RARE pioneering comprehensive monograph on the history of Jews in Iran, covering all periods from ancient Persia starting in 1300 BCE to the modern period. The author - Habib Levy (1896-1984), was an eminent Jewish thinker, scholar and historian, who played a key role in the immigration of the "Children of Teheran" during World War II. Contains 35 b&w plates. 235x155mm. XIX+597 pages. Blue cloth Hardcover with illustrated dust-jacket. Silver lettering on front cover and spine. Jacket wrapped in transparent plastic cover and taped to cover. Jacket front bottom edge wrinkled. Cover corners and spine edges bumped. Ex-library copy with sticker on front whitepage upper corner and stamp on text block upper and bottom edges. Library stickers on plastic jacket. Sticker residues on front whitepage. Rear whitepage wavy. Several pages slightly dirty. Text block edges somewhat stained. Pencil underlining on few pages. Several pages upper corner bumped/wrinkled. Several pages/page edges wrinkled. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare vast source on the history of one of the most ancient Jewish communities is otherwise in good condition.