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BALZAC (Honoré de).
La peau de chagrin. Social studies. Paris, Delloye et Lecou, 1838. Large in-8, [2] f., 402 p., [1] f. (table), pl., figs, contemporary havane calf, spine with 4 flat bands, gilt author and title, gilt and cold fountains and fillets, boards edged with a gilt scroll and fillet and decorated with a large cold rocaille plaque, double gilt fillet at the edges, interior roulette, gilt edges (qq. frott.
at corners and edges, 2 cm split repaired at tail of spine, moderate scattered russets).
First printing of this edition illustrated with a hundred steel-engraved vignettes, notably after Gavarni, Janet Lange,
Johannot, Raffet, Thomas, Langlois, Baron. Two horstexte portraits on Chine appliqué. Skeleton title vignette. Portrait of the gardener on page 301.
A fine copy in a neat romantic binding.
Enclosed: [VOLTAIRE]
Le siècle de Louis XIV. Publié par M. de Francheville, conseiller aulique de Sa Majesté... A Berlin, chez C.F. Henning, 1751.
2 volumes in-12, [6 (of 7)] f., 488 p. + [1] f., 466 p. red morocco, spine with 5 raised bands decorated with gilded stippling, author, title, tomaison and date gilded, ornate caissons, triple gilded fillet edging the boards, double gilded fillet at the edges, inner morocco border decorated with 5 gilded fillets, edges gilded [Kauffmann-Horclois] (small stains on a title page| 4 replaced leaves| 2 leaves lacking: 1f. liminaire au t.1 and errata f. on t.2).
First edition. The spelling of the text conforms to Voltaire's new spelling, with the change of "oi" to "ai", and capitals are only used at the beginning of paragraphs.
Washed and carefully set copy by Kauffmann-Horclois, with 4 browned leaves brought back from another copy and a different edition, but which may be cartons: t.I, p.213-4, 339-40, 415-418.
(Bengesco, I, pp. 340-344, no. 1178).
PROVENANCE: Van Sikele, Belgium (Ghent), 20th c. (armorial bookplate).
(Carteret III, 41).
La peau de chagrin. Social studies. Paris, Delloye et Lecou, 1838. Large in-8, [2] f., 402 p., [1] f. (table), pl., figs, contemporary havane calf, spine with 4 flat bands, gilt author and title, gilt and cold fountains and fillets, boards edged with a gilt scroll and fillet and decorated with a large cold rocaille plaque, double gilt fillet at the edges, interior roulette, gilt edges (qq. frott.
at corners and edges, 2 cm split repaired at tail of spine, moderate scattered russets).
First printing of this edition illustrated with a hundred steel-engraved vignettes, notably after Gavarni, Janet Lange,
Johannot, Raffet, Thomas, Langlois, Baron. Two horstexte portraits on Chine appliqué. Skeleton title vignette. Portrait of the gardener on page 301.
A fine copy in a neat romantic binding.
Enclosed: [VOLTAIRE]
Le siècle de Louis XIV. Publié par M. de Francheville, conseiller aulique de Sa Majesté... A Berlin, chez C.F. Henning, 1751.
2 volumes in-12, [6 (of 7)] f., 488 p. + [1] f., 466 p. red morocco, spine with 5 raised bands decorated with gilded stippling, author, title, tomaison and date gilded, ornate caissons, triple gilded fillet edging the boards, double gilded fillet at the edges, inner morocco border decorated with 5 gilded fillets, edges gilded [Kauffmann-Horclois] (small stains on a title page| 4 replaced leaves| 2 leaves lacking: 1f. liminaire au t.1 and errata f. on t.2).
First edition. The spelling of the text conforms to Voltaire's new spelling, with the change of "oi" to "ai", and capitals are only used at the beginning of paragraphs.
Washed and carefully set copy by Kauffmann-Horclois, with 4 browned leaves brought back from another copy and a different edition, but which may be cartons: t.I, p.213-4, 339-40, 415-418.
(Bengesco, I, pp. 340-344, no. 1178).
PROVENANCE: Van Sikele, Belgium (Ghent), 20th c. (armorial bookplate).
(Carteret III, 41).