The Persian Cromwell: being an account of the life and surprizing atchievements and successes of Miri-ways, Great Duke of Candahar, and Protector of the Persian Empire. Written by a Swedish officer who, for many years, was domestick slave to Miri-Ways.
London: Printed for W. Mears; and J. Roberts, 1724.
Price: $3,000.00
About the item
Pp. [i-viii;1-]196. Engraved portrait frontispiece of ‘Miri-ways’ by P. Fourdr. (Frontispiece backed onto tissue with repaired split at inner margin, light ink ownership stamps to title and final leaf). Small 8vo. Bound to style using contemporary materials: half speckled calf over marbled paper-covered boards, recent red morocco label. Provenance: S.D. Whitehouse (signature); Eliza D. Pressland (signature); James Murray Wilson (Glebeland House, Lee, Kent, book label); F.R. Welsh (ink stamp and associated letter from A.W. Pollard to Welsh, dated 1924). ESTC T120338 (10 copies, six in the Uk, four in the US); OCLC 15190629 (6 copies, two in the US, four in the UK).
Item #267940
Very rare English translation of “Der Persianische Cromwel, Oder Leben und Thaten Des Miri-Ways Fürsten von Candahar Und Protectoris Von Persien” (N.p.: 1723): no copies of this book are listed for sale or as having sold at auction. Although Mirwas is an important figure in the history of Afghanistan, the present work is generally supposed to have been fictitious?
