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Clermont-Ganneau - First edition of 'History of the Caliph' as an essay in itself - Jerusalem, 1869 - from the first Jerusalem printing.

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Histoire de Calife le pêcheur et du Calife Haroun Er-Rechid. Conte inédit des Mille et une Nuits. by Clermont-Ganneau - History of the Fisher Caliph and Caliph Harun Ar-Rahid. The unpublished story of the thousand and one from 'Tales of a Thousand and One Nights' - Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau. Published by Typographie de Terre Sainte, Jerusalem 1869.

First edition of this story from 'A Thousand and One Nights'. Arabic text parallels the French text page by page. The origin of the story which first appeared here as an essay in itself from the six-volume Constantinople edition. A rare publication from the first Jerusalem printing.

[8], 128 p. 23 cm. New cover. Very good condition.

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125. Clermont-Ganneau - First edition of 'History of the Caliph' as an essay in itself - Jerusalem, 1869 - from the first Jerusalem printing.