Tarih-i Timur Gurkan li Nazmi Zade by Nazmi Zade, Murtaza b. Ali

In-8º; (6) ff. 129 ff. in contemporary hardback. Ex-libris.

First edition of the Ottoman Turkish translation of Ibn Arabshah's Arabic Aja'ib ul Maqdour fi Nawa'ib Teymur, the fifth work to be printed by Ibrahim Muteferrika in 1142 (1730). One of 500 copies published.

Biography and critique of Timur, the Turko-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around present-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia. The book deals with the history of the Islamic Turko-Mongol empire, its politics and wars.