Its selling point is that it comes with a set of "removable facsimile documents".
The effort that went into making this jam-packed scrapbook, full of maps, pictures and facsimile documents, is likely to be matched by the time you'll spend poring over it with a pirate-struck girl or boy.
In 1823 John Quincy Adams authorized the creation of the only facsimile of the parchment document, but the job severely damaged the original.
A facsimile of the yellowed document now lives on the Web site of Darel's company, Maison Gerard Darel, alongside a page devoted to two of the designer's other prized possessions, a necklace once owned by Jackie Kennedy and a sweater worn by Marilyn Monroe in "How to Marry a Millionaire".
Just explain that a facsimile of the required document is posted on your website and give the clerk the domain name.
And some of its documents are facsimile or photographic copies.
In 1987, India's own Watergate broke in The Hindu, which printed hundreds of documents in facsimile form to expose the Bofors corruption scandal, involving kickbacks received by politicians in exchange for a defense contract.
They published their account of the discovery in 1899 and facsimiles of the documents in 1901.
Newton's terrific book recording his magazine work, "Pages From the Glossies: Facsimiles 1956-1998" (Scalo), documents his visions of Saint Laurent in chronological order.
These "time capsules", as the compiler Shaun Usher describes the letters, are showcased in an aesthetic delight of a book, with many facsimiles of original documents reproduced, transporting us back to moments in the past and bringing them to life in evocative detail.
Dearden and Watson, who were trying to sell over five hundred Aitken Bible leaves, had the leaves, along with facsimiles of various documents related to the Bible, made into books.
