Physiologie du fumeur

first edition.
Bound in red half shagreen, back with five nerves decorated with gilded finials, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved cover, bookplate pasted on a contreplat.
Our copy is enriched with a handwritten personal letter of a page of Theospineius Burette in which he expressed his exasperation to a delay which it considers should not be dependent and who does prove unfriendly to its corresponding ... "
Book decorated with Alcide Lorentz illustrations.
A handwritten note from a previous bibliophile head of a guard and on the peculiarity of this book.
Some small minor foxing.