Sure, every restoration or rebinding means someone in the history of the book cared enough for it, instead of throwing it away!
I agree. It seems more a repair of the binding than an official publisher’s binding.
15th Century France seems completely logic to me. The 44-2-100 could be a inventory number for a collector or dealer. Parchment is quite...
A very nice page of a Book of Hours. with here a bit of translation (from the S). [ATTACH] Source: http://medievalist.net/hourstxt/deadmatd.htm
I guess such a book is worth about $20-$30. Not sure if the autograph adds or retracts any value. See here some prices on the market:...
As far as I can judge from a photo it looks legit to me. You clearly cam see the platemark of an etching (the embossed area around the picture)....
I am not an expert about old engravings so I can’t tell if they are from the period or not. One of the engravings is “The Young Mother” made by...
This way of writing was a bit of a head scratcher, when I first saw it (1827). [ATTACH]
I have hundreds of books in my collection I cannot read. You get used to it . [ATTACH]
Thank you, I saw that website as well. A while ago they sold a bunch of books from the Romanov’s. It looks they put more effords in their bindings...
Thank you! :)
I bought a book recently and it is shipping at the moment. In this book (Comedies of Plautus, Plantin - Antwerp, 1566) a Cyrillic bookplate is...
I read Snuyf there (3 times). Fruit was way too healthy for this person .
A new find in a book: some kind of shopping list, written in Dutch. The books belonged to a priest named Petrus Josephus Wappers. He was priest in...
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