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Hercules: six episodes in his life. Wood engraving by Bisson and Cottard after A. Rivaud.

A market in which heavy barrels and sacks are weighed on scales. Chromolithograph by Thurwanger Frères after Ferdinand Séré.

Eight different monsters. Reproduction of a wood cut.

A variety of beggars, members of the organization of the "Argot". Wood engraving by A. Rivaud after a tapestry in Reims.

A man is tortured on an intricate contraption which combines a rack, a pulley and weights and lifted up by it before the inquisitor and his scribe. Wood engraving (?) after H. Soltau.

A market with people buying and selling bread, eggs and chickens. Chromolithograph by H. Moulin after Ferdinand Séré.

Histoire des cordonniers et des artisans dont la profession se rattache à la cordonnerie : comprenant l'histoire des anciennes corporations et confréries de cordonniers, de bottiers, de savetiers, de formiers, de marchands de crépin, de peaussiers, de tanneurs et de corroyeurs de la France, depuis leur fondation jusqu'à leur suppression en 1789; précédée de l'histoire de la shaussure depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours / par MM. Paul Lacroix (bibliophile Jacob), Alphonse Duchesne et Ferdinand Seré.

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A market in which heavy barrels and sacks are weighed on scales. Chromolithograph by Thurwanger Frères after Ferdinand Séré.

A variety of beggars, members of the organization of the "Argot". Wood engraving by A. Rivaud after a tapestry in Reims.

Eight different monsters. Reproduction of a wood cut.

A man is tortured on an intricate contraption which combines a rack, a pulley and weights and lifted up by it before the inquisitor and his scribe. Wood engraving (?) after H. Soltau.