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(TIMUR MIRZA QAJAR) PHILLOTT, Douglas Craven.
The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri, a Persian Treatise on Falconry.
Translated …
First edition, one of 500 copies. "A very important work by a falconer who flourished in the middle of the nineteenth century … gives a detailed account of falcons as well as hunting-birds in general, and the author quotes from a number of early authorities on falconry" (Hohenstaufen). The translator, Phillott, joined the 40th foot from Sandhurst, and served later in the 28th Punjab infantry, and in the 3rd Punjab cavalry. He was with the Zhob Valley field force in 1890; and was deputy assistant quartermaster general and interpreter with the Hazara field force in 1891; and employed in the operations on the north-west frontier in 1897-98. After serving as consul in Persia for two years, he was employed in the India Office. "Colonel Phillott was a distinguished Orientalist, the author of many elementary and advanced works for students of Hindustani, Urdu, and Persian. He translated Cavalry Drill and Mountain Warfare into the Indian vernaculars, and contributed many papers to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, of which he had been general secretary, philological secretary, and twice gold medallist. He was a Fellow of Calcutta University, where he had been Persian lecturer" (The Times, obituary 12 Sept 1930).
Octavo. Original dark green cloth, title gilt to spine, large gilt block of a Persian hunting scene within double fillet panel to the upper board, top edge gilt. Frontispiece and 24 illustrations to the text, some full-page. Slightly rubbed at the corners, endpapers a touch browned, else very good.
