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First Italian edition

[ALF LAYLA WA-LAYLA - ITALIAN]. Novelle arabe divise in mille ed una notte. Tradotte in francese e dal francese nel volgare italiano. Tomo quinto [& sesto].
Venice, Sebastiano Coleti, 1721. 2 volumes bound as 1. 12mo. With a small woodcut vignette on the title page, and a woodcut ornamental tailpiece. Near-contemporary vellum. [4], 175, [1]; 240 pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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First edition by Pezzana

[ALF LAYLA WA-LAYLA - ITALIAN]. Novelle arabe divise in mille ed una notte, tradotte dallidioma francese nel volgare italiano. Vol. primo [-sesto].
Venice, Francesco di Nicolò Pezzana, 1784. 6 volumes. 12mo. With a small vignette built up from typographical ornaments on each title page and some headpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Near-contemporary gold-tooled half calf, marbled paper sides, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine. 336; 332, [2], [2 blank]; 381, [2], [2 blank]; 360; 392; 367, [1] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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Second Pezzana edition

[ALF LAYLA WA-LAYLA - ITALIAN]. Novelle arabe divise in mille ed una notte tradotte dallidioma francese nel volgare italiano. Tomo primo [-sesto].
Venice, Giuseppe Orlandelli, per la dita del fu Francesco di Nicolò Pezzana, 1791. 6 volumes. 12mo. With a small vignette built up from typographical ornaments on the title page of each volume and with some headpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Contemporary half calf. 336; 333, [1]; 381, [1]; 360; 392; 374 pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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Extending Galland's “Arabian Nights”: first Italian edition

[ALF LAYLA WA-LAYLA - ITALIAN]. Continuazione delle novelle arabe divise in mille ed una notte. Tradotte litteralmente in francese da D. Dionigi Chavis, arabo di nazione, [...] e ridotte dal Sig. Cazotte [...]. Tomo primo [-quarto].
Venice, Giuseppe Orlandelli per la dita del fu Francesco di Nicolò Pezzana, 1791. 4 volumes. 12mo. With a small vignette built up from typographical ornaments on each title page. Near contemporary wrappers with the manuscript title on the spine. 344; 328; 394, [2 blank]; 418, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
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First illustrated Italian edition of the “Arabian Nights”

[ALF LAYLA WA-LAYLA - ITALIAN]. Le mille e una notti. Novelle arabe già pubblicate dal Galland [...] Nuova traduzione eseguita sullultima edizione di Parigi da A. F. Falconetti. Vol. I [-XXVII].
Venice, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1831-1832. 27 parts in 9 volumes. 12mo. With 26 (of 27) engraved plates, drawn by Pietro Zandomeneghi and engraved by Giorgio Buttazzon. Contemporary half calf with the title and volume numbers in gold on the spine. Vols. I-VI: 1035 pp.; vols. VII-XII: 1060 pp.; vols. XIII-XV: 560 pp.; vols. XVI-XVIII: 574 pp.; vols. XIX-XXIV: 1046 pp.; vols. XXV-XXVII: 521 pp. Full description
€ 4,000
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A love story from the Arabian Nights in Portuguese, extremely rare second edition

[ALF LAYLA WA-LAYLA - PORTUGUESE - GANIM]. Historia de Ganem, filho de Abou Aibou, denominado o escravo de amor. Traduzida do Arabio em Francez, e ultimamente no idioma Portuguez, por B.A.E.
(Colophon: Lisbon, Francisco Borges de Sousa, 1792). Small 4to (21 x 15 cm). Disbound, spine lined with a strip of black paper. 39, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 4,950
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Extremely rare miniature almamac in a mother-of-pearl chemise

[ALMANAC - DUTCH]. De kleine tydwyzer of jufferlyke almanach voor den jaare 1797.
Amsterdam, Jan van Gulik, [1796]. 16mo (ca. 63 x 30 mm). With an engraved title-page, 5 numbered double-page engravings, and an engraved text page on the sounding of the bell of the Amsterdam Gate. Contemporary decorated wrappers, side stitched through two holes. The work is inserted into a contemporary mother-of-pearl chemise with a silver spine and a metal clasp. [24] ll. Full description
€ 1,500
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Only know copy of this miniature Almanac for 1763, in a fine gold-tooled red morocco binding

[ALMANAC - FRENCH]. Le joli Pont-Neuf, ou recueil de chansons; vaudevilles, &c. Almanach nouveau.
"Amsterdam" [= Paris?], sold in Paris, Duchesne, [1763]. 24mo (9.5 x 5.6 cm). Each page printed in simple woodcut border, with several small head and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled French red morocco, fine green, gold, and white brocade paper endpapers with a foral pattern. [40] ll. Full description
€ 1,700
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