77/2070 [Waesbergen family]. Archive concerning the history of the Rotterdam family of book printers and binders. Rott., 1659-1969, consisting of manuscript testaments, transfers, marriage and ownership certificates, but also manuscript/ typescript business correspondence, contracts and commissions (mainly by clerks and representatives of the city of Rotterdam), loosely inserted in four unif. modern folders w. manuscript letterpiece on frontcover, kept together in board box, folio.

= The Waesbergen family started as 'Stadsdrukker' and printer of the 'Admiraliteyt van de Maze' in Rotterdam in the late 17th century. Rich and well documented archive, spanning over three centuries. Contains i.a. 1. "Extract uijt het Register der Resolutien van haer Ed: Moog. De Heeren gecommiteerde Raden ter Admiraliteijt op de Maze" (dated "1659", containing a contract with "Pieter van Waesberge, boeckverkooper hier ter Stede", to supply the Admiralty with "papier, pennen, Registers, passepoorten, Cardoes-papier en de diergelijcke behoeften"); 2. contracts and notarial documents regarding the transfer of the firm and its commissions from Abraham van Waesberge to his son Pieter (all dated "1699"); 3. similar documents regarding the transfer of the firm to Pieter, Gerard and Hendrik van Waesberge (all dated "28 Febr. 1737"); 4. two similar documents regarding the transfer of the firm to Hendrik van Waesberge (both dated "15 Maert 1777"); 5. similar documents regarding the transfer of the firm to the (widow) Pieter van Waesberge (dated "1811"); 6. correspondence between the secretary of the city of Rotterdam and the "commissie voor plaatsel. financien" (early 19th cent., regarding the delayed delivery of printed matter due to lack of type); 7. a letter by Adriana Francisca Landman, the widow P. van Waesberge to "Waarde Zoon" [Pieter Anthonij van Waesberge] (not dated (early 19th cent.), regarding the loss of a commission to print all government documents for the city of Rotterdam); 8. proofs for a register of the "Nationale Vee-Verzekering-Maatschappij" and short manuscript letters by its directors A.J. Samson and M.J.J. Kröller; 9. a number of judicial summons issued by the firm P. van Waesberge & Zn, a verdict and related correspondence (regarding the default of the "Nationale Vee-Verzekering-Maatschappij" in 1867); 10. the typescript conditions of a contract to publish the ordinances of the city council of Rotterdam (dated "1912"). See at large A.M. Ledeboer, Het geslacht Van Waesberghe. Eene bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der boekdrukkunst en van den boekhandel in Nederland (passim).