Nasreddin (Nasir ad-Din) Khodja. Lata'if-i Khaja Nasr al-Din Efendi.

€ 2.500,00

First Bulaq edition of this collection of witty anecdotes centered on the humorous folk figure Nasreddin; the second edition altogether following that published in Istanbul the previous year. "The influential Cairo prints of 1254 H (1838), 1256 H (1840), 1257 H (1841), and 1259 H (1843) [...] became the basis of European translations, and an unbroken line of [...] Nasreddin Hoca tales thus became cemented in the literary tradition" (Palabiyik). In Ottoman Turkish throughout.

Binding rubbed; some dampstains and traces of worming throughout. Handwritten ownership of the French diplomat Louis Lagarde (dated 10.11.1932) on first page.