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ABU'L-QASIM FIRDAWSI (D. AH 416/1025 AD): SHAHNAMA PRINTED BY MUHAMMAD BAQIR SHIRAZI, CALLIGRAPHY BY RIZA BIN AHMAD AL-HUSAYNI AL-SHIRAZI, BOMBAY, INDIA, DATED 1849 AD Poetry, Persian lithographed book, 457ff., plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 27ll. of elegant black nasta’liq, arranged in four columns with red, blue, and gold double intercolumnar rules, chapter headings in black nasta’liq in illuminated cartouches, opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, four further full-page illuminated chapter openings, 54 finely painted illustrations in opaque pigments heightened in gold, in lacquer binding depicting two Shahnama scenes, red lacquer doublures decorated with gold floral designs Text panel 9 1/8 x 5 5/8in. (23.1 x 13.5cm.); folio 11 ? x 7 7/8in. (29.7 x 20cm.)