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Arabian Nights Entertainments (1706)/Volume 2

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Arabian Nights

Entertainments:

Consisting of

One Thousand and One

Stories

Told by

The Sultaness of the Indies, to divert the Sultan from the Execution of a bloody Vow he had made to marry a Lady every Day, and have her cut off next Morning. to avenge himself for the Disloyalty of his first Sultaness, &c.

Containing,

A better Account of the Customs, Manners and Religion of the Eastern Nations, viz. Tartars, Persians and Indians, than is to be met with in any Author hitherto publish’d.

Translated into French from the Arabian MSS, by M. Galland, of the Royal Academy; and now done into English from the last Paris Edition.

Seventh Edition.


Vol. II.



Dublin:

Printed by S. Powell, for B. Hickey, in Essex-Street, near Essex-Gate, 1728.


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


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