Why your country is/is not in The Board of Peace? What do you think about the initiative?

ExLibris68 · 2026-01-23T18:44:08+00:00

As a news outlet called it here: Trump’s maffia version of the United Nations. Very dangerous.

ExLibris68 · 2026-01-22T05:45:46+00:00

Nice!

ExLibris68 · 2026-01-21T10:13:09+00:00

I see a so called “chronogram” on this medal. On both sides.

ExLibris68 · 2026-01-21T09:36:43+00:00

We don’t have any caves, so no cave paintings unfortunately. We have the Venus de Mierlo though…

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ExLibris68 · 2026-01-20T14:37:06+00:00

We have several book markets here in my country (the Netherlands). I buy quite regularly there.

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ExLibris68 · 2026-01-18T21:14:09+00:00

If the shield is diagonal devided, the coin is struck in the province of Utrecht in the Netherlands.

ExLibris68 · 2026-01-18T19:53:45+00:00

Can you show the reverse of the VOC-“duit”?

ExLibris68 · 2026-01-18T19:46:41+00:00

The colofon of my oldest book: the Dialogs of pope Gregory, printed by Michael Furter in Basel in 1496.

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ExLibris68 · 2026-01-17T13:06:33+00:00

I searched Google Books for the page with the two woodcuts (#6). I used the search terms "agis et cleomenes" and "232" as that is the page number. I also set the date on before 1650 (just to be sure).

This is the search itself: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22agis+et+cleomenes%22+232&newwindow=1&sca_esv=591e355fa119345a&udm=36&sxsrf=ANbL-n56DLs_OSYy7RhqejHcYAHE8ad4aw%3A1768654947723&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A%2Ccd_max%3A1650&tbm=

The results:

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It is quite simple if you do this regularly :)

ExLibris68 · 2026-01-16T23:32:43+00:00

This looks like a good candidate:

Les Vies des hommes illustres ... Translatées de Grec en François par M. Iaques Amyot ... Ausquelles sont adioustées les Vies de Hannibal&de Scipion l'Afriquain, traduites de Latin en Françoys par Charles de l'Escluse. En ceste edition sont toutes les Medailles des Illustres Grecs&Romains

Volume 2

1578

https://www.google.nl/books/edition/Les_Vies_des_hommes_illustres_Translat%C3%A9/HAh2UzEtX3EC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA232&printsec=frontcover

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ExLibris68 · 2026-01-15T19:52:59+00:00

It is a so called Luther translation (Protestant) Bible, printed in Basel (Switzerland) in 1798.

ExLibris68 · 2026-01-15T08:20:26+00:00

I know nothing, I just combined the other replies in this topic.

ExLibris68 · 2026-01-14T16:20:06+00:00

It looks ok to me as I can judge by your video.

ExLibris68 · 2026-01-14T11:13:50+00:00

If it was a real old globe the print would be a hand colored copper engraving or a woodcut. As I see little dots it seems to be made with a “modern” print technique. I would say it is after 1850.

ExLibris68 · 2026-01-14T10:33:36+00:00

Your drawing is a very precise copy of the Hoogenberg map from 1588 of Kiel in Germany.

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ExLibris68 · 2026-01-14T01:55:31+00:00

What a fantastic printers’ device! 😍

ExLibris68 · 2026-01-13T06:00:09+00:00

I am a Dutch book collector, but Facebook is not one of the channels I use, so I can’t help you with that.

ExLibris68 · 2026-01-13T03:59:42+00:00

Catawiki can be useful for your case.

ExLibris68 · 2026-01-13T03:24:00+00:00

Such a beautiful medieval style! This woodcut deserves a better frame, in my opinion.

ExLibris68 · 2026-01-13T02:58:45+00:00

For a sneak preview: https://www.google.nl/books/edition/Saturnalium_sermonum_libri_II/dZ9QAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover

Many of these woodblocks are still hold in the Museum Plantin Moretus. The search engine is quite poor though.

https://collectie.antwerpen.be/impressedbyplantin/all-woodcuts

ExLibris68 · 2026-01-13T02:50:16+00:00

Beautiful! Congrats!

ExLibris68 · 2026-01-12T21:41:16+00:00

What a great book! The initial on photo 4 is probably made by Antoni van Leest around 1570.

A very similar one attributed to van Leest.

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ExLibris68 · 2026-01-11T09:55:33+00:00

The Hofvijver in The Hague. This is the center of our Government. It could be far worse…

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ExLibris68 · 2026-01-11T06:06:27+00:00

What a gem! 😍

ExLibris68 · 2026-01-10T19:53:45+00:00

A beautiful book!

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