2910 - 2989 MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPHS, DOCUMENTS
82 2930 Calligraphy Monogrammist J v D late 18th/ early 19th cent 
- Small repaired tear in left margin. Not examined out of frame.
= Possibly made for the mathematical society "Koninklijk Wiskundig Genootschap", founded in 1778 which carries the device "Een onvermoeide Arbeid komt alles te boven". From the collection of P.J. and L. Buijnsters-Smets.
82 2931 Calligraphy Polak Annie 2nd half 19th cent 
82 2931 Calligraphy Polak Annie 2nd half 19th cent 
82 2931 Calligraphy Polak Annie 2nd half 19th cent 
- Hinges sl. weakening. Otherwise fine.
= Extremely rare. No information about specific calligraphy lessons given by the Franciscan nuns in a private school in Semarang could be found, nor any information about Annie Polak, who was a talented pupil.
82/2932 Conversion guides Reduction de l'aune de France par proportion à celle de Bruxelles / Reduction de l'aune de Brabant par proportion à l'aune de France 
82/2932 Conversion guides Reduction de l'aune de France par proportion à celle de Bruxelles / Reduction de l'aune de Brabant par proportion à l'aune de France 
- Trifle stained. Otherwise fine.
= Contains conversion tables for yards and currency from French to Brabant (Brussels) measures and vice versa.
82/2933 Enkhuizen Small archive of the family van Heemskerck and related families Duker De Wit Van de Velde and Van Walsem/ Walsum 
= Interesting archive, mostly bearing upon the city of Enkhuizen. Centered around the intermarried families Duker, van Heemskerck, De Wit and Van Walsem in the 19th century. The Duker / de Wit family-members were i.a. notaries, doctors, apothecaries, military men and shippers. In 2016 we auctioned the larger part of this archive. This part of the archive contains mostly photographs (mostly portraits), an album amicorum, 20th cent. (genealogical) documents, small pill boxes (from the apothecary Bakker-De Wit) and small 19th century notebooks.
82 2934 France Foy Maximilien Sébastien 1775 1825 
82 2934 France Foy Maximilien Sébastien 1775 1825 
82 2934 France Foy Maximilien Sébastien 1775 1825 
82 2934 France Foy Maximilien Sébastien 1775 1825 
= General Maximilien-Sébastien Foy, important general, fought against the English in the Dardanelles and distinguished himself in the Spanish and Portuguese campaigns. He saved his life in Portugal by raising both his arms, when a Portuguese crowd wanted to lynch him, thinking that he was the detested General de Loison [the addressee of this letter], who was nicknamed "Maneto" because he had lost one arm. Letter giving details about moving lights seen near "Ovelha"[?].
AND 3 other AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED by Napoleonic officers: "J. Bernelle" (not dated. Commander in the Légion étrangère and involved in the Spanish campaign); "Maillot" (dated "1824". Maillot was a French engineer who was the leading technical officer of the Napoleonic escadron that sailed to Egypt) and "H.M. Dibbets" (dated "1813". Dutch marine captain in French employment who deserted with his entire ship and sailors in 1813. Letter in which he offers his services to the Provisional Government).
82 2935 France Henry of Navarre 1553 1610 
- Torn/ dam. along folds; stained.
= Letter to Pierre l'Oyseleur de Villiers, written in the light of the recent death of Henry's cousin William of Orange ("la mort de feu Mon Cousin Mr le Prince dorenge"), in which Henry recounts the high esteem in which William had always held Villiers, and offering him his hospitality and service. Villiers was former private minister ('hofpredikant') and councellor to William of Orange and author of the original French text of the Apologie ofte verantwoordinge van den Prince van Orangien.
82 2936 France Hoey A van 1684 1766 
= Abraham van Hoey served as ambassador to France from 1727 onwards, until his rising impopularity in the Dutch Republic (due to his fervent advocacy of political impartiality vis-a-vis France) forced him to resign in 1747. The letters describe events in France between 1742 and 1747, i.a. treaties between the Netherlands and France, the threat of war and the marriage of Louis, Dauphin of France, to Maria Josepha of Saxony in 1747.
82 2937 France Say Léon 1826 1896 
= Asking his bookseller to send him 7 books ("Je voudrais bien me faier une petite provision d'été"), i.a. Paul Flat, Essais sur Balzac and A. Laquiante, Humboldt and Gladstone.
