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One volume, bound in two, in uniform dark olive-green goatskin with red goatskin onlays, all extensively gilded. A citron goatskin onlay on the large red onlay on the front cover of the first volume contains the name Marianne Callander. This would…

Green-stained vellum over boards, gilt cockleshells on the covers, and gilt crossed maces in the spine compartments. The cockleshell is the armorial device of the Aguesseau family of Limoges, and the maces denote the power of a chancellor of France.…

This contemporary Spanish binding in light-brown goatskin is noteworthy for its creation for a woman bibliophile. Her name is recorded across the front and rear covers: SOY DE DOÑA MARIA AGUSTINA LOPEZ DE CASTRO, with her Caritas (charity or love)…

This binding, executed in a dramatic rococo and chinoiserie style, is the work of the Edinburgh binder James Scott, ca. 1775. It features Corinthian columns, elaborate floral swags, and fountains, and it is noteworthy for the Masonic emblem of a…

This dedication copy for King Charles IV of Spain records the funeral obsequies held in the papal chapel for his father, Charles III. It is bound in black velvet, dramatically embroidered with the son’s armorials and decorated with silver coins in…

Muted green velvet over boards, embroidered with the arms of an unidentified cardinal in slightly oxidized silver stumpwork. The few details in this empty binding suggest that it was created in 1758, that it once contained a small work, and that it…

Silver openwork in silver-gilt, in a highly detailed pattern of flora, with two silver clasps on the fore-edge, from the 18th century and possibly South German in origin. An annotation records the 1883 death of a woman in her 83rd year. It is worth…

This binding of pierced vellum, the cutouts backed with red and black foil, is Parisian, probably created, like the book itself, late in the year 1756. It features armorials of three green shamrocks beneath a coronet, previously anonymous, now…

This Roman binding of glazed reddish-brown calf, created for Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni and with his armorials, is the work of a successor to the Andreoli brothers. It is possible that the Andreoli tools remained in the Vatican bindery, where they…

Midnight-blue goatskin, gilt with a design incorporating the ciphers of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, thus seeming to date from their reign in the first half of the 17th century. Au contraire, this is one of 33 small volumes created by Luc-Antoine…