MILLE ET UNE NUITS (Les), Arabic tales translated by Galland - Lot 204

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MILLE ET UNE NUITS (Les), Arabic tales translated by Galland - Lot 204
MILLE ET UNE NUITS (Les), Arabic tales translated by Galland. Illustrated edition by the best French and foreign artists, revised and corrected on the 1704 princeps edition; increased by a dissertation on the Thousand and One Nights, by Baron Silvestre de Sacy. Paris, E. Bourdin et Cie, s.d. (1840). Three large volumes in-8, half tan long-grained morocco with corners, smooth spines decorated throughout, illustrated covers preserved (Noulhac). First edition (for volumes I and II). Beautiful romantic edition, richly illustrated with three frontispieces, one of which drawn in monochrome, three false titles and three ornamented titles, 14 plates out of text and nearly one thousand vignettes in the text, all wood-engraved after Wattier, Laville, Demoraine and Marville. The third volume is from the reprint of 1843 (cf. Carteret, III, p. 256) A fine copy, with its attractive white illustrated covers printed in blue and gold in perfect condition. Illustrated prospectuses of the 1840 and 1843 editions added (4 pages each).
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