Gargoyle on vellum

Where did this come from? I got it at a yard sale with a bunch of other books. When I really looked at it, I realized it was hand-painted on real vellum. Depicts a certain gargoyle in Siena on a street off a plaza, the building now houses a clothing shop. It seems like a Grand Tour souvenir circa 19th to early 20th Century. With a little care, this could be turned into a fantasy prop for a secret Harry Potter society, or a log book for an occultist frat house. See more photos here.

Bohemian lizards and spiders

A street trash pile from a storybook house-gutting in Vinohrady yielded this treasure. The oblong album had no pictures in it, but the nearby effects included mechanical and architectural folly drawings from the 1920s. Which I'm keeping. Between the black pages are translucent pages (onionskin?) embossed with a spider web design you can see here.