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Media: Babylon and Persia. Including a Study of the Zend-Avesta or Religion of Zoroaster. From the Fall of the Nineveh to the Persian War.
by Ragozin, Zenaide A
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About This Item
London; New York; T. Fisher Unwin; G. P Putnam's Sons. 1897., 1897. Hard Cover. Prize binding. Third edition. Large crown octavo, pp. xxiii, [1], 447, [1]. With frontispiece piece plate, folding coloured map, illustrations throughout, head and tail-pieces. Bound in full polished tree calf with gilt Stanmore Park armourial centrepiece and foliate gilt borders; gilt rolled board edges; five raised spine bands with gilt floral ornaments to spine compartments; blue marbled fore-edges and endpapers. Very light surface scratches to upper board, light scattered foxing to front and back leaves, with 1910 printed presentation label completed in ink, to front paste-down. A really superbly bright, near fine copy. Handsomely bound prize copy of this illustrated ethnographic study of the ancient Zorocastian beliefs and rituals by self-taught female historian Zenaide A. Ragozin. Awarded and signed by headmaster Vernon Royle, the retired First class England cricketer generally regarded as the "greatest cover point of all time".
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- Keel Row Books
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- 9490
- Title
- Media: Babylon and Persia. Including a Study of the Zend-Avesta or Religion of Zoroaster. From the Fall of the Nineveh to the Persian War.
- Author
- Ragozin, Zenaide A
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London; New York; T. Fisher Unwin; G. P Putnam's Sons. 1897.
- Date Published
- 1897
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- Fine Bindings
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Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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