Les Mille & Un Jour. Contes Persans.

Traduit en Francois par m. Petis de la Croix

Verlag: Amsterdam: Pierre de Coup, 1711-, 1713

Beschreibung

First edition, 4 vols in 2, 24mo in twelves (5¼ x 3 ), pp. (6), 304; (6), 308; (4), 328; (2), 332, (1) Table des Histories , (5) Catalogue des Livres Nouveau…Pierre de Coup , four engraved frontispieces. Original full vellum, yapp side edges, all edges red. Near fine clean fresh copies. Vellum with minor soil. Sheets & plates unusually clean & fresh. Endsheets with paste action. WorldCat locates only 2 sets complete through four volumes. A fifth volume was published in 1713. The present four volumes in two was clearly published as complete to date as evidenced by the two in one format and the publisher s catalogue at the end of volume 4. WorldCat shows scattered separate single holdings of all volumes. The work was probably inspired by Gallant s 1707 translation of the Thousand and One Nights, but was compiled, in part at least, from various sources by Pétis de la Croix. He claimed the stories to have been translated from a Persian original, Hazar yek ruz, and were told to him by a dervish named Moclès, who had learned them from various Indian sources. This claim intended as a parallel authority of originality is at least questionable. Some believe the stories to be mostly the inventions of Petis de la Croix. Rare. H8100. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 8984

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Les Mille & Un Jour. Contes Persans.

Verlag: Amsterdam: Pierre de Coup, 1711-

Erscheinungsdatum: 1713

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition, Special Edition