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Tag: Bindings

Dedication to Hendrik Fagel in Bachienne's Kerkelyke Geographie

Fagel Fine Bindings (3): Dedications

Posted on 15/04/2019

Several fine bindings in the collection are the result of a classical artist-patron relationship. The Fagels were high-placed government officials and had the n...

Fagel Fine Bindings (2): Political Power

Posted on 13/04/2019

The fine bindings in the Fagel collection make up only a small part of the library. Some of the fine bindings in the Fagel Collection at Trinity College Library...

Commelin and Breyne

Fagel Fine Bindings (1): Natural History

Posted on 10/04/2019

Most books in the Fagel Collection are bound in simple vellum, the title neatly written on the spine, without any gold-tooling or other forms of decoration. The...

The much-debated life of Paulus Wirtz in a curious binding

Posted on 01/10/2018

A remarkable copy of the 17th century biography ‘t Leven en bedryf van d’heer Paulus Wirtz is present at Uppsala University Library. It has elaborat...

Material evidence of a donation to Uppsala University in 1722

Posted on 24/06/2018

A report in the Amsterdamsche Courant of 5 November 1722 mentions a donation of books by the English Lord Carteret to the Academy of Uppsala. The question that ...

Title-page of the first edtion of The Wealth of Nations

Rediscovered first edition of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations

Posted on 31/05/2018

A first edition of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations was rediscovered in the library of the Dutch House of Representatives. This fundamental work in clas...

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