Hizaru Yach Shav [“One Thousand and One Nights. “]

AUCTION 54 | Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 233
(UZBEKISTAN).

Hizaru Yach Shav [“One Thousand and One Nights. “]

Translated into Judeo-Tajik. Prepared by Rahamim David Bajouf and Azaria Yosofouf. pp. 171. Opening and closing leaves torn, few leaves loose. Unbound. 8vo.

Kokand: Rahamim David Bajouf 1915

Est: $1,200 - $1,500
The “Arabian Nights” issued for the Bukharian Community. The first Hebrew publication in Kokand, a town in Eastern Uzbekistan some 200 miles south of the capital city of Tashkent. Rosenfeld’s Hebrew Printing only lists a later (1916) publication. No copy in the JNUL.