ANCIEN RÉGIME. 63 printed documents, 16th-18th centuries; most in-4 (some defects). Letters from Pope Julius II (Rouen 1510); Discours veritable de la reduction de la ville de Marseille, en l'obeyssance du Roy (1596); Nouvelles ordinaires (August 30, 1681); Police generale de la ville, fauxbourgs, banlieue et comté de Nantes (1721, torn); letter from Necker (1780); Petit tableau des beautés du parquet (London 1785). Decrees of the Conseil d'Etat or parliaments, edicts and declarations of the King, letters patent, ordinances, memoranda, regulations, etc., concerning ports d'armes, barrage duties, annoblis sizes, gabelle and faux-saunage, roadways, grazing, goats, livestock diseases, the destruction of cockchafer and grasshopper eggs, the creation of the Royal-Poland regiment, cures and benefices, non-Catholics, privateers, the privileges of the "Monnoyeurs de la Rochelle", the islands and islets of Brittany, the attachment of Strasbourg to France, Languedoc, the cloth, wine and brandy trade, the manufacture and sale of lead, booksellers, etc. Reports of thefts (lace) and thieves; judgments (including death sentences)... Etc.