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In the land of the lion and sun, or, modern Persia

The Minerva Library.

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1. Darwin’s Journal in the “Beagle.”

2. The Ingoldsby Legends.

3. Borrow’s Bible in Spain.

4. Emerson’s Prose Works.

5. Galton’s Tropical South Africa.

6. Manzoni’s The Betrothed Lovers.

7. Goethe’s Faust (Complete). Bayard Taylor.

8. Wallace’s Travels on the Amazon.

9. Dean Stanley’s Life of Dr. Arnold.

10. Poe’s Tales.

11. Comedies by Molière.

12. Forster’s Life of Goldsmith.

13. Lane’s Modern Egyptians.

14. Torrens’ Life of Melbourne.

15. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.

16. Barth’s Travels in Africa.

17. Victor Hugo: Select Poems, &c.

18. Darwin’s Coral Reefs, &c.

19. Lockhart’s Life of Robert Burns.

20. Barth’s Travels in Africa (II.)

21. Lyra Elegantiarum. Locker-Lampson.

22. Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus, &c.

23. Life and Letters of Franklin.

24. Beckford’s Vathek, and Travels.

25. Macaulay’s Historical and Literary Essays.

26. Yonge’s Life of Wellington.

27. Carlyle’s French Revolution.

28. Wills’ Land of the Lion and Sun.

London: WARD, LOCK & CO.

Illustration from In the land of the lion and sun, or, modern Persia: Being experiences of life in Persia from 1866 to 1881

SOLOMON IN ALL HIS GLORY.

(From a Native Drawing.)

IN THE LAND OF THE LION AND SUN, OR MODERN PERSIA.

BEING EXPERIENCES OF LIFE IN PERSIA FROM 1866 TO 1881.

ILLUSTRATED BY FULL-PAGE PLATES FROM PHOTOGRAPHS AND FROM NATIVE DRAWINGS.

BY C. J. WILLS, M.D., LATE ONE OF THE MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HER MAJESTY’S TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT IN PERSIA.

Illustration from In the land of the lion and sun, or, modern Persia: Being experiences of life in Persia from 1866 to 1881

THE ARMS OF PERSIA (from the Teheran Gazette).

NEW EDITION.

WARD, LOCK AND Co., LONDON, NEW YORK, AND MELBOURNE, 1891.

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