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MERCIER (Louis-Sébastien). Tableau de Paris. Nouvelle édition corrigée & augmentée. Amsterdam, 1782-1783. 8 volumes in-8, blond half calf, spines decorated with gilt fillets, burgundy title-pieces and green tomaison, gilt head, untrimmed (Binding late 19th century). Second edition. A very elegantly bound copy, enriched with Dunker's 96 satirical etchings published as an independent suite in 1785. Defects to several leaves and plates (wetness, repairs, worm gallery).

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MERCIER (Louis-Sébastien). Tableau de Paris. Nouvelle édition corrigée & augmentée. Amsterdam, 1782-1783. 8 volumes in-8, blond half calf, spines decorated with gilt fillets, burgundy title-pieces and green tomaison, gilt head, untrimmed (Binding late 19th century). Second edition. A very elegantly bound copy, enriched with Dunker's 96 satirical etchings published as an independent suite in 1785. Defects to several leaves and plates (wetness, repairs, worm gallery).

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MONTESQUIEU (Charles Louis de SECONDAT baron de la Brède et de): OEuvres. Nouvelle édition revue, corrigée, & considérablement augmentée par l'auteur. London, Nourse, 1769. 7 volumes. 9.5 by 16.5 cm. Contemporary full calf, 5-rib spine, red title-pieces. Binding with minor defects (a few worn headpieces, a few worn corners). Good condition inside. A very decent copy. Complete with two folding maps.

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Honoré de Balzac, Scènes de la vie privée. Paris, Charpentier, 1839. In-18, [4]-387-[1bl]-[1]p. Second series only. New revised and corrected edition. Second series: La Vendetta - Le Rendez-Vous - Souffrances inconnues - La Femme de trente ans - Le Doigt de Dieu - Les deux Rencontres - Le Capitaine Parisien. Havana half-basin, marbled paper boards, smooth spine with 4 faux-nerfs of gilt fillets edged with a frieze, roulettes at head and tail. One spine slightly rubbed. Interior with scattered brown spots. Honoré de Balzac, Scènes de la vie privée. 2 volumes. Paris, Charpentier, 1839. 2 volumes in-18, [4]-433-[1bl]-[1]p & [4]-387-[1bl]-[1]p. New revised and corrected edition. First series: Le Bal de Sceaux - Gloire et Malheur - La Fleur des Pois - La Paix du Ménage. Second series: La Vendetta - Le Rendez-Vous - Souffrances inconnues - La Femme de trente ans - Le Doigt de Dieu - Les deux Rencontres - Le Capitaine Parisien. Half-brown basane, vat-paper boards, smooth spines with 4 faux-nerfs decorated with gilded motifs, a cold fleuron, palette at tail. Some spotting at head and tail, jaws split, foxing. Honoré de Balzac, Réunion de 3 volumes : Scènes de la vie de province (2vol) & La peau de chagrin. Paris, Charpentier, 1839. In-18, [4]-427-[1bl]-[1]p & [4]-401-[1bl]-[1]p, [6]-357-[1bl]-[1]p. New editions. For La Peau de chagrin, first in-18 edition of this novel, partly original as revised and corrected from the original edition published in 1831. The epigraph is based on Sterne's sinuous drawing from Tristam Shandy, which appeared on the cover of the original edition. Clouzot, p. 19; Carteret, I, p. 60. Brown half-basanes in poor condition, modest copies. Honoré de Balzac, Etudes philosophiques. Paris, Furne, Dubochet & Hetzel, 1845 [i.e. 1846]. In-8, [4]-662-[1]p. Fifteenth volume of the Comédie humaine, published August 19, 1846. The cover, absent here, normally reads 1846. This volume contains 12 texts in third or fifth editions, except Sur Catherine de Médicis, which is here in a second edition. Half-chagrin, smooth spine, fillets, light wetness in margins of last three leaves.

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