Actually it can be both a “s” or an “f” according to this list: A.P.: Artist's proof B.A.T.:, Bon á tirer: Proof print approved by artist and...
You are 100% right, thanks!
This is the print with backlight, no watermarks. [ATTACH]
I think my iPhone makes the colors a bit better than the actual ones. The paper is 100% from the 17th century. I think it is real.
Recently I bought a framed copper engraving, that was advertised as a 19th century print. I immediately saw this was probably quite bit older...
I hope somehow they can recover the recycled parchment in the binding. All info about this book is welcome. maybe it is possible what kind of text...
Tomorrow I am going to take the book to a restoration company. Hopefully it will not be too expensive :eek:.
Yes, I know there were people that destroyed books to collect pages or pictures (Otto Ege was a bookdealer that cut up many manuscripts for...
There are several procedures to print photo's in books in the second half of the 19th century. - Collotype - Photolithography - Rotogravure I do...
I agree, I think it is a flour sifter.
I think it is the coat of arms of the Swiss city of Bern. [ATTACH]
The leather as you mention it, looks like parchment or vellum. It is mostly sheep-or calf skin and it untanned (unlike normal leather).
Yes, this book has to lie flat.
My booknerd self is completely happy this evening :). As I showed before, part of the paper was made by a French papermaker called Nicolas le Bé....
This is how the binding looks [ATTACH]
Sorry to use this beautiful forum as some kind of personal blog, but here at last I got some feedback (that sounds pitiful :hilarious:). I've got...
A great way to collect books! For every year a book. 1455 will be a tough year though, even if you have the money. The last book from that year...
73 incunabulae…(books before 1501) :dead:
And the videos do not work for me .
I am just a simple collector. This looks for the really fancy ones. If they are interested in my collection, it is also possible to post them...
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