French royal armorial bindings.

Müntz, Eugène. La Renaissance en Italie et en France. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1885, 8vo, plates and illustrations, red morocco gilt by Emile Rousselle, royal arms of France gilt, gilt edges, red silk endpapers stamped in gilt "Offert par Madame la Duchesse de Chevreuse"
Delaborde, H.-François. L'expédition de Charles VIII en Italie. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1888, plates and illustrations, red morocco gilt by Emile Rousselle, royal arms of France gilt, gilt edges, red silk endpapers stamped in gilt "Offert par Madame la Duchesse de Chevreuse"
Havard, Henry. Dictionnaire de l'ameublement et de la décoration. Paris: Maison Quantin, [1887-1890], 4 volumes, large 8vo, illustrations and plates (some coloured), red morocco gilt by Emile Rousselle, royal arms of France gilt, gilt edges, slight foxing to bindings
Nolhac, Pierre de. La reine Marie-Antoinette. Paris: Boussod, Valadon & Cie., 1890, 4to, coloured frontispiece, plain plates, red morocco gilt with arms of Marie Antoinette, gilt edges, lower cover slightly foxed
Nolhac, Pierre de. Louis XV et Madame de Pompadour. Paris: Goupil & Cie, 1903, 4to, copy number 349 of a limited edition of 800, coloured and plain plates, blue morocco gilt, royal arms of France gilt, gilt edges, original wrappers bound in, armorial bookplate, extremities slightly rubbed



with 9 others, together 17 volumes

Robert I, duke of Parma, armorial bookplates

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The additional volumes are:

Arcadius, F. Atlas de géométrie (Exercices de dessin linéaire). Paris: Carles, 1855, 4to, lithographed throughout (32+50 plates), red morocco-backed boards, royal arms of France gilt, extremities rubbed
Saint-Amand, Imbert de. Les femmes de Versailles; Les femmes des Tuileries. Paris: E. Dentu, 1886-1889, 3 volumes, large 8vo, plates, purple morocco, royal arms of France gilt, gilt edges
Saint-Amand, Imbert de. La cour de l'Impératrice Joséphine. Paris: E. Dentu, 1889, large 8vo, plates, purple morocco, royal arms of France gilt, gilt edges, slight foxing on covers
Saint-Amand, Imbert de. La cour de Louis XVIII. Paris: E. Dentu, 1891, large 8vo, plates, purple morocco, royal arms of France gilt, gilt edges, slight foxing on covers
Saint-Amand, Imbert de. La cour de Charles X. Paris: E. Dentu, 1892, large 8vo, plates, purple morocco, royal arms of France gilt, gilt edges, with an autograph letter signed from the author to "Mon cher Comte" inserted at front, slight foxing on covers
Bordier, Henri and Édouard Charton. Histoire de France... nouvelle édition. Paris: Bureaux du Magasin Pittoresque, 1862, 2 volumes, 8vo, illustrations, navy morocco gilt, royal arms of France gilt, gilt edges, slightly foxed internally, small scrape on cover of vol.2