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Satire disguising the French elite as Arabs

MELON, Jean-François. Mahmoud le Gasnevide, histoire orientale. Fragment traduit de l'Arabe, avec des notes.
Rotterdam, Jean Hofhoudt, 1730. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spine, boards, board edges and turn-ins, both boards with the gold-tooled coat of arms of Louis Marie Alexandre, Duc d'Aumont, gilt edges. [2], VI, 162, [4] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Bindings Caricature & Satire French Literature Islamic Art, Culture & Science Law & Politics Literature
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Issued in 25 copies only

MÉRARD DE SAINT-JUST, Simon Pierre. Fables et contes.
Parma, Bodoni, 1792. 2 volumes. 12mo. 19th-century gold- and blind-tooled mottled calf by Loutrel, with a pink morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold, a blind-tooled single fillet border on both boards, fleurons on the spine, head edge gilt, marbled endpapers. 44, 25 (bis.) - 44 (bis.), 45-144; [8], 168 pp. Full description
€ 5,850
Book History, Printing & Typography Fable Books
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Instructions for Carsten Niebuhr's expedition to Arabia

MICHAELIS, Johann David. Recueil de questions, proposées à une société de savants, qui par ordre de Sa Majesté Danoise font le voyage de l'Arabie.
Amsterdam, S.J. Baalde; Utrecht, J. van Schoonhoven & comp., 1774. 4to. Set in roman type with incidental Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac and 1 word in Coptic. Near-contemporary tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [4], XLIV, 256, [16], 38, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Egypt Literature North Africa Travel & Voyages Middle East
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First edition of a play recounting the discovery of Brazil by the Portuguese

MIMOSO, João Sardina. Relacion de la real tragicomedia ...
Lisbon, Jorge Rodriguez, 1620. 4to. With the elaborate woodcut coat-of-arms of the dedicatee, the Duke of Braganza, on the title-page, and the woodcut coat of arms of Portugal and/or King Philip II of Portugal at the head of his dedication on leaf [6]r, all text is set within a double fillet frame, and with woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary parchment binding with manuscript title on spine. [10], 163, [1] ll. Full description
€ 9,500
Brazil Latin America Literature South America
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Rare "oriental" pastiche

MORELL, Charles (pseudonym of James Kenneth RIDLEY). The tales of the Genii; or the delightful lessons of Horam, the son of Asmar.
London, printed for G. and T. Wilkie, 1786. 2 volumes. 12mo. With 2 letterpress title-pages and 14 engraved plates (including the 2 frontispieces) illustrating the various tales. Near contemporary, uniform calf (ca. 1800?), gold-tooled smooth spines in 6 fields, with a green (title) and red (volume) label in the 2nd and 4th fields, gold-tooled board edges, blind-tooled turn-ins. xxxvi, 285, [3 blank]; [1], [1 blank], 338 pp. plus 2 frontispieces and 12 other plates. Full description
€ 1,500
India & Sri Lanka Iran / Persia Literature
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The shipwreck of the floating islands loaded with the vices of the world

[MORELLY, Etienne-Gabriel]. Naufrage des isles flottantes; ou Basiliade du célébre Pilpai. Poéme heroique. Traduit de l'indien par Mr. M******.
A Messine (Paris), Par une Société de Libraires, 1753. 2 volumes. 12mo. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece with the portrait of the "author/translator", both titles printed in red and black, and two engraved title vignettes. Contemporary marbled calf with triple gilt fillet along the edges. (4), XLI, (1), 216; (4), 307 pp. Full description
€ 1,500
France French Literature Imaginary Voyages & Utopias
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