Johan Nieuhof’s book about his journey to Brasil, 1682

JOHAN NIEUHOFS Gedenkweerdige BRASILIAENSE ZEE- en LANT-REIZE […]. Amsterdam: Voor de Weduwe van Jacob van Meurs, 1682.

Vilnius University Library, Rare Books Department, Shelf No. Lelev. 3282-3283.

 

Conservation by Daiva Petkevičiūtė (paper treatment) and Ieva Rusteikaitė (binding conservation).

Images by Raimondas Malaiška.

 

The work was awarded in the competition for the best conservation work of 2021–2022 by the Union of Conservators of the Republic of Lithuania (2023) with a prize for “professional conservation of parchment binding“.

Condition

  • Dust
  • Dirt and stains
  • Tears and paper loss in the pages
  • Detachment of the first gathering
  • Loss of the front flyleaf
  • Partial parchment detachment and some tears
  • Complete detachment of the front board
  • Complete loss of covering material in the spine area
  • Loss of transversal lining
  • Big loss of parchment lining in the spine area
  • Broken sewing supports
  • Deformation of the text-block spine
  • Deformed or broken endband cores

Treatment

  • Dry cleaning
  • Repair of tears and paper loss
  • Rounding and consolidation of the text-block spine
  • Repair of the broken sewing supports
  • Attachment and reconstruction of the transversal spine linings
  • Attachment of the sewing support slips to the loose cover
  • Endband conservation
  • Repair of the remaining parchment lining
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