Relaçam da celebre embaixada, que o principe dos Bezancudos mandou ao Schach da Persia, Tha'mas Kouli-Khan, para o conciliar seu aliado temendo o seu poder
Subtitle: e se fez esta funçaõ em 8 de junho deste presente anno de 1744
By: com huma breve noticia dos Bezancudos, e seu paiz ; traduzida da lingua franceza por hum Anonymo.
Publisher: Na officina de Pedro Ferreira, impressor da augustissima raynha N.S.
Published: 1744
Place of publication: Lisboa
Language: por
Subjects: Nādir Shāh, Shah of Iran, 1688-1747.; Iran -- Kings and rulers -- Early works to 1800.; Iran -- History -- 16th-18th centuries.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: An account no doubt inspired by a contemporary history of the reign of Nadir Shah. A French edition was published in Paris in 1742 by l'abbé André de Claustre under the title Histoire de Thamas Kouli-Kan ... Cf. the catalog of the Bibliothèque nationale. The Persian history Tārīkh-i Nādirī by Mahdī Khān Astarābādī was published in the 18th century in a variety of European translations.
Signatures: [A⁴]?
Decorative woodcuts on t.p. and at head and end of text. Headpiece incorporates cartouche with initials IHS below a cross and above three arrows. Decorative initial. Half-page tailpiece depicts an angel with a heraldic shield that incorporates a crown.
Not listed in Catalog of the Oliveira Lima Library, the Catalog of the Spanish Library and of the Portuguese Books bequeathed by George Ticknor to the Boston Public Library, Catálogo das obras impressas no século xvii a colecção da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, the Newberry Library Catalog of the Greenlee Collection, nor in Palau y Dulcet.
LC copy trimmed at top and bottom: no signature marking apparent. Purchased by the Library of Congress Nov. 27, 1946 under accession no. 0703F12.