you go okay, well now you see the fluor daily so you think that's french for that's french royalty but do you see the two sides? that's because this person was married so this would be a clean copy. the king at the time was louis the 16th. this is the seal of marie antoinette and this, it's in latin. you may not recognize the book and you may overlook that but if you know what marie antoinette's sea looked like you'd be able to identify the sender very of very few of these books that is survived. when she was executed for libraries were observed into the french national library. this would have been the little book that she carried with her and she would have had more than one. this is something that each year or so they were given new copy so she would have had a few and that's why she could have why she could have given this copy way and that's why it's currently not in the french national library anymore. finally another fun book i have is a shakespeare book. it's quite rare. shakespeare died in 1516 and 1523 his complete works were first printed and again in 1632 and 1664 in 1685.

you go, okay, well, now you see the fluor delis, so you think -- de lis, but why do you see the two sides? well, this was because this person was married. so this would be a queen's copy. the king at the time was louis xvi. this is the seal of marie antoinette. and it's in latin. you may not recognize the book, and you may overlook that, but if you know what marie antoinette's seal looked like, you would be able to recognize this. there are very few of her books that survived, because when she was executed, her libraries were absorbed into the national french library. this would have been a little book that she carried with her, and she would have had more than one. this is something that each year or so they were given a new copy. so she would have had a few, and that's why she could have given this copy away, and that's why it is currently not in the french national library. and finally, another fun book i have is a shakespeare book. it's quite rare. shakespeare died in 1616, and in 1623 his complete work were first printed. and then again in 1632, 1684 and 1685. only about 250 of each