Persian men doing physical exercises. Engraving by C.F. Fritschius.

Amoenitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi V, quibus continentur variae relationes, observationes et descriptiones rerum Persicarum et ulterioris Asiae, multâ attentione / in peregrinationibus per universum Orientem, collectae. Ab auctore Engelberto Kaempfero, D.

A Persian nobleman/warrior in traditional dress, riding a horse, with two men, also on horse-back, following behind. Lithograph after A.O. Orlovski, ca. 1821.

Five prisoners in Persia walking around a yard bound together by chains, a guard with a sword walks nearby. Process print by C. Hentschel after F. Dadd.

A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV. And an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the admiral and the nabob Serajah Dowlah ... Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron: description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India ... also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulph of Persia ... / By Edward Ives.

The torture of rebels in Persia. Line engraving with etching, 17--.

A Zoroastrian baptism in Persia. Etching after B. Picart.

Seven prisoners in Persia sitting on the ground bound together by chains, supervised by three armed guards standing behind. Process print.

A Persian dentist extracting a tooth from a squatting patient. Halftone.

Hospitals in Iran and India, 1500-1950s : [edited] by Fabrizio Speziale.

1 print : process print ; image 14.9 x 22.6 cm

A prisoner's feet are tied to a pole as a man with a long stick beats the soles of his feet, Persia. Process print by C. Hentschel, 1896, after F. Dadd.

374 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves (last blank) : engr. title page, woodcuts, illustrations ; (16mo)

Persia seu regni Persici status. Variaque itinera in atque per Persiam: cum aliquot iconibus incolarum / [Joannes de Laet].

xiii, 322, 134, 10 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Irano-Judaica : studies relating to Jewish contacts with Persian culture throughout the ages / edited by Shaul Shaked.

xiv, 254 pages : illustrations, map, portrait ; 23 cm

Medicine in Iran : profession, practice, and politics, 1800-1925 / Hormoz Ebrahimnejad.

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Hospitals in Iran and India, 1500-1950s : [edited] by Fabrizio Speziale.

A prisoner's feet are tied to a pole as a man with a long stick beats the soles of his feet, Persia. Process print by C. Hentschel, 1896, after F. Dadd.

Persia seu regni Persici status. Variaque itinera in atque per Persiam: cum aliquot iconibus incolarum / [Joannes de Laet].

Irano-Judaica : studies relating to Jewish contacts with Persian culture throughout the ages / edited by Shaul Shaked.

Medicine in Iran : profession, practice, and politics, 1800-1925 / Hormoz Ebrahimnejad.

Iran

Images from the collections

Images referencing Iran

Works from the collections

Hospitals in Iran and India, 1500-1950s : [edited] by Fabrizio Speziale.

A prisoner's feet are tied to a pole as a man with a long stick beats the soles of his feet, Persia. Process print by C. Hentschel, 1896, after F. Dadd.

Persia seu regni Persici status. Variaque itinera in atque per Persiam: cum aliquot iconibus incolarum / [Joannes de Laet].

Irano-Judaica : studies relating to Jewish contacts with Persian culture throughout the ages / edited by Shaul Shaked.

Medicine in Iran : profession, practice, and politics, 1800-1925 / Hormoz Ebrahimnejad.

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