!['The dynasty of the Kajars translated from the original Persian manuscript presented by His Majesty Faty Aly Shah to Sir Harford Jones Brydges ... to which is prefixed a succinct account of the history of Persia previous to that period illustarted with plates and a map of Western Persia' [‎124] (145/684)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023553877.0x000001/Per.D.1829_0147.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'The dynasty of the Kajars translated from the original Persian manuscript presented by His Majesty Faty Aly Shah to Sir Harford Jones Brydges ... to which is prefixed a succinct account of the history of Persia previous to that period illustarted with plates and a map of Western Persia' [‎124] (145/684)")
'The dynasty of the Kajars translated from the original Persian manuscript presented by His Majesty Faty Aly Shah to Sir Harford Jones Brydges ... to which is prefixed a succinct account of the history of Persia previous to that period illustarted with plates and a map of Western Persia' [124] (145/684)
The record is made up of 1 volume (448 pages). It was created in 1833. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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cxx i v PRELIMINARY MATTER.
had successively been Vizir to Sadik Khan, Jaafer
Khan, and Lutf Aly Khan, and who in the year
1787 received me so kindly at Shiraz, afteiwaids
passed through Bussorah on a pilgrimage to Mecca.
When Bussorah was captured by the Persians, this
great and honest Minister had, on all occasions,
used his influence with his master, Sadik Khan, for
the special protection of such individuals as were
recommended to him by Messrs. Latouche and
Abraham, then in charge of the English
Factory
An East India Company trading post.
there. The late Mr. Manesty and myself, therefore,
considered it to be a sort of duty to manifest to
the Mirza, during his residence at Bussorah, our
sense of his former kindness to the
Factory
An East India Company trading post.
. The
Mirza professed himself extremely gratified by the
attentions we paid him: and, on leaving Bussorah,
he said to me: " The last time you came to Shiraz
" you came for your health; promise me now, that,
" as soon as I return, you will visit me for plea-
« sure." But I do not know that the promise I then
made would have been fulfilled, but for a vei)
curious circumstance.
The superior mind of Lutf Aly Khan led him to
despise the value set by weaker minds on jewels as
personal ornaments; and to consider them only as
the portable representatives of so much money,
which, when important occasions required, these
representatives might be called on to produce.
He had formed the same scheme that his prede
cessor and relation, Aly Murad Khan, had done; that
is, of collecting a force of such magnitude as to 1
him a rational chance and hope of putting an end,
at one blow, to the struggle between the Kajar an
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The dynasty of the Kajars translated from the original Persian manuscript presented by His Majesty Faty Aly Shah to Sir Harford Jones Brydges ... to which is prefixed a succinct account of the history of Persia previous to that period illustarted with plates and a map of Western Persia.
Publication Details: Sutherland, London : John Bohn, 1833.
The book is a translation by Harford Jones Brydges of Maʾāsir-i Sulṭānīyah by ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Najaf Qulī, contains illustrations and two maps representing 'Part of Azerbaeejan'
Ownership: With stamps of the East India Company Library and India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Library.
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Dimensions: 223 mm x 140 mm.
Pagination: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-cxci); (1-448).
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- Per.D.1829
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- 'The dynasty of the Kajars translated from the original Persian manuscript presented by His Majesty Faty Aly Shah to Sir Harford Jones Brydges ... to which is prefixed a succinct account of the history of Persia previous to that period illustarted with plates and a map of Western Persia'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:vii-v, 1:194, 1:462, viii-r:x-v, back-i
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- Abd al-Razzāq ibn Najaf Qulī Maftūn Dunbalī
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