13-BALABINE (Victor de). Secretary to the Russian Embassy. Paris from 1842 to 1852. The court. Society. Lifestyle. Diary. Volume 1: 1842-1847. Published by E. Daudet. Paris, E.-Paul, 1914, in-8, XII-319 pp, midnight blue half-maroquin, ribbed spine, gilt head, cover and spine preserved (period binding). The only published volume of this excellent chronicle of Parisian life. A good copy bearing the arms of the Marquis Des Roys, with his bookplate.