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Nasreddin (Nasir Ad-Din) Khodja.

Lata'if-i Khaja Nasr al-Din Efendi.

Bulaq (Cairo), Dar ut-Tiba'at il-Amire, [1838 CE =] 1254 H.,

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Author
Nasreddin (Nasir Ad-Din) Khodja.
Publishers
Bulaq (Cairo), Dar ut-Tiba'at il-Amire, [1838 CE =] 1254 H.
Keyword
Middle East, incl. Arabian Gulf: History, Travels, Falconry and Horses
Languages
English

Description

8vo. 40 pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. First Bulaq edition of this collection of witty anecdotes centered on the humorous folk figure Nasreddin; the second edition altogether following that published in Istanbul the previous year. "The influential Cairo prints of 1254 H (1838), 1256 H (1840), 1257 H (1841), and 1259 H (1843) [.] became the basis of European translations, and an unbroken line of [.] Nasreddin Hoca tales thus became cemented in the literary tradition" (Palabiyik). In Ottoman Turkish throughout. - Binding rubbed; some dampstains and traces of worming throughout. Handwritten ownership of the French diplomat Louis Lagarde (dated 10.11.1932) on first page. - zege 11624. N. Palabiyik, "Justus Raphelengius and the Turkish Folk Tradition", in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 139.2 (2019), p. 335.