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1864rif. 42194New York: J.F. Feeks Publisher 1864. Stitched. 46 2 publ. advts. Original printed wrappers the front wrapper and title page illustrated with a grotesque caricature of a Negro's face. Very Good plus. An unusually disgusting anti-Lincoln campaign document capitalizing on northern racist sentiments. Lincoln is called 'Abraham Africanus I'. His Emancipation Proclamation is ridiculed; the shifting focus of the War from a struggle to preserve the Union to a crusade against slavery is condemned; and the expansion of executive power to curtail civil liberties is denounced. The text includes "questions and sarcastic answers intended to defeat Lincoln" Monaghan. "What are the Ten Commandments Thou shalt have no other God but the negro. Thou shalt make an image of a negro and place it on the Capitol as the type of the new American man." "Strongly opposed to the election of Abraham Lincoln" Sabin Feeks the publisher was a Copperhead closely aligned with Chauncy Burr and other northern publishers of pro-slavey material. New York was "home to vigorous defenders of slavery who viewed African Americans as inferior and warned that abolition would hurt the nation's economy. Both sides took advantage of New York's role as center of publishing and the arts using the city's printing presses theaters and music halls to advocate for an end to slavery or for white supremacy" online Mus. of the City of New York ABOLISHING SLAVERY. FIRST EDITION. Monaghan 324. Bartlett 2734. Sabin 41204. J.F. Feeks, Publisher unknown books
rif. 6726Engraved frontis.; eight engraved vignettes and head- & tailpieces 19 finely engraved plates most folding & some engravings in the text. 18 p.l. 254 36 pp. of index & errata. Thick 8vo 160 x 105 mm. late 18th-cent. marbled boards extremities a little rubbed & worn. Dresden: C. G. Nitzsche 1765. An important German edition of Bosse’s Traité des manières de graver en Taille douce 1st ed. in French: 1645 considerably augmented for the German audience. This work was translated and published by Carl Gottlieb Nitzsche from the 1745 Cochin edition. The Cochin edition was the first to promote etching with hard etching-ground vernis dur instead of the soft etching-ground vernis mol to imitate line engraving. It also featured long sections on Le Blon’s color printing and the refining of mezzotint illustration. In the present book we find four illustrations of the rolling press which Cochin had updated to account for several design upgrades. There are also several diagrams and cross-sections of printing presses. This book is richly illustrated with plates and vignettes executed by Carl Gottfried Nestler 1730-80 that depict various techniques equipment and the interiors of print shops. Nestler reworked the engraved title-page from the 1645 first edition for this book’s frontispiece. A very good copy internally fresh. Unidentified engraved bookplates with the initials “G. F.” on front and rear paste-downs. ⧠Benezit Dictionary of Artists Vol. 10 p. 258 Nestler. unknown
rif. 6726Engraved frontis.; eight engraved vignettes and head- & tailpieces 19 finely engraved plates most folding & some engravings in the text. 18 p.l. 254 36 pp. of index & errata. Thick 8vo 160 x 105 mm. late 18th-cent. marbled boards extremities a little rubbed & worn. Dresden: C. G. Nitzsche 1765. An important German edition of Bosse’s Traité des manières de graver en Taille douce 1st ed. in French: 1645 considerably augmented for the German audience. This work was translated and published by Carl Gottlieb Nitzsche from the 1745 Cochin edition. The Cochin edition was the first to promote etching with hard etching-ground vernis dur instead of the soft etching-ground vernis mol to imitate line engraving. It also featured long sections on Le Blon’s color printing and the refining of mezzotint illustration. In the present book we find four illustrations of the rolling press which Cochin had updated to account for several design upgrades. There are also several diagrams and cross-sections of printing presses. This book is richly illustrated with plates and vignettes executed by Carl Gottfried Nestler 1730-80 that depict various techniques equipment and the interiors of print shops. Nestler reworked the engraved title-page from the 1645 first edition for this book’s frontispiece. A very good copy internally fresh. Unidentified engraved bookplates with the initials “G. F.” on front and rear paste-downs. ⧠Benezit Dictionary of Artists Vol. 10 p. 258 Nestler. unknown books
