Jean-Baptiste MARGAT DE TILLY
Histoire de Tamerlanempereur des Mogols et conquerant de l'Asie[History of Timur]
[Pierre Brumoy] • Hippolyte-Louis Guerin|Paris 1739|10.6 x 17 cm|Relié
First edition, based on Arabic texts by Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi and Ahmad ibn Arabshah. Sommervogel V, 542.
Contemporary full brown calf bindings, spines richly gilt, tan morocco lettering-pieces, joints of the first volume rubbed, a small loss at the foot of the spine, spine and joints of the second volume extensively restored, traces of gilt rolls on the board edges, endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges. Library stamps on the half-title and title-page, as well as a flyleaf. Library shelfmark on the pastedown.
The work was condemned after Tamerlane's thinly veiled portrait was thought to contain a depiction of the Regent. In the epistle to the Comte de Maurepas, Father...
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