Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Reference Library

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Reference Library

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Bibliothèque municipale d'Orléans, Dix siècles de reliures de la Bibliothèque municipale d'Orléans [catalogue of an exhibition in the Médiathèque d’Orléans, 17 September-17 December 2005], [Orléans], Bibliothèque Municipale d’Orléans, 2005


Elly Cockx-Indestege & Jan Storm van Leeuwen, Estampages et dorures : six siècles de reliure au Musée Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp, Musée Plantin-Moretus 2005


Federico Macchi, Arte della legatura a Brera : storie di libri e biblioteche : secoli XV e XVI [catalog of the exhibition held at Biblioteca nazionale braidense, Milan, 2002], Cremona, Linograf, 2002


Béatrice Hernad, Prachteinbände, 870-1685 : Schätze aus dem Bestand der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München [exhibition held at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 2001], Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 2001


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