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Honoré de Balzac, Lettres à l'étrangère. Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1899-1906-1933-1950. 4 volumes in-8. Posthumous first edition, copy of the first edition, i.e. 100 copies on hollande for the first two (only 1 is numbered), on hollande for volume 3 (no mention of edition) and one of 50 rives (numbered) for volume 4, the only editions announced for each volume. Signed Devauchelle binding, brown half-maroquin with corners, ribbed spine, fillets in the boxes and on the edges, gilt head, covers and spine preserved, untrimmed. Very slight defects, a few corners slightly rubbed, very minor rubbing on the nerves of volume 2. A superb copy.
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Honoré de Balzac, Lettres à l'étrangère. Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1899-1906-1933-1950. 4 volumes in-8. Posthumous first edition, copy of the first edition, i.e. 100 copies on hollande for the first two (only 1 is numbered), on hollande for volume 3 (no mention of edition) and one of 50 rives (numbered) for volume 4, the only editions announced for each volume. Signed Devauchelle binding, brown half-maroquin with corners, ribbed spine, fillets in the boxes and on the edges, gilt head, covers and spine preserved, untrimmed. Very slight defects, a few corners slightly rubbed, very minor rubbing on the nerves of volume 2. A superb copy.
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