305. Vámbéry Ármin: Bokhara története...

... a legrégibb időktől a jelenkorig. Ismert és ismeretlen keleti kézirati kútfők után irta ~. I-II. kötet [2 volumes, bound together].
Pest, 1873. Vodianer F. ny. XXXVI+(4)+247+(4)+232p.
With the auograph letter of the author (mounted on the first flyleaf):
„Az utolso 4 bokharai emir történetét tárgyaló kéziratból, melyet Szamarkandban vettem, a papir a khinai selyempapir jo utánzása, készült Endiganban (Khokandban). Koritniczán. 27dik Jul. 1865. Tek. Jeszenszky Danó Urnak”.
Vámbéry also mentions the Persian manuscript in the work, and he had torn a page out of it, on which he may had written these lines. The addressee was a lawyer from Losonc, and a member of Parliament in 1847-48. After the Hungarian War of Independence, he was under official supervision, and in the anthology "Losonczi phönix", he wrote the story of the Russians' destruction of his hometown.
Contemporary half leather. Original cover bound inside.
 
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