The display-cases in this hall hold rare presentation editions of books in expensive bindings. Here one can inspect the first two volumes of a sumptuous edition of Robillard-Peronville's Le Musée Français - a gift from the first French Emperor to the Russian Emperor Alexander I (the bindings bear the state arms of France and Russia skilfully worked in gilded silver); a formal expression of thanks to Nicholas I from the city of Hamburg presented to him in gratitude for the assistance rendered to the city after a devastating fire there in 1842 (the document is kept in an oak case made from the remnants of the altar of one of the city churches that burnt down); and a French translation of The Imitation of Christ by the mediaeval theologian Thomas à Kempis, printed in 1855 at the Imperial Printing-Office in Paris, that was a gift to the Emperor from Napoleon III.