SA'DI OF SHIRAZ (ABU-MUHAMMAD MUSLIH AL-DIN BIN ABDALLAH SHIRAZI) / HERMELIN, ERIC (Transl.): - Sa'dî Lustgården. Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt, 1918.

. 4to. Pp. (ii), viii, 352. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt, rubbed along edges. Original printed wrappers withbound Bookplate. Marbled endpapers. Some minor browning to the paper. First Swedish edition of Sa'di's famous poetry work Bustan (The Orchard) completed in 1257. Limited to 440 copies, of which this is no. 290. Bustan comprises ten chapters and is entirely written in verse. Eric Hermelin (1860-1944), a Swedish author and prolific translator of Persian works.

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