= Cornelis van der Vijver, a Dutch author and historian writing mainly about the history of Amsterdam. His most famous work is Wandelingen in en om Amsterdam. The letters were written by W. Holtrop (1751-1835) (on the death of his youngest child); J. Koning (1770-1832) (4 letters thanking for sending texts and a book); mayor of Amsterdam F. van de Poll (1780-1853) (3 letters thanking him and commenting on his historical texts on Amsterdam); S.P. Lipman (1802-1872) (2 letters, thanking him and asking for a meeting); J.C. Rijk (1787-1854) (a letter by fellow mason thanking him for sending the masonic almanac) ; G.W. Verweij Mejan (1797-1850) (fellow mason, 3 letters thanking him for sending publications); J. van Wijk Roelandszoon (1781-1847) (3 letters asking him for information and texts).

ADDED: a letter of condolence by singer Catharina Brouwer, married to Jan Steven van Esveldt Holtrop, to unknown recipients.

- Mounted under passepartout; w. a few smudged/ soiled spots in textblock (corrections?).

= Cf. Harvard Art Museum "1958.183 Verses on the Behavior of Sufis", a similar folio from a manuscript of the Gulistan by Sa'di.

ADDED: 1 other Persian manuscript leaf, 17-18th(?) cent., 11,5x5,5 cm. (text only), calligraphy in pen and black ink, w. gold and col. gouache borders, on recto and verso, w. col. gouache calligraphic ornament in textblock on recto, text surrounded by sprinkled goldleaf (mounted under passepartout, num. tiny wormholes).

- First half of the manuscript sl. waterstained in upper inner margin. Binding sl. waterstained.

= Occas. interleaved .

AND 1 other 20th cent. Persian manuscript, text unread (contents loosening and sl. wormholed throughout).

- Blank margins sl. yellowed/ partly waterst. and w. a few repaired sections; a few sm. foxed spots.

= A delicately calligraphed and illuminated leaf.

AND a similar manuscript leaf, 19th cent. (calligraphy in pen and black ink on recto and verso, w. sm. painted gold ornaments to separate the verses, w. a gold border around text, 1x gold banner in the text w. floral decoration in white, blue and green and a medallion in margin. Margins frayed, soiled and spotted; sl. affecting the text. Prob. verses from Al-Baqarah and Ali 'Imran).

= I.a. AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED by "El marq. de Viluma" (1761-1830), ambassador at Paris; Ramón Gil de la Cuadra (1775-1860), politician; 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").

= 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").

- A few lvs./ quires loose.

= Ledger for accounts receivable. Customers include the St.-Andreasgasthuis, Utrechtsche Cacaofabriek, "Gemeente-reiniging", Fa. Sinkel, Spinnerij en Weverij Spanjaard en Co., the "R.C. Weeshuis" and many residents of Utrecht and surrounding towns. The pharmacy was established in 1780 (at Steenweg 44, Utrecht) but completely destroyed by a fire in 1890. Rebuilt the same year, it housed i.a. a distillery and a laboratory for dairy and water quality research.

ADDED: an accounting book for exploitation of an unknown polder, dated 1861-1867, pen and ink, 185,(2) (partly blank)p., narrow large 4to.

= I.a. notes on the first days of the attack by German forces, briefly mentioning Prince Bernard's visit to the troops in Zeeland (10-30 May 1940), copies of orders given by general Winkelman and general-major Baron Van Voorst tot Voorst (June 1940), 4 copies of a letter by German Chief of Staff Schwabedissen on the arrest of Winkelman and the dismissal of Van Voorst tot Voorst in the wake of anti-German protests (2 July 1940), various orders/ letters concerning the so-called "Ehrenwörtlichen Erklärung" (July 1940), order 108/40 forbidding the hire of persons of (partial) Jewish descent by administrative bodies (19 November 1940) and a journal of Arnoldy's captivity in Nuremberg (15 May-9 July 1942).

ADDED: an unrelated diary, dated 1 Januari-31 December 1941 (Dutch, pen and ink, (126), (14 blank) lvs., recto and verso).