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P. Vergilij Maronis poemata quae extant omnia […]
EnglishVery similar in style to the neighbouring 1544 Virgil, this binding is also of pigskin seating for metal clasps, these now lost, visible. The covers have been over wooden boards, with hardware blind-tooled with various botanical borders, with…
Sauuage de Fontenailles en Brie, o additionnées, selon les modernes historiens, iusques à cest an mil cinq cens cinquante & sept.
EnglishWe see here not one but two ex-libris on the front endpaper. The second owner (or another person entirely) has scraped out the name of his predecessor, which was located below a coat of arms surrounded by the following motto: “Mallem Mori Quam…
Mémoires historiques, politiques, critiques et littéraires / ouvrage imprimé sur le propre manuscrit de l'auteur
English This work by Amelot de la Hussaie was part of the personal library of marquis Jean-Jacques Costard de Brussard, who hailed from Normandy and was a musketeer. This ex-libris from the end of the 18th Century reminds us that collecting ex-libris…
Histoire de Vauban
EnglishThis image offers an illustration of the “ex-dono” inscription. In this case, author Georges Michel, in an inscription dated December 31, 1878, has dedicated this item “A monsieur le Général Marquis d’Alezac, Premier aide-de-camp de M. le…