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Mediaeval

Laws of the Guild of St. John in Uggeløse. 14th c. Latin reader. Bordesholm c. 1470.
Augustine: De civitate dei. c. 1468.
(Bound by Johannes Richenbach)

 

16th-18th centuries

Plautus: Comoediae. 1506.
(Grolier binding)
[Biblia Hebraica non punctata]. 1610.
J. de Bourbon: La ... oppugnation de ... Rhodes. 1527. Joachim Pastorius: Bellum Scythico-Cosacicum. 1652.
The Law of Jutland. c. 1490. Megillat Ester. 18th c.
Antonius Pinaeus: Historia plantarum. 1567.
(Bound by Jakob Krause)
Lex Regia. 1709.

 

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19th century

J. Ross: … in Search of a North-West Passage. 1835.
(Bound by Harald Hendrik Rasmussen)
Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. 1865.
Henry W. Longfellow: The Song of Hiawatha. 1860. Ole Christian Lund: The Cross of the Cliffs. 1869.
Johan Herman Wessel: Collected Poems. 1862. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson: Stories. 1873.

 

20th century

Holger Drachmann: Trolls. 1889-1890.
(Bound by Anker Kyster)
Aeschylus: The Oresteia. 1961.
(Bound by Ivor Robinson)
Steen Steensen Blicher: The Birds of Passage. 1914.
(Bound by Ahrenkiel & Olsen)
Gottlieb Heinrich Heer: Der schwarze Garten. 1945.
(Bound by Sophia Galsterer)
S.L. Giraud (ed.): Bookano Stories. [c. 1937]. Une histoire des images. 1995.
Ebbe Sadolin: Tivoli. 1968.
(Bound by Mogens Dickow Lund)
H.C. Andersen: The Little Mermaid. 1984.
(Bound by Ernst Rasmussen)
Gunnar Jespersen: Robert Jacobsen. 1979.
(Bound by Mogens Dickow Lund)
The Völuspa, retold by Suzanne Brøgger. 1994.
(Bound by Ernst Rasmussen)
Hakon Lund: Royal Pleasure Gardens. 1977.
(Bound by Mogens Dickow Lund)
Peter Lautrop and Kristine Suhr: The Pop-Up Book. 1998.
Vagn Holmboe: “Moya”. 1981.
(Bound by Ernst Rasmussen)

 

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From the Near and the Far East

Abû al-Farağ Ibn al-Ğawzî: Religious texts. The Lotus Sūtra. China 1692.
Hakīm Sanā’ī: Dīvān (Collected poems). Persia 1605. Reproductions of murals. Shanghai 1959.
The Life and Deeds of the Monk T. Hāymānōt.
Ethiopia 19th c.
Santei Shunba: Stories behind the Scenes. Japan 1859.
Tambar (medical text). Sumatra 19th c. H. Minagawa: Crimson Love. Japan 1986.
The Perfection of Wisdom … Nepal 1511.

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