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• Nishapur: Some Early Islamic Buildings and Their Decoration (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987), by Charles Kyrle Wilkinson (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Persepolis and Ancient Iran, ed. by Ursula Schneider (illustrated HTML at Chicago)
• Travels through Arabia and Other Countries in the East (2 volumes; Edinburgh: Printed for R. Morison and Son, et al., 1792), by Carsten Niebuhr, ed. by Robert Heron
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
• Persia past and present : a book of travel and research ; with more than two hundred illustrations and a map (AMS Press, 1975), by A. V. Williams Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iranische Felsreliefs; Aufnahmen und Untersuchungen von Denkmälern aus alt- und mittelpersischer Zeit (E. Wasmuth a.-g., 1910), by Friedrich Paul Theodor Sarre and Ernst Herzfeld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vremennai͡a vystavka sasanidskikh drevnosteĭ. ([Rossiĭskai͡a gos. akademicheskai͡a tip.], 1922), by Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia) and I. A. Orbeli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mémoires de la Délégation archéologique en Iran (P. Geuthner [etc.], 1900), by France. Mission archéologique en Iran and France. Mission archéologique en Iran (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of art in Persia (Chapman and Hall, limited;, 1892), by Georges Perrot and Charles Chipiez (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art antique de la Perse; Achéménides, Parthes, Sassanides (Librairie centrale d'architecture [etc.], 1884), by Marcel Dieulafoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mission scientifique en Perse (E. Leroux, 1894), by J. de Morgan, Clément Huart, Henri Douvillé, Victor Gauthier, and Gustave Honoré Cotteau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Voyage en Arabie & en d'autres pays circonvoisins (S.J. Baalde; [etc., etc.], 1776), by Carsten Niebuhr and Ferdinand Louis Mourier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map (The Macmillan Company;, 1906), by A. V. Williams Jackson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Travels in various countries of the East; more particularly Persia. A work wherein the author has described, as far as his own observations extended, the state of those countries in 1810, 1811, and 1812; and has endeavoured to illustrate many subjects of antiquarian research, history, geography, philology and miscellaneous literature, with extracts from rare and valuable Oriental manuscripts. (Rodwell and Martin, 1819), by William Ouseley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cave explorations in Iran, 1949. (University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1951), by Carleton S. Coon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels through Arabia and other countries in the East (R. Morison and Son, 1792), by Carsten Niebuhr and Robert Heron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erânische alterthumskunde (W. Engelmann, 1871), by Fr. Spiegel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches archéologiques ... (E. Leroux [Chalon-sur-Saône, Imprimerie E. Betrand], 1900), by J. de Morgan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Alte Orient 9 Jahrgang (J. C. Hinrichs, 1908), by Georg Hüsing (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Grundriss der iranischen philologie unter mitwirkung (K. J. Trübner, 1895), by Wilhelm Geiger, Carl Salemann, Vsevolod Feodorovich Miller, Edward William West, F. H. Weissbach, A. Socin, Theodor Nöldeke, Ferdinand Justi, A. V. Williams Jackson, Paul Horn, Karl F. Geldner, Hermann Ethé, Christian Bartholomae, and Ernst Kuhn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Histoire et travaux de la Délégation en Perse du Ministère de l'instruction publique, 1897-1905 (E. Leroux, 1905), by J. de Morgan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Voyage en Perse de mm. : Eugène Flandin, peintre, et Pascal Coste, architecte ... entrepris par ordre de m. le ministre des affaires étrangères (Gide et J. Baudry, 1851), by Eugène Flandin and Pascal Coste (page images at HathiTrust)
