Selections from the Alif Laylah for the High Proficiency Examination in Arabic for Officers in the Military and Civil Services.
Calcutta, Malawi Kabir Ud Din Ahmad, at the Urdu Guide Press, 1881
This edition of the Arabian Nights is institutionally rare with only 4 copies in the British Isles (Oxford, Edinburgh, Leeds and St Andrews' Libraries) and 2 in North America (Clifford E. Barbour Library Pittsburgh and Cleveland Public Library). We can trace no other copies traced commercially or at auction.
First edition, 8vo (215 by 135 mm); printed in Arabic with additional title in English, near-contemporary pencil annotations throughout with corresponding manuscript index (cross-referencing sections of the Nights with the Burton Nights), facing Arabic title; modern boards with printed label to spine, original wrappers bound-in, some faint traces of ownership inscriptions to wrappers, overall very clean crisp copy.
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