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Order Nr. 71467 LA RELIURE DE LUXE LE LIVRE ET L'AMATEUR. Léopold Derôme

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(Bookbinding). Derôme, Léopold.

LA RELIURE DE LUXE LE LIVRE ET L'AMATEUR.

Paris: Edouard Rouveyre, 1888. large 8vo. half red morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, five raised bands, top edge gilt, others uncut. 246, (2), v, (3) pages. First and only edition, limited to 900 numbered copies. (Schmidt-Künsemüller no. 1537). A discussion of luxury bookbinding by the author is accompanied by the designs of J. Adeline, G. Fraipont, C. Kurner, and M. Perret. Each plate is protected by a guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Original wrappers bound..... READ MORE about LA RELIURE DE LUXE LE LIVRE ET L'AMATEUR

Price: $225.00 save 30% $157.50 Order nr. 71467

Order Nr. 20856 TRAITÉ DE LA RELIEURE DES LIVRES. Jean-Vincent Capronnier De Gauffecourt

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(Bookbinding). Gauffecourt, Jean-Vincent Capronnier De.

TRAITÉ DE LA RELIEURE DES LIVRES.

A Bilingual Treatise on Bookbinding Translated from the French by Claude Benaiteau. With an Introduction by John P. Chalmers. Edited by Elaine B. Smyth.
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1987. tall 8vo. quarter cloth over boards, paper spine label. 130, (4) pages. A Bilingual Treatise on Bookbinding Translated from the French by Claude Benaiteau. With an Introduction by John P. Chalmers. Edited by Elaine B. Smyth. Limited to 300 copies printed letterpress on Frankfurt White mouldmade paper. A reprint of the very scarce first edition of this French bookbinding manual, printed by its author in 1763. Translated into English and..... READ MORE about TRAITÉ DE LA RELIEURE DES LIVRES

Price: $150.00 Order nr. 20856

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BIBLIOPHILE, REVUE ARTISTIQUE ET DOCUMENTAIRE DU LIVRE ANCIEN ET MODERNE (LE).

Paris: Publications Papyrus, 1931. 4to. half leather over boards with original paper wrappers bound-in. Ulrich & Kup p.15. "Well printed, well illustrated, scholarly and most facinating. Contains everything concerning the book, old and new." Of the total 15 issues published, we have 9 including: 1931. Numbers 1, 2, 5. 1932. Numbers 1, 4. 1933. Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4. Well preserved with most having the original glassine wrapper. READ MORE about BIBLIOPHILE, REVUE ARTISTIQUE ET DOCUMENTAIRE DU LIVRE ANCIEN ET MODERNE (LE

Price: $180.00 Order nr. 119875

Order Nr. 119850 WANTED--A MATCHMAKER. Paul Leicester Ford

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Ford, Paul Leicester.

WANTED--A MATCHMAKER.

New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1900. 8vo. original cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 111+(1) pages. First edition. Illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy (Reed 94). Paul Leicester Ford (1865-1902) was an American bibliographer, historian, and novelist. He is noted for his bibliographies of the works of many American founding fathers (Ford papers, MssCol 1043, New York Public Library). Decorations by Margaret Armstrong. Frontispiece and four tissue-protected black and white illustrations. Decorations two-toned. Dust jacket tanned..... READ MORE about WANTED--A MATCHMAKER

Price: $125.00 Order nr. 119850

Order Nr. 118515 Volume containing the 140 steel-plate engravings used for the British Annual...

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(Keepsake).

Volume containing the 140 steel-plate engravings used for the British Annual entitled The Keepsake.

N.P. n.p., circa 1827. folio. leather, marbled endpapers. unpaginated. A selection of proof engravings. Bookplate of Mr. Chas. T. Tallent Bateman on front pastedown. Written inscription on that bookplate notes that this volume includes 140 steel plate impressions. An apparently later notation notes that this volume is "unique," with "no copy in the British Museum." Consecutive dated engravings range from 1827 to 1835, showing title pages and illustrations of The Keepsake, (1828-1835) an illustrated anthology..... READ MORE about Volume containing the 140 steel-plate engravings used for the British Annual entitled The Keepsake

Price: $350.00 Order nr. 118515

Order Nr. 119754 HISTOIRE DE L'IMPRIMERIE ET DE LA LIBRAIRIE. Jean De La Caille

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De La Caille, Jean.

