Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Reference Library

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Reference Library

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Paul Culot, Quatre siècles de reliure en Belgique, 1500-1900, Brussels, Eric Speeckaert, 1989, 1993, 1998, 3 vols., publisher's colored wrappers


Amaury vicomte de Ghellinck Vaernewyck, La reliure flamande au xve siècle. Discours (extract from Annales - Académie royale d'Archéologie de Belgique, 1902), 4to., original publisher's light blue paper wrappers, inscription on cover from author to Jules Lammens, ancien sénateur


Pascal de Sadeleer, Henry van de Velde : Art nouveau bookbinding in Belgium, 1893-1900, Brussels, Bibliotheca Wittockiana, 2010, fol., publisher's white vellum‐like boards gilt


Jan Storm van Leeuwen, Dutch decorated bookbinding in the eighteenth century, 't Goy-Houten, HES & De Graaf Publishers, 2006, 3 vols. In 4, thick 4to., publisher's rose cloth, dust jacket


Elly Cockx-Indestege, Berthe van Regemorter : une artiste-relieur anversoise (1879-1964): une biographie, correspondance avec Prosper Verheyden, catalogue raisonné (Studia Bibliothecae Wittockianae, 7), Brussels, Bibliotheca Wittockiana, 2014, fol., publisher's blue cloth


Bruno Liesen & Claude Sorgeloos, Le Rayonnement des Moretus, Brussels, Bibliotheca Wittockiana, 2006, fol., publisher's printed wrappers


Le livre, l'estampe, l'edition en Brabant du XVe aux XIXe siècle, Memorial de l'Exposition d'Art ancien à Bruxelles, Gembloux, Imprimerie J. Duculot, 1935, fol., publisher's printed wrappers, no. 238 of 1,150 copies printed for the Société des bibliophiles et iconophiles de Belgique


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