1710rif. 25803Amsterdam 1710. Copper-engraved map period hand-colouring in outline. Tables upper left and along the right side. Attractive map of North America based upon De L'Isle's highly influential map of North America published in 1700. By combining a wealth of information and geographical observation with delicate engraving and an uncomplicated composition this elegant map is a superb example from the golden age of French mapmaking and was published in Chatelain's Atlas Historique an important encyclopaedic historical atlas. California is shown as a peninsula with a number of villages and mountains; the Mississippi River extends far north of its true source. The table along the right side details the various native tribes from each region with lettered references for locating on the map. Lowery 263; Phillips 579. unknown
1710rif. 25803Amsterdam 1710. Copper-engraved map period hand-colouring in outline. Tables upper left and along the right side. Attractive map of North America based upon De L'Isle's highly influential map of North America published in 1700. By combining a wealth of information and geographical observation with delicate engraving and an uncomplicated composition this elegant map is a superb example from the golden age of French mapmaking and was published in Chatelain's Atlas Historique an important encyclopaedic historical atlas. California is shown as a peninsula with a number of villages and mountains; the Mississippi River extends far north of its true source. The table along the right side details the various native tribes from each region with lettered references for locating on the map. Lowery 263; Phillips 579. unknown books
rif. 10055Cortland New York: Lelover & Schutt 1889. Albumen print 5.375" x 3.875" on larger gilt mount inscribed by DeMond on verso: "A. L. DeMond. Trumansburg. N.Y. '89." CONDITION: Very good. A scarce and early signed cabinet card portrait of a pioneering African American activist and minister who looked to the history of Black excellence as a map for America's future and preached at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church fifty years before Martin Luther King Jr. Abraham Lincoln DeMond was born in Seneca New York in 1867 the youngest child of Quam DeMond and Phebe Cuffe Darrow grand-niece of the famous African American and Wampanoag sea captain Paul Cuffee. After becoming the first Black graduate of what is now SUNY Cortland DeMond studied theology at Howard University. His most famous speech-subsequently published in pamphlet form by the Emancipation Proclamation Association-was given on Jubilee Day of 1900 that is January 1st at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama. Half a century later the church welcomed Martin Luther King Jr. as its pastor and became the launching point for the Montgomery bus boycott and the Civil Rights movement. DeMond's address "The Negro Element in American Life" lauds antislavery activists including Frederick Douglass and Henry Highland Garnet and examples of Black excellence among them Phillis Wheatley and Benjamin Banneker and situates African Americans at the heart of the nation's progress. He frames the Emancipation Proclamation as "essential to the fulfilling" of the Declaration of Independence: "Both were born in days of doubt and darkness. Both were the outcome of injustice overleaping the bounds of right and reason.Without the Declaration of Independence the nation could not have been born; without the Emancipation Proclamation it could not have lived." DeMond served as pastor of the First Congregational Church in Montgomery Alabama; the Plymouth Congregational Church in Charleston South Carolina; the First Congregational Church of New Orleans; and the First Congregational Church in the extraordinary town of Buxton the "Black man's utopia in Iowa." He and his wife Selma University graduate and music teacher Lula Watkins Patterson had five children. DeMond died in 1936. The cabinet card offered here shows a young mustachioed DeMond in crisp white collar and dark suit his hair parted at the center. Taken by Lelover & Schutt of Cortland New York this portrait may have been made upon DeMond's graduation from the Cortland Normal School in June of 1899. A month later his mother died in Trumansburg New York a town in which they had briefly stayed following the death of his father in 1877 and where Phebe had returned in 1886. After his mother's passing DeMond preached to a packed Methodist Church there and probably signed this card during the same stay. A wonderful early portrait of this soon-to-be influential Black minister signed by him the year he became the first Black graduate of what is now SUNY Cortland. REFERENCES: "Abraham Lincoln DeMond" and "Phebe Cuffe Darrow DeMond" at WikiTree online; "Abraham Lincoln DeMond Minister and Activist" at African American Registry online. Cortland, New York: Lelover & Schutt, (1889) unknown
