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Cambridge: University Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1959. Reprint. Hardcover. xv, 357 pp. Critcal apparatus, addenda, indexes. Text in Avestan, with translation and all else in English. Dark green hard cover with gilt is bright and clean. The interior appears to be a high quality reprint/copy made from a library copy in the Middle East. Print is clear and easy to read. Library mark on title page, occasional light marginalia throughout. The Avestan Hymn to Mithra, written in the fifth century BC, is the one extensive, ancient literary record of the attributes, companions and cult of the Iranian god whose worship spread, five or six centuries later, as far as Britain. Dr Gershevitch here reproduces Geldner's text and critical apparatus of the Hymn, adding his own introduction, translation and commentary. The introduction offers an orientation on the main problems concerning Mithra: how the god came to be included in the Zoroastrian religious system, his relation to… Read More

London: John Murray. Good with no dust jacket. 1904. Second Edition. Hardcover. Xv, 462 pp. Octavo. Original black leather spine is scuffed, gilt still bright. Brown cloth boards are worn with a red long narrow red stain on the front. Interior first blank is missing, paper is toned, but otherwise clean and unmarked. A still usable copy of this dictionary from the noted Orientalist. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 462 pages .

Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Good with no dust jacket. 2007. First Edition Thus. Softcover. 3447056142 . KB42...xiv, 244 pp. Persisch-Deutsch Glossar; Bibliographie. Octavo. Red laminated cloth soft covers with Persian image on front cover. Just a hint of shelf wear, interior clean and unmarked. Texts in Persian, else German. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 244 pages .

Padstow, Cornwall: Curzon. Good with no dust jacket. 1999. Softcover. 0700704620 . lv, 367 pp. Persian and Arabic Index, English Index. Notes. Addenda and Corrigenda. In English with extensive Persian. Glossy dark orange soft cover with black and white is clean, minor signs of shelf wear. Interior has some erased pencil marks on the first blank, otherwise clean and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 424 pages .

Seattle: University of Washington Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1996. Softcover. 0295975679 . xxvi, 190 pp. Notes, glossary, select bibliography. Text in Persian and English in parallel columns. Plate at frontis. Glossy soft cover with a medieval illustration of two Persian knights fighting. Bit of shelf wear, little curl at the bottom corner, interior is clean and unmarked. ; Publications On The Near East; Vol. 3; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages .