BALZAC (Honoré de). Étude de moeurs au XIXe siècle. Paris, Charles Bréchet et Werdet, 1834-1837. 12 volumes in-8, partly first editions including Scènes de la privée, scènes de la vie de Province and Scènes de la vie parisienne, with volumes 2 and 3 marked troisième édition refondue. These three series include many titles in first or partial first editions, notably the first edition of Eugénie Grandet. Bound in brown half-maroquin with corners, smooth spine decorated with faux-nerfs, top edge gilt, signed Semet Plumelle. Ex-libris L.G.A. Larue and Jean Meyer. (almost free of foxing, tiny tears in the binding of the first volume, angular restoration to the false title of the fifth volume). Expert : M. Nicolas ASVISIO