XVIIème siècle. Institutions, usages et costumes. France, 1590 - 1700.

Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1880; 4to, VIII, 580 pp. Publisher's binding signed by Engel, red half-morocco, spine and boards decorated, the boards by Souze, gilt edges. Scattered foxing. Study of French society in the 17th century, abundantly illustrated with woodcuts in the text and as plates, and with 16 chromolithographs. Copy enriched with a letter from the author concerning his sister-in-law, Countess Karolina Kzewska (1795 - 1885), wife of his brother Jules Lacroix.