Bookbindings

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BOOKBINDINGS

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.

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)

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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