Librairie A. Franck

First edition.
Absence of the back and the second board, first board marginally soiled, pleasant interior state.
Fascicule full of his 3 folding boards.
Autograph of Isidore Löwenstern to Monsieur de La Roquette.

First edition.
One restoration at foot of the very first leaves.
Half black shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with wide black fillets and gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, contemporary binding.
Some minor foxing without consequence.

First edition of the French translation established by prince Augustin Galitzin for the first and third volumes, first edition for the second; the third volume being printed on laid paper.
Half black cloth binding, smooth spine richly decorated with the gilt ex-libris of comte de Falloux repeated four times, black paper boards.
Light foxing, a light dampstain without consequence to the half-title page of the second volume.
Provenance: from the library of Bourg d'Iré, property of comte de Falloux, with his bookplate pasted to a pastedown.