A significant collection of hardback and paperback books, including, in particular, the Encyclopédie Quillet, volumes on the history of France, *Les Merveilles de la science*, *Les Arts du tissu*, *L’Enfant et les sortilèges*, as well as works on literature, science, history and education, with several series in uniform bindings; a mixed collection dating mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries (various sizes – wear, scuffing, tears, foxing, stains, missing pages; the collection has not been collated)