[DEPARTMENT STORE]. Belle Jardinière advertising catalogs. Paris, 1877-1957. - 115 catalogs, stapled, various sizes. Important set of advertising catalogs presenting fashion collections for the different seasons, as well as a few thematic catalogs (hunting, glove and leather goods, whites, furs, children and young people, made-to-measure, travel and sea bathing, military uniforms and equipment, riding, shirts, luxury, sports, first communion, etc.). The first catalog in this important collection is for the Summer 1877 season, and the most recent is for Spring-Summer 1957 (all years are represented, from 1902 to 1939). Enclosed are five different advertising blotters, a small catalog from a Bordeaux branch and five letters addressed to a watchmaker in Creuse (Bourcy), including one with fabric samples, preserved with 4 stamped envelopes.