[Album Amicorum. Leiden] "W.B. Donker Curtius 1796"

Album amicorum with 39 handwritten contributions in pen, mostly dated Leiden 1796-1798 (one separately included contribution dated 1811) and ca. 85 unwritten pages, fine binding by the "Paupers Orphanage Bindery" (Leiden, 1787-1808) in contemporary gilt red morocco with name and year on front cover, all edges gilt, oblong 8vo (12.3 x 19.5 cm.) (traces of carelessly produced rubbing on front cover).

For the binding see: Storm van Leeuwen, Dutch decorated bookbinding in the eighteenth century, vol. IIA, p. 382-387. Finely bound album, in which a large part of the contributions is equipped with a pentagram, untraced by us, surrounded by the letters F., L., F., S., A. and Ph. and several with a triangle with the words La Vertue (inside the triangle) and Sans Autre Guide or other text (along the sides), possibly symbols of Leiden freemasons' lodges. With contributions by [see also the previous lot!] B. and C.H. Donker Curtius, J. and A. Schouten, J.F. van der Meersch, P. Verhagen Metman, G. Hollaer van Gote, W.R. Schultens, N.G. and G.D. Wijckerheld Bisdom, J.C. van de Kasteele, C.A. and W. Leemans, H. Wassenbergh, S.H. Beelaerts, J. Douw Loke, D.J.R. Jordens, N.J.A.C. Hoffmann, Ab. Lens, P.J. de Fremery, D. Dylius, I. Bierens de Wilde, B. Dobbelaer de Wind, J. Dyserinck Dekker, D.F. and A. Berrange, H. Gomarus, Jan Duyvens and H.W. Tydeman and others.