'An Album of Miniatures and Illuminations from the Baysangho...

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£200 - £250

'An Album of Miniatures and Illuminations from the Baysanghori Manuscript of the Shanameh of Ferdowsi, Completed in 833A.H./A.D. 1430 and Preserved in the Imperial Library, Tehran', Ministry of the Imperial Court of Iran, 1971, limited edition (5000), 34 tipped in illuminated colour plates as called for, elephant folio, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper. Published in commemoration of the celebration of the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great (R) £100