Liber amicorum + in memoriam cards

Liber amicorum. Loose-leafed, 20 leaves with text contributions, 1 leaf with illustration, 15 unwritten leaves. Text mostly decorated, one with lock of hair. Germany, contributions...

[Fortifications] "Architectura militaris".

Manuscript on laid paper (watermarked fleur-de-lis in crowned escutcheon) in pen and brown ink, Holland, 1st half 18th century, 60 leaves mostly used on both sides and 28 blank...

Album amicorum

of Betje Baan, Rotterdam 1860-1911. Album with 18 text contributions, several of which with decoration. Fine album, 22 x 29 cm., gilt with inlaid print behind which lie the contributions...

[Alchemy/ pharmacy c. 1700] Manuscript recipe book,

c. 1700-1725, on paper with watermark arms of Amsterdam, (2),45 leaves partly written on one side and partly on both sides [numbering omits 19], and 21 blank leaves, contemporary vellum, small folio.

Convolute with 4 British (travel) accounts 1850-1853 incl. Great Exhibition 1851

Convolute with 3 manuscript accounts in the same, very legible hand, of (1) an organised trip to Frankfurt regarding an international peace congress in which even a representative...

Geographische Vermaeklykheden [c. 1785]

Bij een vergaedert uyt verscheyde Autheurs door M.V.A. 8vo, halfleather, cased boards. 335 pages numbered in ink (numbering runs from 1 to 275 and then from 246 on to 329) of which...

Liber amicorum

Album in slipcase with 9 text contributions, one cut-out oak leaf illustration, 7 embroidered ills. and 5 handdrawn contributions. In German and Dutch (incl. Harlingen), c. 1844-1848.

Calligraphy album Joseph van der Hagen Zoutelande 1769

Manuscript album in 13 leaves, 20 x 33 cm. First page taped, sl. stained copy. In plain contemporary paper wrapper.

[Amsterdam. Stage play] De inwijding der Nieuwe Beurs van Amsterdam

Toneelmatige Voorstelling door H. Hesterman. Amsterdam, at H. Hesterman en Zoon with drawn vignette, 1845. Notebook, small 4to. Blue marbled wrapper (piece cut out). 42 of 48...

Autograph books

Album Henriëtte van Ufford, Zutphen, 1878 -1887. With 32 contributions incl. several drawings + Album Coba/ Aantie, c. 1910-1922 with 13 contributions - and a small early 20th-century...

Album amicorum

Album of G.A. de Raadt, Delftshaven, 1836-1942, with 40 contributions incl. several original drawings, embroideries and locks of hair. In fine album with gilt decorative border...

Manuscript gift book Scandinavian nobles to the Lutheran community of Utrecht 1651-1676

Pocketbook with German introduction (8 p.) for aspiring donors dated 1 (?) May 1651, and 46 signed entries in pen dated 1651-1676 on 188 numbered leaves, the remainder blank, contemporary...

[Calligraphy] Three leaves, incl.: (1) "De ondervinding,

dewelke de beste spiegel der wijsheid is (...)". Calligraphed poems of 9 lines, signed "Pieter van Winter" and dated "29 aug.s 175[?]", leaf size 37 x 48 cm., with watermark post...

[Finely bound private prayer book] "Receuil de toutes les Prières de l'Ecriture Sainte,

rangées dans le même ordre que'elles se trouvent dans l'ancien et le nouveau Testament." France, 2nd half 18th century, (296) p. in pen and ink in well-legible French, very finely...

[V.O.C. banknote] Extremely rare V.O.C. letter of credit for Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

No. [filled out in pen: vijfhonderd agtentwintig] goet voor Ryksdaalders 5. Zegge Vyf Ryksdaalders. Wy ondergetekende certificeren, dat Thoonder deezes, by de Compagnie te goet...

Album amicorum Broese/ Van Rhijn-Snoeck Breda 1826 - c. 1845

Album of "mejuffrouw C.E. [Betsie] Snoeck", abundantly filled with 26 contributions in pen and ink, 13 full-page drawings in various media with the text in pen on the reverse (1x...