£40
Miscellaneous. Balzac (Honoré de), The Human Comedy: Scenes of Private Life, one of 250 copies, London: Printed only for subscribers by Leonard Smithers & Co., 1899, etched frontispieces and plates printed on Japanese vellum, original publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt spines, some wear in places but good, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 8vo, Bataille (Albert), Causes criminelles et mondaines, eighteen volumes, Paris: E. Dentu, Éditeur, 1881-1898, contemporary red calf gilt over marbled boards, rubbed, corners bumped, 8vo, further French literature, [archaeology] Wright's Essays on Archæology, two-volume set, London: John Russell Smith, 1861, in-text illustrations, original publisher's cloth, uncut, crested book labels, 8vo, The Queen's London, 1896, original quarter-morocco, rubbed, oblong 4to, [&] Gold and Silver Commission: Appendix to Final Report [...], London: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1888, original wrappers, chipped and re-margined, spine crudely repaired with sellotape, 4to, (34)
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