LES MILLE ET UNE NUIT (sic). Arabian tales. Translated into - Lot 147

LES MILLE ET UNE NUIT (sic). Arabian tales. Translated into French by Mr. Galland. A Lyon, chez Antoine Briasson, 1705-1706. 5 volumes small in-12 (without volume III of the first 6). Volume I, [12] ff. 312 pp. ; Tome II, [4] ff. 352 pp. ; Tome IV [6] ff. 347 pp. ; Tome V, [3] ff. 328 pp. and Volume VI, [4] ff. 456 pp. Strictly contemporary speckled tan Basane, 5-ribbed spine, fawn-colored titles and endpapers gilt, small gilt-lettered caissons, gilt coat-of-arms at centre the center of the boards, gilt roulette on the edges, speckled edges (epidermis, rubbing and cracked jaws, slight brown spots, small marginal flaws small marginal defects, including tears but not missing). Very rare first edition, the one with the Lyon address. From 1704 onwards, the widow Claude Barbin published the first 6 volumes Galland had translated; the privilege was shared with Antoine Briasson in Lyon who published his edition at the same time. The first Lyon volume being slightly different from the first volume in Paris. A copy bearing the coat of arms of Jeanne-Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, comtesse de Verruë (1670-1736). An aristocratic bibliophile and collector of precious objets d'art, she owned two important libraries in her hotels in Paris and Meudon. Our copy was kept in her Paris library, dispersed in 1737 (her books were already marked "damaged" at the time of sale). Moreover, well-preserved volumes of the Thousand and One Nights are are particularly rare, and are generally only bound after the the 19th century. At the time, the Countess owned only 8 of the 12 volumes. Coat of arms binding. Orientalism.