Sa'di, Muslih-d'-Din. Lot n° 1543

Kolleyat. (Collected Works). No place, (Tabriz), Alî Aga Tabrîzî, In the month of Safar 1322 (= 1904). 354, (1) S. 4°. Bindery (rebacked and endpapers renewed, somewhat rubbed and stained). Well preserved Persian lithograph. - Complete text of the complete works of Saadi with an introduction to the author and his life story (up to p.23). Pp.24-75: "Gulistân", copied up to 1319. Pp.76-150: "Bûstân", copied up to 1319, with note in colophon: "Correction (improvement) of the text by Ahmad Ibn Husain Djazr Allâh". S.151-156: Tardj'ât; pp.157-180: the panegyric = praise qasîde and riddles; pp.187-192: the remaining qasîde. P.193-261: tajjibât. S.262-292: 'Badai' =The Book of Oddities. P.293-304: Chavâtîm =The Book of Seals. S.305-310: the older Ghasele. P.311-334: Sâhabîyyât = The Book of Wine including Mathnawiyyât, Hikâyyat, Muqata'ât etc., on p.334 al-Madjlis etc. up to page 339. P.340-354: Rubayyat. P.354: final colophon. - In the colophon the name of the financier (bani), printer and bookseller: "Hâdji Alî Aga Tabrîzî, by profession bookseller". - On the peculiarities of lithographic printing, see: Ulrich Marzolph: Zur frühen Druckgeschichte in Iran, pp. 263 ff; in "Sprachen des Nahen Ostens und die Druckrevolution"; Westhofen, 2002. - Sheet 1 (reverse), and 3 marginal tears backed with Japan. - (Collected writings). Complete edition of the works of Saadî with an introduction about the author and his life (up to p. 23). Contemporary Persian leather binding in red (spine carefully restored) with blind embossed cover lines. - Fly-leaves renewed. Sheet 1 and 3 small tears backed with Japan paper.