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#46 Flore du Departement de L'Orne 
National Agricultural Library 
Beltsville, MD 
Condition On Receipt : 
The quarter-leather binding with marbled paper and vellum tips 
was dirty and abraded at the edges. The leather was deteriorated 
and cracked along the front hinge. Aside from being slightly 
discolored, stained and foxed, the pages were in good condition. 
Treatment : 
The volume was collated. The inks were tested for solubility. 
The head, tail and pages were dry cleaned and nonaqueously 
buffered (deacidified) with methoxy magnésium methyl carbonate 
solution. Folds were guarded with Japanese paper and rice 
starch paste. The sewing was reinforced. The binding was 
repaired by rebacking using calf leather. One corner was 
recovered using vellum. Title information was tooled in 
gold leaf onto the spine. The leather was furbished with 
a mixture of neat's-foot oil and lanolin. 
Northeast Document Conservation Center 
March 1984 
SO:GB/JN 
