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Sale 437: Rare Books & Manuscripts: A Private San Francisco Library with Important Angling & Sporting Books (#437) 09/16/2010 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #22 The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. With Introduction Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay Upon the History of The Nights

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Title:

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. With Introduction Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay Upon the History of The Nights

Author:

Burton, Richard F.

Publisher:

Printed by the Burton Club for Private Subscribers

Date Published:

No date

Description:

Frontispieces in each and plates within, with tissue-guards. 13.8x16 cm. (9¼x6¼"), gray cloth, printed paper spine labels. Shammar Edition.

No. 216 of 1000 copies. The last 7 volumes are part of the series, but are separately titled, "Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night With Notes Anthropological and Explanatory."

Condition:

Spine labels yellowed, some faint soiling to most; very good.

Item#:

215816

Headline:

Book of the Thousand Nights & Night 1/1000
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