[A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS]. Unpublished... - Lot 203 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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[A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS]. Unpublished... - Lot 203 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
[A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS]. Unpublished Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, extracted from the Arabic original by Mr. J. de Hammer, translated into French by M.G.-S. Trébutien.S. Trébutien. Paris, Librairie orientale de Dondey-Dupré, 1828. Three volumes in-8, contemporary binding in red half calf, spines decorated with gilt and cold framed fillets with black calf title and giblets, marbled edges. First edition of the translation of the orientalist and publisher Guillaume-Stanislas Trébutien, future friend and publisher of Barbey d'Aurevilly. It gives for the first time in French the essential of the tales absent in Galland's work, extracted from the Arabic original by the Austrian orientalist Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. Three woodcut figures outside the text. A very fine copy, elegantly bound at the time.
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