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booksnbuildings:

A French royal bookbinding (for queen Maria de’ Medici), embroidered silk, 1629

Currently at the Chateau de Chantilly

Palm Leaf Book

Antique Victorian Photo Album

Ethiopian Magic Scroll (from the late 19th century)

This is an attractive scroll in excellent condition with four talismanic paintings coloured in blue, red and yellow. The first shows the figure of a guardian angel with drawn sword. Above the figure is an exceptionally fine series of bands of decoration in the form of laticework and crosses, some incorpating protective eyes. The second shows a grid of nine squares filled with alternating face and cruciform motifs. The third shows a cruciform laticework design. And the fourth shows a schematic eight-pointed star with a central face motif. The original owner’s name (a woman) remains throughout as Wälättä Maryam, accompanied once with her given name Mässäläch.

likeapigonheat:

An Important George I Gilt & Black-Japanned Bureau Bookcase

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cardboardantlers:

Textile bookbinding
The Netherlands, 1615-1620. Contents: Biblia. Leyden, Udrich Cornelijs, voor Jan Everss Cloppenburch en Isack Ianss Canin, 1615; Arthurus Dentus. Voet-pat der eenvoudigher menschen. Utrecht, Abraham van Herwijck, voor Hendrick Laurensz tot Amsterdam, 1614.

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suicideblonde:

Cover of Henry H. Smith’s Anatomical Atlas of the Human Body, 1859

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William Morris (1834–1896) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and utopian socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris wrote and published poetry, fiction, and translations of ancient and medieval texts throughout his career. He devoted much of the latter half of his life to the Kelmscott Press, which he founded in 1891. Kelmscott was devoted to the publishing of limited-edition, illuminated-style print books. The 1896 Kelmscott edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is considered a masterpiece of book design.

(Source: nordolan)

aleyma:

Ring with hidden love messages, made in France 1830-60 (source).

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Esther scroll, folded and bound in a silver book binding, Italy, 18th century.

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