THE GULISTAN OR ROSE GARDEN.

by Musle-Huddeen Sheik Saadi, of Shiraz. Translated from the Original by Francis Gladwin. With an Essay

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First edition

First American edition, and first edition thus of this translation with preface by Emerson. 379pp. 8vo. Original brick cloth. Binding has light soiling, with rubbing, and few tiny tears, at tips of spine, else a very good, bright copy, with text fresh and clean. Myerson D55. Item #333537 A nice association copy; John Albee was a friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and he wrote 'Reminiscences of Emerson' 1882;

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