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THE DESATIR; or, Sacred Writings of the Ancient Persian Prophets. 1818

THE DESATIR; or, Sacred Writings of the Ancient Persian Prophets; in the Original Tongue . . . carefully published by Mulla Firuz bin Kaus . . . to which is added, An English Translation. 2 volumes in one. 4to, later 19th-century 1/4 morocco gilt, spine brittle, ends worn, joints rubbed; uncut; preliminaries foxed, 2 leaves in the translation supplied from the regular-paper issue. Bombay, 1818

  • Notes: first edition, large-paper issue, of a collection of spurious Zoroastrian prophetic texts, " . . . one of the most impudent forgeries ever perpetrated"--Browne, A Literary History of Persia I, 53-56.
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