KNANISHU, Joseph "About Persia and Its People" [Lutheran Augustana, 1899]

KNANISHU, Joseph. About Persia and Its People; A Description of Their Manners, Customs, and Home Life, Including Engagements, Marriages, Modes of Traveling, Forms of Punishments, Superstitions, Etc.

Rock Island, IL: Lutheran Augustana Book Concern, 1899. Illustrated. First Edition. 8" x 5.75", 300pp. Bright blue cloth with gilt titling and black decorations. Hinges cracked. Second half of textblock more toned than the first. General rubbing to the cloth, as pictured. Very Good-. 

Published for a Swedish-American audience, this book covers such interesting topics as "Magical Arts, Witchcraft & Sorcery", "Persian Snake Charmers", and "Modes of Punishment".