81 2475 Oud J J P Mies van der Rohe Ludwig 1886 1969 
= On the decision of Oud to quit his job working for the municipality of Rotterdam and the importance to work freely, as well as on his own policy to keep the Bauhaus independent. "(..) Ich sende dir ein paar Photos und überlasse es dir das geeignete Blatt aus zu schicken. Es hat mich sehr gefreud von dir zu hören das du bald wieder frei bist und unabhängig arbeiten kannst. (...) Wir schränke uns lieber ein und bleiben frei (...)."
WITH: Reich, Lilly (1885-1947). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "Lilly Reich", to "Lieber Herr Oud!", dated "12 Februar 36", pen and ink, 1 leaf, recto and verso, with printed letterhead "Lilly Reich/ Berlin (...)".
= Asking Oud for help to persuade Dutch magazines to pay attention to the 50th birthday of Mies van der Rohe and writing on the latest projects that have been cancelled. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LX.
81 2476 Oud J J P Moholy Nagy Lázló 1895 1946 
- Yellowed. Verso w. remnants of sellotape and rubbed spots from former tipping in; poststamp removed.
= Writing that he is enjoying his holiday: "(...) in den Knochen sitzt noch Holland, aber die Rhön fordert auch ihre Rechte (...). Den ganzen Tag nichts tun, herrlliche Erkenntnis (...)". With short added line in pencil by Mohly-Nagy's wife: "Und grüß, Lucia MN". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXI.
81 2477 Oud J J P Moholy Nagy Lázló 1895 1946 
= Interesting letter, i.a. on a trip he made to Italy, on his cinematic activities and on the coming exhibition of his paintings in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, for which he asks Oud to hold the opening speech. "(...) in november halte ich einen filmvortrag in den haag, vielleicht auch in leiden, wo ich auch den kleinen film von dem arch. kongress in griechenland warscheinlich zeigen werde (...). interessiert das euch? und meine kleinen sonstigen experimente? (...) meine pariser ausstellung was jetzt in utrecht und ich zeige dieselbe hier in amsterdam vom 24/XI ab in dem stedelijk museum. für die eröffnung fragte man mich, ob ich ein 'grosses tier' hätte.'grösstes tier'- das bis du, lieber j.j.p. - und ich wäre selig, wenn du die eröffnungsrede, enige worte, halten würdest (...)". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXI.
81 2478 Oud J J P Moholy Nagy Lázló 1895 1946 
= On the difficult circumstances during the War and his activities. "(...) During these years we just hoped against hope that our best friends would survive this cataclysm. In comparison with Europe, here in the States we had a completely undisturbed life in spite of a terrific concentration on war work and on the efforts to keep the framework of cultural institutions in tact. (...) At present I am working on a new book, Visions in Motion, and I would gladly bring the Shell building in it if you can send me a few photographs of it or any other work which you have done in the last ten years (...)". Also on activities of Sigfried Giedion, Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe in the US.
81 2479 Oud J J P Reich Lilly 1885 1947 
- Sl. waterstained.
= On the patent of a chair design, on a project she is working on with Mies van der Rohe and on the hard times. "Es tut mir leid, dass Sie jetzt wieder in diese Patentstreitfragen hineingezogen werden. Die von Ihnen genannten Anwälte Vriesendorp und Gaade sind uns zwar nicht bekannt, aber wir glauben doch, dass diese Rückfrage an Sie sich auf den Streit Thonet-van Heyst-Gispens über das Patent von Mies bezieht. Der erste freischwebende Stuhl is erst etwa 1922 in Amerika patentiert worden, dieser Stuhl was aber nicht aus Rohr sondern aus Stangen. (...) Ich hatte einige kleinere Arbeiten, aber jetzt wider gar nichts mehr. EIne solche Situation is nicht schön, aber wir wissen so garnicht wie wir sie ändern können. Es ist traurig, dass es auch bei Ihnen nicht viel anders ist. In welch ein schwierige Zeit sind wir hineingeboren (....)".
81 2480 Oud J J P Schawinsky Alexander “Xanti” 1904 1979 
- Formerly folded.
= Very rare polemic essay in which Schawinsky counters the image of Bauhaus that Hannes Meyer pictures in the diary he published: "(...) hannes meyers dialektisch so gewandtes schreiben entstellt die linie der gesamten bauhausentwicklung. es ist das dokument einer geschichtsfälschung, welche er während seiner zweijährigen bauhaus-tätigkeit kunstvoll aufgebaut hat (...)".
