The Thousand and One Nights and Orientalism in the Dutch Republic, 1700-1800

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The Thousand and One Nights and Orientalism in the Dutch Republic, 1700-1800 is written by Richard Leeuwen and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1040800661 (ISBN 10) and 9781040800669 (ISBN 13).

Antoine Galland's French translation of the Thousand and One Nights appeared in 1704. One year later a pirate edition was printed in The Hague, followed by many others. Galland entertained a lively correspondence on the subject with the Dutch intellectual and statesman Gisbert Cuper (1644-1716). Dutch orientalists privately owned editions of the