The Pilgrimage Journal of Nasser al-Din Shah, Illustrated

Nasir al-Din Shah / Ali Naqi Hakim al-Mamalik. Ruz-namah.

[Tehran, Sayyid Agha Mir Baqir], (1869/70 CE =) 1286 H.

Large 8vo (177 x 263 mm). 3-485 pp. With 11 mostly photographic plates (2 folding, a few tinted in watercolours). Lithographed Persian throughout, text in Nasta’liq script, 14 lines to the page, written by Ali Asghar and dated 1283 H (1866 CE). Contemporary full calf binding with handwritten paper spine label in Persian.

$3,808.00

Rare travel report of the pilgrimage to the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashad (Khorasan), undertaken by Shah Nasir al-Din in 1866. Lithographed in Persian throughout.

Binding rubbed; spine reinforced at the head. Wants first leaf; some soiling and brownstaining (more pronounced near the beginning) with a few edge and corner repairs. Traces of old block-stitching. Margins show a few contemporary annotations, a few old waqf stamps and Russian blindstamps "Vysochajshe u Kompanija Uglichskoj fabriki" (ca. 1890) from the head office of the paper factory of the town of Uglich, north of Moscow.

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