WITH the accompanying cyclostyled letter, addressed "herrn j.p./ oud kijkduin" and signed "alexander schawinsky" in pen and ink, 1 fold. leaf w. printed letterhead, recto only (1p.).
- Ruststain in upper left corner from paperclip.
= "(...) als einer der bauhäusler, welche unter der leitung von gropius und dann unter derjenigen von hannes meyer gearbeit haben, sehe ich darin eine aufgabe, dieser entstellenden propaganda einige tatsachen entgegenzuhalten (...)". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXII.
81/2481 Oud J J P Lot of 9 AUTOGRAPH/ TYPESCRIPT LETTERS 
= Interesting collection of letters, mainly by architects, i.a. on the difficulties due to the war. Comprises: ALFRED H. BARR Jr. (1902-1981), typescr. letters signed, dated "June 15, 1936", 1 leaf, recto only, w. letterhead "The Museum of Modern Art (...); SIGFRIED GIEDION (1888-1968), 2 autogr. letters, both monogrammed "S.G.", dated "Zurich, 9 okt. 37" and undated [1937?], together 6 lvs., recto only (1x recto and verso); WERNER HEGEMANN (1881-1936), autogr. letter signed, dated "Genf (...) 12.V.33", 1 leaf, recto only, w. added cyclostyled leaf "Die Feuersprüche bei der mitternächtlichen Verbrennung undeutschen Schrifttums an den Hochschulorten" [i.a. on the burning of publications by Emil Ludwig and Hegemann; waterstained]; JOSEPH HUDNUT (1886-1968), typescr. letter signed, dated "June 9, 1936", 1 leaf, recto only, w. printed letterhead "Harvard University (...) Graduate School of Design (...) Department of Architecture", w. added typescr. "Confidential/ Memorandum" on the proposed appointment as professor of design at Harvard, 2 lvs., recto (first leaf w. autogr. annot. by Oud); EMANUEL JOSEF MARGOLD (1888-1962), typescr. letter signed, dated "den 5.Juni 1936", 2 lvs., recto only, w. printed letterhead "Architekt Emanuel Josef Margold"; GUSTAV ADOLF PLATZ (1891-1947), two typescr. letters signed, dated "12.11.39" and "6.August 1940", each 1 leaf, recto and verso and recto only, first w. printed letterhead "Gustav Adolf Platz/ Stadbaudirektor A.D./ Architekt"; ERICA TAUT (widow of Bruno Taut (1880-1938)), autogr. letter signed, dated "Amsterdam, 10.V.39", 1 leaf recto and verso.
ADDED: 2 typescript letters to Gunther Stamm, i.a. by Richard Neutra (stained/ dam.), and an offprint from Bouwkundig Weekblad Architectura (1945) w. a contribution by J.J.P. Oud (badly waterstained and lvs. sticking together).
81/2482 Poesie albums Lot of 7 poesie albums 
81/2483 Printers and printing offices etc Letter zetters luywagen Ofte Beknopte onderwysinge Hoe men alderhande Formaten zal leeren overslaan Waar by gevoegt is een afteikening Van Ingeleijde Le
81/2483 Printers and printing offices etc Letter zetters luywagen Ofte Beknopte onderwysinge Hoe men alderhande Formaten zal leeren overslaan Waar by gevoegt is een afteikening Van Ingeleijde Le
81/2483 Printers and printing offices etc Letter zetters luywagen Ofte Beknopte onderwysinge Hoe men alderhande Formaten zal leeren overslaan Waar by gevoegt is een afteikening Van Ingeleijde Le
- Sm. stain throughout in outer lower margin; a few scattered lightbrown stains; sm. tear (max. 1 cm.) in lower margin. Vellum lacks ties and sl. duststained.