rif. 10055Cortland New York: Lelover & Schutt 1889. Albumen print 5.375" x 3.875" on larger gilt mount inscribed by DeMond on verso: "A. L. DeMond. Trumansburg. N.Y. '89." CONDITION: Very good. A scarce and early signed cabinet card portrait of a pioneering African American activist and minister who looked to the history of Black excellence as a map for America's future and preached at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church fifty years before Martin Luther King Jr. Abraham Lincoln DeMond was born in Seneca New York in 1867 the youngest child of Quam DeMond and Phebe Cuffe Darrow grand-niece of the famous African American and Wampanoag sea captain Paul Cuffee. After becoming the first Black graduate of what is now SUNY Cortland DeMond studied theology at Howard University. His most famous speech-subsequently published in pamphlet form by the Emancipation Proclamation Association-was given on Jubilee Day of 1900 that is January 1st at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama. Half a century later the church welcomed Martin Luther King Jr. as its pastor and became the launching point for the Montgomery bus boycott and the Civil Rights movement. DeMond's address "The Negro Element in American Life" lauds antislavery activists including Frederick Douglass and Henry Highland Garnet and examples of Black excellence among them Phillis Wheatley and Benjamin Banneker and situates African Americans at the heart of the nation's progress. He frames the Emancipation Proclamation as "essential to the fulfilling" of the Declaration of Independence: "Both were born in days of doubt and darkness. Both were the outcome of injustice overleaping the bounds of right and reason.Without the Declaration of Independence the nation could not have been born; without the Emancipation Proclamation it could not have lived." DeMond served as pastor of the First Congregational Church in Montgomery Alabama; the Plymouth Congregational Church in Charleston South Carolina; the First Congregational Church of New Orleans; and the First Congregational Church in the extraordinary town of Buxton the "Black man's utopia in Iowa." He and his wife Selma University graduate and music teacher Lula Watkins Patterson had five children. DeMond died in 1936. The cabinet card offered here shows a young mustachioed DeMond in crisp white collar and dark suit his hair parted at the center. Taken by Lelover & Schutt of Cortland New York this portrait may have been made upon DeMond's graduation from the Cortland Normal School in June of 1899. A month later his mother died in Trumansburg New York a town in which they had briefly stayed following the death of his father in 1877 and where Phebe had returned in 1886. After his mother's passing DeMond preached to a packed Methodist Church there and probably signed this card during the same stay. A wonderful early portrait of this soon-to-be influential Black minister signed by him the year he became the first Black graduate of what is now SUNY Cortland. REFERENCES: "Abraham Lincoln DeMond" and "Phebe Cuffe Darrow DeMond" at WikiTree online; "Abraham Lincoln DeMond Minister and Activist" at African American Registry online. Cortland, New York: Lelover & Schutt, (1889) unknown books
1719rif. M1126Paris c.1719. Very Good;. Notes: From Chatelain's Atlas Historique. This map is based on the 1703 map by Lahontan. The map covers the area of South Hudson Bay and concentrates on the Great Lakes. The St. Laurent is shown running into the Great Lakes from present day Lake Winnipeg. Georgian Bay is named "Baye de Toronto". English French Iroquois treaty is shown and many early settlements forts trading posts missions friendly and hostile Indian Villages are clearly marked. This is a highly significant and informative fur trade map. Surrounding the map are a number of descriptive panels contained lists of the birds fish plants and insects of Canada. Also the Indian tribes of the different regions together with a list of various trade goods including whiskey which were popular among the Indians. Size : 368x458 mm 14.49x18.03 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Reference: Koeman II: Cha 7; Sellers and Van Ee 2; Kershaw II: 307. Category: Maps Canada; Maps North America Great Lakes; unknown
