Trans Galland (13 results)

Condition: Good. 362 pages. Fully bound brown leather with gilt. No illustrations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters, but binding remains firm. Boards have heavy wear with bumped and abraded corners. Spine ends similarly worn and spine itself strongly scuffed. Board surfaces scratched and rubbed.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. Volume II ONLY. Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories told by the Sultaness of the Indies to divert the sultan from the execution of a bloody voew he had made to marry a lady every day and have her put to death the next morning, to avenge himself for the disloyalty of his first sultaness. No name for translater. WorldCat has the translater's name from the 1832 edition.Frayed at top of spine. Creases on spine. Soiling on covers. Label worn on front cover. Foxing and spotting throughout. Last signature separated. Overall a solid book and readable classic. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover book in very good condition. Small amount of staining to textblock. Questions welcome. We ship internationally from the United States and Canada every week. If buying internationally, please be aware that additional charges may apply for heavier books. We guarantee a safe, quick, and secure transaction. 10+ years in online bookselling experience.…

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable.They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, 548 pages. Volume 5. Binding is square and tight, as book has been re-bound in glossy brown buckram, reminiscent of what one might find in an institutional collection. New endpapers and new red-and-yellow headband. Pages are moderately toned, with darker toning at edges. Original free endpapers and table of contents show some light foxing. Aside from toning, pages are quite clean, free of smudges and stray marks. Illustrated with several detailed woodcuts. Text in French--a translation of 1,001 Nights.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, 556 pages. Volume 3. Binding is square and tight, as book has been re-bound in glossy brown buckram, reminiscent of what one might find in an institutional collection. New endpapers and new red-and-yellow headband. Pages are moderately toned, with darker toning at edges. Original free endpapers and table of contents show moderate foxing, but no text is obscured. Aside from toning, pages are quite clean, free of smudges and stray marks. Illustrated with several detailed woodcuts. Text in French--a translation of 1,001 Nights.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Leather spine with rasied bands and gitl, blue cloth boards, cover shows minor wear and rubbing to the extremities. All edges gilt. Name of former owner on the front endpaper, endpapers with minor soiling. Pages are lightly tanned with light scattered foxing.

Hard Back. Condition: Fair. Reprint. Volume 5 only Odd volume gilt ''5'' on the spine. lacks a full title page but has a half title ( probably as issued ). preface dated 1800 to warren Hastings from Johnathan Scott. 446 pages with preface and ads at the rear ( possibly indicating the last volume in the set. Starts with '' the Labourer and the flying chair'' end in 16 letters of the Emperor Aurungzebe. Original leather spine and marbled boards and worn with front board loose. Pages clean and text block is tight with no loose pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover; 368 pages. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Blue cloth hardcovers with silver titles on spine. Heavily sunned spine where there are rips in the dust jacket, as well as top-edge. Bumped corners. Lightly scuffed corners. Prev. owners' names on ffep. Yellowed page ends. The pages are bright and clean. With a paper jacket: blue illustration of Nazi plane with white titles. Heavily bumped/chipped edges. Missing parts of spine, but still largely intact. Newly wrapped in a mylar cover. Fairly soiled/rubbed front/back. G+/G. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover Octavo no dust jacket. papered boards gilt lettering 282 pp text in French Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Paperback. Condition: Good Only. A mid nineteenth-century French publication of Antoine Galland's translation of 'One Thousand and One Nights'. A French illustrated issue of 'One Thousand and One Nights'.In the publisher's wraps.Containing tales translated by Antoine Galland, a French orientalist and archaeologist known for being the first European translator of the folktale collection.Decorated with in-text illustrations throughout from various notable artists.With a double-sided rear leaf of advertisements. In the publisher's wraps. Externally, with edge wear and handling marks to the wraps. With the first few leaves starting but attached. Small closed tear affecting the first few leaves. Pages are generally bright, with occasional scattered spots. Good Only. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Condition: Good. Nouvelle edition. 8 volumes 12mo (15cm). 36 fine copperplate engraved plates. Charming, unsophisticated copy in original publisher's wraps, untrimmed. Paper labels. Edges worn, and many corners rounded; paper labels partly missing from first two volumes. Scattered moderate dampstaining and spots, yet very good condition overall. Galland not only translated the Arabic text (which derived from an earlier Persian model, now lost), but he added a few stories of his own, including Alladin and his Magic Lamp, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, both later Disneyfied into the American mainstream.…

Leather. Condition: Good. The rare Mozley edition of the beloved Arabian Nights' stories, bound in full calf and translated from Galland's French edition. The rare to see Mozley edition.A complete four volume set.A four volume set, containing the beloved collection of stories known as 'The Arabian Nights' Entertainments', with this edition being translated from the M. Galland's French translation from the last Paris edition. The stories were collected over the centuries by various authors across Asia and Africa. This edition contains added details on the customs and manners of the Eastern Nations.Bound in full calf. Bound in full contemporary calf. Externally, joints tender to most, weak to a couple boards, with the front board detached but present to 'Vol II', with slight cracking to the spines, minor loss to the head of the spine to vol 'iv', and rubbing to the extremities and joints. Front free endpaper weak to 'Vol I'. Internally firmly bound with generally bright pages with the odd spot, heaviest to 'Vol I'. Good. None (illustrator). book.…