Posts by Ursula Mitra

Conservation Treatment of Hendrick Doncker’s Zee-atlas from 1660; Or, How an Atlas Gets Stressed, and What Book Conservators Do About It

by Ursula Mitra, Senior Book Conservator
September 28, 2021

The primary goal of treatment was to reinforce the maps’ attachment to the book which had begun to tear over the years.

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