Honoré de BALZAC. Lot n° 36

Honoré de BALZAC. La Dernière incarnation de Vautrin. Paris, Chlendowski, 1848, 3 volumes in-8 bound in separate half-maroquin slipcases, one of which has two snags, presented in a single slipcase. Scattered foxing. First separate edition of the fourth part of "Splendours and Miseries of the Courtesans". Copy of Victor Mercier, Honorary President at the Court of Cassation, with handwritten notes in pencil signed with his initials on the third cover, mentioning : "collated complete on February 7, 1917".