Magnificent, very early 17th century binding; elaborately blindstamped panelled dark calf over wooden boards. Boards blindstamped; outer border with double blind fillets, floral rolls within double blind fillets around a panel with heads and alternating figures of cones and acanthus leaves, below and over blank panels and within double fillets as well. Finally in the centre decorated lozenges in between and around blank panels divided by fillets.
The clasps gone but the catches still on the frontboard and three decorative fleuron plugs per missing clasp on the backboard of which the upper one still holds a small part of what was once a part of the brass clasp.
The spine divided by five raised bands, containing two cords each, in six compartments with the remnant of a label in the top compartment.
Mid seventeenth century full calf binding. Boards with borders of double gilt filets. The spine divided in seven compartments by six raised bands with the gilt titles in the second compartment and the other six compartments with gilt tooled lozenges within borders of double gilt fillets.
Eighteenth century full tree calf binding. The spine divided in six compartments by five raised bands. The compartments tooled in gilt within double gilt filets. A title label in the second compartment.
Mid 18th century ivory white, blindstamped vellum. A lozenge shaped centerpiece within fillets.
Magnificent mid 18th morocco binding. Covers with lozenged shaped centre-pieces built up from various fleuron tools, within wide scrolling borders of floral and foliage tools. The spines divided by five raised bands into six compartments, with a black lettered morroco label in the second compartment. The other compartments with rich floral and crown decoration.
Early 19th century red morocco binding. The covers with a central gilt lozenge, four small floral corner-pieces and gilt inner dentelles. The spine divided in six compartments by five raised bands with double gilt filets at either side and with the titles in the second compartment. The other compartments decorated in gilt.
Richly blind – and gilt stamped full calf binding of ‘Descrizione della Palestina’, published in 1831 at Milan.
‘Travels in Ethiopia, above the second cataract of the Nile’ by George Hoskins. The book was published in 1835. The 30’s of the 19th century was the decade in which many publishers started to use their own bindings.
Magnificent mid 19th century full morocco binding. Boards and spines richly gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt inner dentelles. All edges marbled and the edges of the boards tooled in gilt. The boards panelled in gilt with triple filets along the board edges. The inner panel with double filets with an arabesque inner filet with small floral decorations in between at the corners. The spine decorated with a title compartment within double filets, a gilt decorated number compartment, arabesque, floral and line decorations.
Mid 19th century cloth binding. The covers elaborately blindstamped in black and with a gilt center piece with abundant floral decorations.
Cloth publisher’s bindings. Left a binding from around 1853 and on the right a binding from 1861 by different publishing houses.
The cover of ‘Fiji: our new province in the South Seas’, stamped in gilt and black. An extremely rare book by J.H. De Ricci, published in 1875 by Edward Stanford.
A rich gilt- and blindstamped cover of a publication published bt Nelson & Son in 1879.
A striking beautiful early Art Nouveau binding. Pebbled cloth with blindstamped covers. The front board decorated in black with the title in gilt. Published in 1883.
Late 19th century binding of the first edition of ‘The long white cloud Ao-Tea-Roa’ by William Reeves and published by Horace Marshall & Son in 1898.