HISTOIRE DE L'IMPRIMERIE ET DE LA LIBRAIRIE.

Geneva, Switzerland: Slatkine Reprints, 1971. 8vo. cloth, spine gilt-stamped. (viii), 322, (26); (iv), (8), 8 pages. Text in French. Two volumes in one. Reprint of original edition (Paris: Jean de la Caille, 1689). Original in Bigmore and Wyman I, 98. An important late 17th century work on the history of printing. Later scholars of that art relied on it. A history of early printing, arranged by city. Provides descriptions of the first printers, the titles..... READ MORE about HISTOIRE DE L'IMPRIMERIE ET DE LA LIBRAIRIE

Price: $125.00 Order nr. 119754

Order Nr. 43026 QUADS, FOR AUTHORS, EDITORS & DEVILS

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(Leadenhalle Press).

QUADS, FOR AUTHORS, EDITORS & DEVILS.

London: Field and Tuer (Ye Leadenhalle Presse), 1884. 12mo. original glassine wrappers. 94, (2) pages. A book of printing humor and anecdote edited by Andrew W. Tuer and printed by him at his Leadenhalle Presse. Includes a Glossary of printing terms. Wrappers chipped with small pieces missing. READ MORE about QUADS, FOR AUTHORS, EDITORS & DEVILS

Price: $100.00 Order nr. 43026

Order Nr. 116265 THE FIRST PRESS IN THE CITY OF LONDON. Harold Marshall

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Marshall, Harold.

THE FIRST PRESS IN THE CITY OF LONDON.

Wembly: Archibald Rose at The Wembly Press, 1929. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 29, (5) pages. Copy "10" of an unmentioned number of copies printed for private circulation. Presentation page completed by author. An historical account of the introduction of printing in London. Argues that John Lettou with Johannes Bulle, printing in Rome before typography appeared in London. Two appendices, one listing early documents printed in London, and the other showing facsimiles of J. Lettou and..... READ MORE about THE FIRST PRESS IN THE CITY OF LONDON

Price: $150.00 Order nr. 116265

Order Nr. 118366 EARLY TYPOGRAPHY. William Skeen

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Skeen, William.

EARLY TYPOGRAPHY.

Colombo, Ceylon: n.p., 1872. 8vo. half red calf with marbled paper covered boards, top edge gilt. (ii), 424, v pages. Revised edition. (See Bigmore & Wyman II, 364 where they note the 48 page first printing and also state that this 1872 edition is usually found with a London imprint but mention the presence of this Ceylon imprint). Skeen was the government printer for Ceylon and used his knowledge of printing practice to "originate several..... READ MORE about EARLY TYPOGRAPHY

Price: $195.00 Order nr. 118366

Order Nr. 23016 JACOB BIGELOW'S AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANY, 1817-1821, AN EXAMINATION OF THE ORIGIN,...

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(Bird & Bull Press). Wolfe, Richard J.

JACOB BIGELOW'S AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANY, 1817-1821, AN EXAMINATION OF THE ORIGIN, PRINTING, BINDING AND DISTRIBUTION OF AMERICA'S FIRST COLOR PLATE BOOK. WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE MANNER OF MAKING AND PRINTING ITS COLORED PLATES.

North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1979. tall 8vo. quarter leather over decorated paper-covered boards. 123 pages. Limited to 300 numbered copies, this work (Taylor A21) is an excellent, scholarly study, finely printed by Henry Morris. A fine copy. With two original plates intended for Bigelow's book, American Medical Botany shows a plate that Bigelow had meant to use in his work but didn't. "The two illustrations mounted into this study comprise original, engraved..... READ MORE about JACOB BIGELOW'S AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANY, 1817-1821, AN EXAMINATION OF THE ORIGIN, PRINTING,...

Price: $250.00 Order nr. 23016

Order Nr. 49759 THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH. A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS...

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(Book Club of California). Kurutz, Gary F.

THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH. A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS COVERING THE YEARS 1848-1853.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1997. large 8to. blue cloth with title on spine and gold design on front cover, plain paper dust jacket. xxvii, 771 pages, with 33 additional pages of plates. Limited to 1,000 unnumbered copies. A descriptive bibliography of publications in book or pamphlet form of a) accounts by eyewitnesses of the Gold Rush in the years 1848-1853, for example, diaries (actual date of publication irrelevant), and b) "contemporary" publications from..... READ MORE about THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH. A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS COVERING THE YEARS...

