Arms and Armor from Iran by Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani, showing parthian, achaemenian swords and daggers, wootz, sassanian swords, akenakes, shamshir, safavid

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Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani: Arms and Armor from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period. ca. 700 pages, 900 black-and-white images; over 2,500 color images. 30 x 26,5 cm.