AND 2 other AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED by the same, i.a. to "Monsieur le Président" (dated "10 Octobre 1893", concerning the reservation of a box for him and Mr Magnin "pour la representation de gala de l'opéra du 21 octobre prochain").
82/2938 Genealogy and heraldry Genealogical work on the nobility in the surroundings of Heemskerk Noord Holland 
82/2938 Genealogy and heraldry Genealogical work on the nobility in the surroundings of Heemskerk Noord Holland 
82/2938 Genealogy and heraldry Genealogical work on the nobility in the surroundings of Heemskerk Noord Holland 
82/2938 Genealogy and heraldry Genealogical work on the nobility in the surroundings of Heemskerk Noord Holland 
= Curious manuscript executed in an unusual shape. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.
82/2939 Genealogy and heraldry Van Rechteren and related Overijssels nobility 
82/2939 Genealogy and heraldry Van Rechteren and related Overijssels nobility 
- Most leaves formerly folded.
= Owner's stamp of "Sloet v. Oldruitenborch" and mounted embossed col. lithogr. coat of arms of the Sloet family on first free endpaper. Some names: Van Hardenbroek, Sloet (van Oldruitenborch), Van Ittersum, De Vos van Steenwijk, Van Randwyck. Van Dedem, Von Knobelsdorff, Van Heiden Hompesch and Van Bylandt. With a loosely inserted cut-out piece of vellum with the manuscript coats of arms of i.a. Wijnbergen, Sloet and Hemert (late 17th cent.(?), pen and ink and gouache).
82 2940 Germany Friedrich Hermann Otto von Hohenzollern Hechingen 1776 1838 
82 2941 Great Britain Cornwallis William 1772 1843 
82 2941 Great Britain Cornwallis William 1772 1843 
82 2941 Great Britain Cornwallis William 1772 1843 
82 2941 Great Britain Cornwallis William 1772 1843 
- Lacks sm. portion of paper w. loss of a few letters; tear on fold.
= By the time Cornwallis wrote this letter he was Admiral of the British navy. He writes this letter on HMS the Royal Sovereign and tells his mother he hopes his father Charles will recover soon from an illness. He offers to help his parents out financially since the army "has given me 6 months pay".
ADDED: 2 miscell. envelopes with i.a. crowned Royal Agriculture Society of England stamp and red wax seal attached (to "John Moore" in Warwick, 1846).
82 2942 Groningen Lot of 5 manuscript documents 
82 2942 Groningen Lot of 5 manuscript documents 
- One document waterwrinkled/ dam.; 2 wax seals dam.
= A lease deed regarding land near Toornwerd (1715), 2 rental agreements for land in Eexta (1727 and 1734), a deed of transport regarding land in Ten Post (1789) and a prenuptual agreement (1801). With two beautifully preserved wax seals of council member and later mayor of Groningen Herman Scherff and the city of Groningen. Names mentioned: Sweer Clant "in de Vierbuiren joncker en hovelinck", Albert van Buitendijk and Ida Isabella van Buitendijk (née Ripperda van Winsum), Steven van Goldstein and Theodora Maria van Goldstein, mayor Johan de Drews, Roelof Eilkes and Frouke Reints, Joseph Trip, Helperie M. Kim and Trijntie Oomkes, Bernardus Koops and Elizabeth Jozepha Bernard.
AND an extensive inventory of the estate of Anna Adriana de Marees van Swinderen (Gron., 1862, pen and brown ink, (47),(3 blank) lvs., recto and verso, contemp. boards, 4to. Partly waterst. in lower outer corner).
82/2943 Haarlem and surroundings Manuscript document for the sale of Hofstede Sparrenhout 
= François de Vicq (1603-1678) sells the property to Philip de Flines (1640-1700) for 9.580 guilders (see also: https://ilibrariana.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/de-eigenaren-van-spaarnhoutsparenhoutspaar-en-hout/).
82 2944 Haarlem and surroundings Lot of 37 manuscript documents regarding various properties in the Grote Houtstraat 
82 2944 Haarlem and surroundings Lot of 37 manuscript documents regarding various properties in the Grote Houtstraat 
- Three wax seals dam.
