2572 - 2684 MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPHS, DOCUMENTS
80 2652 Netherlands Acten Memorien en Resolutien vande Hoog Mogende Heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden genomen in vanden Jaare Seventien Honderd Seven en Vyftig 
80 2653 Netherlands Cats Jacob 1577 1660 - Mount yellowed foxd. = Jacob Cats, poet and statesman.
80 2654 Netherlands Hohenlohe Langenburg Philip zu 1550 1616 
80 2654 Netherlands Hohenlohe Langenburg Philip zu 1550 1616 - Slightly frayed and age-toned.
= Count Philipp zu Hohenlohe, Commander of the army of the States-General and highest lieutenant of Holland and Zeeland. In 1595 he married Marie, the daughter of William of Orange and Maria van Buren, duchess of Egmond. In this letter he claims 50 Pesetas from a certain captain Tylli for shelter. With a small engr. portrait of Zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg added.
80 2655 Netherlands I Handtekeningen van gecommiteerde Raden van de Staten van Holland / II Vorsten Staatsmannen Krijgsbevelhebbers Geleerden enz 
80 2655 Netherlands I Handtekeningen van gecommiteerde Raden van de Staten van Holland / II Vorsten Staatsmannen Krijgsbevelhebbers Geleerden enz 
80 2655 Netherlands I Handtekeningen van gecommiteerde Raden van de Staten van Holland / II Vorsten Staatsmannen Krijgsbevelhebbers Geleerden enz 
80 2655 Netherlands I Handtekeningen van gecommiteerde Raden van de Staten van Holland / II Vorsten Staatsmannen Krijgsbevelhebbers Geleerden enz 
80 2655 Netherlands I Handtekeningen van gecommiteerde Raden van de Staten van Holland / II Vorsten Staatsmannen Krijgsbevelhebbers Geleerden enz 
80 2655 Netherlands I Handtekeningen van gecommiteerde Raden van de Staten van Holland / II Vorsten Staatsmannen Krijgsbevelhebbers Geleerden enz 
80 2655 Netherlands I Handtekeningen van gecommiteerde Raden van de Staten van Holland / II Vorsten Staatsmannen Krijgsbevelhebbers Geleerden enz - Two scratches on frontcover; otherwise very fine.
= Rich collection, containing signatures by i.a. "Johan de Witt" (grand pensionary of Holland, 1625-1672), "C. de Witt" (Cornelis de Witt, burgomaster of Dordrecht, 1623-1672), "Cats" (Jacob Cats, grand pensionary of Holland and poet, 1577-1660), "P.C. Hooft" (Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, writer, 1581-1647), "Nicolaes Tulp" (Burgomaster of Amsterdam and physician, 1593-1674), "James" (King James I of England, 1566-1625), "Alexandre" (Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825), "Frederic" (King of Prussia, 1712-1786), "Prince d'Orange" (Stadtholder-King Willem III, 1650-1702), "G.C.H.F. prince d'Orange" (Willem IV, Stadtholder of the United Netherlands, 1711-1751), "W. pr. v. Orange" (Willem V, Stadtholder of the United Netherlands, 1748-1806), "Willem" (Willem I, King of the Netherlands, 1772-1843), "F. Fagel" (François Fagel, state official, 1659-1746), "Hendrick Nobel" (administrator of the VOC chamber in Rotterdam, 1568-1649), "Corn. Musch" (Cornelis Musch, clerk of the States General, 1592-1650), "RJ Schimmelpenninck" (Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, lawyer and grand pensionary of the Batavian Commonwealth, 1761-1825), "L.P. van de Spiegel" (Laurens Pieter van de Spiegel, grand pensionary of Zeeland, 1737-1800), "Poelgeest" (Lord Gerard van Poelgeest,1545-1614, "In 1577 stond hij Willem I te Brussel krachtvaardig bij"), "J. Wagenaer" (Johan earl of Wagenaer, "Groot zegelbewaarder van Holland", ?-1665), "Nicolaes Stoop" (mayor of Dordrecht, 1620-1694), "C. Roovere" (Cornelis de Roovere, mayor of Dordrecht, 1648-1706), "Auwel Akersloot" ("Raad, Schepen, Burgemeester [of Haarlem]", 1583-1649), "C. Gravesteijn" (Cornelis Gravesteijn, "Raad, Schepen en Burgemeester [of Haarlem], Raad Rentmeester Generaal van Kennemerland", 1634-1679), "Antonis Slicher" ("Raad en Schepen [of Haarlem], gecommitteerde in de Staten Generaal en ter Admiraliteit", 1721-1794), "D. Bleijswijck" (Dirk Adriaansz van Bleijswijk, mayor of Delft, 1577-1631), "D. van Heemskerk" (Dirk van Heemskerk, mayor of Delft, 1712-1783), "J. Baersdorp" (Johan van Baersdorp, councilor of Leyden, 1530-1608), "J. van Brouckhoven" (Jacob van Brouckhoven, "Raad en Burgemeester [of Leyden], een der gedelegeerden Rechters", 1577-1642), "Willem Backer" ("Raad, Schepen en Burgemeester [of Amsterdam], mitsgaders Gecommitteerde ter Admiraliteit", 1608-1686), "Gerard Hasselaer" ("Schout, Schepen en Burgemeester [of Amsterdam]", 1620-1673), "J. van Berckel" (mayor of Rotterdam, 1593-1678), "Johan Gans" (councilor of Gouda, early 17th cent.) and "C. van der Wolff" (Cornelis Adriaansz van der Wolff, Secretary of the council of Holland, early 17th cent.). Storm van Leeuwen III, p.734 (identical bird)/ II, p.354 (identical central ornament and inner panel). Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIX.
