80 2666 Sciences Brunings Christiaan 1736 1805 
80 2666 Sciences Brunings Christiaan 1736 1805 
= Christiaan Brunings, Dutch hydraulic engineer. In 1769 he became Inspector General of the Government Rivers, giving more attention to water management of the upper rivers. In 1798 he was appointed head of the Bureau voor den Waterstaat (Office of Public Works), the forerunner of the Rijkswaterstaat. Brunings spent more than thirty years as head of Dutch public works, from 1800 as Inspector-General of the Public Works of the Batavian Republic; from 1803 as Director of the country's river and sea works. Interesting letter, in which he extensively explains and proves why it is impossible to build a device that has "Eeuwigduurende beweeging" (perpetual movement).
80 2667 Sciences Buys Ballot C H D 1817 1890 
- All folded, brittle and partly torn on folds.
= Buys Ballot, meteorologist, was connected to the faculty of sciences of Utrecht University from 1844 onwards. All documents are signed university testimonies for various exams in physics and pharmaceutics taken by Pieter Denijs.
AND 2 other documents concerning Denijs' pharmaceutical education.
80 2668 Sciences Easton Cornelis 1864 1929 
80 2668 Sciences Easton Cornelis 1864 1929 
= Interesting collection of letters, all in Dutch, to the writer, journalist, (amateur) meteorologist and astronomer Cornelis EASTON, whose "contributions to astronomy deal mostly with the description and interpretation of the Milky Way. At the age of seventeen, as an amateur astronomer, he made his first drawings of the distribution of its brightness. The subsequent perfection and Easton's interpretation of these drawings gained him international fame (...). The drawings were first published in Paris in 1893, under the title La Voie Lactée, dans l'hémisphère boréal" (DSB IV, p.272).
All but two letters by esteemed astronomers, mainly on astronomical matters, publications and fellow astronomers:
1. Albertus Philppus KAPTEIJN (1848-1927) (postcard, dated "Den Haag, 16 Sept 22"); 2. Laurentius KNAPPERT (1863-1943, theologist) (ALS, dated "Leiden 9 mei 1923", 1 fold. leaf, 2p.); 3. Willem Jacob LUYTEN (1899-1994) (ALS, dated "Mt Hamilton 1922 Jan 25", 1 leaf, 2p.); 4. Albertus Antonie NIJLAND (1868-1936) (ALS, dated "'s-Gravenhage, 21 Juni 1922", 1 leaf, 2p.); 5. Antonie PANNEKOEK (1973-1960) (ALS, dated "Leuven 1 Februari '94", 1 fold. leaf, 3p. Extensively on astronomical matters; w. some pencil annots. by Easton); 6. Pieter Johannes VAN RHIJN (1886-1960) (ALS, dated "Groningen, 27 September 1918", 1 fold. leaf, 2p.); 7. Rudolph Hendrik SALTET (1853-1927, physician) (ALS, dated "O.Z. Achterburgwal 213, 19 April 1923", 1 fold. leaf, 2p.); 8. Hendricus Gerardus VAN DE SANDE BAKHUYZEN (1838-1923) (postcard, dated "Leiden 16 Sept. 1922". Thanking him for sending the publication on Kapteyn); 9. Johan STEIN (1871-1951) (ALS, dated "Amsterdam, 27 Febr. '22", 1 fold. leaf, 2p. On participation in the Astronomy Congress in Rome).
80 2669 Sciences Kistemaker Jacob 1917 2010 
= Jacob ("Jaap") Kistemaker was a pioneer in the field of uranium isotope separation. In the 50s he developed a method for separating uranium isotopes with mass spectrometry. After that he developed the principle of uranium enrichment with ultracentrifuges together with fellow-researcher Joop Los. Nowadays this technology is used to produce uranium for use in nuclear fuel reactors, amongst others by Urenco in Almelo, that was founded partly on the basis of his research. In the 60s and 70s Kistemaker led a successful research program in the field of atomic and molecular physics. With his research, Kistemaker has played a key role in the development of physics in the Netherlands after the Second World War. (source: www.amolf.nl).
In this short treatise Kistemaker writes about the history of the research for uranium enrichment, somewhat attenuating his role: "In April 1957 kwam de doorbraak op een ad hoc Symposium van Isotopenscheiders in Amsterdam (...) van zo'n 80 experts (...) waar ook drie Duitsers en een Oosternrijker (Dr Zippe) zojuist terug uit Russische krijgsgevangenschap waren. Dr Gernot ZIppe werkte in 1946-56 in het Russische Ultracentrifuge project in Suckumi (Kaukasus). Op een speciale plaats, na afloop v/d conferentie, heeft hij me een aantal details van de Russische centrifuge verteld. Mijn verdienste is geweest dat ik in 2 uren tijds begrepen heb wat hij me vertelde. De verdienst van mijn medewerkers, de volgende dag was dat zij het belang in zagen, en ogenblikkelijk hun researchprogramma aanpasten (...)"
