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From the library of Irene Roosevelt Aitken, a group of finely-bound 16th- to 19th-century French and Continental works, comprising:

FALETUS, Hieronymus. De bello sic ambrico libri IIII. Et eiusdem alia poemata, libri VIII. Venice: [?Paolo Manutius], 1557.
Traité de la priere. Paris: Louise Josse & Charles Robustel, 1730. Vol. 2 only.
ROLLIN, Charles. De la maniere d'enseigner et d'etudier les belles-lettres. Amsterdam: Aux depens de la compagnie, 1732. Vol. 2 only.
MONTERUEL, Bernardin de. La vie de Jesus-Christ. Paris: Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1741. Vol. 1 only.
Observazioni fisico-mediche. Milan: Francesco Agnelli, 25 May 1745.
AUTREAU, Jacques. Oeuvres de Monsieur Autreau. Paris: Briasson, 1749. Vols. 2, 3 and 4 only.
Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon. Lettres de Madame de Maintenon. Glascow, s.n.,1756.
TORNÉ, Pierre Anastase. Sermons prêchés devant le roi. Paris: Saillant, 1765. Vols. 2 and 3 only.
GIRARD, N. Les petits prones, ou instructions familieres. Brussels, s.n., 1769.
PAUW, Cornelius. Recherches philosophiques sur les egyptiens et les chinois. Berlin: G.J. Decker, 1773. Vol. 1 only.
Instructions sur les fonctions de ministere pastoral. Rouen: P. Machuel & J. Racine, 1783. Vols. 1 and 4 of 4.
BARDUS, Joseph Bendictus. Amplissimi theologorum collegi candidati theses. Taurini: Honorati Derossi, 1794.
Gleichen, Karl Heinrich von. Metaphysische Kezereien oder Versuche über die verborgensten Gegenstände der Weltweisheit und ihre Grundursachen. s.l., s.n., 1796. 2 vols.
Musée de peintre et sculpture. Paris: Audot, 1831. Vol. 11 only.
Almanac militaire dell'esercito di S.M. il re del Regno delle Due Sicile ec. Per l'Anno 1834. Napoli: Reale Officio Typografico, 1834.
VIDOCQ, Eugène-François. Memoirs of Vidocq. London: Whittaker and Co., s.d. 4 vols.

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