Price: $165.00 Order nr. 49759

Order Nr. 119330 Collection of assorted printed works

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(Offhand Press).

Collection of assorted printed works.

Swarthmore, PA: The Offhand Press, 1959-62. 8vo. loose papers. variously paginated. A collection of publications by the Offhand Press of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Includes correspondence from publisher Charles B. Shaw and Ben Liebermann of the Herity Press of White Plains, New York. Included in this collection are: Alphabetic Arrangements I-XII--I and VIII missing, 2 of VII British Americana Series I, II, and III The Cass-Washburn Papers, I-VI Orthographic Oddments I-VI Ripost Series I-IV Typographic Series I-XXV..... READ MORE about Collection of assorted printed works

Price: $100.00 Order nr. 119330

Order Nr. 118516 L' HISTOIRE D'UN TOURNESOL. Carol Cunningham

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(Sunflower Press). Cunningham, Carol.

L' HISTOIRE D'UN TOURNESOL.

N.P. Sunflower Press, 1992. 16mo. cloth, illustrated label on front cover. unpaginated. Limited to 50 numbered copies, of which this is one of 30 numbered copies on Frankfurt paper. A fine copy. Signed by the author on colophon. A history of the press's publications from 1960 to 1992, including information about limitations, size, and information about binding. Illustrations from previous Sunflower books. Folder on back pastedown includes brochure about items omitted from the text and..... READ MORE about L' HISTOIRE D'UN TOURNESOL

Price: $250.00 Order nr. 118516

Order Nr. 16160 THE FOWLER ARCHITECTURAL COLLECTION OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY CATALOGUE....

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(Architecture). Fowler, Laurence Hall and Elizabeth Baer.

THE FOWLER ARCHITECTURAL COLLECTION OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY CATALOGUE.

Baltimore: The Evergreen House Foundation, 1961. 4to. cloth. xvi, 383 pages. Printed by The Anthoensen Press. Full bibliographical descriptions including comments of this fine collection. One of the more elusive bibliographies of architectural books. Illustrated. Loosely inserted is a printed note from the publisher apologizing for spelling the Fowler's first name wrong on the title page and enclosing a second title page (which is now tipped-in). Very good condition. From the private reference library of..... READ MORE about THE FOWLER ARCHITECTURAL COLLECTION OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY CATALOGUE

Price: $150.00 Order nr. 16160

Order Nr. 250 BIBLIOGRAPHIE DES IMPRESSIONS ET DES OEUVRES DE JOSSE BADIUS ASCENSIUS, IMPRIMEUR...

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(Ascensius, Josse Badius). Renouard, Ph.

BIBLIOGRAPHIE DES IMPRESSIONS ET DES OEUVRES DE JOSSE BADIUS ASCENSIUS, IMPRIMEUR ET HUMANISTE, 1462-1535. Avec une notice biographique et 44 reproductions en fac-simile.

3 volumes.
New York: Burt Franklin, n.d. 8vo. cloth. viii,327; 548; 529 pages. 3 volumes. Reprint of 1908 first edition (See Besterman, 654). A fine study of this 15th and 16th century French printer's works. Badius Ascensius (1462-1535) established his famous press Praelum Ascensianumin Paris in 1499. Includes appendices and table of contents. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHIE DES IMPRESSIONS ET DES OEUVRES DE JOSSE BADIUS ASCENSIUS, IMPRIMEUR ET HUMANISTE,...

Price: $175.00 Order nr. 250

Order Nr. 119799 LITERARY-CRITICAL APPROACHES TO THE BIBLE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. Mark Minor

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(Bibles). Minor, Mark.

LITERARY-CRITICAL APPROACHES TO THE BIBLE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY.

West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1992. 8vo. cloth. xxxii, 520 pages. Table of contents, introduction, guide for using the book, abbreviations, index of authors. A bibliography of works taking a literary-critical approach to the Bible, as opposed to the older historical-critical approach. Includes general works on the two testaments and works specific to books of the Bible or portions thereof. READ MORE about LITERARY-CRITICAL APPROACHES TO THE BIBLE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Price: $125.00 Order nr. 119799

Order Nr. 119448 LES LIVRES DE L'ENFANCE DU XVE AU XIXE SIÈCLE

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(Children's Books).

