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MIRZA MUHAMMAD NASIR AL-HOSSEINI KNOWN AS FORSAT AL-DAWLA (D. 1920): KITAB SHATRANJIYA SIGNED KHALIL KNOWN AS PARVIN IBN MARHOUM KARBALA 'ABBAS SHIRAZI, SHIRAZ, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1307/1890-91 AD An illustrated guide to chess, Persian manuscript on light cream paper, 135ff. plus four flyleaves, each with 11ll. of elegant nasta'liq, important words and titles in red, catchwords, paginated in the upper corners, occasional marginal notes, numerous illustrations of chess pieces and board layouts throughout, colophon signed and dated, including a mention of the date AH 1291/1874-75 AD as the original authorship date of the book, in contemporaneous brown morocco, cream paper doublures Folio 8 ? x 6 ?in. (22.6 x 16.8cm.)