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by Laura Massey
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Country Life - 'A Right Royal Book’
In this week’s Country Life read about the beautiful French book that our CEO Bernard Shapero would never part with…
A manuscript created for Louis XVI and presented to the King in a special green morocco binding. As Bernard says ‘it was a gift from the author to the King of France, then from the King of France to his wife – a sort of double provenance.’ The wife in question was of course Marie Antoinette, and her arms can be found on the inside covers of the book.
Read whole story ‘A Right Royal Book’ below and scroll down to find out more about the manuscript on our shelf.
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Shapero Rare Books is an internationally renowned dealer in London, specialising in antiquarian & rare books and works on paper, with particular expertise in fine illustrated books from the 15th to the 20th century, travel & voyages, natural history, modern firsts, rare children’s books, guidebooks, Hebraica & Judaica, Eastern European, and Islamica.
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PONCET DE LA GRAVE, Guillaume.Original price $35,151.00 - Original price $35,151.00Original price $35,151.00$35,151.00$35,151.00 - $35,151.00Current price $35,151.00A unique manuscript on the French navy presented from Louis XVI to Marie-Antoinette. An exceptional presentation & association manuscript, boun...
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GuidesA Guide to Guidebooks
by Lucinda BoyleKarl Baedeker was head of a successful publishing business, when in 1832 he acquired the publishing house of Franz Röhling which four years earlier had published a travel guide Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln: Ein Handbuch für Schnellreisende by Professor...
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LiteratureUkrainian Modernism
A visit to the Royal Academy in London by Eleanor MooreThe Royal Academy's new exhibition, In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930s, is the most comprehensive exhibition to date in the UK, celebrating a period of bold artistic experimentation. Despite profound upheaval, there was a true flourishing...
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TravelProvenance
Julian MacKenzie chooses books from the collections of 3 great bibliophiles, currently on our shelves.The great thing about collecting books is that they were produced as multiples giving lots of collectors a chance to own a copy. To distinguish between copies the most desirable factors are condition and provenance and for me the greatest...
