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Iran

Country in Western Asia

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Images referencing Iran

17 images from works
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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Works from the collections

213 works

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

    | Date: 2012
    • Pictures

    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.

    Frank Dadd | Date: [1896] | Reference: 586391i
    • Books

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

    Joannes de Laet | Date: 1633
    • Books

    Die ersten persischen Bibliographien / von Bozorg Alavi.

    Bozorg Alavi | Date: 1960
    • Books

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

    | Date: 1982
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India
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History of Medicine
Turkey
Middle East
History, 19th Century
Ancient
Arabia
Illumination of books and manuscripts
Physicians

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