Author: Francois Petis de la Croix
Title: Les Mille Et Un Jours Contes Persans, Traduits En Francais Par Petis de Lacroix
Description: Paris , Auguste Desrez, 1840. Leather. A scarce edition of this influential French short-story collection by Francois Petis de la Croix. A new edition. In the original French. Bound in a half crushed morocco, with marbled endpapers. 'Les Mille et un Jours, Contes Persans' (The Thousand and One Days: Persian Tales) is a short story collection with Middle Eastern settings, originally published between 1710-1712.By French orientalist Francois Petis de la Croix, whose stories are mostly adapted very freely from a 15th-century Turkish collection called 'Ferec ba'de sidde&apos.  In a half crushed morocco binding. Externally, with wear to the extremities, notably to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright, with scattered spotting, heaviest to the first and last few leaves. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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