Le Tiroir du Diable. Paris and the Parisians. Manners and cu - Lot 316

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Le Tiroir du Diable. Paris and the Parisians. Manners and cu - Lot 316
Le Tiroir du Diable. Paris and the Parisians. Manners and customs, characters and portraits of the inhabitants of Paris, a complete picture of their private, public, political, artistic, literary, industrial life, etc. Preceded by a Geography of Paris by Théophile Lavallée. Illustrations Les gens de Paris - Engravings with captions by Gavarni. Paris comique - Panthéon du diable by Bertall. Paris, chez les Principaux Libraires, no date [1850]. Large in-8° of lxxx, 340 pp. Ill. in the text and 18 gr. h.-t. Half-base leather of Russia havane, spine with 5 false-nerves decorated with flowers, title gilt. Abridged reprint of the second volume of Le Diable à Paris - Paris et les Parisiens (1845-1846), put back on sale by the publishers in 1850 under this title Le Tiroir du diable - Paris et les Parisiens, less current. 14 engravings h.-t. by Gavarni and 4 engravings h.-t. by Bertall. Texts by Balzac, Karr, Sand, Sue, Musset, Stendhal, Nodier, Feuillet, and others. Vicaire, III, col. 243. Freckles, corners rather rubbed, one headjoint split.
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