Category: Bindings -- Fine and Curios

"Littera Scripta Manet" Folio

Price: $250.00

Seller ID: 002040

Binding: Wood

Condition: Fine

N.d., circa 1900. A woodcarved oak folio, or letter or writing portfolio. The woodcarving work and floral motives are folk art-ish. The relief work has a depth to it, and the front panel has a solidity to it, as befits an oak piece. The interior has a brownish-orange felt pad. Two ribbon ties on the side seal the folio shut. The folio measures 11.75 by 8.5 inches, or 30 by 22 cm.
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"Presentation Notebook" or "Folio" Bearing the Coat-of-Arms of the United Kingdom

Price: $3,000.00

Publisher: Paris, : 1855

Seller ID: 001356

Binding: Vellum

Condition: Fine

This "Presentation Notebook" or "Folio", for want of a more specific name for it, is an exquisite example of French decorative binding, bearing on the front board the coat-of-arms of the United Kingdom, with its two mottos, "Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense" (or "Shame to whoever thinks ill" or "Evil to he who thinks evil", etc.) and "Dieu et Mon Droit" (or "God and my right", and more loosely, "God is behind me"). The emblem is blindstamped and richly hand-colored, and further spectacular ornamental work frames it as well as the golden...
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??????? ??? ???????????? ???????? [Prayers in the Divine Liturgy]

Price: $475.00

Publisher: St. Petersburg, ??????????? ?????????? (Supodnoy Printing) : 1844

Seller ID: 004408

Binding: Full Velvet

Condition: Fine

A gorgeous deep blue velvet binding with blindstamped ornamentation and gilt border ruling, and all edges gilt. Near miniature, 9 by 5.5 cm. 58 pp. Other than a tiny piece of gilt border missing on rear board, pristine. Silk moire endpapers. Stamped on blank "Printed in Soviet Union", which would have been done to evade export restrictions or to avert confiscation given that this was a traditional religious book that would have been disapproved by the atheistic Soviet rulers.
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Album of Original Watercolors of Butterflies, Moths, a Cricket and a Lizard "Lenton New Year 1763"

Price: $12,500.00

Publisher: England,

Seller ID: 007335

Binding: Full Decorated Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

Twenty highly detailed, exquisite watercolors, 18 of which are butterflies and/or moths. sometimes with lawn and floral details and Rococo touches. The lizard, while seemingly an outlier of sorts, is especially wonderful, in our view. The album is a glorious manifestation of the eighteenth century new-found fascination with science and the natural world, very much a part of the Englightenment. Setting the album apart from later accurate renderings of insects is the finishing off with the Rococo decoration, the Rococo itself being an homage to the natural environment, with its sinuous swirl-...
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Austrian Secession Leather Desk Binder or Folder and Notebooks

Price: $400.00

Seller ID: 002652

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Near Fine

A beautiful leather tooled desk folio folder featuring Classical Greek and Egyptian ornaments embraced in the Austrian Secessionist movement. at the turn of the last century. N.d., circa 1900. 31 by 22 cm. The color palette is gilt on black and somber green/gray. The binding is flawlessly preserved. Within is a separate notebook with textured wraps that resemble the sea floor perhaps. The pages within have never been used. The folder also includes a second notebook featuring a bird pattern on its wraps. This may or may not have been a part of the original package. This notebook is in a ...
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Date Book 1932

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Germany, : 1931

Seller ID: 004405

Condition: Near Fine

Wonderful sharp and colorful Art Deco design on thin leatherette cover! 64mo. 6 by 4 cm. Unpaginated, 22 leaves (44 pp). Unused, for blank lines for each day of the year, along with info on birthstones and flowers, wedding anniversaries (what each is symbolized by), and on phases of the moon and holidays. But obviously, this is very much about the loveliness of the binding. This particular copy is stamped with the business name, "Perin Drug Store, Monument Square, Dover-Foxcroft, ME", but this was surely sold to businesses to be distributed as a freebie or favor.
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Die miniaturen-Sammlung Seiner Koniglichenhoheit Des Grossherzogs Ernst Ludwig Von Hessen Und Bei Rhein

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Kurt Wolff Verlag : 1917

Seller ID: 000970

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

Folio - over 12. No 315 of limited edition of 350. viii, 148 plates, 38 pp. Plates are 15 by 11 inches, or 39 by 28 cm. Plates can have one to half a dozen miniature images, some of which are in color. Each plate protected by tissue guard (more like wax paper) which also has caption. Plates and tissue guards are pristine. Binding is tight. Magnificent full orange morocco binding, with bright gilt symbol for Ernst Ludwig in center of front board. Spine has four thick raised bands. Slight fading to color of spine. A few minor scuffs elsewhere. Rear board, lower edge has dampstain, bu...
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English Scenery. One Hundred and Twenty Chromo Views

