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Zhiznʹ Alʹmansora / soch. V. Gauf ; ris. D. Mitrokhin.

Accession number
PML 86096
Creator
Hauff, Wilhelm, 1802-1827.
Published
[Moskva] : Izd. Ī. Knebelʹ, [1913].
Credit line
Purchased in 1995.
Notes
Title from wrappers.
Publication date from Yuniverg.
A story from Hauff's series of tales, which were chiefly based on the Arabian Nights and other literary sources--part of a European genre, popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, referred to at the time as 'Oriental tales.'
"T-vo R. Golike i A. Vilʹborgʺ, S.P.B. ..."--Back wrapper.
Description
[12] pages : color ill. ; 30 cm
Provenance
M. Knebelʹ (ownership inscription).
Summary
The Egyptian protagonist, Almansor, returns from France to Alexandria with the help of a nameless emperor, thinly disguised as Napoleon.
Binding
Pictorial wrappers. First and last leaves pasted down.
Classification
Department