[Songs, wishes etc.] Lot of 20 various items: (1) "Nieuw jaars wens

aan mijn seer veel ge-eerde neef & nigt". Calligraphed 24-line verse by Jan Smits, dated 1 Jan. 1788, inside pre-printed, antiquely handcoloured, engraved border, numbered "No. 30" in upper r. corner, leaf size 41.5 x 32.5 cm (2x folded).

Beautifully preserved example of a New Year's wish, a tradition savvy publishers responded to by selling pre-printed leaves; (2) "Een gulden tijd doch vrijheid kwijt! Wijze: Eine kleine wunderschöne". Lithographed wedding song, leaf size 40 x 26.5 cm, publ. by J.A. Weinbeck in Rotterdam, c. 1875, with 24-line poem on 3 flower pots, behind which a figure is standing (tears and folds); (3) "Hiermede heb ik de eer UEd. beleefd uit te nodigen tot een bezoek aan mijn St. Nicolaas Étalage". Invitation by La Patisserie Moderne at Haarlem and Zandvoort, c. 1900 (lithographed by Gebr. Cats te Amsterdam), 16 x 11 cm (minor defects) - and with 17 various more, incl. an 18th-century small printed admission ticket for a concert, two pre-printed invitations filled out (by hand) from 1783, a relatively early letterprint seaman's song, letterprint song "Welkom aan tafel" as an acrostichon and a notebook of 8 leaves with calligraphed texts by Gerrit Cornelis de Ruyter, 1787. (total 20)