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VOULTON, Mons.- Verdadeira e exacta noticia dos progressos de Thamas Kouli Khan Schah [sic] da Persia no Imperio do Gram Mogol, escrita em lingua Persiana em Delby em 21. de Abril de 1739. e mandada a Roma por Mons. Voulton. Accrescentada com outras chegadas por varias partes, com hum Mapa do Thesouro do Gram Mogôr levado de Hispahan pelo mesmo Schah.- Lisboa Occidental: Na Officina de Antonio Correa Lemos, 1740.- 19, [1 br.] p.; 20 cm.- E. First edition [and only?] of a report recounting the military campaign of the Shah of Persia, Thamas Kouli Khan (1688-1747), against the Mughal Empire of South Asia. The pamphlet includes not only a translation of the original Persian, written in Delhi by Voulton in 1739, but also other documents and a description of the Mughal treasure (Map of the Spoils) captured in the expedition (p. 16/17), including the imperial throne studded with diamonds. Little is known about the author, apart from having deserted the French army in Pondicherry (India) to enlist in the Persian forces. Last leaf with minor imperfections. Recent binding, full sheepskin. Leaflet not registered in the consulted bibliographies. Laurence Lockhart, “De Voulton’s noticia”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London 4:2 (1926), pp. 223-45. Apparently only two copies are known in Portugal, one in the National Library, the other in the BGUC.

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