Bindings

  A superb example, handsomely bound in a fine three quarter blue morocco, probably from the library of Napoleon II.

The Pedagogy of Families, or Education and Teaching Made Accessible to all Fathers of Families   Book on pedagogy for fathers with a stunning binding, from a library of the Belgian king Leopold II.   Small 8°, [4 pp.], VIII, 268 pp., contemporary red hard-grained morocco with gilt and blind tooling and lettering, gilt floral turn-ins, gilt edges, white moiré…

  [A Tribute to His Royal Highness the Duke of Braband, Crown Prince of the Belgians, at the Occasion of his Eighteenth Birthday. Apr 9, 1853]   An ode in honour of the Duke of Brabant, the future Leopold II of Belgium, written for his 18th birthday. An example with a stunning watered-silk binding from the king’s personal library.  …

A religious work in a fine binding from the Fürstenberg library at the Castle Donaueschingen.   Small 8°, [2 pp.] blank, XXIV, 246 pp., [4 pp.], blank, full green calf with blind and gold tooling, spine with raised bands and gold lettering and tooling, original dark red endpapers, gilt edges  (old tiny sporadic annotations in text and drawings (map and…

A beautifully executed manuscript diploma for Duke of Brabant, the future Belgian king Leopold II, the honorary president of the Philharmonic Society of Wavre, Belgium.   Small Folio (35,7 x 22,6 cm), [8 pp.] blank, 2 pages with manuscript recto, blank, contemporary red hard-grained morocco with gold and blind tooling and lettering, gilt floral turn-ins, gilt edges, white moiré paper…

  A handsome, early 19th century illustrated manuscript pamphlet in French language explaining various methods of fortunetelling.   Small 8°, [96 pp.] manuscript in French with illustrations and charts in black ink, contemporary wall-paper stenciled wrappers with manuscript label in black ink pasted on the front cover, originally bound with a linen string (minor, sporadic staining to the corners of…

Jasper NANTIAT (d. 1817), Cartographer; William FADEN (1749 – 1836), Publisher. London: William Faden, January 1, 1810. Copper engraving with full original hand colour, dissected and mounted on 4 parts of original linen, all housed in an exquisite custom-made full brown calf box (measuring 23 x 16.5 x 4.5 cm), dating from 1811-5, with elegant gilt tooling and a black…

A unique late 19th century binding, made of Japanese leather wallpapers   Small 4°, XXXVII, [3 pp.], 114 pp. with illustrations in text, [2 pp.], contemporary debossed gold paper boards with hand coloured details, brown calf spine with gold lettering, marbled endpapers, composed of two different patterns (paper inside with foxing, minor rubbing to the edges of the binding).  

An exceedingly handsome large binding, made by a Slovenian artist and professor Davorin Volavšek during the revival of the national style in the time of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, represents lake Bled with its island and castle.   Large 4°, title, 52 unnumbered colour and black and white plates and photographs, recto only brown calf with embossed decoration, corners reinforced…

  An early lithographed book in Persian language with extracts from Rumi’s Masnavi.   8°, 119 pp. lithographed text, contemporary stenciled paper boards, brown linen spine (good used example, binding slightly rubbed and stained, minor staining in white margins).  

  8°, 192 pp. with black and white images, contemporary red cloth binding with gold tooling, original patterned endpapers (Sporadic offset printing, binding little scratched and bumped on the corners, hinges in the front endpapers cracked, a tiny chip in the rear loose endpaper, hardly notice foxing to sporadic pages, but overall in a good condition).  

    2 French articles on famous blind people in arts and literature, bound in a highly decorative contemporary Ottoman binding   2 titles bound in 1 volume, 8°, contemporary Ottoman red card binding with debosses surface and gilt decoration, contemporary debossed orange endpapers (minor foxing, endpapers with light scratches, binding slightly rubbed on the corners and with small worm…