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Tales of the Arabs

containing the stories of The merchant and the genie, The old man and the bitch, The old man and the two black dogs, The fisherman, The Grecian king and the physician Douban, The husband and the parrot, [and] The history of the king of the Black Isles.

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  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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Description

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Publisher's printed tan stiff wrappers; wood-engraved vignette on upper wrapper; publisher's advertisement on lower wrapper

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Legendary beings and transformations and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Legendary beings and transformations

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Fairies”.

    • “Fairies”· via Open Library
  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Fairy tales”, “Folklore”, and “Tales”. Retained metadata contains “Tales” in the title, “Fairy tales” in the subject metadata, “Folklore” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Fairy tales”· via Internet Archive
    • “Tales”· via Internet Archive
    • “Fairy tales”· via Open Library
    • “Folklore”· via Open Library
    • “Tales”· via Open Library
    • “Tales”· in title

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Editions

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containing the stories of The merchant and the genie, The old man and the bitch, The old man and the two black dogs, The fisherman, The Grecian king and the physician Douban, The husband and the parrot, [and] The history of the king of the Black Isles.

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1810London : Printed and sold by Knevett, Arliss, and Baker, Juvenile Library, no. 87, Bartholomew Close, West Smithfield; Printed and sold by Knevett, Arliss, and Baker, Juvenile Library, no. 87, Bartholomew Close, West SmithfieldEnglish—Public

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: University of California Libraries
  • Digitization sponsor: msn
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Scanner: iala10
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL16305076W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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