= Written on paper with the watermark listed under Churchill 13 (dating 1675). Very early (if not the earliest known) Dutch imposition manual. As explained in the review of Frans Janssen's The Earliest Dutch Imposition Manual. A Facsimile of the Manuscript Overslag-boek by Joannes Josephus Balthazar Vanderstraelen, in Quaerendo 44, p.211-212: "An imposition manual is a technical handbook for printers. This illustrated manual has schemes which indicate the position of the composed pages on the sheet. The schemes specify how to set pages in different formats in order to get a proper sequence of the pages after printing and folding the sheets into quires. The manual is a guide for the compositor in placing the pages in the form." The until now oldest known Dutch imposition manual is Vanderstraelen's manuscript, which dates from 1794-1795 and was sold by Christie's in 2006 for 9600$. Frans Janssen mentions one other earlier manuscript Dutch printer's manual in his edition of the Vanderstraelen facsimile. It is a presumed lost manual by the Middelburg typographer Sigismund Matthaeus, which has a somewhat different title (apart from the first two words "Letterzetters Luywagen") and a preface dated 1761. This work is referred to by J.W. Enschedé in his article Een Nederlandsche handleiding voor boekdrukwerk uit 1761 (in Het Boek 1, 1912). On the basis of the paper and the handwriting in our manuscript, the present "Letter-zetters Luywagen" might be an earlier (unrecorded) manuscript on the subject than both the work by Vanderstraelen and that of Matthaeus. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXII.
81/2484 Printers and printing offices etc Ordonnantie en Previlegie van Het Boekdrukkers Boekbinders En Boekverkers sic Gilde binne de Stad Middelburg in Zee Land 
= Possibly a transcript of the various ordinances published between 1590 and 1679, concerning printers, bookbinders and booksellers in the town of Middelburg.
81 2485 Science Collection of 20 signatures by 8 Dutch Nobel laureates 
= With signatures by Gerard 't Hooft (8x), J. Tinbergen (3x), M. Veltman (2x), A. Geim, N. Bloembergen (2x), B. Feringa (2x), Simon van der Meer and P. Creutzen.
ADDED: 1 other.
81 2486 Science Eijkman Christiaan 1858 1930 
= Christiaan Eijckman, Dutch physician and pathologist whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of vitamins. Received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1929.
Sitter, Willem de (1872-1934). AUTOGRAPH POSTCARD SIGNED "W. de Sitter", to "C. Easton", dated "Leiden 12/7/22", pen and ink, recto and verso, w. autogr. address on verso, stamped.
= Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and cosmologist whose papers, published in London during World War I, aroused British scientific interest in Einstein's general theory of relativity. His concept of the universe differed in some respects from that of Einstein. The Einstein-de Sitter model of the universe, formulated in 1932, treats the universe as existing in Euclidean space rather than in curved shape. To the writer, journalist, (amateur) meteorologist and astronomer Cornelis EASTON: "Ik heb uw brief ontvangen, Ik zal uw veranderingen en toevoegingen kritisch nagaan en ze waarschijnlijk nog wel wat aanwerken (...)".
AND 25 other autograph correspondence cards/ sentiments or signatures, all by Dutch scientists in varying fields, all but a few addressed to "R./ René Vlug", occas. w. orig. (autogr.) addressed envelope, i.a. by Hendrik Casimir (physicist), Jan Oort (astronomer), Prof. Harry van der Laan (astronomer), Prof. dr. Cees de Jager (astronomer) and Maarten Schmidt (Dutch-American astronomer).
81 2487 Science Lorentz Hendrik 1853 1928 
- Sl. browned/ w. some offsetting from envelope.
= Lorentz thanks the director of the Provinciale Waterstaat van Noord Holland for his attendance at the celebration of Lorentz' 70th birthday and his contribution to his gift.
Idem. SIGNATURE "H.A. Lorentz", pen and ink on a photogr. portrait. - AND WITH a letterpress card thanking the recipient for his attendence at the celebration of his 50th doctorate year and an addressed invitation to the funeral of H.A. Lorentz.
81 2488 Science Zeeman Pieter 1865 1943 
= To the writer, journalist, (amateur) meteorologist and astronomer Cornelis EASTON: "Uw persoonlijke herinneringen aan C. Kapteyn [Dutch astronomer] hebben mij levendig belang ingeboezemd. Ik dank u zeer voor uw vriendelijkheid die mij toe te zenden".
AND a small note w. the signature of Peter DEBYE (1884-1966), Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1936).
81 2489 Sciences Ziedses des Plantes Bernard George 1902 1993 
81 2489 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).
Klinkenberg, Dirk (1709-1799). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "D. Klinkenberg" to "WelEerwaarde & Geleerden Heere", dated "s Hage den 23 Juilij 1758", pen and ink, 1 fold. leaf, 1p.
