Chateauroux: Imprimerie A. Majeste et L. Bouchardeau, 1899. small 4to. later quarter cloth with marbled paper-covered boards, leather spine label, all edges cut. (viii), 553 pages. First edition. This catalogue includes subdivisions on Theology, Jurisprudence, Arts & Science, Belles-Lettres and History. Contains a separate section for dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, year-books, reviews and journals, as well as a section for miscellaneous items. With an extensive author index. Corners slightly bumped.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1841. thick 8vo. 20th century cloth. Frontispiece portrait of shop; engraved title page, iv, 1948, 148, (4) pages. H.G. Bohn (1796-1884) is the best known of the London booksellers and is significant in the history of 19th-century publishing for his success in bringing out classics, standard, or useful works in inexpensive series: the "European Library," the "Standard Library," the "Scientific Library" and so on. (A few of the volumes in his.....