1894rif. 2311448Harrogate Tennessee: Lincoln Memorial University 1894. Limited Edition. Half-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Limited edition #399 of an unspecified limitation this set 'especially prepared for Harry J. Williams.' Signed by John Wesley Hill opposite limitation page. Copyright page states 1894 but this is clearly reproduced from the plates of the original - this set is circa 1905. Volume 1 has very minor discoloration to edges of cloth on rear board minor wear to corners spine a bit faded. Complete in twelve hardcover volumes. Red half-leather gilt titles and decorations top edges gilt decorative endpapers. A complete collection of Abraham Lincoln's works including speeches letters biographical writings etc. with an introduction by John Wesley Hill and special articles by various other contributors. The editors were Lincoln's private secretary and assistant secretary and also served in various other governmental roles Hay going on to become Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt. Nicolay and Hay are perhaps best known for their ten-volume biographical history of Lincoln's administration originally published serially in The Century Magazine beginning in 1886 -- it remains one of the more exhaustive and personal accounts of the life of the 16th President of the United States and is notable for the inclusion of facsimiles of original drafts of important documents most importantly the Emancipation Proclamation. This set includes facsimiles of original correspondence and documents reproductions of contemporary photographs and engravings etc. Lincoln Memorial University hardcover
1894rif. 2311448Harrogate Tennessee: Lincoln Memorial University 1894. Limited Edition. Half-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Limited edition #399 of an unspecified limitation this set 'especially prepared for Harry J. Williams.' Signed by John Wesley Hill opposite limitation page. Copyright page states 1894 but this is clearly reproduced from the plates of the original - this set is circa 1905. Volume 1 has very minor discoloration to edges of cloth on rear board minor wear to corners spine a bit faded. Complete in twelve hardcover volumes. Red half-leather gilt titles and decorations top edges gilt decorative endpapers. A complete collection of Abraham Lincoln's works including speeches letters biographical writings etc. with an introduction by John Wesley Hill and special articles by various other contributors. The editors were Lincoln's private secretary and assistant secretary and also served in various other governmental roles Hay going on to become Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt. Nicolay and Hay are perhaps best known for their ten-volume biographical history of Lincoln's administration originally published serially in The Century Magazine beginning in 1886 -- it remains one of the more exhaustive and personal accounts of the life of the 16th President of the United States and is notable for the inclusion of facsimiles of original drafts of important documents most importantly the Emancipation Proclamation. This set includes facsimiles of original correspondence and documents reproductions of contemporary photographs and engravings etc. Lincoln Memorial University hardcover books
1575rif. 21270Amsterdam: Ortelius 1575. Very good overall. A classic map of the British Isles published in the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' regarded as the first modern atlas. The map was oriented with north to the right so that the map fitted the sheet of paper as it predates the convention of north to the top of the map. Ort 16 Koeman/Meurer: 6 Karrow: 1/11 van der Krogt AN: 5000:31A. Listed on Van Den Broecke as 1575L6 100 copies printed small page number 7 mm; last line centred like 3 lines above it: sem;Ponticum Virunium;Ioannem Prisæum;&Bedam. Shirley: British Isles 1477-1650 86. Latin text on verso. 19 1/2 x 13 1/2". Centerfold and right margin strengthened. Original color heightened. Ortelius unknown
