Illustrates in excellent colour plates the delicate paintings and adornments that decorate 103 ancient poetic manuscripts from Tabriz, Herat, Mahshhad, Shiraz and Bukhara.  Each is captioned listing the subject matter, date, style and calligrapher.

A large portfolio booklet that describes the unique Mughal painting depicting Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan on a highly detailed and ornamental background.  Eight pages.  One b&w plate and one colour frontispiece.  Minor signs of age, otherwise good clean condition.

A complete history of Persian carpets from the Safavid period of the C16th to the production revival of the C19th following the Afghan hiatus of the C18th.

The museum's collection is used to trace the prehistory of Iran from the Akkadians via the Archaemenid empire and the foreign overseers of the Seleucids, the Parthians and the Sassanians.  Illustrated.  Paperback.  52 pages.  Good clean condition.  Cat No 4105

Catalogue of an exhibition presenting the handicrafts of the Turkmen tribes of Northern Iran - tent decorations and curtains, cooking utensils, weaving equipment, tent furniture, felts, horse trappings, saddle bags, women's robes, jewellery, caps, children's clothes, shawls, coats and daggers.

Probably the single most comprehensive guide to Persepolis written by the leading authority of Archaemenid culture and one-time Professor of Archaeology at Shiraz University before moving to the USA to teach at Columbia University.

A catalogue of coins retrieved during excavations in the 1930's at Ișțakhr near Persepolis, the majority of which were Sasanian, Umayyad and Abbasid.  Coins are described in terms of inscription, ruler, date, and mint.

Large well illustrated exhibition catalogue marking French research into Persian prehistory and the collaboration and support given by French archaeologists to Iranian counterparts during excavations from the early C19th onwards.

This book reports on an excavation undertaken in Northern Iran in 1957 on the little known site of Barlekin from the third millennium BC.  Description of the site and its pottery, much of which is held by the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, is followed by the author's theories on cultural diffusion

A comprehensive and detailed overview of the missions of Jacques de Morgan to Persia and his excavations at the ancient Elamite city tell of Suse close to the Tigris delta which employed 'industrial' methods to extract works of art as speedily as possible for shipping back to Paris.  Subsequ