Small 8vo. 35 pp., Later half red roan, rubbed, old library shelf sticker at top spine, pages browned, title lightly soiled, Provenance: Imperiale Ambassade de L'Iran (purple stamp to title and verso last page), title vignette, letterhead pieces to Preface and first page, Probsthain & Co. bookseller small label to base of title page, printed for J. Wilcox, London, first edition, 1740.

Synopsis

Extremely rare. Extract from the May 1740’s issue of The Gentleman’s Magazine, an abridged translation of an anonymous writer’s the History of Tahmas Kuli Khan, Shah, or Sophi of Persia, a sensational French account of Nadir Shah of Persia’s murderous military campaigns against Afghanistan and India.