A photocopy of the bookplate was sent by Herr Gügel of the Napoleon Museum to cousin Paolo in Rome, who, in turn sent me an enlargement which is reproduced here slightly larger than actual size. Paolo addresses the literal significance of the words: "Liber Baro, S. R. I, de Fingerlin a Bischingen" as follows:

"'Liber Baro' = FreiHerr [= Baron]
'S.R.I.' = Sacri Romani Imperi = of the Holy Roman Empire
The use of 'a Bischingen' is somewhat curious. 'A' means in, at... and thus it seems to indicate that they believed in a geographical origin of their predicate, just opposite to what [was] demonstrated by the Baron von Hornstein in his letters to Herr Zillmann!"

Paolo refers to the von Hornstein letters discussing the von Fingerlin predicate, sometimes encountered as -Büsching, von Bisching, Bischington, Bischingen, etc. Hornstein concluded that the Bisching did not refer to a geographical location, yet the use of "a" suggests that it did, and there is a Bisching in Alsace, one in Swabia, and a Busingen near Schaffhausen, where I understand that Worblingen Castle stands. We expect to sort this out eventually.

As to how the Racine volume of poetry and plays, with our ancestors' name on it, came to be in the collection of the Napoleon Museum on the Bodensee, one might speculate that it may have been a gift or bequethal from Baron Alfred von Fingerlin, Baron Edgar von Fingerlin, or from Edgar's widow (née) Baroness Barbara von Mumb von Mühlheim, all of whom were contemporaries and well-acquainted with Louis Napoleon when he lived on the Bodensee before he became Emperor of France.