RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM: THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA

by Elihu Vedder

$4,500 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

Boston: Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1884 . 410 x 330 mm. 16 x 13 1/4 . 64 leaves.Translated by Edward FitzGerald. First Vedder Edition. Publisher's chestnut brown cloth, upper cover with pictorial design by Vedder rendered in gilt and brown, smooth spine with gilt titling. In original printed paper dust jacket and rather worn printed cardboard clamshell

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