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NERVAL (Gérard de). Scenes from oriental life. Les Femmes du Caire. Paris, Ferdinand Sartorius, 1848. In-8 of [2] ff. xxxi-346 pp. Green half-maroquin with small corners, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt title and tomaison, gilt anchor and initials C.O.B. on tail (Russian period binding). Spine slightly oiled. Slightly scattered brown spots. Very rare first edition of the first version of Nerval's Voyage en Orient, undertaken in 1842. His account was published from 1846 in the Revue des Deux Mondes. When it went on sale just before the 1848 Revolution, it was a commercial failure due to political events. The sequel to the voyage, entitled Les Femmes du Liban, was also published by Sartorius just after the events of 1848, with the same failure. The publisher Souverain took up both editions to form "Les Scènes de la vie orientale" as a two-volume publication dated 1850. (Vicaire VI, 55.) Ex-libris of the library of the officers of Sébastopol. Bookplate JM.

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NERVAL (Gérard de). Scenes from oriental life. Les Femmes du Caire. Paris, Ferdinand Sartorius, 1848. In-8 of [2] ff. xxxi-346 pp. Green half-maroquin with small corners, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt title and tomaison, gilt anchor and initials C.O.B. on tail (Russian period binding). Spine slightly oiled. Slightly scattered brown spots. Very rare first edition of the first version of Nerval's Voyage en Orient, undertaken in 1842. His account was published from 1846 in the Revue des Deux Mondes. When it went on sale just before the 1848 Revolution, it was a commercial failure due to political events. The sequel to the voyage, entitled Les Femmes du Liban, was also published by Sartorius just after the events of 1848, with the same failure. The publisher Souverain took up both editions to form "Les Scènes de la vie orientale" as a two-volume publication dated 1850. (Vicaire VI, 55.) Ex-libris of the library of the officers of Sébastopol. Bookplate JM.

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