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Cover images: View of the Courtyard of the Mesdjid-i-Shah, Isfahan, from ‘Modern Monuments of Persia,’ engraved by Bachelier, 1856 (litho), Coste, Pascal Xavier (1787–1879) (after) / Private Collection / The Stapleton Collection / The Bridgeman Art Library. Portrait of Gertrude Bell, Photographic Archive, Department of Archaeology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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