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I have tried translating but it gives me inconsistent answers, appreciate any insights.

I think this is fairly early printing? No date that I can find. Old family book interested in learning more about it and if it has any value?

Hello everyone! Somehow this book ended up in our home, in eastern Europe. It came through Australia where it was bought as a souvenir by my wife's brother like 8-10 years ago. We are interested does it have some worth or are there thousands of these kinds of class books? What is the best way to keep it? We are living in a moderate climate so there is no fear of moisture and mold but by the way it's old and already fragile enough. Thank you!

i did a other post earlier but i dont know why my photo didn't update i would like to get what do you though about this and also its thise book have a value ?

Found this old book in a box of free books in a charity shop and picked it up purely for the little doodles inside but started reading it today and it's cool how different some of the answers to the questions are today. Also I've tried to Google search but haven't been able to find an exact year for it? There's no year printed in it that I can find either other than the hand written one so if anyone has any idea on the year that would be wonderful 😊

This is a book published in 1698 by Hoffman, he was a man who worked decades on releasing a volume of books that contained all human knowledge. He traveled around Europe, meeting experts and reading books in order to complete the book. The series has 4 volumes, each with 1000 pages in folio format.

I picked this up not fully knowing what I had. Once I started researching it turned out to be the first time DGR’s poetry was ever collected into a single volume, edited by his brother William Michael Rossetti as a memorial to both his brother and their recently deceased mother. The dedication page is so amazing! The frontispiece is a photograph of Mrs. Rossetti with her children (Dante Gabriel, Christina, and William) taken in 1863. Inside the book someone had tucked an envelope labeled “Rossetti” containing a small collection of research paper clippings from a scholarly guide to 19th century authors, a bookseller catalog entry for The Germ (the original Pre-Raphaelite journal from 1850), and a library reading list on the Rossetti family. Someone may have been seriously studying this man and they kept their notes inside his book. I have no idea who did this which is fascinating! And then in the back, which is honestly my favorite part of this whole discovery, there is this poem. Handwritten in pencil and who knows who wrote this but it is truly SO BEAUTIFUL and melancholic.

It reads (I tried my best to translate it correctly lol):

Last night turns you that willed

That I should live, sweetheart,

So near my voice was stilled

Almost was I a part

Of the immortal throng,

Lovers of old, long dead

Yet I forbore to end the song

For one sweet word you said.

Last night I found your lips

In one sweet ecstasy

A kiss that saved my soul’s eclipse

You held the life of me

For knew that subtle death

Had all but come between

Our lips and sealed the living breath

And left you Sorrowing indeed

Last night to you I turned

I wish I knew who wrote this!!! Had to share this incredible find and I literally found it in an antique shop! I would love to hear your thoughts or theories about this! I’m still trying to figure it out but WOW this is crazy!!!

This is a fairly early printing I think? There is no title page I can find that lists publisher or date. Can anyone give me some info on this - old family book.

So I bought this book on Vinted and I had no idea it would be in this state… it STINKS, put it in the freezer for days already

But as you can see the top of the pages is damaged

Can I fix it or will it always stinks ?

Thank you !!

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