FRENCH AUCTIONS – [CHARDIN, Charles.]. Catalogue des livres rares et précieux. Paris: G. de Bure, 1806. 8° (207 x 130mm). (Occasional faint spotting.) Slightly later half calf (extremities lightly rubbed). Second sale of the stock of the important Parisian bookseller; the first happened in 1779, and there were further dispersals in London in 1819 and once more in Paris in 1824 – BIGNON, Jérôme. Catalogue des livres précieux, rares et singuliers, manuscrits et imprimés. Paris: Leblanc, 1837. 8° (211 x 131mm). (Tiny marginal hole and light soiling to title.) Library cloth, original yellow printed wrappers bound in – DE BERRY, Duchesse. Catalogue de la riche bibliothèque de Rosny. Paris: Bossange, Techener and Bataillard, [1837]. 8° (230 x 145mm). 2 lithographic plates, of which one folding. (Occasional light spotting, heavier to title.) Contemporary half calf (extremities faintly rubbed). The sale catalogue of the Duchesse de Berry, including 170 original drawings on vellum of Redouté's Roses – SOLAR, Félix. Catalogue de la bibliothèque de M. Félix Solar. Paris: J. Techener, 19 November 1860. 8° (232 x 149mm). Half-title. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary purple quarter sheep (spine faded, extremities rubbed). 'The celebrated financier Solar, within ten years, had brought together a library that had no equal since that of Count MacCarthy-Reagh [d. 1811], but suffering from ill-health, in a quarter-hour of disillusionment, vexation, and perhaps weariness, decided to separate himself from his beloved books, a decision which he already regrets, and will always do so' (Paul Lacroix, preface p.viii). Only a few months before, Solar had made what was probably his most important single acquisition, that of the library of Marquis de Clinchamps. The sale realized the vast sum of 600,000 frs. This copy is on ordinary paper. Blogie II, col.93; Brunet VI; 1821; Vicaire, III, 205.