One thousand and one nights 1-6.

Förlagshuset Norden 1928, approx. 2,500s with mounted color plates as well as drawings and column titles by Gudmund Hentze, translated from Arabic by Professor J Östrup, into Swedish by Fil Dr Torsten Wennström.
Publisher's red half-French binding with rich spine gilt, marbled binding covers, upper gilt cut; Complete in 6 volumes.

The immortal collection of tales associated with the last Abbasid caliph of the illustrious Baghdad, Harun al Rashid and his court (years 786-809). The origin is found in the Persian collection HEZAR EFSANEH (the thousand stories) which in turn probably derives from old Indian editions.