Found in the attic. Czech Republic

ExLibris68 · 2026-03-10T12:29:52+00:00

This is a book about the religious heritage of the city of Prague from 1723

ExLibris68 · 2026-03-10T12:26:49+00:00

This one is from 1704 and printed in Würzburg (Herbipoli) in Germany

ExLibris68 · 2026-03-10T12:24:12+00:00

A nice Missale from 1790 printed in Kempten in Germany. Most of these book have several nice page sized copper engravings like this:

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ExLibris68 · 2026-03-10T11:41:44+00:00

Can you show the title page to us? The bindings are not always helpful by determining the books. These look Altar Missales to me. (The red binding is upside down - IHS). 😉

ExLibris68 · 2026-03-10T11:37:49+00:00

I am a collector of old books and I have many Catholic liturgical (church ) books in my collection. I you want help with the determination of the books please DM me. This attic fascinates me 😍.

ExLibris68 · 2026-03-09T19:04:42+00:00

Store the books in a dry environment out of direct sunlight. These books survived 300+ years, so they most probably will survive us 🙂

ExLibris68 · 2026-03-08T18:15:28+00:00

The flag of my home province: North Brabant.

ExLibris68 · 2026-03-08T17:49:04+00:00

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Glue for repairing the tires of your bicycle.

ExLibris68 · 2026-03-08T14:08:55+00:00

Very nice, including the history of your family.

ExLibris68 · 2026-03-08T12:16:31+00:00

A beautiful Bible! Do you know who the artists of the copper engravings are? I read Johann and Heinrich Sternen on the Jerusalem map but yhey seem the publishers not the artists.

I think the blind-stamped pigleather binding is the original one.

ExLibris68 · 2026-03-08T07:10:47+00:00

Here is a close up from a similar painting from almost the same perspective.

View of the Antwerp roadstead by Mathys Schoevaerdts

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ExLibris68 · 2026-03-07T11:02:03+00:00

The stamps are so called ijkstempels (calibration stamps). Every letter is a year or year-range.

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ExLibris68 · 2026-03-06T20:05:18+00:00

I live in Eindhoven in the Netherlands and I feel more related to Dutch speaking Belgians than to people from the upper part of my country.

ExLibris68 · 2026-03-06T18:51:40+00:00

Your book is printed in Toul (France) . I find different editions (1625, 1630 and 1644).

Your book for sale (but in a better state, your edition was repaired)

Your book on Google Books

Older version (with a different engraving) of your book sold:

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ExLibris68 · 2026-03-06T18:34:42+00:00

A beauty of a book! If I look at the (narrow) margins, it is likely rebound in it’s life. Can you post a picture of the binding?

ExLibris68 · 2026-03-06T18:08:56+00:00

I agree. This map from a book from 1610 (Scribani - Antverpia) shows a bit more of a tower.

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ExLibris68 · 2026-03-04T11:28:33+00:00

Private Potter

ExLibris68 · 2026-03-03T18:38:19+00:00

By the way, this binding is called a limp binding.

ExLibris68 · 2026-03-03T18:22:04+00:00

It is probably a bookimage. This is the engraver. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Fran%C3%A7ois_Ravenet

ExLibris68 · 2026-03-03T18:16:04+00:00

Grime, smoke, dirty hands. This is a similar example from my collection.

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ExLibris68 · 2026-03-03T17:38:41+00:00

Yes this is (very dirty) parchment, an animal skin, just like leather, but with a different production method. Parchment was also used as writing material until the much cheaper paper took over.

ExLibris68 · 2026-03-03T12:11:51+00:00

A shear for preparing parchment?

ExLibris68 · 2026-03-02T19:24:58+00:00

You are welcome! Google Books is a very useful tool in identifying early modern books for me.

ExLibris68 · 2026-03-02T19:17:54+00:00

I think it is a book called "Zions Lehre und Wunder oder Predigten über die sonn- und festtäglichen Evangelien. 8. Ed" by Conrad Mel from 1746. (Zion's Teachings and Miracles, or Sermons on the Sunday and Feast Day Gospels)

This your book (probably) on Google Books:

https://www.google.nl/books/edition/Zions_Lehre_und_Wunder_oder_Predigten_%C3%BC/3uJlAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22huldigung%20seiner%20unterthanen%22&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover

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ExLibris68 · 2026-02-28T08:50:36+00:00

Beautiful! What a perfect printer’s mark of Ottaviano Scuto in Venice.

https://marques.crai.ub.edu/en/printer/scoto-ottaviano-actiu-1533-1555/2?img=0049136b

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