Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 279

Price Realized: $ 5,980
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
IBN 'ARABSHAH, AHMAD IBN MUHAMMAD. Vitae et rerum gestarum Timuri, qui vulgo Tamerlanes dicitur, historia. Arabic text apart from front matter in Latin. Title in red and black within woodcut architectural border. [8], 448 pages, including half-title. 4to, 191x148 mm, contemporary brown-dyed vellum boards, white ink shelf number on spine, joints cracked at top and bottom, covers slightly warped; marginal foxing, scattered stains, accession number on leaf after title, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on last page. Leiden: Typographia Elseviriana 1636

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first edition of an early 15th-century history of the conquests and reign of Timur (Tamerlane). Sarton III, 1266; Smitskamp 313; Willems 434.