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Holding a book bound in blue textile (?) with furniture and fore- and top-edge clasps (Venice, 1525-1527).
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Crumpling pages in a gilt-and-gauffered-edged and rubricated bound manuscript with a fore-edge clasp (Flanders, 1488-1490).
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Standing on a limp vellum bound book with fore-edge ties (Rome, 1578-1616).
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A gilt-and-gauffered-edge book with smooth spine, five top board bosses, a fore-edge strap with a metal hook (?) attaching towards the center of the cover (Venice, 1465-1470).
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A gilt-edged bound manuscript with pointed bosses on the bottom board (Liguria, 1478-1501).
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A gilt-tooled blue velvet binding (Florence, 1494).
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A limp vellum (?) bound manuscript (Rotterdam, 1718).
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Musical part books and a notched folded letter (Dutch Republic, 1669).
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Accepting a letter, and a bound book on the table with four series of tabbed entries ... and a parrot (Leiden, 1668).
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Letter-writing at a portable desk with quill, inkwell, seal and an open book bound with clasps on a reading stand ... and a clock and bell (Antwerp, 19th c.)
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A folded paper letter with remnants of ties (Venice, 1540).
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Reading a letter at a portable desk with a portable letter box, and folded legal documents with a large red seal, and with multiple seal tags (Haarlem, 17th c.)
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Letter reading and writing at a portable desk (Leiden?, 17th c.)
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Bound and unbound books and manuscripts on shelves and a table (Leiden?, 1630)