- 3241
Pétis de la Croix, François (1622-1695), the elder.
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500 - 700 GBP
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Description
- The history of Genghizcan the Great... and the geography of the vast countries of Mogolistan, Turquestan, Capschac, Yugurestan, and the Eastern and Western Tartary... now faithfully translated into English. London: for J. Darby [and others], 1722
8vo (197 x 117mm.), ix, [7], 448pp., illustration: one folding engraved map, woodcut initials and ornaments, binding: contemporary speckled calf gilt, spine rubbed and lacking label
Literature
Cordier, Sinica 2766; cf. Lust 432; Wilson p.172
Catalogue Note
first edition in english. This work, which contains a detailed description of the Mongol empire, is a translation by Pétis de la Croix, secretary-interpreter in oriental languages to Louis XIV, from the original Turkish history of Genghis Khan by Abul Khayr Tash Kuprizadeh; it was first published in Paris in 1710. The last forty pages contain an extensive bibliography of the works consulted by Pétis de la Croix.