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Auction archive: Lot number 533

A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, now entitled: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night [and] Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$600
Auction archive: Lot number 533

A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, now entitled: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night [and] Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$600
Beschreibung:

Title: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, now entitled: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night [and] Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Author: Burton, Richard F., translator Place: No place Publisher: Printed by the Burton Club for Private Subscribers Only Date: [c. 1900] Description: 17 volumes. Illustrated with numerous gravure plates from etchings, drawings and paintings. (8vo) 23.5x16 cm (9¼x6¼"), period three-quarter olive morocco and cloth, spines lettered in gilt, raised bands, marble endpapers, top edges gilt. No. 282 of 1000 copies of the "Aden Edition." Handsomely bound edition of Burton's famous translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments. Lot Amendments Condition: Spines faded to brown, a bit dry, a few small blemishes to bindings; very good. Item number: 266464

Auction archive: Lot number 533
Auction:
Datum:
24 Mar 2016
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, now entitled: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night [and] Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Author: Burton, Richard F., translator Place: No place Publisher: Printed by the Burton Club for Private Subscribers Only Date: [c. 1900] Description: 17 volumes. Illustrated with numerous gravure plates from etchings, drawings and paintings. (8vo) 23.5x16 cm (9¼x6¼"), period three-quarter olive morocco and cloth, spines lettered in gilt, raised bands, marble endpapers, top edges gilt. No. 282 of 1000 copies of the "Aden Edition." Handsomely bound edition of Burton's famous translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments. Lot Amendments Condition: Spines faded to brown, a bit dry, a few small blemishes to bindings; very good. Item number: 266464

Auction archive: Lot number 533
Auction:
Datum:
24 Mar 2016
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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