82 2924 Belgium Manuscript document concerning a dispute in the surroundings of Bruges 
- A few tiny holes.
= Names of officials: "Passchier van wildemeersch", "Jan lois phelips vander haghe", "Joos doelhaghe", "Jan Standaert", "Pieter mortier" and "Aernoudt de Heste" ("Scepenen vander heerenhede van Sysseele(?)"). Concerning "Jan Dinge als voocht vande kinderen van willem waghe verweest". Possibly a so-called "zoending" (See: E. Strubbe, Het zoending te Brugge na 1542 (1950)).
82/2925 Botany Oeffenend handboekje over het snyden der fruytboomen ten gebruyke der hoveniers en fruytminnaars 
82/2925 Botany Oeffenend handboekje over het snyden der fruytboomen ten gebruyke der hoveniers en fruytminnaars 
- A few lvs. cut sl. short in right margin. Backstrip dam.
= A guide to pruning fruit trees, written by order of the "Maetschappy van Land-hovingbouw en Kruydkunde" in Aalst (Belgium). Includes paragraphs on how to grow and prune i.a. "boomen in 't groen", pear, apple, peach, plum, abricot and fig trees.
82 2926 Brabant Priviligien Der Meyerey van 's Bosch 
82 2926 Brabant Priviligien Der Meyerey van 's Bosch 
82 2927 Calligraphy Anonymous 18th cent 
82 2927 Calligraphy Anonymous 18th cent 
- Especiallly right margins partly frayed/ dam., occas. touching letters/ image.
= I.a. "Roem niet, dat Christus in u woont (...)"; "Goliath, Verwaand in t stryden (...)"; "Treurig hert hoe dus verslagen (...)" and "Daar Christus is het Fondament (...)".
82/2928 Calligraphy Ik hebbe tot den Here geroepe in mijne beenauwheyt ende Hy heeft my ver hoort 
82/2928 Calligraphy Ik hebbe tot den Here geroepe in mijne beenauwheyt ende Hy heeft my ver hoort 
82/2928 Calligraphy Ik hebbe tot den Here geroepe in mijne beenauwheyt ende Hy heeft my ver hoort 
- A few sm. (burn)holes and dam. spots.
AND 2 others similar.
82 2929 Calligraphy Maurik Justus van 1682 1759 
= On Justus van Maurik see Verhave/ Verhave, Schaar-Kunst (1983), p.48/49.; Verhave/ Verhave, Geknipt! (2008), p.187.
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.
= 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).
- 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/).