MUHAMMAD AL-MAHDI AL-HAFNAWI. MARCEL, Jean-Joseph. - Lot 149

MUHAMMAD AL-MAHDI AL-HAFNAWI. MARCEL, Jean-Joseph. Contes de Cheykh Êl-Mohdy. Paris, Henri Dupuy, 1835. 3 volumes in-8, [4], 484 + [4], 496 + [4], 508 pp. 25 numbered plates. Contemporary long-grained eggplant half-maroquin with corners, boards outlined with gilt fillet, gilt fillet, smooth spines decorated with gilt scrolls in the taste of the period (slight rubbing to the headpieces, minor scattered foxing). A good copy in its contemporary binding of these Arabian Tales written in the style of the Thousand and One Nights, translated by J.-J. Marcel, a pupil of Silvestre de Sacy; illustrated with 3 black frontispieces and 25 black woodcuts. The author is Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Hafnawi (1737-1815). [Arab world].