[ORIENTAL COLLECTION OF THE IMPRIMERIE NATIONALE] - Set of 2 volumes: - THE BOOK OF BABUR. Memoirs of the first Great Mogul of India (1494-1529). Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1986. Presented and translated from the Turkish Tchagatay by Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont. Illustrated with unpublished sixteenth-century Mughal miniatures. - USAMA IBN MUNQIDH. Of the Teachings of Life. Memories of a Syrian gentleman at the time of the Crusades. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1983. Presented, translated and annotated by André Miquel. Illustrated with reproductions of a medieval manuscript. 2 volumes in-4 decorated skyvertex of the publisher, hardback slipcases. Beautiful copies. Expert : Jean-Louis Beauvais

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