CHODZKO, Alexander. - Lot 204

CHODZKO, Alexander. Specimens of the popular poetry of Persia, as found in the adventures and improvisations of Kurroglou, the bandit-minstrel of Northern Persia; and in the songs of the people inhabiting the shores of the Caspian Sea. London, Oriental Translation Fund, W.H. Allen and Co, 1842. In-8, (12)-592 pp. Publisher's bradel percaline bottle, smooth spine with title and author's label (minor rubbing to spine and corners, first cover partly unbound, without publisher's leaflet placed at beginning of work). First edition of popular poems found in Persia, translated into English. Several musical scores at the end of the book. Alexandre Chodzko (1803-1891) was an erudite French-speaking orientalist, poet and diplomat. He spent eleven years in Persia, in Teheran with the Russian delegation, and later as Russian consul in Rasht and Tabriz, from 1830 to 1841. After settling in France, he became Professor of Slavonic Studies at the Collège de France. [Persia].