Most of those bookplates are very personal, so often it is difficult to find out the exact meaning. Maybe if you try to find out more about the...
I cannot say much about the paintings or the frames, but I can say something about the pieces of text on the reverse of the frames. The one with...
Mme(madame) de la Boz??
Yes, if there is an error page, there must be an earlier edition. That answers you question I think.
Yes, that is the opening of the book.
It is a bit challenging to read it, but the more I understand the context, the easier it is to read (when you read Dutch of course and a bit of...
I recently came across this fascinating 18th-century document from the year 1725. It's a parish register from the village of Vliermael (in...
Not sure where you purchased the fan, but the crown looks a lot like the Belgian crown. Who knows all crowns look alike… [ATTACH]
I do not recognize this as a specific script. I suspect this to mimic an ancient script and this is quite modern studio pottery (but I am not an...
I do not want to highjack this thread. I have put some photo's on my website.
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]
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