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Justin Perkins : A Residence of Eight Years in Persia Among the Nestorian Christians; with Notice of the Muhammedans

Allen, Morrill & Wardwell, Andover & New York, c. 1843

Recent ½ morocco with marbled boards, spine in six compartments of raised bands, gilt lettering on two, all edges speckled red. , Embossed ex-libris on a few of the pages and plates, otherwise in excellent condition, text and plates are clean and crisp., Small 4to, P. frontis, title, printer’s imprint, (1), v-xviii, (2),1-512, With 28 plates, including the frontispiece, a folding map, and 26 lithograph plates (23 of which are hand-coloured).

Justin Perkins was an American Presbyterian missionary and linguist. He undertook a mission to Persia from 1834 which lasted 35 years, with some returns to the USA, and was responsible for the literary form of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, a Semitic language spoken in parts of contemporary Iran and Iraq, into which he translated the Bible. He was sent to Persia by the American Board of Missions, and ran a mission at Urmia, now capital of the West Azarbaijan Province of Iran. The mission started in 1835 with Perkins, Asahel Grant. Perkins was taught by Qasha Auraham and Mar Yohannan, the Nestorian bishop of Urmia. Mar Yohannan visited the USA with Perkins in 1843., Wilson 169; Hiler 699.

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