'Arabian Nights' Al-juz' al-awwal min kitab Alf laylah wa-laylah

'Arabian Nights' Al-juz' al-awwal min kitab Alf laylah wa-laylah [Arabic title, i.e. The Thousand and One Nights and a Night, first part]. Cairo: Matba'ah al-taqqadum al-'ilmiyah [Scientific Progress Press], 1325 AH [1907 CE]. Small 4to (19.4 x 13cm), contemporary half sheep, 528 pp., printed with Arabic types, loss to spine, text-leaves browned, paper slips with ownership inscriptions of Captain H. E. Short, Indian Medical Service, pasted to title-page not obscuring text. Together with a lithographic Buddhist text possibly in Mongolian, approx. 175 ff., loose between wooden covers, 18 x 56cm, occasional illustrations and borders printed in pink, title-page with pencilled transliteration and translation of title (' ...Herein is told the tale of Gasar ga-an, master of the ten directions') Qty: (2) Note: A new edition of the Bulaq edition of 1834/5, the first printed in the Arab world and now extremely rare. The first volume ends with the 162nd night; apparently four volumes were published.