They look reasonable, but relative late to me, but I am not an expert. I always get confused on this stoneware from the Northern Rhine area:...
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...
As many of these graduals were produced in Spain it is likely this copy is produced there too. I think that preservation or cleaning would be...
I would call it a rough but complete state hahaha. These liturgical books were made to use a lot. That is why they are almost never in a perfect...
Wow that is a fantastic book and very valuable! This book definitely needs a separate topic! What are the dimensions of the book? Do you know...
Do you mean you inherited a similar book with the vellum pages still intact? That could be a very valuable book!
Your photos didn’t show unfortunately. If you need help with books (before 1800) you can pm me. It is probably worth a separate topic .
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