[Caen] 1-Abbé DE LA RUE Nouveaux essais historiques sur la ville de Caen et son arrondissement contenant mémoires d'antiquités locales et annales militaires politiques et religieuses de la ville de Caen et de la Basse-Normandie. Caen, Mancel, 1842, 2 volumes in 2 vols in-8 illustrated with a portrait-frontispiece, a plan and a view of Caen out of the text. Bound in contemporary red half-chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated. Excellent condition. 2-XXX (M. BEZIERS) Chronologie historique des Baillis et des gouverneurs de Caen (...). Caen, G. Le Roy, 1769, 1 vol small in-12 of 166pp. First edition. Copy rebound in full later speckled basane, smooth spine. A modest copy in correct condition.

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