Mame et Delaunay-Vallée

(Marie-Louise de HABSBURG-LORRAINE, Empress of France) [LAMOTHE-LANGON Etienne-Léon, baron de]
Mémoires et souvenirs d'une femme de qualité sur le Consulat et l'Empire – Mémoires d'une femme de qualité sur Louis XVIII, sa cour et son règne – Mémoires d'une femme de qualité depuis la mort de Louis XVIII jusqu'à la fin de 1829
Mame et Delaunay-Vallée, Paris 1829-1830, 14 x 22 cm, 10 volumes, half morocco
First edition for these three texts which appeared separately – they have been brought together here as a trilogy. A rare collection of these apocryphal anecdotal memoirs spanning thirty or so years of life at Court.
Unifor

BALZAC Honoré de
Scènes de la vie privée [Scenes from Private Life] Mame et Delaunay-Vallée & Levavasseur, Paris 1830, 130 x 215 mm (5 1/8 x 8 7/16 ”), 2 volumes, 19th-century half sheep
The rare and sought-after first edition.
Contemporary Romantic half light-brown sheep over marbled paper boards, spine with gilt arabesques and blindstamped typographic motifs, title and volume labels in navy blue sheep renewed, gilt garlands to head and foot, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, a remboitage.
Occasional light spotting.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by Honoré de Balzac: “à Monsieur Leroy comme un témoignage de la reconnaissance