Price: $500.00

Publisher: London, Edinburgh and New York, T. Nelson and Sons : 1891

Seller ID: 001457

Condition: Near Fine

8vo, 8 by 6 inches, 20 by 15 cm. Two chromolithographic postcard-sized images per plate, with fine views of the most memorable buildings, landmarks, natural wonders and views of England. Moderate foxing of preliminaries, otherwise generally clean, with all tissue guards intact. Re-cased with very attractive archtypal Victorian styled decorated morocco spine. Marbled boards.
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Full Morocco Late 18th Century Daily Notebook and Slipcase

Price: $225.00

Publisher: England,

Seller ID: 006080

Binding: Full Morocco. Full morocco slipcase.

Condition: Good

Oblong, 8.5 by 15 cm. Eight stiff pages, with the day of the week stamp printed on top of seven of these pages, and one without such a stamp. The book was intended for erasable notes, and thus constant re-use, as a daily planner or the like. There are penciled notes within dated 1796, and thus our dating. The staples used to bind have a twist in the center -- we have never seen such staples before. With gilt turn-in decoration around the edge, and also a slipcase with gilt decoration more or less the same. The booklet itself has moderate wear, rubbing and staining on its red morocco. The...
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Guest Book of the Princess Kotzebue for the Château de Suisnes

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: : 1932-1973

Seller ID: 005090

A guest book with entries by the cream of High Society, including Doris Duke, Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII, Perle Mesta (the "Hostess with the Mostess"; the entry was made while she was the Ambassador to Luxembourg), Millicent Hearst, Hohenlohes, Armours, and on and on. 4to. 32 by 26.5 cm. Over 230 pages chock-a-block with the inscriptions, followed by about 50 blank leaves. The chateau was a setting where super-rich Americans hobnobbed with European aristocrats, not a few of whom were originally American. Some other names we recognize: Marjorie Oelrichs, who married bandleade...
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Les Quatre Elémens (Four volumes, housed in a box)

Price: $2,500.00

Publisher: Paris, Imprimerie de Maulde et Renou

Seller ID: 005711

Binding: Cartonnage, Reliure Romantique, Glazed, Gilt Embo

Condition: Near Fine

Beautiful Restoration France (Biedermeier era) suite of children's books on the four elements of nature: water, fire, air and earth. N.d., circa 1830. 32mo. 83 by 54 mm each. Each volume is 24 pages and includes two wood engraved hand-colored plates, including one showing a large balloon, another of a volcanic eruption, yet another of fireworks. The white bindings are superb examples of glazed cartonnage Romantique gift book bindings, with their ornate gilt ornamentation. The outer box complements the bindings perfectly, with its gilt sides, with embossed or relief decoration, the raise...
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Memorial Book of the First New York Benevolent Association Organized 1898

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Printer: Mirsky Art Engraving Co., N.Y.C.

Seller ID: 007386

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

Intended as a remembrance document for members of what was created almost surely as a Jewish mutual burial society -- these associations were created to assist the indigent and less fortunate pay for a proper funeral. These associations were popular among Jewish greenhorns, or recent immigrants, in particular. As succeeding generations became more prosperous and also lost their intimate connection with the "old neighborhood", such organizations fell out of favor, although we believe there are survivors among them. Notwithstanding the name "First New York Benevolent Association" being sugges...
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Photo Album with Sunken Inset Silk Panels with Chromolithographic Images of a Bluebird and Wild Roses (on front), and Just Roses on Back

Price: $1,750.00

Seller ID: 004640

Binding: Full Morocco (excepting silk panel)

Condition: Near Fine

A gorgeous brown morocco binding with on both the front and back, large silk panel centerpieces, blindstamped gilt ruling surrounding the panels, gilt border detailing inside and raised bands. N.d., circa 1890. (There is an inscription dated 1890, Belfast, written in German, on the FEP.) Folio, 37 by 31 cm, and 8.5 cm thick. With 30 thick card leaves with photo or carte de visite slots, one to four, on the rectos and versos. Most of the slots are filled with photos from the 1870s to 1890s, some from Switzerland, others, from Ireland, and all are portraits. While we might assume all the ...
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Small Baroque-style Mahogany Book Case Cabinet with a framed glass door and a collection of eight volumes of ornamental French cartonnage bindings from the 1840s

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: Paris, Lehuby

Seller ID: 005162

Binding: Cartonnage

Condition: Near Fine

The bookcase cabinet is elegant and striking, with its ornate carved wood floral ornamented pediment and floral and foliate border framing the glass door. This small piece of furniture stands 33 cm to the top of the pediment, and if we measure to the top of the "box" or case itself, 26.5 cm, and the case is 11 cm deep. The glass door can be secured with the original metal key. The legs holding up the case about 4 cm from the ground are black metal and have typical Baroque detailing. The titles are almost beside the point, but they are all titles intended for a young adult readership...
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Souvenir. Semainier.

