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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(Fine Bindings) |
| Author: |
Burton, Richard F., translator |
| Title: |
[Arabian Nights, i.e.:] A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entituled 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 [with] The Supplemental Nights |
| Place: |
Benares, India |
| Publisher: |
Kamashastra Society |
| Date: |
[1885-1888] |
| Item # : |
214750 |
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| Sale Number |
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437 |
| Lot Number |
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45 |
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| Rare Books & Manuscripts: A Private San Francisco Library with Important Angling & Sporting Books |
| Sale Date |
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09/16/2010 |
| Sale Time |
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1pm PST |
| Low Estimate |
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$ 8,000 |
| High Estimate |
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$ 12,000 |
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| Description: |
| 16 volumes. 14x15 cm. (9˝x6"), finely bound by Stikeman in full red levant morocco, quintuple gilt filet borders with crescent moon & star devices in corners, raised spine bands with moon & star devices in compartments, red & green morocco doublures ruled in gilt, moiré silk endleaves, top edges gilt, original cover and spine cloth at rear of each volume. First Burton Edition. |
| Handsomely bound set of the 10-volume set of Burton's Arabian Nights and the six volumes of the Supplemental Nights, printed for subscribers only. The copyright information in each volume conforms to that delineated by Penzer for the first edition, i.e. Ellis Spear being crossed out and Philip Justice substituted in Vols. III & IV, etc. Tipped in at the front of Vol. II is a facsimile of a letter from Lady Isabel Burton to her husband's literary agent, asking him to assist her in requesting prompt payment from subscribers to the edition, because "it is quite impossible for a lady to ask for money." The letter notes that the edition was restricted to 1000 copies. Penzer p.113 et seq. |
| Condition: |
| Tiny scuff to spine of Vol. VI, minor insect damage to the gilded top page edges; near fine to fine. |
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