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Ancient world 1278Talbot Rice, Tamara. Ancient arts of Central Asia. New York: Praeger, 1965, 288 p, bib, notes, index, illus. (part col.), maps. Some shelf wear, good to very good in dust jacket, which is good. $15.00
Contents: The world of the Transcaucasian and Central Asian nomads -- The smaller kingdoms of Transcaucasia and the Persian highlands during the first millennium BC -- Soghdia, Ferghana and Chorasmia form Achaemenid to Islamic times -- Bactria and North-Western India from Achaemenid to Islamic times -- Eastern Turkestan in the Roman and Buddhist periods -- Armenia, Georgia and Caucasian Albania in early Christian times.

Ancient world 688Grigor of Arkancʻ, active 13th century. History of the Nation of the Archers. By Grigor of Akancʻ hitherto ascribed to Marakʻia the monk. The Armenian text, edited with an English translation and notes, by Robert P. Blake and Richard N. Frye. The Mongolian names and terms in the History of the nation of the archers by Grigor of Arkancʻ [by] Francis Woodman Cleaves. Cambridge: Published for Harvard-Yenching Institute by Harvard University Press, 1954,180p, bib. (Pages also numbered 269-443). "Reprinted from the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, volume 12 (December 1949), numbers 3 and 4, pp. 269-443." Paperbound. Good condition. Gift inscription: "To Bill, from Mother, Christmas, 1954". Lucky boy, all I got for Christmas in 1954 was a Wilson baseball glove. $25.00 First published in 1870 in Armenian, and also in English under title: Relics of Armenian literature: The History of the Tʻatʻars

Iran mvsc Minorsky, Vladimir Fyodorovich, 1877 – 1966. Studies in Caucasian History: I. New Light on the Shaddadids of Ganja II. The Shaddadids of Ani III. Prehistory of Saladin (Cambridge Oriental Series, Series Number 6). London: Taylor Foreign Press, 1953, 178 pages, map, notes, index plus 18 pages of the Arabic text of the Chapter on the Shaddadids. Very good to fine copy in dust jacket. Nice copy of an important and scarce work by a great scholar. $125.00 Box B1 Minorsky, Vladimir Fyodorovich, 1877 – 1966, was a great Russian academic, historian, and scholar of Oriental studies, best known for his contributions to the study of Persian, Lazi, Lurish, and Kurdish history, geography, literature, and culture.

Iran ecti Evliya Çelebi, 1611?-1682? Travels in Iran & the Caucasus in 1647 & 1654 by Evliya Chelebi; introduced, translated and annotated by Hasan Javadi & Willem Floor. Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers, 2009, xxvii, 279 pages: illus., maps, ports., bib, index. Book measures 8" x 11". Originally issued in paperback but is now bound in yellow library buckram cloth with black lettering on spine. Original wrappers bound into the hardcover. Binding and text like new. Mage makes very attractive books with eye-catching covers.Translated from Ottoman Turkish. $42.50 Box B8

Ancient world 1224 Klaproth, M. J. Vocabulaire et Grammaire de la Langue Georgienne, Premiere Partie, contenant le vocabulaire Georgien-Francais et Francais-Georgien. Paris: A La Libraire Orientale de Doney-Dupre Pere et Fils, 1827, 232p (incorrectly numbered as 132), errata pages. Bound in blue cloth, gilt titles, 8" x 5" inches and French-Georgian. Ex-library copy, stamp on title page. The volume is somewhat cut down as can be seen in the edges of handwritten notes in first few pages. Klaproth died before the second part was finished. The Asiatic society directed Brosse to complete the work. It appeared in 1837 under the title Eléments de la langue géorgienne. The first 112 pages were by Klaproth. $85.00
Like most native Caucasian peoples, the Georgians do not fit into any of the main ethnic categories of Europe or Asia. The Georgian language, the most pervasive of the Kartvelian languages, is neither Indo-European, Turkic nor Semitic. The present day Georgian or Kartvelian nation is thought to… Read More