WITH: Idem. AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE CARD "J. Kistemaker. "Uitvinder" v/d ultracentrifuge voor productie van verrijkt uranium 1954/1964", dated "2 December 1996", black ballpoint, recto only.
= With the orig. autograph addressed envelope in which Kistemaker sent the above.
80 2670 Sciences Klinkenberg Dirk 1709 1799 
= Letter to the "Heeren Directeuren van de Hollandsche Maatschappije der Weetenschappen" in which Klinkenberg accepts the invitation for the membership of the society. Klinkenberg was a mathematician and renowned astronomer (he discovered several comets and was the first to prove that Uranus was a planet instead of a comet). "(...) Klinkenberg werd in 1755 tot gewoon klerk ter secretarie van Holland aangesteld en bekleedde die betrekking gedurende ruim 40 jaren. Bij de vele werkzaamheden aan dezen post verbonden, bleef hij niet alleen de wiskundige wetenschappen beoefenen, maar legde zich ook meer en meer op de bij hem geliefkoosde sterrekunde toe, tot welks beoefening hij vroeger te Haarlem een gezelschap had opgerigt, waarin hij verscheidene proeven van geene geringe bedrevenheid in het vak, door meer dan eene gewigtige waarneming, gaf, en waardoor zijn naam zoo binnen als buiten 's lands met roem bekend werd." (Van der Aa, Biographisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden, vol.X, p.230).
AND a manuscript leaf, "Extract uit het Register van de Resolutien der Heeren Staaten van Zeelandt", dated "Den 2e September 1782", SIGNED by Laurens Pieter van de Spiegel (1737-1800), 'raadspensionaris' of Zeeland.
80 2671 Sciences Swinden Jan Hendrik 1746 1823 
= Requesting Molard to send him his reports and telling him that he is planning to visit him to hear his commentary. Jean Henri van Swinderen, Dutch mathematician and physicist, was appointed as representative during the French occupation of the Netherlands. He was one of the founders of the Koninklijk Instituut van Wetenschappen.
80 2672 Sciences Vries Hugo de 1848 1935 
- Tipped onto mount.
= Hugo de Vries, botanist specialized in cell-physiology and experimental genetics. Explaining that he soon will be retired and that he will then have time to react on the proposal of the addressee (possibly to consider a publication) and also mentioning that his successor prof. Th Stomps "aan wie ik Uw brief liet lezen, is echter bereid reeds nu met U te onderhandelen over de opname van eene beschriijving van zijne reizen naar America, Algiers en de Caucasus in Uw serie."
80 2673 Sciences Ziedses des Plantes Bernard George 1902 1993 
= Bernard George Ziedses des Plantes was trained as specialist in nervous diseases, but his lifelong passion was to improve X-ray imaging of living tissues. In the 1930s he not only built the first machine for planigraphy, in which the X-ray tube and the film moved together around the plane of interest, but he also designed the subtraction method to improve images after injection of contrast agents. Eventually a full-time radiologist, he also developed the 'somersault' technique of ventriculography and pioneered isotope scintigraphy. (source: www.researchgate.net).
In this letter, that accompanied the signature card below, Ziedses des Plantes writes about the way he got the idea for developing the machine for planigraphy and explaining the way it works (lacks the addenda with figures to which he refers). "(...) Ik kwam op het denkbeeld in mijn eerste jaar van medische studie 1921-22. (...) Onze docent in de radiologie zag er niets is. Ik heb er toen enige tijd niets aan gedaan. Pas in 1928 toen ik als arts was afgestudeerd ben ik met de bouw van een toestel begonnen. In 1931 kon ik de eerste resultaten publiceren. (...) Bartelink radioloog in Wageningen was de enige die ook tot toepassing en vroege publicatie is gekomen. Bijna gelijktijdig. We waren beiden onwetend van elkaars werk en van de bestaande octrooischriften. De radiographische subtractie heb ik in 1933 uitgevonden en in 1934 gepubliceerd (...)".
WITH: Idem. AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE CARD "[signature] Bloemendaal 29-1-1992. Docent neurologie Rotterdam (1950-1953)/ Hoogleraar Radiologie A'dam (1953-1972) Tomografie (1931) en Subtractie (1934)", blue ballpoint, recto only. - AND with a brochure "Wat is Radiodiagnostiek" (n.d., (8)p., ills.).
