The Thousand and One Nights and Orientalism in the Dutch Republic, 1700-1800 : Antoine Galland, Ghisbert Cuper and Gilbert de Flines by Richard van Leeuwen

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
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