= I.a. (copies/ extracts of) deeds of sale/ transport, wills, estate partition, debt admission and several contracts regarding drainage of rainwater, the costs and maintenance of gutters, a gate and the construction of a small window ("koekkoek") in an outhouse. Names and property mentioned: "het Bakers huis" (Pieter van Hulle); "den Coninck van Vranckrijck" (Dirck Smuijser and Catharina Warmont, Michiel de Wael, Carolus Diericx and Eva van Liebergs, Isaac Teijler, Pieter Teijler van der Hulst, Abraham Neijdorff, Izaac Rookmaker); "De Guldewagen" (Isaacq Snep, Jean Pousé, Jan Bardoel, Reijnier Salden, Johan de Ville en Helena Bardoel, Abraham Verhamme, Pieter Verhamme, Albertus Verhamme, Jan Heshuijsen, Jacob Ettinger, Jacob van Varelen, Hendrik Godart de Marée, Izaak Westerkappel, Catharina van der Vlugt); Nicolaes Eijchelenbergh and Lucas van Venbergen.
82 2945 Haarlem and surroundings Lot of 57 manuscript documents regarding various properties in i a the Koningsstraat Grote Houtstraat and Warmoesstraat 
82 2945 Haarlem and surroundings Lot of 57 manuscript documents regarding various properties in i a the Koningsstraat Grote Houtstraat and Warmoesstraat 
82 2945 Haarlem and surroundings Lot of 57 manuscript documents regarding various properties in i a the Koningsstraat Grote Houtstraat and Warmoesstraat 
- A few wax seals dam.
= I.a. (copies/ extracts of) deeds of sale/ transport, estate partition, debt admission and several contracts concerning servitudes (dividing walls, sewage and rainwater drainage), (conditions of) public sale of real estate, mortgage bonds and a large inventory of "Magazijn De Kindervriend". Names mentioned: Marijn de Busschere, Jan Hugaert, Helena Salde, Petronella Langedult, Gerrit van der Aa, Pieter Teekelenburg, Gerrit van der Horst, Pieter Heijdanus, Isaac Schakel, Catharina Maria Bartha van der Beek, Abraham Jillisse, Leendert van Willige, apothecary/ chemist Willem Godofredus Theodorus Mann, Franciscus Hendrikus le Brun, Bernardus Josephus Kerkhoff, Elizabeth Wilhelmina van Oostveen.
82 2946 House of Orange Alexander van Oranje Nassau 1818 1848 
= Alexander thanks Cornelis van der Vijver (1784-1855) for the dedication to him and his family in his book De roem des Vaderland gehandhaafd in 1831.
82 2947 House of Orange Nassau Ouwerkerk Willem Maurits van 1679 1753 
82 2947 House of Orange Nassau Ouwerkerk Willem Maurits van 1679 1753 
82 2947 House of Orange Nassau Ouwerkerk Willem Maurits van 1679 1753 
82 2947 House of Orange Nassau Ouwerkerk Willem Maurits van 1679 1753 
= Interesting letter by Willem Maurits van Nassau, who led the Dutch troops in 1745 in the battle against the Pretender (battle of Culloden). In this letter he asks for financial compensation for the services rendered by his troops in the campaign of 1744 to the Queen of Hungary, Archduchess Maria Theresa.
Nassau-Ouwerkerk, Maurits van (1679-1753). Manuscript letter SIGNED "W.M. grave van Nassau", to "Collonel van den Clooster in Guarnisoen. Tot Groningen",dated "s. Hage den 7. Maart 1750", pen and ink, 1 fold. leaf, 2p. (incl. address), w. remnants of wax seal.
= Ordering his commanders to send in the "driemaandelijkse lijsten, der respective Regimenten Cavallerije, Dragonders, en Infanterije (...) op gewoone tijde (...)", and not too late as apparently had been the case.
