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Oriental tales.
LIBRA Special PJ7715 .P3913 1901 v.1-15
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oriental literature--Translations into English.
- Oriental literature.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 15 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Oman edition.
- Other Title:
- Zein ul Asnam and the king of the Jinn
- Tales from the Arabic
- Book of the thousand nights and one night
- Alaeddin and the enchanted lamp
- Aladdin and the enchanted lamp
- Thousand and one quarters of an hour (Tartarian tales)
- Lettres persanes
- Persian letters
- Thousand and one nights
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for subscribers only [by Athenæum], 1901.
- Contents:
- v. 1-9. The book of the thousand nights and one night: now first completely done into English prose and verse, from the original Arabic, by John Payne
- v. 10-12. Tales from the Arabic of the Breslau and Calcutta (1814-18) editions of the book of the thousand nights and one night not occurring in the other printed texts of the work, now first done into English by John Payne
- v. 13. Alaeddin and the enchanted lamp ; Zein ul Asnam and the king of the Jinn: two stories done into English from the recently discovered Arabic text by John Payne
- v. 14. The Persian letters, with introduction and notes, done into English from the original by Montesquieu
- v. 15. The thousand and one quarters of an hour (Tartarian tales), "confessedly the work of Thomas Simon Gueulette," edited by Leonard C. Smithers.
- Notes:
- Spine title.
- "Limited to 1000 copies"
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is number 710.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy v.1 has detached front board and spine and loose back board.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy v.4 has loose front and back boards.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy v.6 has loose front and back boards.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy v.8 has loose front board.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy v.15 has loose front board.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy v.1 has ms. note laid in at front.
- Contains:
- Gueullette, Thomas-Simon, 1683-1766. Milles et un quart d'heure. English
- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755. Lettres persanes. English
- OCLC:
- 23662018
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