LES LIVRES DE L'ENFANCE DU XVE AU XIXE SIÈCLE.

Preface by Paul Gavault.
Paris: Gumuchian & Cie. n.d. (1930). 4to. later cloth. xxiv, 446, (4) pages. Preface by Paul Gavault. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies. The introduction is in English and French. A landmark bookseller's catalogue devoted to children's books; a total of 6,251 are described. The entries are not restricted to French titles. Lacks the second volume which contains the plates. READ MORE about LES LIVRES DE L'ENFANCE DU XVE AU XIXE SIÈCLE

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Order Nr. 119861 A CATALOGUE OF ALL THE BOOKS PRINTED IN ENGLAND. Robert Clavel

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Clavel, Robert.

A CATALOGUE OF ALL THE BOOKS PRINTED IN ENGLAND.

4 volumes.
Westmead, Farnborough, Hants., England: Gregg Press, 1965. 4to. cloth. (vi), 32; (vi), 119+(1); (vi), 191+(1); (vi), 127+(1) pages. 4 volumes. Nos. 3-6 in the publisher's English Bibliographical Sources Series 2: Catalogues of Books in Circulation. Reprints of originals (London: S. Simmons, 1673-96. Original editions in Besterman 2007-8. Each volume with a prefatory note to the reader by Clavel. No. 3 includes books from the "dreadful fire of London" to Michaelmas 1672. No. 4 from the..... READ MORE about A CATALOGUE OF ALL THE BOOKS PRINTED IN ENGLAND

Price: $150.00 Order nr. 119861

Order Nr. 119765 THE MARIANO RIVA PALACIO ARCHIVES: A GUIDE. Jack Autrey Dabbs

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Dabbs, Jack Autrey.

THE MARIANO RIVA PALACIO ARCHIVES: A GUIDE.

3 volumes.
México, DF: Editorial Jus. 1967. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xiv, 427, (3); (vi), 429-837+(1); (vi), 839-1149, (3) pages. 3 volumes. Part of the "Independent Mexico in Documents: Independence, Empire, and Republic" series. Limited to 500 numbered copies. Contain documents, in the Latin American Library at the University of Texas, generated by Don Mariano Riva Palacio (1803-80), a leading political figure in 19th century Mexico. Frontispiece. Introduction. 10,199 entries. Notes and index. Wrappers tanned around edges..... READ MORE about THE MARIANO RIVA PALACIO ARCHIVES: A GUIDE

Price: $150.00 Order nr. 119765

Order Nr. 73812 BIBLIOGRAPHIA MOLINAEI. Brian G. Armstrong

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(Du Moulin, Pierre). Armstrong, Brian G.

BIBLIOGRAPHIA MOLINAEI.

An alphabetical, chronological, and descriptive bibliography of the works of Pierre Du Moulin (1568-1658).
Geneva: Droz, 1997. large 8vo. cloth. clvii, 564 pages. An alphabetical, chronological, and descriptive bibliography of the works of Pierre Du Moulin (1568-1658). First edition. Comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Pierre Du Moulin, a Huguenot pastor and spokesman for the French Reformed Church. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHIA MOLINAEI

Price: $100.00 Order nr. 73812

Order Nr. 52785 BIBLIOGRAPHIE HELLÉNIQUE. Emile Legrand

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(Greece). Legrand, Emile.

BIBLIOGRAPHIE HELLÉNIQUE.

4 volumes.
(Mansfield Centre: Maurizio Martino, n.d. but 1998). 8vo. cloth. (vii),ccxxxi,320; lxxix,456; xi,520; xliii,395 pages. 4 volumes. Reprint of series of volumes on Greek bibliography serving as standard sources for the Hellenistic period that were published in Paris by Ernest Leroux in 1885. (Besterman 2749; Sheehy AA842). Emile Legrand published a number of works on modern Greek grammar, but he is best known for these classic volumes on Greek bibliography. This work is devoted to books..... READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHIE HELLÉNIQUE

Price: $125.00 Order nr. 52785

Order Nr. 119422 BIBLIOGRAPHISCHES LEXICON DER GESAMMTEN LITTERATUR DER GRIECHEN. S. F. W. Hoffmann

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Hoffmann, S.F.W.

