[Rarebooks] FS: Arabian Nights in Arabic & Latin. Gottingen: 1807

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Arabian Nights. [Title in Arabic and Latin] ...HISTORIA DECEM VEZIRORUM 
ET FILII REGIS AZAD BACHT, Insertis Undecim Aliis Narrationibus. In 
Usum Tironum ad Codicem Manu Scriptum Cahirensem. Edidit Gustavus Knos. 
Gottingen: Henrici Dietrich. 1807. (10),114,(2)pp. Main text in Arabic 
(paginated right to left), prefatory material in Latin. Cont. calf over 
marbled boards (minor rubbing at edges). Some marginal notes in pencil. 
Very scarce.    $650.00 (trade discount allowed)
Knos (1773-1828) was a Swedish theologian and orientalist who taught 
Arabic at Uppsala, and intended this book for beginners in that 
language.

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