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[Turkey]. SAINCTYON (Sieur de). History of the Great Tamerlane, drawn from an excellent manuscript and several other original sources Paris: André Pralard, 1677. In-12, (6) ff., 424 pp. Fine, finely grained brown sheepskin from the period, ribbed spine, gilt title, ornate panels, edges speckled with red (binding worn, slight foxing and marginal water stains, small loss at the bottom of 2 ff. of the preface). A rare first edition of this treatise on the life and wars of Tamerlane (1336–1405), the famous Turkic-Mongol leader and conqueror, founder of the Timurid dynasty... against the Muscovites, the King of China, the Emperor of the Turks, and the Sultan of Egypt. Sainctyon was the secretary to the Duke of Guise. Engraved woodcut vignette on the title page. Only the BnF holds copies of this work. Missing from Blackmer. Atabey, 1082.
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