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Lot 308
Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-307
Nov 9, 2021
4:00AM CT
Lots 308-687
Nov 10, 2021
4:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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[ARABIAN NIGHTS] -- LANE, Edward William (1801-1876), translator. The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments. A New Translation from the Arabic, with Copious Notes. London: Charles Knight and Co., 1839-1841.
3 volumes, 8vo (247 x 152 mm). Wood engraved title-page, numerous wood engravings. (Occasional light browning.) 20th-century half brown morocco gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest gilt-decorated, stamp-signed by Bayntun (slight sunning or minor wear).
FIRST EDITION with several hundred wood engravings by British wood engraver and illustrator William Harvey.