11. Bruxelles, Charles Hen, 1840 and Bruxelles, Meline, Cans et Cie, 1848, 2 vols large in-8°, iv+487 and 648 p, half leather,gilt decorated raised back, marbled endpages and edges, more than 100 fine lithograph portraits h/t by Baugniet. Biographies of 19th-century politicians and generals with some scientists and authors, the majority French. Fine stainless copies notwithstanding some wear at the binding joints. (Romantic book illustration in Belgium).