Auction 93 Part 1 - Manuscripts, Prints and Engravings, Objects and Facsimiles, from the Gross Family Collection, and Private Collections
Tales of a Thousand and One Nights – Translated into Bukharian in Hebrew Characters – Kokand, 1914–1915
Opening: $600
Sold for: $2,750
Including buyer's premium
Tales of a Thousand and One Nights, translated to Judeo–Tajik. Kokand (Bukhara, Uzbekistan): Rachamim David Baioff, 1914–1915. Judeo–Tajik (Bukharian in Hebrew characters). Three parts in three volumes.
Three volumes. Part I: [2], 12 leaves, 13–104 pages. Part II: [1], 2, 171 pages. Part III: [2], 171–356 pages. Overall good–fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Worming, affecting text (primarily to vol. I). Stamps and handwritten inscriptions. New bindings.
Only part I is recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book; the present item includes all three parts.
This is the first book in Hebrew characters printed in Kokand.
Provenance: Private collection.
Spanish and Portugese Jewry, and Various Jewish Communities
Spanish and Portugese Jewry, and Various Jewish Communities