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BINDING -- Les six codes. Paris: J. Didot ainé for Pichon-Béchet, 1828. 16° (98 x 62mm). Half-title. Contemporary Paris romantic binding by Duplanil, signed at foot and with his ticket on front endpaper: burgundy straight-grained morocco gilt, sides and flat spine mosaiqué with green, red and citron on-lays, crimson moiré liners gilt, gilt edges (tiny bit of rubbing at extremities). Duplanil won the silver medal at the Industrial Exposition in 1834; his ticket advertises himself as binder to the duchesse d'Angoulème as wife of the future Charles X.
BIBLE, Psalms, in French: Les Pseaumes de David, in verse by C. Marot and T. De Beze. Charenton: Estienne Lucas, 1682. 16° (119 x 65mm). Printed music. (Light dampstain at front.) 17th- or 18th-century Dutch tortoiseshell binding, silver clasps and spine bands, gilt edges (middle spine band broken, apparently missing two ?roundels on spine). Sold as bindings, not subject to return. (2)
BIBLE, Psalms, in French: Les Pseaumes de David, in verse by C. Marot and T. De Beze. Charenton: Estienne Lucas, 1682. 16° (119 x 65mm). Printed music. (Light dampstain at front.) 17th- or 18th-century Dutch tortoiseshell binding, silver clasps and spine bands, gilt edges (middle spine band broken, apparently missing two ?roundels on spine). Sold as bindings, not subject to return. (2)
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