(24 cm), 261 (3) pp., illustrations (some in full-colour, others in 2 colours; all are included in pagination). 249 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes (item 3) an illuminated manuscript of Christine de Pisan, Livre des fais d’armes et de chevallerie, c. 1420 (ex-Firmin Didot, Hoe, Stetson collections).

(24 cm), 116 (4) pp., 5 plates (frontispiece, and after pp.48, 64, 80, 96; each printed in 2 colours), illustrations. 217 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 123 (5) pp., 10 plates (frontispiece, and after pp.16, 32, 40, 48, 64, 72, 80, 96, 112; each printed in 2 colours), illustrations. 208 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 112 (8) pp., 6 plates (frontispiece, and after pp. 16, 32, 40, 48, 72; each printed in 2 colours), illustrations. 266 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes a binding (item 78) ornamented on both covers with a plaquette of Henri II (on Josephus, Les sept livres de la guerre et captivité des Juifz, Paris 1553), a binding (item 177) ornamented with the name “F AA POLO” (on two volumes of the 1542-1544 Gryphius Bible; the full set had been offered by J. Pearson, One hundred and sixty-two extraordinarily important French books, London, c. 1922, item 17).

(24 cm), 106 (14) pp., 2 plates (after pp.8, 40; both printed in 2 colours), illustrations. 285 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes (item 31) a binding with its covers ornamented by medallions lettered “F. Rex” (François I) and “Dido” (on Erasmus, Ecclesiastæ siue de ratione concionandi libri quatuor, Antwerp 1535); and (item 14) a binding ornamented with the cipher of Charles IX, king of France (on Statius, Sylvarum libri V, Lyon 1559).