Don't understand which one you're exactly after but the one for "DE PASSEMENTE/ARIUS/COR" looks like Webster.

Engraved letterhead. No matches that I can see.
Letters in DE PASSEMENTE/ARIUS/OR seem to be a bolded version of the letters in VILLEURSANNE.
Note the generally boxy shapes of the letters and the broad serifs at the apex of A and the base of V. This was a design feature in several late 1890s typefaces
I hesitate to recommend any digital substitute. But there is some remote similarity in Cushing Two by David Bergsland http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bergsland/cushing-two/
This is derived from an ATF typeface designed in 1897 by J. Stearns Cushing. The bulging bowl on the P, and the extended drop on the lhs of M in PASSEMENTE, and the extended leg on the R IN VILLEURSANNE and OR do not match the feel of the rest of the letters and seem to be titling flourishes. Note that the leg in the R of ARIUS is ends in a serifed flat terminal. The flourished letters are perhaps in the style of Solo's Webster [as found by Ryuk]. Webster is one of three very similar typefaces, the others are Lafayette and Washington, cut by Gustave F. Schroeder for Central in the 1890s.
Nor did I find an exact match for the initial letters M and C. But you would be part way there with P22 Kilkenny http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ihof/p22-kilkenny/ based on Hermann Ihlenberg's Nymphic, patented May 21, 1889, and sold by MS&J and later by ATF.
Don

Thanks for your reply. Sorry I wasn't clearer... I am looking the the big A font with the thick serif.

Wow! This is great information. Thanks for taking the time to give me in depth descriptions and links. What I am actually looking for seems much simpler... the font of the giant letter A. I have browsed all sorts of serif fonts and I find nothing of the quality that this one has... the thick slabs and the nicely curved edges of the serifs. Any ideas?

How about Clarendon Condensed
http://www.fonts.com/font/bitstream/clarendon/condensed
or
http://www.fonts.com/font/monotype/monotype-clarendon/condensed
Don

The Clarendon Condensed is very close. If I had more typography skills, I might be able to morph it into what I want. You will notice that the curves in the serifs on the letter A are quite graceful... almost swooping... and that the right side gets wider at the top instead of narrower as in Clarendon which makes the triangular cutout smaller. This letter W has similar qualities I mentioned about the A... the gracefulness.

Thak you Jeanne. The A & W still look like some version of Carendon to me. The grace of these versions may be due to the signmanker's adaptation of the design. Or there may be a Clarendon derived font that is a closer fit than the ones I mentioned.
Don