Literary Texts in French -- [Pascal (Blaise)]: Les Provinciales ou Les Lettres Ecrites a Un Provincial de Ses Amis par Louis de Montalte, Cologne, Pierre de la Vallée [i.e. Amsterdam, Elzevir], 1657, 12mo, contemporary vellum (lightly soiled). [Willems 1218; Tchemerzine IX, 71; Brunet IV, 395] -- Nostradamus (Michael): Les Vrayes Centuries et Propheties ... avec la Vie de l'Autheur, Rouen, chez Jean-B. Besogne, 1691, sm. 8vo, woodcut additional title and four illustrations, including a full-page portrait of Nostradamus, contemporary calf, spine gilt (but a little rubbed) -- Edict du Roy, portant nouvelle fabrication d'especes d'argent, Paris, chez Sebastien Cramoisy, 1648, 12mo, woodcut illustrations of coins (title slightly soiled), contemporary calf, covers stamped in gilt with the Carteret arms (joints weak) [Not in the Kress Collection or the British Library]; and 5 others in French, 17th century and earlier. (7)