• Am tor von Asien, felsdenkmale aus Irans heldenzeit (D. Reimer a.-g., 1920), by Ernst Herzfeld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• J. de Morgan; travaux archéologiques exécutés en Perse de 1897 à 1898 (Paris, 1899), by L de Longraire (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le Palais de Darius Ier à Suse Ve siècle av. J.C. : Simple notice ([Geuthner], 1914), by M. L. Pillet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studies in ancient Persian History. (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1905), by P. Kershasp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le palais de Darivs Ier à Svse, ve siècle av. J. C. ([Macon, Protat frères, imprimeurs], 1914), by Maurice Pillet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Travels in Luristan and Arabistan. (J. Madden and co., 1845), by Clement Augustus Gregory Peter Louis De Bode (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires de la Mission Archeologique en Iran (Paris, 1900), by France. Mission archéologique en Iran (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Persia from the earliest period to the Arab conquest (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ;, 1893), by W. S. W. Vaux and A. H. Sayce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels through Arabia and other countries in the East. (Librairie du Liban, in the 20th century), by Carsten Niebuhr and Robert Heron (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mission scientifique en Perse (E. Leroux, 1894), by J. de Morgan, Clément Huart, Henri Douvillé, Victor Gauthier, Gustave Honoré Cotteau, and France. Ministère de l'éducation nationale (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kitāb-i ʾĀsār-i ʻajam (Maṭbaʻ-i Nāṣirī, 1896), by Muḥammad Nāṣir Furṣat Shīrāzī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le palais de Darius Ier à Suse, Ve siècle av. J. C. : simple notice ([P. Geuthner,], 1914), by Maurice L. Pillet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'Acropole de Suse : d'après les fouilles exécutées en 1884, 1885, 1886, sous les auspices du Musée du Louvre (Librairie Hachette, 1890), by Marcel Auguste Dieulafoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vremennai͡a vystavka sasanidskikh drevnosteĭ. ([Rossiĭskai͡a gos. akademicheskai͡a tip.], 1922), by Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia) and I. A. Orbeli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The monuments of Assyria, Babylonia and Persia: with a new key for the recovery of the ten lost tribes. (R. Bentley, 1859), by Charles Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of art in Persia (Chapman and Hall;, 1892), by Georges Perrot and Charles Chipiez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches archéologiques (E. Lebroux, 1900), by J. de Morgan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Persia past and present : a book of travel and research. (Macmillan, 1906), by A. V. Williams Jackson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La délégation en Perse du Ministère de l'instruction publique, 1897 à 1902 (E. Leroux, 1902), by J. de Morgan and France. Mission archéologique en Iran (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The treasure of the Oxus, with other objects from ancient Persia and India. (British Museum, 1905), by O. M. Dalton, Augustus Wollaston Franks, and British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A general history for colleges and high schools (Ginn, 1904), by P. V. N. Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monumens arabes, persans et turcs, du cabinet de M. le duc de Blacas, et d'autres cabinets; ... (Dondey-Dupré], 1828), by Joseph Toussaint Reinaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Niebuhr's travels through Arabia and other countries in the East (R. Morison and Son, 1792), by Carsten Niebuhr, Thomas Vernor, George Mudie, active 1770-1814 Mc Intyre, Robert Heron, R. Morison & Son, and Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in Luristan and Arabistan. (J. Madden and co., 1845), by C. A. De Bode (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compte-rendu sommaire des travaux archéologiques exécutés du 3 novembre 1897 au 1er juin 1898 (E. Leroux, 1898), by J. de Morgan and France. Ministère de l'instruction publique (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Art of the Bronze Age: Southeastern Iran, Western Central Asia, and the Indus Valley (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, ca. 1984), by Holly Pittman, contrib. by Edith Porada (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Illustrated catalogue of rare Persian antiquities : the property of Mirza Raffy of Persia and a superb collection of antique oriental rugs, including Chinese rugs and other objects of art. (Anderson Galleries, 1916), by Inc Anderson Galleries (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mémoires de la Mission Archeologique en Iran. (P. Geuthner [etc.], 1900), by France. Mission archéologique en Iran (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Behistan inscription of King Darius : translation and critical notes to the Persian text with special reference to recent re-examinations of the rock (Vanderbilt University, 1908), by King of Persia Darius I and Herbert Cushing Tolman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Before the Roses and Nightingales: Excavations at Qasr-i Abu Nasr, Old Shiraz (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1985), by Donald S. Whitcomb (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

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