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Abu al-Ghaz Husain : Histoire Genealogique des Tartars

Abram Kallewier, Leiden, c. 1726

Contemporary full mottled calf, spine in seven densely gilt compartments of gilt-tooled bands, red morocco label on two, edges tinted red, endpapers marbled. , Upper and lower joints of spine skilfully repaired; a very good example, text and maps are clean and crisp., Thick 12mo. , P. frontis, title, blank, (14), 1-814, (10)., Ex-libris on paste down endpaper. Title in red and black. With 3 plates, including the mounted engraved frontispiece and two folding maps.

“This important text, which provides the earliest understandable source of information on the Tartars, was bought from a Bukharin merchant by Swedish officers taken prisoner at the battle of Pultawa in 1709. Bentinck supposedly translated it into French either under the guidance of the Baron von Strahlenberg, or copied his notes. The two maps are based on Strahlenberg’s very important map of Asia” (Atabey)., Atabey 4; Brunet I:19.

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