ANCIEN RÉGIME. 26 posters, XVIIth-XVIIIth centuries; most large folio (some defects). Royal letters, rulings by parliaments or the Conseil d'Etat, intendant's orders, regulations, etc.., concerning the redemption of slaves, new converts, vessels chartered by merchants, manufactures, health surveillance against epidemics, life annuities, vineyards, ostrich feathers, bladed weapons, hunting, the trade and branding of cloths and fabrics, the circulation of grain, the reduction of the town of Réalmont by the Prince of Condé (1628), the Te Deum for the birth of the Duc d'Anjou (1710), the privilege of S. Lecolant's privilege to wash feathers (1772), etc.