dictionary tipped onto the fly leaf, contemporary signature to the title and a lengthy manuscript note opposite , bookplate of the Library of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company to paste down. Original gilt titled cloth, a very good copy. Professor of Hindustani at Haileybury College from 1845-59 and later Private Secretary at the India Office, Eastwick was a prolific writer and translated several major texts as well as compiling a number of guidebooks for the sub-continent. The text is entirely in Persian, with a vocabulary preceding it as well as a 13 page table of corrections from the previous edition, which appeared in 1827.
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- Title
- The Gulistan, (Rose-Garden) of Shekh Sadi of Shiraz. A new edition carefully collated with the original mss. by..
- Author
- (SAADI). EASTWICK, E.B
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hertford: Stephen Austin
- Date Published
- 1850.
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- Literature
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