Lot no. 52
NERVAL (Gérard de). Voyage en Orient. Third edition, revised, corrected and enlarged. Paris, Charpentier, 1851. 2 volumes in-12, paperback, illustrated slipcase (Julie Nadot). Partly first edition, the first under this title and in in-12 format, of the Scènes de la vie orientale of 1848-1850, in a definitive text prepared, modified and enlarged by Nerval. A very fine paperback copy, as issued, in rare condition. The publisher's catalogue is bound in the front endpaper. The volumes are housed in a box by Julie Nadot decorated with a watercolour by Félix Ziem, Bateaux devant Istanbul, 1845, reproduced in colour.
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