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Les Châtiments. 1853. Stockholm, Fritze Phass' foreign bookshop, 1871. In-8, blue-green half-chagrin, spine ribbed, gilt title, first cover (Petit succr de Simier). Rare edition published in Stockholm, increased with all the pieces forbidden in France. It is decorated with a satyric frontispiece representing the head of Badinguet (Napoleon III). Copy enriched on a guard of a pasted photograph, caricature of Napoleon III in the pillory, accompanied by the inscriptions Ohé Lambert and Apothéose. Spine faded.

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