Arabian Nights Entertainments (1706)/Volume 4

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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.


Part II. Containing Vol. IV, V, VI.



Dublin:

Printed by S. Powell, for George Risk, at Shakeſpear’s-head. George Ewing, at the Angel and Biable, and William Smith, at the Hercules, Book-ſellers in Dame’s. ſtreet. MDCCXXVIII.
Imprint of British Museum, Sept. 1728