[SOLAR ECLIPSES / FIRST PERSIAN EDITION OF FLAMMARION’S BOOK] Risala-e hay’at-e jadîd: Char-e gusûf. [i.e., Tractate of New Sky: Four Solar Eclipses]

FLAMMARION, CAMILLE (1842-1925). Matbaa-e Majlis, Tehran, 1312 = [1933]. In modern brown full morocco. Foolscap 8vo. (18 x 12 cm). In Persian. 156, [1] p., richly illustrated with reproduced woodcuts from Flammarion’s “Petit astronomie”, taken from its Russian edition, and a portrait of translator Talibov at the end. Rare first Persian edition of Flammarion’s “Petit astronomie”, translated from an early Russian edition, by Mirza Abdul'Rahim Talibov Tabrizi (1834-1911), also known as Talibov, was an Iranian Azerbaijani intellectual and social reformer. This book was published as a supplement to the Series of “Gâhnâmâ”, which was one of the first steps in providing the knowledge of astronomy to the public in Iran by Seyyed Jalaladdin Tehrânî (1894-1987), an Iranian astronomer, mathematician, and politician during the Pahlavi era. The book includes a richly illustrated and remarkable description of the solar eclipses besides briefly the usual subjects of astronomy. Flammarion also reporte