French paper, size of one leaf - 42 x 50 cm, with a fold in the middle, margins a bit dustsoiled. Colour greysih. Lot de 7 feuilles de papier de couverture, français, 19e s. couleur grise, mesures - 42 x 50 cm. Prix par feuille 35 euro. Ici on donne le prix pour le lot.
French paper, size of one leaf - 42 x 50 cm, with a fold in the middle, margins a bit dustsoiled. Colour bluish. Lot de 7 feuilles de papier de couverture, français, 19e s. couleur bleue, mesures - 42 x 50 cm. Prix par feuille 35 euro. Ici on donne le prix pour le lot.
Register, in-folio, 335 x 205 mm, 272 pp (numbered in ink 1-138, in upper right corner), all pages finely ruled in pencil (easily erasable), 26 pp with notations in ink, other pages blank, apart from pagenumbering and pencil ruling. Bound in contemporary full vellum with traces of green silk ties, vellum soiled, interior fine. All leaves have the watermark FYN (dutch for fine (quality)) and the letter D in a double oval.
"12. Paper size is 280 x 208 mm, ca. 144 unnumbered blank leaves, handmade in the early 19th century ( ca. 1820 -1830), watermark ; a small upright dragon with the capital ''F'' and the name '' fenerol frere''. The leaves are bound in a contemporary full leather, with two linen ties. The edges are painted yellow. Binding a bit rubbed, but interior very clean and allmost stainless ( some of the usual faint stains at a few pages ). The album was obviously sold by a French stationery shop and was never used."
" Paper size is 375 x 245 mm, ca. 47 unnumbered blank leaves, paper with a slight bluish colour, handmade watermark ; a double circle ca. 4 cm diameter; and the name P RABELIER or RABELIEN (difficult to read). Very clean leaves."
"PAPER - PAPIER - French; handmade , early 19th century - [ ] Papier de P. DAGNET à Clisson ( Dépt. Loire-Atlantique ) :"
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Bound in contemporary half vellum, boards covered with blue marbled paper, with traces of ties. With a muscript label pasted on the first paste down : '' Mr. Joseph Mazoillier, Vice-Consul à Tarfoux Asie-Mineure''. The register contains 78 pages, all entirely blank. Some wear at the marbled boards, but on the whole very well preserved , srainless collection of early 19th c. handmade paper..
"12. Bound in contemporary half vellum, edges painted yellow, the register contained 396 numbered pages (manuscript numbering in upper corner), 32 leaves have been removed removed at the beginning, the register is dated on the last leaf ; '' Bergerac (France) 1825 ''. Paper quality is beatiful strong laid paper, pure white. All the leaves bear a tax stamp at the upper margin which reduces the usable size of the leaves to 370 x 265 mm for a single leaf , or 370 x 530 ( for a double leaf, with binding pinholes in the middle). Watermark is a stylised tulip with 4 leaves within a coar of arms topped by a crown. ( ca. 115 x 65 mm) ."
"11. Bound in cont. half vellum, marbled boards, with ties, edges painted yellow. Watermark ; a shell (ca. 35 x 35 mm) and the name '' PORTES ''. Nicely preserved, allthough with some sparse tiny spots betraying the use of iron equipment during the fabrication process.."