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Auction archive: Lot number 207

BURTON, Isabel (1831-1896) translator. Lady Burton's Edition of her Husband's Arabian Nights. Translated literally from the Arabic, prepared for Household Reading by Justin Huntly McCarthy. London: Waterlow & Sons, 1886. 6 volumes, 8 o. 2 frontispiec...

Auction 14.06.2006
14 Jun 2006
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$120
Auction archive: Lot number 207

BURTON, Isabel (1831-1896) translator. Lady Burton's Edition of her Husband's Arabian Nights. Translated literally from the Arabic, prepared for Household Reading by Justin Huntly McCarthy. London: Waterlow & Sons, 1886. 6 volumes, 8 o. 2 frontispiec...

Auction 14.06.2006
14 Jun 2006
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$120
Beschreibung:

BURTON, Isabel (1831-1896) translator. Lady Burton's Edition of her Husband's Arabian Nights. Translated literally from the Arabic, prepared for Household Reading by Justin Huntly McCarthy. London: Waterlow & Sons, 1886. 6 volumes, 8 o. 2 frontispiece portraits. Original white cloth, spines and covers lettered and illustrated in gilt, title-pages in green and brown, t.e.g., (some light soiling or darkening to covers). Bassorah Edition. [ With :] A group of illustrations from the Samara Edition. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Supplemental Nights. London: Burton Club, n.d. 17 volumes. 8 o, original cloth (some rubbing and staining). LIMITED EDITION, number 340 of 1000 sets. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Supplemental Nights. London: Burton Club, n.d. 17 volumes. 8 o, original gilt and silver decorated cloth. BURTON, Richard Francis translator. CATULLUS, Caius Valerius. The Carmina. London, 1894. Translated by Sir Richard Burton & Leonard Smithers. 8 o. Original boards. Limited edition, one of a total edition of 1050. Facsimile of the Burton Club edition of The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Supplemental Nights. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1994. - and 8 others. (68)

Auction archive: Lot number 207
Auction:
Datum:
14 Jun 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
14 June 2006, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

BURTON, Isabel (1831-1896) translator. Lady Burton's Edition of her Husband's Arabian Nights. Translated literally from the Arabic, prepared for Household Reading by Justin Huntly McCarthy. London: Waterlow & Sons, 1886. 6 volumes, 8 o. 2 frontispiece portraits. Original white cloth, spines and covers lettered and illustrated in gilt, title-pages in green and brown, t.e.g., (some light soiling or darkening to covers). Bassorah Edition. [ With :] A group of illustrations from the Samara Edition. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Supplemental Nights. London: Burton Club, n.d. 17 volumes. 8 o, original cloth (some rubbing and staining). LIMITED EDITION, number 340 of 1000 sets. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Supplemental Nights. London: Burton Club, n.d. 17 volumes. 8 o, original gilt and silver decorated cloth. BURTON, Richard Francis translator. CATULLUS, Caius Valerius. The Carmina. London, 1894. Translated by Sir Richard Burton & Leonard Smithers. 8 o. Original boards. Limited edition, one of a total edition of 1050. Facsimile of the Burton Club edition of The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Supplemental Nights. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1994. - and 8 others. (68)

Auction archive: Lot number 207
Auction:
Datum:
14 Jun 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
14 June 2006, New York, Rockefeller Center
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