8vo. [1], iv, 493 pp., [1], 20 engravings after designs by Demoraine including a frontispiece, engraved by Brugnot, Chevin, Pouget, Budzilowicz & Bernard, edited by M. L’Abbe Lejeune, publisher’s original, fully gilt decorated percaline, all edges gilt, light soiling and rubbing to spine extremities, foxing throughout, soiling to endpapers, loose tissue gaurd to frontispiece, P,-C. Lehuby, Paris, 1843.

Synopsis

Antoine Galland, a French orientalist and numismatist, was already a scholar at the age of twenty-four, when de Nointel, the French ambassador to Constantinople took him to the East to study the faith of the Greeks. In 1675, Galland accompanied Nointel to Jerusalem, and in 1679 he was charged by Colbert, and, after his death by Louvois, with scientific researches in the Levant under the title of King’s Antiquary. In 1709 he was appointed chair of Arabic at the College de France. He collaborated on Herbelot’s Bibliothèque Orientale, which he brought to a conclusion after the death of its author. He is chiefly famous for his translation of the eastern tales The Arabian Nights (Paris, 1704-08).
Bibliographic References: Coiranescu 17e 32136; Fück 101.