Lot 260
Flaubert, Gustave
Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 26 May 2010 at 12:00 BST
Description
Autograph manuscript, [c. 1858-61], 14pp., 8vo, notes on the history of Spain made by Flaubert from Eugène Rosseeuw Saint-Hilaire's Histoire d'Espagne, possibly made while travelling through Spain to Morocco where Flaubert wrote Salammbô, with notes on the early tribes "mais le trait commune c'est la resistance à l'étranger", Phoenician, Greek, Carthaginian and Roman Spain, referring to Hannibal, Strabo, Hamilcar Barca, Hasdrubal, and to Musa' bin Nusair's invasion of Spain ("voir le poeme de Southey sur Roderic le dernier des goths et la vision de Don Roderic par Walter Scott"); with two unrelated facsimile examples of Flaubert's handwriting for comparison (3)
Footnote
Provenance: Salammbô (1862) is an important historical novel by Gustave Flaubert that interweaves historical and fictional characters. The action takes place immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt against Carthage in the third century BC. Flaubert's main source was Book I of Polybius's Histories Included in this lot is a short autograph note by Lord Carlow [George Lionel Seymour Dawson-Damer, Viscount Carlow (1904–1944), founder of the Corvinus Press] explaining the content of the manuscript notes.