Histoire généalogique des Tatars, traduite du manuscript tartare d’Abulgasi-Bayadur-Chan …

Strong vol. in-12º of 8 ff. n. eq. (title, dedication, preface, privilege of the States), 814 pp. 5 ff. n. eq. of table of contents and errata, 2 folding maps out of text engraved on copper. Contemporary blond calf, five-ribbed spine, small irons partitioned and decorated with flowers, triple gilt fillet on the boards, spotted edges, headbands trimmed, upper hinge split.

First French translation, based on a Russian or German manuscript, the information differing on this point.

The work is important because it is the very first reliable source on the Mongol dominations in Central Asia. The original Tatar text was first published in 1825. Khan of Khiva from 1643 to his death, Abu Al Bahadur (1603-1663) is also the author of the Shajare i-Türk, which forms a history of the Turkic-Mongol peoples based on eighteen historical sources and corrected by oral narrations collected during his education as a prince. A manuscript of the work, bought from a merchant in Bukhara by a Swedish officer imprisoned in Siberia, is said to be the source of the text's diffusion in the West, but in this field, legends are more numerous than verifiable information. Brunet I, 19. Atabey 4. Absent from Blackmer.