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New York, Burt Franklin, [ca. 1970]. 5 Vols. With frontisp.-portrait (of James de Rothschild), 6 col. plates (dep. book-bindings), 47 plates (dep. i.a. medieval manuscripts) & num. (full-p.) text-ills. (incl. printer’s marks). Large 8vo (ca. 25,5 x 17 cm.), orig. unif. gilt-lettered cloth. – Added: 30 late 20th-cent. American antiquarian bookseller’s catalogues published by H.P. Kraus (New York, ca. 1951-1981), i.a. “The Eightieth Catalogue. Remarkable Manuscripts, Books and Maps from the IXth to the XVIIIth Century [..]” (1956), “Catalogue 85. Distinguished Books and Manuscripts” (1957), “Catalogue 150. Sir Edmund Andros, 1637-1714. Governor of New York [..]” (1978), “Catalogue 152. The Reverend Thomas Bray D.D., 1656-1730. Founder of the American Public Library System [..]” (1978) & “Catalogue 160. Manuscript and Printed Americana [..]” (1981). (35x) ¶ Ad 1: Cf. Vicaire VI, 657-658 (listing the orig. edition publ. in Paris by Damascène Morgand between 1884-1920). Complete set of a facs. reprint of the famous catalogue (with detailed descriptions comprising ca. 3.100 text-pp.) of the magnificent book-collection of the French lawyer Nathan James Édouard de Rothschild (1844-1881) edited by the French philologist Auguste Émile Picot (1844-1918) listing 3.382 items with emphasis on 15th- & 16th-cent. French literature. – Upper inner hinge of vol. I sl. weakening, but else a good set.