BIBLIOGRAPHISCHES LEXICON DER GESAMMTEN LITTERATUR DER GRIECHEN.

3 volumes.
(Mansfield Centre, CT: Maurizio Martino Fine Books), n.d. 8vo. cloth, spine gilt-stamped. iv, 614, (2); vi, 649+(1); (ii), 664 pages. 3 volumes. Text in German. (Original edition, Besterman 2745). Reprint, limited to 100 copies, of 2nd edition (1838-45) by A.F. Böhme of Leipzig, Germany. Introductory comments at beginning of first two volumes. Arranged alphabetically, with descriptive information for each title. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHISCHES LEXICON DER GESAMMTEN LITTERATUR DER GRIECHEN

Price: $195.00 Order nr. 119422

Order Nr. 119855 DE BIBLIOTHECIS ET CATENIS PATRUM, VAIISQUE VETERUM SCRIPTORUM ECCLESIASTICORUM...

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Ittig, Thomas.

DE BIBLIOTHECIS ET CATENIS PATRUM, VAIISQUE VETERUM SCRIPTORUM ECCLESIASTICORUM COLLECTIONIBUS.

Westmead, Farnborough, Hants., England: Gregg Press, 1965. 4to. cloth, spine gilt-stamped. unpaginated. Text in Latin. Reprint of orignial edition (Leipzig: Friderici Lankisii, 1707). Original in Graesse III, 439, which notes this work includes all the known--at the time--collections of works of the church fathers. Ittig (1643-1710) was a Lutheran theologian. This reprint has four pages of original text on one. Frontispiece portrait of Ittig. Preface, table of contents. Index and errata. Original pagination clxii, 802..... READ MORE about DE BIBLIOTHECIS ET CATENIS PATRUM, VAIISQUE VETERUM SCRIPTORUM ECCLESIASTICORUM COLLECTIONIBUS

Price: $100.00 Order nr. 119855

Order Nr. 28338 ADVENTURES IN AMERICANA, 1492-1897, THE ROMANCE OF VOYAGE AND DISCOVERY FROM...

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Jones, Herschel.

ADVENTURES IN AMERICANA, 1492-1897, THE ROMANCE OF VOYAGE AND DISCOVERY FROM SPAIN TO THE INDIES, THE SPANISH MAIN, AND NORTH AMERICA, INLAND TO THE OHIO COUNTRY; ON TOWARD THE MISSISSIPPI; THROUGH TO CALIFORNIA ... BEING A SELECTION OF BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF HERSCHEL V. JONES. With a Preface by Dr. Wilberforce Eames. With AMERICANA COLLECTION OF HERSCHEL V. JONES, A CHECK LIST. Compiled by Wilberforce Eames.

3 volumes.
New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1964. tall 4to. cloth. (xi),142 leaves; (viii),143-300 leaves,(12); xii,220 pages. 3 volumes. Reprints of the first editions first issued in 200 copies. Bibliographical description and reproduction of the title pages of 300 of the rarest books in the collection. A.S.W. Rosenbach made one of the great purchases of his career when he bought the Jones Americana library in 1939 for a little less than a quarter million dollars. READ MORE about ADVENTURES IN AMERICANA, 1492-1897, THE ROMANCE OF VOYAGE AND DISCOVERY FROM SPAIN TO THE INDIES,...

Price: $100.00 Order nr. 28338

Order Nr. 119675 THE BIBLIOGRAPHER'S MANUAL OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. William Thomas Lowndes

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Lowndes, William Thomas.

THE BIBLIOGRAPHER'S MANUAL OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.

6 volumes.
London, England: George Bell and Sons, 1900. 8vo. cloth, spine gilt-stamped. variously paginated. 6 volumes. Besterman 917. Reprint of the 1864 revised and enlarged edition (and best edition) by Henry G. Bohn. Notice, with notice to "Part the Second" by Bohn. Includes Lowndes's preface of January 1, 1834. Arranged alphabetically by author. Volumes I-V include list of books in Bohn's Libraries. Volume VI, part of the 1869 reprint (in larger format than the first five..... READ MORE about THE BIBLIOGRAPHER'S MANUAL OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

Price: $125.00 Order nr. 119675

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