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Flaubert, Gustave
Estimate
3,500 - 5,000 USD
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Description
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Salammbô. Paris: Michel Lévy, 1863
In 8s (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in.; 220 142 mm). Half-title; spotting on pp. 208–211. Full burnt orange morocco a la janséniste, sapphire blue moiré doublures and guards, spine lettered gilt, top edge gilt; guards a trifle stained and frayed, offsetting from morocco library label to binder's blanks, lower right corners of pp. 469–[475] repaired or remargined.
In 8s (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in.; 220 142 mm). Half-title; spotting on pp. 208–211. Full burnt orange morocco a la janséniste, sapphire blue moiré doublures and guards, spine lettered gilt, top edge gilt; guards a trifle stained and frayed, offsetting from morocco library label to binder's blanks, lower right corners of pp. 469–[475] repaired or remargined.
Literature
Carteret I:266; Vicaire III:724–725
Catalogue Note
First edition, first printing, with the faults on page 5 "effraya" instead of "effraièrent" and "Scissites" instead of "Syssites" on pages 251, 368, and 370. Inscribed by the author on the half-title to French writer Ernest Feydeau: Offert à Mr Feydeau par son très humble et devoué Gve Flaubert." Flaubert had earlier written to Feydeau of his plan to "rebuild Carthage completely." Salammbô is a monumental novel in the literary camp of exotisme. It centers upon the high priestess of the title and is set amidst the brutality of the rebellion of mercernaries against Carthage after the first Punic War.