BURTON, Richard.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.
$12,500.00
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Item Number: RRB-26038
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Manuscript edition with original leaf in Burton's hand in volume one. Octavo, 16 volumes. Bound in full green leather, elaborately gilt-stamped to the spine, front and rear panels with Arabic script, raised bands. Top edges gilt and gilt turn-ins. Each volume illustrated with a double suite of frontispieces, after Albert Letchford; the second being colored. In near fine condition. The manuscript leaf is a book review by Burton, of a French translation of Johannis de Capua's Latin translation of a Hebrew translation of the Panchatantra. An exceptional set.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.
$12,500.00
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