Pisani, VittoreBiblio.com
[ALF LAYLA WA-LAYLA - ITALIAN].Biblio.com
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.
1831ABC_49344Venice: Giuseppe Antonelli 1831. Contemporary half calf with the title and volume numbers in gold on the spine. 12mo. With 26 of 27 engraved plates drawn by Pietro Zandomeneghi and engraved by Giorgio Buttazzon. 27 parts in 9 volumes. Rare first illustrated Italian edition of the Arabian Nights the first new translation after Coletis. This is one of the finest Italian editions of the Nights both for its impressive set of plates and for its translation. The editor and translator Antonio Francesco Falconetti had worked on a greatly expanded French corpus that is considered one of the most complete versions of the work: The translation entirely new is based on the latest Paris edition found for the part already made public by Galland on original texts amended and enlarged with new stories by M. Destains and then completed with the addition of a very large number of previously unpublished novellas discovered by M. Hammer which form a good third of the entire series editors preface vol. I p. XI.Overall in very good condition lacking only the frontispiece in vol. II perforation to the blank margin of vol. II p. 293.l OPAC SBN ITICCUVEA0151721 11 copies incl. 8 incomplete; cf. Chauvin IV p. 91 no. 238 second ed.; this ed. not in WorldCat. Giuseppe Antonelli, unknown
Antiquariaat FORUM BV · Pays-Bas4 000,00 €
