L'art de mettre sa cravate de toutes les manières connues et usitèes

by Émile de Empésé, Émile Marco de Saint-Hilaire

$750 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Paris: La Librairie Universelle de H. Balzac, 1827. First edition, 16mo, pp. 122; full page portrait of the author and 4 folding plates showing 31 figures; contemporary calf backed marbled boards, gilt-ruled spine, gilt title, boards lightly worn, plates a bit foxed. For a time, the celebrated French novelist Honore de Balzac 1799-1850 set up a printing establishment in Paris. Among the works that issued from his press - the whole number likely not more than

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