Persia and the Persian Gulf--[Razmara, Brigadier- (and Major-)General Haj Ali.

14 volumes, 4to (210 x 166mm.), including 7 presentation copies, inscribed by the author, text in Persian, photographic illustrations in the text, many lithographed folding maps, original cloth-backed boards (various colours), one volume in original printed orange wrappers, some text blocks becoming detached, a few short tears, wrappers slightly worn, minor rubbing to extremities

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A very rare collection of illustrated Iranian military intelligence handbooks on Iran and the Persian Gulf, which describe "besides a thorough physical topography, an exhaustive and admirable fund of information on the economic, social and political peculiarities of Iran's various provinces." (M. Reza Ghods. The Rise and Fall of General Razmara, (Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 29, No.1 (Jan., 1993), pp. 22-35). Razmara (1901-1951) was born in Tehran and studied at the military academy of Saint-Cyr in France and after a successful military career, including head of Military Intelligence and three-times joint Chief-of Staff, he eventually became Prime Minister in 1950. According to Reza Ghods, Razmara wrote a total of 18 such handbooks during the 1940s; the titles here comprise: East Azerbaijan; West Azerbaijan; Khuzestan; Pushti Kuh; Makran; Fars; Dasht-e Kavir; Gilan and Mazandaran; Luristan; Khorasan; Kermanshah; Maps of the border regions of Iran; Kerman and Bandar Abbas; and Iranian Islands in the Persian Gulf.