Exceptional set of 18 boxes containing 537 items, including - Lot 462

Dispersal of Mr. Hervé Yon's important Balzacian collection, comprising autographs, first and pre-original editions, Balzacian prints and an extensive documentary collection on and around Balzac:

Sale at 10 a.m:

- Lots 1 to 15: pre-original editions

- Lots 16 to 42: original editions

- Lots 43 to 59: posthumous first editions

- Lots 60 to 82: contemporary editions

- Lots 83 to 90: Belgian forgeries

- Lots 91 to 154: Illustrated Editions

- Lots 155 to 177: non-illustrated editions

Sale resumes at 2pm:

- Lots 177.2 to 189: stepladders and autographs

- Lots 190 to 207: Balzacian editions and prints

- Lots 208 to 215: Correspondence

- Lots 216 to 295: biographical works

- Lots 296 to 401: studies on the work

- Lots 402 to 462: iconography, bibliography

- Lots 463 to 470: Balzacian journals

- Lots 471 to end : Balzac and his time