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[EBÜLGÂZÏ BAHADIR HAN, Khan of Khorezm (1603-1663)]. A General History of the Turks, Moguls, and Tatars, vulgarly called Tartars. London: J. and J. Knapton [and others], 1730-1729. 2 vols., 8° (194 x 125mm), 2 folding engraved maps. (Map in vol. II with adhesive tape reapirs on verso, B1 of vol. I slightly soiled, marginal soiling in vol. II.) Contemporary sprinkled calf (joints slightly split, small chip to one spine, corners a little rubbed).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of one of the earliest sources on the Tartars and Mongols. ESTC states that the original text, which was bought from a Bucharan merchant by Swedish officers taken prisoner at the battle of Pultawa in 1709, was in Jagatale, with title transliterated: Shajare-ye Tork. It first appeared in a French translation (Leyden, 1726). The first edition of the original Tartar manuscript followed in 1825. Atabey 5 (refers to this second copy); cf. Brunet I, 19; not in Blackmer. (2)
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of one of the earliest sources on the Tartars and Mongols. ESTC states that the original text, which was bought from a Bucharan merchant by Swedish officers taken prisoner at the battle of Pultawa in 1709, was in Jagatale, with title transliterated: Shajare-ye Tork. It first appeared in a French translation (Leyden, 1726). The first edition of the original Tartar manuscript followed in 1825. Atabey 5 (refers to this second copy); cf. Brunet I, 19; not in Blackmer. (2)