Travel
PERKINS, Justin
Residence of eight years in Persia.
Allen, Andover 1843. First edition. 8vo., xviii, [ii], 512pp., folding map, 27 lithographed plates including frontispiece, mostly costume, 23 of them hand-coloured, occasional light spotting and foxing, more so to title and pages 17-35, 505-512, modern half calf gilt, red morocco lettering piece.
Perkins was a missionary "Apostle of Persia". In 1833 he was appointed to the remnant of the Nestorian Christians in northwestern Persia. He found the people poor, ignorant, and degraded, living in a state of serfdom under their Mohammedan rulers. In the autumn of 1835 he established his missionary center in Urumiah, the reputed home of Zoroaster, near a lake of the same name. Religious work was begun at once and was carried on for the most part in entire harmony with the Nestorian clergy, in whose churches the missionaries were soon invited to preach. A boys' school was established in Urumiah, the first Lancasterian school in Central Asia. Numerous other schools followed. Ghani p300; not in Bennett or Reese.
Price: £ 1850
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