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A Residence of Eight Years in Persia Among the Nestorian Christians with Notices of the Muhammedans by Perkins, Justin (1805-1869) - 1843
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A Residence of Eight Years in Persia Among the Nestorian Christians with Notices of the Muhammedans
by Perkins, Justin (1805-1869)
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Andover: Allen, Morrill & Wardwell, 1843. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued.
Rebound in quarter cloth with patterned paper-covered boards, original cloth spine strip retained, patterned endpapers.
Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear; minor wave to leaves, hints of foxing; long tear on map repaired; very good overall.
8vo; 9.5 inches tall; xviii, [2], 512 pp. With frontispiece lithograph portrait of Muhammed Shah, King of Persia and 26 lithograph plates, 23 hand-colored, folding map (36.5 by 49.8 cm; 14.5 by 19.5 inches). Glossary
The map shows much of Turkey with Kurdistan Azerbaijan Armenia Persia.
The majority of the colored plates depict the clothing / costumes of the local inhabitants, the remaining are landscape and architecture. These provide a colorful presentation of ethnic costumes, colors and fabrics available to local populations during the mid-19th century. An Important and early Narrative and Description of Persia [Iran]
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Justin Perkins was an American Presbyterian missionary and linguist. He was the first citizen of the United States to reside in Iran, and he became known for his work among the people there as an apostle to Persia.
An eminent Syriac scholar the author spent the years from 1833 to 1841 in northwestern Persia. The author describes his voyage to Malta Constantinople to Trebizond Erzroom to Erivan Tabreez Oroomiah etc. with much of the book based on his journals.
Having learned the local vernacular from the Nestorian clergy, Perkins developed an alphabet for the writing of Neo-Aramaic. which he called modern Syriac. He established a press at his mission. The availability of religious literature in the local vernacular promoted literacy and the writing of non-religious literature among those who did not belong to the Nestorian clergy. Nowadays Nestorians refer to themselves as Assyrian Christians. -
In 1839 Perkins sent fourteen letters with sketches of the people of Urmia (spelled Oroomiah by Perkins) to the Inquiring Society at Union Theological Seminary. In the early 1840s, Perkins drew on these sketches for the illustrations of this memoir.
Rebound in quarter cloth with patterned paper-covered boards, original cloth spine strip retained, patterned endpapers.
Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear; minor wave to leaves, hints of foxing; long tear on map repaired; very good overall.
8vo; 9.5 inches tall; xviii, [2], 512 pp. With frontispiece lithograph portrait of Muhammed Shah, King of Persia and 26 lithograph plates, 23 hand-colored, folding map (36.5 by 49.8 cm; 14.5 by 19.5 inches). Glossary
The map shows much of Turkey with Kurdistan Azerbaijan Armenia Persia.
The majority of the colored plates depict the clothing / costumes of the local inhabitants, the remaining are landscape and architecture. These provide a colorful presentation of ethnic costumes, colors and fabrics available to local populations during the mid-19th century. An Important and early Narrative and Description of Persia [Iran]
Background Information:
Justin Perkins was an American Presbyterian missionary and linguist. He was the first citizen of the United States to reside in Iran, and he became known for his work among the people there as an apostle to Persia.
An eminent Syriac scholar the author spent the years from 1833 to 1841 in northwestern Persia. The author describes his voyage to Malta Constantinople to Trebizond Erzroom to Erivan Tabreez Oroomiah etc. with much of the book based on his journals.
Having learned the local vernacular from the Nestorian clergy, Perkins developed an alphabet for the writing of Neo-Aramaic. which he called modern Syriac. He established a press at his mission. The availability of religious literature in the local vernacular promoted literacy and the writing of non-religious literature among those who did not belong to the Nestorian clergy. Nowadays Nestorians refer to themselves as Assyrian Christians. -
In 1839 Perkins sent fourteen letters with sketches of the people of Urmia (spelled Oroomiah by Perkins) to the Inquiring Society at Union Theological Seminary. In the early 1840s, Perkins drew on these sketches for the illustrations of this memoir.
References: Smith (American Travellers) P57; SPL Rare Book Collection; Columbia University Libraries; learnassyriancom.
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- Keywords Iranians; Nestorians; Missionaries; Iran, Description and travel' Turkey, Description and travel; Assyrian Church of the East members; Assyrians; Explorers
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New York: Allen, Morrill & Wardwell, 1843. Hardcover. Good+ (scuffs, smudges & tanning to boards; edge-wear. rubbing to corners. heavy, dark spotted foxing to opening pgs; light to moderated instances to remaining text. two tears to gutter at preface pg. two, slight split to textblocks; textblock and pgs firm.). grey buckram w/ burgundy & gilt spine title plate. 512 pgs w/ tissue guard frontis; 26 plates w/ 23 color & 4 duotone; fold-out map. A nice, sturdy rebind; cover hinges have black rebinding. Pages bright. Reverand Perkins was the first American citizen to live in Iran became known as the "apostle of Persia.
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