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627 - Histoire de l'Empereur racontée dans une grange par un vieux…
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Estimate €200 - €300
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Histoire de l'Empereur racontée dans une grange par un vieux soldat et recueillie par M. de Balzac [...]. In-16 (small restored loss very marg. p. 101). - Third edition (orig.: 1833), the first illustrated with in-text, some full-page, often comical and partly caricatural woodcuts by Brevière and Novion after drawings by Lorentz. Complete with 2 cat. ff. in fine. - Ref. Talvart & Place I:152:26.C. - Carteret III:46. - Joint, same author: Eugénie Grandet. Paris, Ferroud, 1911. In-8° (very slight tears in illustrations). Half vermilion long-grained morocco with s. corners. R. Aussourd, covers cons. Ill. with 26 woodcuts in colour by A. Leroux by E. Florian, Froment and Duplessis. 1/1020 (of 1200 copies) on Arches vellum (no. 343). Ref. Talvart & Place I:159:44.D. Prov. Baron de Launoit (ex-libris). (2 vols.)
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About the sale Prints & Drawings, Photographs & Comics, Rare Books, Atlases & Manuscripts, Surrealism, Congo, Erotica & Ballets russes
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Auction time 06/25/2026 at 1:00 PM
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