80 2674 Slavery Redevoering over de afschaffing der slavenhandel 
80 2674 Slavery Redevoering over de afschaffing der slavenhandel 
= Prob. a draft, w. several erasures and corrections.
80 2675 Steenhardt C P van 19th cent a o 
80 2675 Steenhardt C P van 19th cent a o 
- Hinges weakening; a few lvs. cut from the book. Covers sl. scuffed, otherwise fine.
= A "Receuil de Chansons" started by C.P. Steenhardt in 1819, containing many pages of song lyrics and a few pages of music-notation. The flipside of the book contains recipes for remedies and other common household applications, as well as three drawings/ sketches in pencil. The book continued to be used by Steenhardt's family members, evolving to be used for excerpts, quotes and some personal thoughts. The last entry was in 1951, with a small drawing of flowers on the opposite page.
ADDED: a manuscript notebook with recipes for soups, sauces, cakes and more by J.F. Verschoor, 1882, partly blank, w. the last few recipes in a different hand, contemp. hcl. (worn, contents partially loose).
80 2676 Steenwijk Large archive concerning the Firma Oosterbaan in Steenwijk 
80 2676 Steenwijk Large archive concerning the Firma Oosterbaan in Steenwijk 
80 2676 Steenwijk Large archive concerning the Firma Oosterbaan in Steenwijk 
= The Firma Oosterbaan was a business in fabrics, fashion articles, wallpaper and matrasses and was located in Woldstraat 18-20 in Steenwijk from 1866 to 1952. Comprises i.a. customers' orders for clothing/ fabrics (180x, 1920-1952); quittances and payment receipts (1922-1948, partly w. orig. envelope); a large quantity of advertising brochures and correspondence (mostly early 1950's); purchases and invoices (1937-1948); application letters (1941); 2 accounting books recording customers' outstanding debts and payments (1924-1928 and 1933-1935); wage statements; tax returns; as well as private administration and correspondence concerning the purchase of a sailing yacht and the construction of a boat house in Giethoorn.
80 2677 Utrecht Small archive of ±35 miscell manuscript and printed documents mostly concerning the province of Utrecht legal documents letters songs/ poems and newspapers 
= Contains several legal documents concerning Jaarsveld and surroundings, i.a. "Aan Jacob de Jong is toegestaan, dat hij zijn kind mag laaten doopen te Jaarsveld - als wonende bij de Kerk aldaar, doch behoorende tot Lexmond" (1803) and "Wij Willem, bij de gratie Gods, Koning der Nederlanden (...) op de voordragt van Onzen Minister van Binnenlandsche Zaken (...) hebben goedgevonden en verstaan, te benoemen en aanstellen (...) tot Hoogheemraad van den Lekkendijk Benedendams en IJsseldam, en tot Polderschout van de Polders onder Jaarsveld, Provincie Utrecht in plaats van Warnardus Verhagen, overleden, Zacharias de Klein" (1832); minutes, i.a. "Voor uittreksel [of the meeting] conform de Secretaris der Waterschappen Batuwe e.a. onder Jaarsveld, J.F. de Gier Heemraad" (1871), and various songs, i.a. a manuscript 'psalmberijming' titled "Nevens, Buiten, Voor en Over U" (anonymous) and H. VAN ALPHEN, "Zelfsbeproeving, avondzang".
80 2678 Utrecht Small archive of ±70 miscell manuscript and printed legal documents letters and newspaper clippings mostly concerning the province of Utrecht 
= Contains several notarial acts, i.a. "Provisionele rekening, verantwoording en scheiding van den boedel en nalatenschap van wijlen Benjamin Verveer en zijne vooroverledene huisvrouw Annigje Bos" (Noord-Polsbroek etc., 1811); "Expeditie scheiding tusschen Teunis de Groot en Adriana de Groot beiden te Lexmond woonachtig van eenige onroerende goederen, hun aangenomen uit de boedel van wijlen Aart Kleijn" (1842); a venia aetatis of Sara Maria Santijn "woonende binnen de Stad Leyden oud ruim een en twintig jaaren" (on vellum, with (partly dam.) wax seal, 1759), and letters, i.a. "Lieve tantes, gisteren heb ik voor de piano een groote vijf gehad, ik was er erg blij mee. Mijnheer heeft mij gisteren lesgegeven omdat ik vrijdag met Mijnheer was wezen visschen." (Ameide, 1894).
80 2679 Wieringerwaard Deed of transport concerning property gelegen in de Wieringerwaert in 't Block C 
= Deed by which Susanne Rolwagen, niece and heiress of Leonard Ras (former mayor of Alkmaar) transfers "seven morgen driehondert en sestig roeden lant" to Daniel Ras. Wieringerwaard was poldered in 1611.
