Search Results: a history of persia 2 volumes by percy sykes

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1969. Reprint of 3rd edn. 2 vols. 8vo (9 x 6 ins). Original gilt lettered blue cloth (VG), dustwrapper (lightly chipped and creased at edges - in protective covers). Pp. xxxix + 563 [&] xx + 616, illus with b&w plates and 2 folding maps (no inscriptions).

Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969, London.. 23x15. Encuadernación editorial con sobrecubierta. XXXIX+563+XX+616 pgs. Texto en inglés. Ilustraciones en b/n fuera de texto. Dibujos. Mapas desplegables. 673015

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1951. Third Edition Reprinted. Hardcover. Good+. 8vo. Pp. xxxix, 563; xx, 616. Frontis. plates. Illustrated with numerous black & white photo plates, drawings in the text, and a fold-out map at the back of each volume. With preliminary and final essays, list of authorities and index. Blue cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spines. Covers lightly scuffed, board edges rubbed, Teheran bookseller tag on each front pastedown ("Librairie Orientale, Vladimir Kachine, Avenue Ferdovci [Ferdowsi]"), leaves minimally age toned, Vol. 1 with pencil annotations to endpapers, Vol. 2 a few leaves with pencil highlighting. Reprint of the 1930 "third edition with supplementary essays." Scholarly enthusiasm for Persia was a family trait: Sykes' sister, Ella Constance Sykes, was herself a Fellow of the Geographical Society and also a well-regarded expert on Persia (Persia and Its People, Macmillan, 1910), as well as greater Central Asia. Their overland travel from England to… Read More

Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969, London.. 23x15. Encuadernación editorial con sobrecubierta (tapa dura). 563 y 616 pgs. Fotos en b/n fuera de texto. Láminas desplegables con mapas en b/n. Sobrecubierta deslucidas. Texto en inglés. 672607

Macmillan and Co. Limited, London, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Good Condition. rebound in pebbled blue cloth covers with leather spines each with four raised bands & faded gilt leather title labels affixed & the author's name & volume numbers blind-stamped lower on the spines. The original front covers with their bright gilt decorative centerpieces (of Cyrus the great on the first volume and of Shah Abbas on the second volume) have been glued to the new front covers. Percy Molesworth Sykes (1867–1945) was a British soldier, diplomat, and author who wrote several important books about Persia (present-day Iran) and neighboring countries, including Ten Thousand Miles in Persia (1902), The Glory of the Shia World (1910), and this, his two-volume A History of Persia (1915). Sykes was educated at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and, upon his commission as an officer in the British Army, joined a cavalry regiment in India in 1888. In November… Read More