Le mille e una notti. Novelle arabe già pubblicate dal Galland [.] Nuova traduzione eseguita sull’ultima edizione di Parigi da A. F. Falconetti. Vol. I [-XXVII].

12mo. 27 parts in 9 vols. Vols. I-VI, pp. 1035; vols. VII-XII, pp. 1060; vols. XIII-XV, pp. 560; vols. XVI-XVIII, pp. 574; vols. XIX-XXIV, pp. 1046; vols. XXV-XXVII, pp. 521. With 26 (of 27) plates drawn by Pietro Zandomeneghi and engraved by Giorgio Buttazzon. Contemporary half calf with giltstamped title and decoration to spine. First illustrated Italian edition of the Arabian Nights, the first new translation after Coleti's. 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and enlarged with new stories by M. Destains, and then completed with the addition of a very large number of previously unpublished novellas discovered by M. Hammer, which form a good third of the entire series" (editor's preface, vol. I, p. XI). Rare. - Overall in very good condition, lacking only the frontispiece in vol. II. Perforation to the blank margin of vol. II, p. 293. - Cf. Chauvin IV, p. 91, no. 238 (second ed.).