82/2948 House of Orange Verzameling Oorspronkelijke Brieven van de Friesche Stadhouderlijke Vorsten en Vorstinnen uit de Huizen van Oranje en Nassau tusschen de jaren 1688 en 1716 geschreven aan d
82/2948 House of Orange Verzameling Oorspronkelijke Brieven van de Friesche Stadhouderlijke Vorsten en Vorstinnen uit de Huizen van Oranje en Nassau tusschen de jaren 1688 en 1716 geschreven aan d
82/2948 House of Orange Verzameling Oorspronkelijke Brieven van de Friesche Stadhouderlijke Vorsten en Vorstinnen uit de Huizen van Oranje en Nassau tusschen de jaren 1688 en 1716 geschreven aan d
82/2948 House of Orange Verzameling Oorspronkelijke Brieven van de Friesche Stadhouderlijke Vorsten en Vorstinnen uit de Huizen van Oranje en Nassau tusschen de jaren 1688 en 1716 geschreven aan d
82/2948 House of Orange Verzameling Oorspronkelijke Brieven van de Friesche Stadhouderlijke Vorsten en Vorstinnen uit de Huizen van Oranje en Nassau tusschen de jaren 1688 en 1716 geschreven aan d
= Edo Frieswijk (1648-1720) was a Frisian magistrate and mayor of Sneek. 1. Letter by Hendrik Casimir II of Nassau-Dietz (dated 12 july 1688) accepting an invitation by Frieswijk for a dinner; 2. letter by princess Albertine Agnes of Orange-Nassau (mother of the preceding) (dated 10 January 1690) congratulating Frieswijk on the birth of his son Albert (named after her); 3. letter by princess Henriette Amalia of Anhalt-Dessau, wife of Hendrik Casimir, (dated 10 January 1690), also congratulating him; 4. letter by the same (now widow of Hendrik Casimir) (dated september 1697), congratulating him on the birth of his daughter, accepting the request to become a godmother of the girl and about the 'kuiperijen' (voting alliances) in the grietenijen (Frisian districts); 5. letter by the same (dated 16 December 1698) thanking Frieswijk for his report on the Frisian 'landsdag' and 'kuiperijen' in Tietjerksteradeel; 6. letter by the same (signed Henriette d'Anhalt) (dated 3 March 1699), letter of gratitude for the congratulations on the marriage of her sister Johanna Charlotte with the margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt; 7. letter by princess Johanna Charlotte of Dessau-Anhalt (dated 11 March 1699) letter of gratitude for the congratulations on her marriage; 8. letter by Marie Eleonore of Anhalt-Dessau (married to the prince of Radziwill) (dated 30 March 1699), letter of gratitude for the congratulations on the marriage of her sister Johanna Charlotte and the mediation between Amalia and a few Frisian magistrates; 9. letter by princess Henriette Amalia (dated 1 May 1703), thanking Frieswijk for his report on the 'landsdag'; 10. letter by princess Henriëtte Catharina of Nassau (mother of Henriette Amalia) (dated 17 november 1706) thanking for Frieswijk's condoleances after the death of her daughter Elisabeth Albertine of Anhalt-Dessau (dutchess of Saxony-Weißenfels); 11. letter by prince Johan Willem Friso of Orange-Nassau, stadholder of Friesland (dated 17 June 1709), on the failed peace negotiation with France and on the appointment of Sicco van Goslinga as plenipotentiary of Friesland at the peace negociations; 12. letter by the same (dated 25 June 1711) thanking Frieswijk for his involvement during the "landsdag" where the Oostergo and Westergo declined to pay for the war costs concerning the inheritance of king and stadtholder William III; 13. letter by princess Maria Louise of Hessen-Kassel, widow of Johan Willem Friso(dated 2 August 1714), on the military promotions of mr. Coehoorn and Schwartzenberg and the appointments of van Goslinga and Sixma to curator of the Academy of Franeker.
82 2949 House of Orange Willem Frederik Karel van Oranje Nassau 1797 1881 
82 2949 House of Orange Willem Frederik Karel van Oranje Nassau 1797 1881 
82 2949 House of Orange Willem Frederik Karel van Oranje Nassau 1797 1881 
= Seven letters of gratitude for "een Exemplaar ontvangen van het Mac:. [= Maconnieke] Jaarboekje voor het jaar (...)". Prince Frederik, the 2nd son of king William I of the Netherlands, was a prominent Dutch freemason and a Grand Master.
AND 4 others: a letter of gratitude by prince and stadtholder WILLIAM V OF ORANGE-NASSAU to the mayor of Edam Pieter Pont in 1774 on the birth of his 2nd son; a small note by prince WILLIAM OF ORANGE-NASSAU (eldest son of king Willlam III), wishing the officers of the regiment 'Grenadiers en Jagers' well on the "First Aceh expedition" in 1873 and thanking them for the toast on his father's health; a letter, dated 1758 by W.J. GRAVE VAN HOGENDORP to princess Anna of Hannover (wife and widow of stadholder William IV) asking assistance against hunters in the employment of 'heer van Roon' who trespass on his estate Rustenburg; a letter by the secretary S.M.S DE RANITZ of queen-regent princess Emma, dated febr. 1896, in which he announces that the queen-regent does not want to become a patroness of the Roman catholic society 'Johannes de Dooper' from Utrecht.