| Number |
TITLE |
AUTHOR |
CREATION DATE |
COLLECTION |
DIMENSIONS |
DESCRIPTION OF CONSERVATION WORK NEEDED |
REPAIR
ESTIMATE |
01-2011 |
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The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments |
. |
1743 |
Carothers Bible Collection |
5½ x 3 x 1¼ |
Text block resewn and reattached to boards after repairs as needed. Repairs made to first and last blank and printed leaves and new sympathetic flyleaves and inner hinges sewn into place. Volume rebacked in studio dyed fine grain goatskin, titled and tooled in toned gilt in the style of the original. |
$750 |
| 02-2011 |
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Sonnets from the Portuguese |
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett |
1900? |
. |
4½ x 1¾ x ⅔ |
Volume disbound, repairs made to leaves as needed, textblock resewn. The binding restored and rebuilt after repair. |
$300 |
| 03-2011 |
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The Book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church… |
Church of England |
1717 |
. |
8 x 5¼ x 1 |
Text block resewn and reattached to boards after repairs as needed. New period endbands and sympathetic inner hinges sewn into place. Volume rebacked in calf and gold tooled in style of the original. |
$750 |
| 04-2011 |
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Diprose's new sixpenny comic song book. |
. |
1855? |
Shaw Collection |
7 x 5¼ x ½ |
Damaged and previously repaired pages washed, old repairs removed, new repairs made throughout with losses infilled, the text resewn, and textblock returned to original binding after cleaning, tape removal, and repair as needed. A custom fitted full cotlin clam shell box made. |
$1,000 |
| 05-2011 |
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Historical memoirs of Napoleon. 1815. |
Napoleon I Emperor of the French |
1820 |
Napoleon Collection |
7¼ x 4⅔ x 1¼ |
Older repairs removed from first and last leaves with repair to inner joints. Sheepskin binding rebacked and tooled in style of original. |
$750 |
06-2011 |
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The Scottish keepsake, or The songs of the Ayrshire Bard. |
Burns, Robert |
1844 |
Shaw Collection |
4½ x 3 x ¾ |
Textblock removed from case and sewing repaired as needed. Volume rebound in original treen boards after rehinging with original spine retained. |
$300 |
| 07-2011 |
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Divi Aurelii Augustini Hipponensis Episcopi. Meditationes, soliloquia & manuale : Meditationes B. Anselmi cum tractatu De humani generis redemptione, D. Bernardi, Idiotae viri docti De amore divino |
Saint Augustine, et. al |
1620 |
. |
4½ x 2½ x 1¼ |
Textblock removed from vellum case and sewing repaired and rebuilt as needed. Vellum cleaned, relaxed, and repaired with areas of loss infilled, and volume recased. |
$500 |
08-2011 |
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Nests and eggs of birds of the United States ... |
Thomas G. Gentry |
1882 |
. |
12 x 9½ x 2½ |
Earlier repairs removed from text and new repairs made as needed. Volume rebacked in sympathetic material after repair and cleaning of original boards. |
$1,000 |
| 09-2011 |
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The history of Helyas : Knight of the Swan |
. |
1901 |
. |
9⅛ x 7 x 1 |
The pigskin binding repaired, rehinged, and rejointed with leaves tipped in at front and rear to act as barrier against leather. |
$750 |
| 10-2011 |
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Histoire de la conquete de la Floride, ou, Relation de ce qui s'est passé dans la découverte de ce pays par Ferdinand de Soto |
Vega, Garcilaso de la |
1711 |
. |
6½ x 4 x 1½ |
Older text repairs removed and new repairs made as needed. Volume rebound using original boards and new calf spine tooled in style of original. |
$750 |