80/2680 Wreaths Heilgroet aan mijne waarde tante!
- A few foxed spots. = Cf. Buijnsters-Smets p.53.
AND 3 others similar: Marriage wishes (2x)/ New Year's wish, dated 1815-1865 (all sl. creased/ (water)stained). - AND 1 other.
80 2681 Wreaths Kermis Prijs Aan mijne Waarde Oom en Peet 
80 2681 Wreaths Kermis Prijs Aan mijne Waarde Oom en Peet 
80 2681 Wreaths Kermis Prijs Aan mijne Waarde Oom en Peet 
- Two brown stains in left margin; sm. tear in fold. = Buijnsters-Smets p.208.
AND 3 others similar, 1x published by the same.
80 2682 Writing desk Bramah portable writing desk 
80 2682 Writing desk Bramah portable writing desk 
80 2682 Writing desk Bramah portable writing desk 
= Joseph Bramah worked as locksmith from 1784 onwards. The firm changed its name into Bramah and Son in 1814, making 1814 the terminus ante quem. Very attractive portable writing desk in fine condition. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXX.
80 2683 Zeeland Michielzen M ±1630 1684 attrib 
80 2683 Zeeland Michielzen M ±1630 1684 attrib 
- First and final blank lvs. sl. foxed/ soiled. A good/ fine copy written in a neat hand.
= One of several transcripts of Michielse's famous (but unpublished) so-called "Burlesque Notulen", humorous notes written while attending the often boring meetings of the Staten van Zeeland. The work starts off with the following couplet: "Ik schrijf een coddig Rijm, voor al die 't willen Lezen; Wat dat de Wereld is, of watze schijnd te Wezen; Hoe alle soort van volk, word bij de Neus geleijt, Door Eygenbaat en List, tot slaafsze dienstbaarheijt." The first entry (13 June 1676) begins with the lines: "Zoo dra d'Eerst' Edele was gekomen, Heeft men terstond een Boo vernomen; Die zey dat men op zaturdag, De staten te gemoete zag." Usually the works starts on 13 January, but perhaps in this case the date of 13 June is a mistake by the copyist. Numerous local events, disputes, intrigues etc. are elaborated upon. On Michielse see Nagtglas III, p.170-172.
80 2684 Zeeland Registre de Correspondance de Monsieur le baron Perreimond Général de Brigade Chef de L'État Major Général de L'armée de réserve 
80 2684 Zeeland Registre de Correspondance de Monsieur le baron Perreimond Général de Brigade Chef de L'État Major Général de L'armée de réserve 
80 2684 Zeeland Registre de Correspondance de Monsieur le baron Perreimond Général de Brigade Chef de L'État Major Général de L'armée de réserve 
- Binding w. worn spots and a large scratch on frontcover.
= Light Cavalry Division: Général de brigade Andre Thomas Perreimond. Register of all the outgoing letters by the General, to whom, when and with the (summary of the) contents of the letters. I.a. to various officials and officers in Zeeland, the Netherlands, related to the Walcheren Campaign of the British Army in 1809. I.a. 30 December to a "General Gillij": "Mon General, les hollandais qui sont dans l'isle de Walcheren doivent en partir demain. Mr. le marechal [Bessieres] duc D'Istrie a decédé qu'il seraient remplacés par la brigade du General Bourk en consequence cette brigade doit passer demain le Sloop vis a vis la batterie No.9 Siton(or Sinon?) quelle Sera de l'autre coté vous la dirigez sur les point de Werskapelle (Westkapelle), forth Den Baak et Veere (...).
80 2685 Aa P vander 
80 2685 Aa P vander 
80 2685 Aa P vander 
80 2685 Aa P vander 
- One leaf w. hole (w. loss of a few words); nudity of halfnaked men and women on most of the ills. and on title-vignettes censured in (near contemp.) pen and ink; one map ("De Roode Zee") dam. in margin of image; some maps strengthened w. paper on verso along margins/ on folds; all vols. w. new endpapers and all w. a stamp on htitle ("Jette S. Magdalena [...]" partly illegible); occas. sl. fingersoiled in margin; maps occas. yellowed/ sl. browned. Nevertheless a good and extremely rare set.
= Cat. NHSM 107; Tiele 10; Sabin 5; Muller, America 1887. A very good and near complete (if not complete) set of the folio edition, of which even separate vols. are rare. Each set of two vols. is devoted to the collected voyages of the Portuguese, the Spaniards, the English and the other nations. Only the voyages of the Dutch are not incorporated into the work. Each voyage has a separate title and index. SEE ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE LXXXI.