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TIMUR (1336-1405). Institutes Political and Military, written originally in the Mogul language by the great Timour, improperly called Tamerlane, first translated into Persian by Abu Taulib Alhusseini, and . into English, with marginal notes, by Major Davy. Edited by Joseph White. Oxford: Clarendon Press, sold by J. Murray, London, and D. Prince and J. Cooke, Oxford, 1783. Engraved frontispiece and 2 plates, parallel Persian and English texts. (Some light browning, a few corners creased.) FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Major William Davy's translation was from a Persian manuscript in the museum of Dr. William Hunter (1718-1783). He asserts (p. xxi) that 'the noble simplicity of Diction, the plain and unadorned Egotism that runs through the whole of the Institutes and History of Timour, are peculiarities which mark their originality and their antiquity also.' In the preface, the editor, John White, explains that he had been left to see the work through the press after 'Mr. Davy was called to India by an honourable appointment under Lord Macartney' (presumably that of 'Persian Secretary to the Governor General of Bengal' alluded to on the title page). Seller Inventory # T12024
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