SOULAGES Gabriel - Le malheureux petit voyage ou la misérable fin de Madame de Conflans, princesse de la Marsaille - Paris éditions du Baniyan 1950 - one volume in-8° - printed filled cover in hardback folder and slipcase - 183 pages - Frontispiece - illustrations by Paul-Émile Bécat - One of 400 copies on Bellegarde bearing the numbers 341 to 740, the present work numbered 580 (wrapper and folder damaged - cover and interior in good condition)

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