Varied lot concerning professional skills and crafts, and parchment making in particular.

Engr., various sizes.

1. Benard. After Lucotte - Parcheminier. 7 pl. on parchment processing, with a table. - 2. Text part with 3 documents on free boatmen: Mémoire au soutien des droits et privilèges [...] des francs-bateliers, ou navieurs de la ville de Gand [...] 1763; Mémoire concernant des griefs & doléances [...] 1753; Courte déclaration [...] 1753. (Ghent, J.F. vander Schueren, 18th c.). 48 pp. - 3. Surveyor's level. 18th c. - 4. Fayencerie. - 5. Boisselier. Carpenter specialising in curved wood. - 6. "Haec Cynosura mihi" (Although I travel far, I know my guiding star). [Antwerp, Plantin?, 1640]. Jesuit emblem.