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| Tango01 | 15 Aug 2018 11:59 a.m. PST |
"In addition to the old books and ledgers of accounts in Monsieur Monquisard's bookshop on Hertogstraat in Ghent, close by the north bank of the River Leie, there is a dark leather portmanteau in one of the locked cabinets at the rear of the shop. Within the case is a collection of foxed and aged letters, plans, maps and papers, bound together with a faded blue ribbon. It is a singular collection of papers, some damaged, others worn and fragile and nearly all written in a near-illegible archaic Spanish, Flemish and German script. The portmanteau (and its contents) has been unsold for several years, but can be inspected today, along with other more familiar works in the bookshop such as the "History of The City of Laarden" (in Flemish) and the full five volume history of the 1688 Spanish expedition to Laarden (in Old Catalan…."
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