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With a beautiful engraved portrait of Gustave Lévy. A letter and a drawing reproduced on a double folding plate, mounted on miter.
Drawn up in two thin bindings in raspberry half-morocco, blind fillet on the covers, smooth title spine and volume number with gilt letters.
Binding very well preserved. Fresh interior, some scattered foxing.
AUTHOR: BALZAC
TITLE: Correspondence of H. de Balzac. 1819-1850.
PUBLISHER: Calmann-Lévy, publisher, former Michel Lévy Frères house, rue Auber, 3, and boulevard des Italiens, 15, at the new bookstore, (printing F. Aureau, Lagny), 1876; 2 in-12. I. (2f.)-II-477 pp. 2/3 pl. / II. (2f.)-468 pp. Bound without covers. (missing a board?)
Subject: BALZAC Correspondence from H. de Balzac. 1819-1850 Original Edition Moroccan Binding 67356905