5 - [AMICORUM].

[AMICORUM]. Title: [Two Friendship Objects from the Late 18th–Early 19th Centuries] Description: — Catalog Entry: -A red, long-grained morocco leather wallet from the 18th–early 19th centuries with a silk lining embroidered to celebrate a friendship. In large in-12 format. Covers adorned with a gilded scrollwork border, small floral motifs in the spandrels, ivory silk endpapers, and a double pocket with pink and white silk flaps featuring embroidered sprigs within frames and adorned with embroidery. On the reverse sides: a large motif featuring a double heart pierced by an arrow above a mountain and a fountain on one side, and a motif of doves on a branch on the other. On the inside covers, the book is embroidered with hair to form, on one side, the phrase “L’Amitié en fait le prix” and, on the other, the initials “ME” and “CC” framing the number “108,” with two letters “L” completing the design. With a bookplate consisting of a piece of green maroquin title leather in a mosaic pattern on the upper cover, “Caunois, eldest son / A Auxerre” embossed in gold, underlined with a gold fillet and roulette (scuffs, stains, and small areas of worn leather on the cover; silk slightly dulled or lightly oxidized). The object most likely belonged to a member of the Auxerre family of clockmakers active between the late 18th and 19th centuries. The supra libris features the signature found on their clocks. -[Antique green Russian leather box with notebook]. (Germany or Central Europe, early 19th century). In-12 format (10.5 x 17 x 2 cm), modeled after an early 19th-century binding. Green Russian leather, smooth spine decorated with rollers, links, and a floral symbol on a cross-hatched background, all gilded, covers adorned with a gilded floral garland framing a geometric motif at the center, resembling a gilded chain encircling a diamond with stars in the spandrels. A charming, intimate object of the period. Gilded title on the spine: “Gevidmet der Freundsch[aft]” (Dedicated to Friendship). A lovely antique box containing sheets of paper, likely intended for a Liber or Album amicorum. It includes a booklet of loose blank leaves with gilded edges and a sheet of heavy paper embroidered with a floral composition—the handiwork of a lady or young woman—radiating from a heart, a symbol of piety or affection (with slight foxing). On the inside front cover, covered with speckled handmade paper, is a colored, engraved roundel vignette titled “Paul and Virginie.”