798 - (Alf Layla Wa-Layla).

(Alf Layla Wa-Layla). One Thousand and One Nights. Arabic. Edited by Max Habicht based on a manuscript from Tunis. 12 volumes. [Vol. IX ff:] Continued after his death by H.L. Fleischer. Breslau, M. Josef Comp. [after vol. VIII:] F. Hirt, printed by Grass, Barth & Co. 1825–43. Introduction somewhat late. Hardcover. (Spine title in German, rubbed.) Chauvin IV, 20. Hayn & Gotendorf V, 280. Cat. Duizend Min Eén Boek 3. — The rare second complete Arabic edition of *One Thousand and One Nights*, more complete than the first edition from Calcutta (1814–18), but still largely inspired by the Galland manuscripts and the forgeries of the Syrian scholars Chavis & Sabbagh, which Habicht had collected or copied during his studies in Paris, 1797–1807. The work is attractively printed in the Berlin Arabic typeface, with the text surrounded by black lines. - The ╔rare╗ 2nd complete edition in Arabic of *The Thousand and One Nights*, more complete than the first Calcutta 1814–18 edition, but still largely inspired by the Galland manuscripts and the forgeries by the Syrian scholars Chavis & Sabbagh, which Habicht had assembled or copied while studying in Paris from 1797 to 1807. This work is attractively printed using the Berlin Arabic typeface, with the text enclosed in black lines. In the same year, Habicht’s German translation appeared, published in 15 volumes. Slightly later half-leather volumes (slightly rubbed in places; some title pages browned, but a good set, with the title in German).