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The Arabian Nights' Entertainments: Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories: Embellished with Nearly One Hundred and Fifty Engravings. Owned/Signed by Commodore Thomas H. Looker, USN.
by Anonymous
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Winston, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
London: G. kershaw & Son, 1852. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, green cloth boards ornately decorated in gilt on spine. Exterior shows considerable wear with edge and corner bumps, spotting and soiling, and tears to the cloth on spine edges and hinge. Internal binding is in better shape with no hinge cracks noted at boards. The worst issue being that all page sections are uncut and the original owner separated some of these by hand which caused some ugly tears along the page edges. Most of the pages are still uncut, mainly along the top. Pages are tone due to age and foxing is present, though mainly limited to the end pages and frontispiece. Hinge is pulled to where you could see the webbing at page 432/433 but other areas are tight. Some of the pages in the rear of the book (starting at 537) have a crease in the upper outside corner which appears to be from when the book was bound. What makes this copy unique was who the owner was: the front end page contains the signature which reads "Tho. H. Looker - USN" and his last name also appears on the title page. This book belonged to Commodore Thomas Henry Looker (1829-1910) - Midshipmen, Purser, Pay Director, Assistant to Secretary of the Navy, Paymaster General, etc. his signature can be found in the Library of Congress Abraham Lincoln papers, series 1. He served at the Mexican war and Civil War and was a personal friend President Rutherford B. Hayes. The front end page also shows faint indentations where something was written in pencil and then later erased, this is likely a previous bookstore price. Title page states "A New and Complete Edition".
Synopsis
The Arabian Nights Entertainments was introduced to Europe in a French translation by Antoine Galland in 1704, and rapidly attained a unique popularity. A more accurate version, corrected from the Arabic, with a style admirably direct, easy, and simple, was published by Dr. Jonathan Scott in 1811.
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- Bookseller
- Yesterday's Book Shop (Member IOBA)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2210636
- Title
- The Arabian Nights' Entertainments: Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories: Embellished with Nearly One Hundred and Fifty Engravings. Owned/Signed by Commodore Thomas H. Looker, USN.
- Author
- Anonymous
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- G. kershaw & Son
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1852
- Pages
- 556
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- 19th Century; Literature and the Classics;
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About the Seller
Yesterday's Book Shop (Member IOBA)
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Winston, Georgia
About Yesterday's Book Shop (Member IOBA)
Yesterday's Book Shop is an independent, family-owned establishment. The store first opened in 1966 under the name Collector's Corner and was located in Western Maryland. The Collector's Corner dealt mainly in books but also sold stamps and assorted ephemera. In 1975 the name was changed to Yesterday's Book Shop when the store only offered books and printed matter. In the early 2000s the brick and mortar store was closed and now we only sell online.
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