Live auction - Lot 454
[Netherlands - Letters]
Collection of 16 autograph signed letters and pieces of Dutch scholars and literary figures.
Beginning of 19th c
Hammer price: €
400
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Various sizes, on paper, in Dutch and French.
Various topics: friendly and family correspondence, academic and literary exchanges. Personnalities: Sebald Justinus Brugmans (1763-1819), botanist and physician; Peeter Driessen; Jeronimo de Vries (1776-1853), man of letters and numismatist; Johannes Immerzeel Jr. (1776-1841), author and poet; Samuel Masson (d. ca. 1742), publicist; Jonas Daniel Meijer (1780-1834), the first Jewish lawyer in the Netherlands; Petrus Nieuwland (1722-1795), pastor; Jacobus Scheltema (1767-1835), lawyer and amateur historian; Jacobus Albertus Uilkens (1772-1825), first professor of Land Management and Technology in Groningen; Jan van 's Gravenweert (1790-1870), writer and lawyer; Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen (1735-1819), Count of Doggersbank, naval officer; Pieter Vrede; Everwijn Wassenbergh (1742-1826), Dutch-language specialist.
Joined: 1. Unrecorded poem by Karel Verlove (1633-ca. 1710). 1693. Six strophes. - 2-4. Three letters from three professors of the University of Groningen (J.J. Brugmans, J.A.C. von Heusden, E. Wassebergh) (1813-1819). (20 pcs)