May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 276

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
GUEULETTE, THOMAS SIMON. A Thousand and One Quarters of Hours (Tartarian Tales). Edited by Leonard C. Smithers. Half-title. Large 8vo, 246x155 mm, green morocco gilt by Morrell with triple fillet border and small scrollwork cartouche in corners on covers, spine similarly decorated, red morocco doublures and endleaves, spine faded to brown, few scuffs and a bump to edge of rear cover; contents immaculate. one of only five wide-margined copies on japanese vellum, from an unnumbered edition of 680. London: H. S. Nichols and Co., 1893

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Collection of tales styled after the Arabian Nights, first published in French in 1715 and in English translation the following year.