The Nestorians

Badger, George Percy. The Nestorians and their Rituals: with the narrative of a mission to Mesopotamia and Coordistan. London: Joseph Masters, 1852, 2 volumes, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, half-titles, 2 folding lithographed maps printed on waxed linen, 15 lithographed plates, 2 plans, illustrations, 2 errata leaves, cloth, [Blackmer 61], maps and a few plates stained, bindings slightly rubbed and soiled
Grant, Asahel. The Nestorians; or, the Lost Tribes... together with sketches of travel in ancient Assyria, Armenia, Media, and Mesopotamia. London: John Murray, 1841, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 8vo, folding map, modern calf-backed cloth, [Atabey 514]

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This copy of Badger's Nestorians, "[an] important and very interesting work" (Blackmer), contains numerous largely erased pencil notes indicating a very close reading of the book by a former owner.

The Nestorians exercised a fascination for Anglicans in the nineteenth century due to their having been virtually isolated from the rest of Christendom since the fifth century.