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Balzac, H(onoré) de. La femme de soixante ans. 2 vols.

(6), 246, (2) pp.: (6), 263, (3) pp. 12mo. Contemp. green half morocco, spine gilt. – Bruxelles, Livorno, and Leipzig, Meline, Cans et Compagnie and J. P. Meline, 1846.

Early edition of Balzac’s „La femme de soixante ans“, published in the same year as the original Paris edition. According to Van der Perre, three editions of „La femme de soixante ans“ were published in Belgium before the publication as a part of Balzac’s „La comédie humaine“. The present volume is listed there as a „contrefaçon“, a counterfit of the original editions. – Cf. Vicaire I, 229; Van der Perre, 166. – Old library-number on titlepage. Spine of vol. I rubbed. – Best.-Nr. 26406