The Faras-Nama-E Rangion; or, The Book of the Horse,

by Rangin.; Translated from the Urdu by Lieut.-Colonel D.C. Philpotts by called Rangin Sa'adat Yar Khn

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First edition

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1911. First edition of this translation. Tall 8vo. 2 , xix, 2 , 83, 1 pp. Illustrated with two plates of photoengravings and one halftone. Rangin 1756-1835 was the son of a Persian nobleman who served in various armies on the sub-continent before turning to the trade in horses; this work, his study of the horse in the Muslim area of Hindustan in northwestern India, was written sometime before 1835 when the author died. Podeschi

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