1 / 2
Description
DURAS (Claire de).
Ourika.
Paris: Ladvocat, 1824. — In-12, 187 x 108: 172 pp., printed cover. Long-grain Lavallière half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillets, decorated ribbed spine, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (Stroobants).
Second edition, published for the benefit of a charitable institution. It appeared a few months after the extremely rare first edition, of which only a very small number of copies were printed and not made available for sale.
A very fine copy bound as a paperback by Stroobants for Victor Mercier.
Provenance:
Victor Mercier, with bookplate and the autograph note ‘Coll. comp. 3 June 1915’ at the end (II, 1937, no. 902). – Raoul Simonson, with bookplate.
See original version (French)
Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
About the sale
Claude Mozis Library – Black Africa and the African diaspora
Auction location
Auction time
10/21/2026 at 2:00 PM
Pictures credits: Contact the Auction House
You may also like