[Book safe].
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| Format: | Physical Object |
| Language: | French |
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[France?],
[between 1750 and 1850?]
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| Item Description: | Title devised by cataloger. A modified book, created as a safe or hiding place for valuables. The text after page 12 has been hollowed out and the compartment lined with marbled paper. The edges of the book were left intact, so that the alteration is not apparent when the book is closed. Bound in original brown leather armorial binding, with French royal coat of arms on front and back covers. The book used to make the safe was: Ferrière, Claude de. Les oeuvres de M. Antoine D'Espeisses, advocat et jurisconsulte de Montpellier, published: A Lyon : Chez les freres Huguetan, Derniere edition, nouvellement reveüe & corrigée,1685, volume one. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 book safe ; 37 x 26 x 10 cm |