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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ex Libris, post: 11974880, member: 14916&quot;]Great to see here a fellow book collector! I am a collector of early modern books. It was not a common practice to sign books as an author, so I have no books in my collection that were signed by the author. Many books in my collection are signed a former owner though (ex libris = from the library of...).&nbsp; That can be a person or an organization.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some owners go too far:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]550757[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes books were once part of a famous library:</p><p><br /></p><p>Bookplate from the famous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Arenberg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Arenberg" rel="nofollow">house Arenberg</a> in Belgium.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]550758[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Bookplate of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Vladimir_Alexandrovich_of_Russia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Vladimir_Alexandrovich_of_Russia" rel="nofollow">Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia</a> from the house Romanov.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]550759[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Owner mark of a library of a hidden Roman Catholic Church and library in Amsterdam, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozes_en_A%C3%A4ronkerk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozes_en_A%C3%A4ronkerk" rel="nofollow">Moses and Aaron-church</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]550761[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Owner mark of a guy named Rudolph von Kamphausen, (Roermond, 1599)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]550760[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes names were even stamped on the binding.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]550762[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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