A: Paris, Île-de-France, France
In 1845 Parisian bookseller and supplier of equipment and services to the publishing industry, Hector Bossange issued a spectacular Catalogue de livres ... suivi de prix courants. The catalogue, which offered books in most European languages as well as English, contained around 30,000 items, and was probably more extensively illustrated than any other bookseller's catalogue of the time.
Bossange's catalogue was also distinctive for containing French, English and Spanish versions of his introduction. It is also the only bookseller's catalogue to offer printing machines and other printing and binding equipment for sale. The price information for presses and printing equipment offered in this catalogue is the first that I have seen for France at this time.