Selections from The Arabian Nights, Sir Richard Burton's Famous Translation of The Thousand Nights and a Night, with Modernized Spelling and Punctuation. (International Collectors Library)

Garden City, New York: International Collectors Library, 1970. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8x5x1. Savage, Steele. An excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1970 Hard Cover. 472 pp. Dark blue leatherette, gilt titles and decorations, purple ribbon marker bound in. "One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English language edition (1706), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment..."  "Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (19 March 1821 - 20 October 1890) was an English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia and Africa as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian, and African languages...