Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
[BIGNON, JEAN-PAUL.] Les Avantures d'Abdalla, Fils d'Hanif, envoyé par le Sultan des Indes à la Découverte de l'Isle de Borico . . . et plusieurs autres Histoires curieuses. Engraved frontispiece and 8 plates. 394, [12] pages. 12mo, 166x95 mm, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine ends chipped, front joint cracked, cords intact; contents faintly redolent of incense, scattered foxing and minor stains, occasional minor worming in blank margins, light offsetting from plates onto facing pages, old signature on title. Paris: (J. Quillau for) Pierre Witte, 1712

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first edition of a popular collection of pseudo-oriental tales, some involving imaginary voyages, supposedly translated from an Arabic manuscript. Cohen-de Ricci 938; Howgego V, B35.