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Paris, : 1835

Seller ID: 006882

Binding: Mother-of-pearl. Silk spine.

Condition: Very Good

A beautiful, highly decorative, diminutive early nineteenth century day planner notebook. 84 by 52 mm. 12 leaves, four of which are stiff card, pages of which, following the title, are devoted to a day of the week. Appended in the back is a fold-out calendar, with saints days, four small copper engraved images lining the top showing gentile men and women promenading, and copper engraved border decoration. This calendar is dated 1836, and thus our dating of 1835. It is possible, albeit unlikely, that this calendar was a later addition. The ambiguity derives from a penciled note giving a ...
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Studenten-Ball. 4. Februar 1896

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Wien, : 1896

Seller ID: 006204

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

A relief impression of the main building of the University of Vienna serves as the centerpiece on the front cover of this dance card. Oblong, 7.5 by 11.5 cm. Unpaginated, 46 leaves, with print only on rectos other than first leaf, when also on verso. Following the obligatory listing of dances, the pages have short poems, apercus and/or maxims possibly suggested by the faculty member whose name is given on the top of these pages. This student ball appears to have included students from different schools within the university. With the original thin pencil which serves to seal the booklet ...
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Velvet French Blotter with Baroque Metalwork

Price: $575.00

Seller ID: 007308

Binding: Velvet, metal

Condition: Very Good

Very impressive blotter with a rich scarlet velvet fabric on the boards and decorated with brass mounts, both as a centerpiece and a border. Border mounts have three separate bands, the inner and outer bands are of a chain, and the center, more elaborate, band features interconnected urns -- on the vertical, interspersed with grotesque masks and pediments, on the horizontal, linked by swags of ribbon and fruits. All these devices are employed, in the centerpiece, with is topped by two flames. The actual center is a agglomeration of swirls and tassels. A small plaque near the base of this c...
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[Album] Gibraltar Souvenir

Price: $250.00

Publisher: : 1900

Seller ID: 002604

A true curiosity! A mother-of-pearl onlay photo or postcard album made in Japan as a souvenir for Gibraltar. The exterior depicts the Rock of Gibraltar and two ships off its coast in a naive onlay rendering while the interior features typical pretty Japanese color woodblock illustrations on fabric. The interior holds seven boards and has space for fourteen cards or photos, one on each recto and verso of the thick leaves. N.d, circa 1900.
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[Dance Card or Carnet du Bal] 1 Februar 1879 Touristen Kranzchen Blumensale. Oesterreicher Touristen-Club. Mit Herz und Hand fur's Alpenland "Post Kar'ln" von der Alm.

Price: $1,200.00

Publisher: Vienna, : 1879

Seller ID: 003276

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

Extraordinary dance card for a Belle Epoque ball and possibly benefit. The card proper is held atop a staff, like a placard that might be held high in a parade. The tin and brass object is 19 cm high, and the backing at the top to which is attached the booklet proper is 6.5 by 6 cm, not counting the ornamental pediment. The booklet is 4 by 5.5 oblong, and it opens from the top. Besides the list of dances for the evening, the booklet gives credit to the music's composers, and it also contains a roster of the club's officials. The dance was in honor of Archduke Carl Ludwig. Also survivin...
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[Dance Card or Carnet du Bal] Alpine Themed Ball "Post Kar'ln" von der Alm.

Price: $1,200.00

Publisher: Vienna,

Seller ID: 003271

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

Extraordinary dance card for a Belle Epoque ball and possibly benefit. N.d., circa 1900. Oblong, 6.5 by 10 cm. The front cover features a small painted Alpine relief vignette cameo, which is framed with ormulu brass. To its right is a mounted crest probably for the Touristen-Club, bearing the logo around its perimeter: "Mit Herz und Hand Fur's Alpenland". Suspended from this is a brass trophy. The edge of the cover has a green and gilt decorative band, with brass mounts in the corners. Most special is the writing implement, which also acts as a clasp, shaped like a belaying pic...
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Category: Bindings -- Fine and Curios