Monod, I, 4698 ; Talvart & Place, VI, 6, N.<\/i><\/p>\n
A copy on Rives vellum, no. 379.<\/p>\n
For Flaubert, the Orient was not merely a fashionable trend; he had been dreaming of it since his adolescence: \u00ab Je r\u00eavais de lointains voyages dans les contr\u00e9es du sud; je voyais l’Orient et ses sables immenses, ses palais que foulent les chameaux et leurs clochettes d’airain \u00bb <\/span> (Flaubert, M\u00e9moires d’un fou, Novembre et autres textes de jeunesse<\/i>, Flammarion, , 1991, p. 275.)<\/p>\n He undertook two journeys to the East: the first from October 1849 to June 1850, during which he travelled to Egypt, then to Beirut, Jerusalem and Damascus. The second journey, undertaken primarily for the writing of Salammb\u00f4<\/i>, took place from April to June 1858, during which Flaubert travelled through Algeria and Tunisia.<\/p>\n In *Salammb\u00f4*, which recounts the War of the Mercenaries, Flaubert depicts an idealised but not mystical Orient; he aims for a historical, violent and sensual portrayal.<\/p>\n This edition is illustrated by Pierre No\u00ebl, a 20th-century illustrator and painter who was appointed official painter to the Navy in 1944.<\/p>\n Provenance: Fran\u00e7ois Chr\u00e9tien (bookplate)<\/p>\n A fine copy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 8vo (200 x 150 mm), 3 unn.l. (half-title, frontispiece, title page), 461 pp., 2 unn.l. (tables and colophon). Red half-shipskin with corner, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt head, original wrappers preserved (contemporary binding<\/i>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":90912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[544],"product_tag":[598,1241,1246],"class_list":{"0":"post-90925","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-literature","7":"product_tag-19th-century-literature","8":"product_tag-20th-century-illustrations","9":"product_tag-20th-century-literature","10":"pa_auteur-flaubert-gustave-2","11":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Gustave FLAUBERT","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Mornay, 1931","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":"oui"},"yoast_head":"\n