Contes du Cheykh El-Mohdy, Traduits de L'Arabe D'Apres le Manuscrit Original. THREE VOLUMES.

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Volume I: 484 pp., 7 wood engravings / Volume II: 496 pp., 8 of 9 wood engravings, Lacking Plate IX: portrait of the author / Volume III: 504 pp., 9 wood engravings, including a frontispiece of Arabic text to each volume, numerous illustrations in text of Islamic calligraphy and design, original cloth backed boards, lightly rubbed round edges, title gilt on spine, edges of first three pages of volume II slightly chipped without loss, weak spine, scattered foxing, otherwise set in overall good condition. A collection of tales by Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Hafnawi (1737-1815), written in the style of the Arabian Nights translated from Arabic by Jean Joseph Marcel (1776-1854), who was a pupil of Sylvester de Sacy, and the Director of the Imperial Press at Alexandria and Cairo during the French Expedition to Egypt. Marcel published a specimen of this translation in Paris (1828) under the title " Contes D'Un Endormeur, Ou les Dix Soirees Malhereuses. In 1833 Felix Locquin published the first volume, while the second and the third were published by Henri Dupuy in 1835. #174. N° de ref. del artículo 000964

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