= 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).
AND 3 others, i.a. a manuscript leaf signed by Laurens Pieter van de Spiegel.
81 2490 Smeer Jr F 1st half 19th cent 
81 2490 Smeer Jr F 1st half 19th cent 
= Contains six treatises on religion and Dutch history (i.a. "Verhandeling over Joan van Oldebarneveld", "Lofrede op Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruijter" and "Mozes en Mohammed, geschied- en karakterkundig met elkaar vergeleken"), followed by a number of poems (i.a. "Gedachten op een kerkhof"), all written in a very neat hand. Nothing could be traced on the author.
81 2491 Space travel Ockels Wubbo 1946 2014 
= "Het mooiste in de ruimte was de aanblik van de aarde bij nacht. Het was net of ik een andere planeet naderde met verlichte steden boven me."
AND 5 other SIGNATURES by André Kuipers on orig. photogr. portraits/ small paper cards.
81/2492 Spain Collection of 24 autograph/ manuscript letters signed 
81/2492 Spain Collection of 24 autograph/ manuscript letters signed 
81/2492 Spain Collection of 24 autograph/ manuscript letters signed 
= I.a. AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED by "El marq. de Viluma" (1761-1830), ambassador at Paris; Ramón Gil de la Cuadra (1775-1860), polítician; Gen. Federico Roncali (1800-1857), military man and Prime Minister of Spain in 1852-1853; Ramon de Meer (1787-1869), Captain General of Catalonia (1843-1845) and President of the Supreme Council of War; Domingo Dulce (1808-1869), Spanish general who saved Queen Isabel when Diego de Leon tried to abduct her in 1841; TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS (1x only a part of the letter) by Diego de Leon (1807-1841), military man who earned the title of 1st Count of Belascoáin when he captured Belascoáin from the Carlists in 1838 during the first Carlist war (he was later executed for his role in the 1841 revolt led by him and O'Donnell against Baldomero Espartero); an AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED by Leopoldo O'Donnell (1809-1867), Spanish general (who as Captain General of Cuba was responsible for the violent repression of the perceived revolt of the Afro-Cuban slaves in 1844, the massacre during "The Year of the Lash"), and later prime-minister of Spain; a slip of paper with the SIGNATURE of Espartero (1793-1879) "El Duque de la Victoria"; a short AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED by Bertran de Lis (1772-1857), Spanish banker and politician; an autograph letter signed by Francisco Espoz y Mina (1781-1836), the most important guerrillero of the Peninsular War (1808-1814).
ADDED: 6 other unrelated (autograph/ manuscript signed) letters by i.a. CONTE LUIGI CARLO GIUSEPPE MARIA CONTE DELL' AQUILA (signed "Luigi") and KING FERDINAND II King of Naples (signed "Ferdinando").
81 2493 Spain Seoane Antonio 1790 1862 
= General Antonio Seoane was one of the "ayacuchos", the nickname given by the opponents of the Spanish general Baldomero Espartero to the military men grouped around him. The name comes from the fact that all of them had participated in the Battle of Ayacucho (1824) that put an end to the Spanish-American wars of independence. General Seoane commanded the Queen of Spain's Army against the Carlists. Ricardo Federico de la Saussaye (1806-1872), was a military officer, who rose to the rank of general commander of the province of Segovia in 1840. From October 1842 he remained abroad until 1850.
AND 4 other letters by 19th cent. Spanish generals, 3x to the same, 1x to an unidentified recipient: two letters by Captain General De la Concha (captain general of Cuba) (dated "Zaragoza 5 de Nov.br de 1843" and part of an undated letter, both to De la Saussaye), a letter by General Cordova (dated illegibly) and a short note to an unidentified recipient (dated "Hoy 18. Setiembre").
81 2494 Studentica Leyden Leyden University degrees in jurisprudence of Joannes Wolters 
81 2494 Studentica Leyden Leyden University degrees in jurisprudence of Joannes Wolters 
- Both folded.
= Most likely for father and son Wolters. Each signed by rectores magnifici Franciscus Fabricius and Albertus Schultens both at the time head of the university and the jurists Philipp Reinhard Vitriarius, A. Matheus and Johannes voet/ Joannes Conradus Rücker, Johann Jacob Vitriarius and Gerlach Scheltinga.