80 2656 Netherlands Jacobs Aletta 1854 1929 = Thanking M.W.F. Treub for sending her the biographical sketch of the Dutch socialist author Hélène Mercier (1839-1910) that Treub published in the series Mannen en vrouwen van beteekenis in onze dagen. "(...) Hoewel gij haar persoonlijk niet zoo intiem hebt gekend, hebt gij toch zeer goed hare hoog nobele geest gevat en duidelijk in de beschrijving doen uitkomen. Ik heb het altijd als een voorrrecht beschouwd tot hare intieme vrienden de hebben mogen behooren (...)".
80 2657 Netherlands Kuyper Abraham 1837 1920 
80 2657 Netherlands Kuyper Abraham 1837 1920 = Abraham Kuyper, Dutch politician and theologian. Short note congratulating De Jong with his promotion.
80 2659 Netherlands Slingelandt Govert van 1623 1690 
80 2659 Netherlands Slingelandt Govert van 1623 1690 
80 2659 Netherlands Slingelandt Govert van 1623 1690 
- Vellum sl. worn on folds; seal broken/ dam.
= Govert van Slingelandt was lord of Dubbeldam, a Dutch politician and a close friend of Johan de Witt. He appoints Cornelis Botter as new Captain of the Dutch army.
AND 1 similar LETTERPRESS LEAF OF APPOINTMENT SIGNED "J. van Assendelft(?)", to "Gerlag van Loys" (dated "17 Maert 1731", 1 (fold.) vellum leaf, red wax seal).
80 2660 Netherlands Thorbecke Johan Rudolph 1798 1872 
80 2660 Netherlands Thorbecke Johan Rudolph 1798 1872 
= Approving C.C. Schlencker to teach French, German, Dutch, Math, Geology and "Fabelleer" at the Latijnsche School in Enschede. In return he will earn a salary of 400 guilders a year. Also signed by the unidentified "Secretaris Generaal van Binnenlandsche Zaken".
WITH 3 similar manuscript letters/ documents to other members of the Schlencker family, i.a. a manuscipt letter signed "J. van Regteren" (head of the Departement van den Grootmeester der artillerie), to "mevrouw en weduwe Schlencker": "Dat haar zoon George Henri, als vrijwilliger, dingende naar toekomstige bevordering als officier bij het wapen der Artillerie in de Maand van September des aanstaande Jaars moge worden toegelaten (...)" (dated "6 Februarij 1835", 1 fold. leaf, recto and verso, on paper w. letterpress heading "Departement van den Grootmeester der Artillerie").
80 2661 Oriental manuscripts Arabic manuscript 
80 2661 Oriental manuscripts Arabic manuscript 
80 2661 Oriental manuscripts Arabic manuscript 
80 2662 Precious metals and jewelry Large archive of over 1200 documents concerning 3 jewelry stores in The Hague Leyden and Rotterdam 
= Pertaining to jewellers "Van Kempen en Driessen" (±150x, 1940-1946); Leidsche Goud- en Zilverhandel Van Rossum du Chattel en Driessen (±530x, 1941-1953) and J.M. Lucardie N.V. (±550x, 1948-1949), i.a. staff administration, wage statements, tax returns, daily financial statements and extensive correspondence with suppliers and customers. Also contains private administration and correspondence of owner Mr. J.P.J.M. Driessen and Mrs. C.M.C. Driessen-Van Duyn (±350x, 1948-1953).
80 2663 Rhetorics Anonymous 18th cent 
- Occas. trifle foxed. = "Ex manuscriptis Jacobi Postel Doct. Medici Cadomensis 1751" on 2nd blank.
80 2664 Russian prayerbooks Posledovanie tserkovnago penia i vseletnago sobranie ot mesyatsa Septevria do mesyatsa Avgusta 
80 2664 Russian prayerbooks Posledovanie tserkovnago penia i vseletnago sobranie ot mesyatsa Septevria do mesyatsa Avgusta 
80 2664 Russian prayerbooks Posledovanie tserkovnago penia i vseletnago sobranie ot mesyatsa Septevria do mesyatsa Avgusta 
- Occas. sl. fingersoiled and stained (incl. title).
= Attractively illuminated manuscript containing liturgical hymns of the Russian orthodox church, arranged by the month, starting with September and ending with August. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXX.
80 2665 Ruyter M A 1607 1676 
- Tear (±4,5 cm.) in left blank margin; sm. hole in centre.
= Interesting document, signed by the famous Dutch admiral Michiel Adriaansz de Ruyter, concerning the price received for the French ship Régine. The ship was captured from the French by Michiel de Ruyter in the year 1657. Its captain Lalande and his crew were put ashore in Barcelona, whilst de Ruyter kept the ship. Instead of sending the Régine to the Netherlands, he sold her for 10.000 realen to the Duke of Medina Celi. The capture of the ship caused a lot of commotion and almost resulted in a war between France and the Dutch Republic. In order to conciliate both parties De Ruyter had to buy the Régine back from the Duke of Medina Celi. (See: Ronald Prud'homme van Reine, Rechterhand van Nederland (Amst., 1996), p. 98-99). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIX.
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.