1574rif. 15880Antwerp: Plantin 1574. Maps. Very good overall. The map of Asia from Ortelius' groundbreaking 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' considered the first modern geographical atlas 'produced in thirty-one editions between 1570 and 1612' David Parry: 'The Cartography of the East Indian Islands' 2005. Covering the area from the Middle East to Nova Guinea with part of the coast line of Australia 'Terrae Incognitae Australis Pars' in the lower right corner. Based on Ortelius' own 1567 wall map of Asia from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Van den Broecke Ort #6 "Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number: 1574L3 175 copies printed large page number 11 mm last line centered like 2 lines above it: nem in maiori Tabula ante tres annos edidimus". It has the capital "F" in La Farfana and the town "Ara" is still present above Aden. A total of only 1675 of this edition were printed compared to the more common Ort 7 edition. Image size:19 3/4 x 14 3/4". With an ornate cartouche and sailing ships. Latin text on verso. Paper size: 21 x 16 1/2". Copper engraving with original hand color. A very small burn hole at the ocean south of Japan; a defect in the plate at the lower edge to the right of the cartouche creating a short black line. Plantin unknown
1778rif. 19980Paris: P-M. Lamy 1778. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary mottled calf covers rehinged. Two Vols. in one. Very good. 8 & 10 pages in text. 22 x 17 cm. Engraved frontispieces 283 plates. An antiquary of Flemish descent his early interest in gem collecting as part of his cabinet of curiosities eventually spawned interest in Greco-Roman intaglio gems; his collection purchased in 1609 on behalf of Henry Prince of Wales -- with more than a representative sampling of specimens here. His first work "Dactiliotheca" published 1609. BRUNET Vol. II p.1671. Index of plates in each volume generally clean wide margined plate pages book label and small ownership inscription dated 1857 of same individual corner wear raised bands leather spine label spine compartments decorated in blind. P-M. Lamy unknown
1778rif. 19980Paris: P-M. Lamy 1778. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary mottled calf covers rehinged. Two Vols. in one. Very good. 8 & 10 pages in text. 22 x 17 cm. Engraved frontispieces 283 plates. An antiquary of Flemish descent his early interest in gem collecting as part of his cabinet of curiosities eventually spawned interest in Greco-Roman intaglio gems; his collection purchased in 1609 on behalf of Henry Prince of Wales -- with more than a representative sampling of specimens here. His first work "Dactiliotheca" published 1609. BRUNET Vol. II p.1671. Index of plates in each volume generally clean wide margined plate pages book label and small ownership inscription dated 1857 of same individual corner wear raised bands leather spine label spine compartments decorated in blind. P-M. Lamy unknown books
1863rif. 017619Coblenz: Karl Baedeker 1863. Book. Near Very Good. Pictorial Cover. First Edition. Illustrated softcover with all 13 plates and with the folded map present uncut pages. Spot foxing marginal wear. bookplate of Charles W. Nettleton later owners signature thus near very good. Dj has browning due to age missing 30% of spine split along the seam very fragile. Scarce in dj. Karl Baedeker Hardcover
rif. 9a928Paul Fürstens/ Christoff Gerhard Nürnberg 1669. 10 Bl. 155 S. 2 Bl. mit einem gestochenem Frontispiz 16 Kupfertafeln und einem gestochenem Textkupfer Pergamenteinband der Zeit mit handschriftlichem Rückentitel Einband etwas fleckig/ Rücken unten eingerissen/ alter Stempel auf Titel oben rechts "königliche Hand Bibliothek". - VD 17 12:652368M/ Graesse I 501./ Frühe deutsche Ausgabe erstmals 1645 in Paris erschienen/ Die Kupfer zeigen die Werkstatt sowie verschiedene Drucktechniken/ innen sauber - unknown
rif. 29501Le Mans, Ch. Richelet, 1840. 2 parties en 1 vol. in-8°, demi-maroquin bleu avec coins, dos à nerfs avec titre doré, filets à froid sur les plats, tête dorée. Reliure du début du XXe siècle. Bel exemplaire. (2) ff., cviij pp., pp. 17 à 268, (1) p., et 34 planches hors-texte doubles gravées en taille-douce.
rif. 17788Paris, Augustin Courbé (imprimerie Jean Roger), 1656 ; in folio, basane havane, dos refait et plats d'époque conservés, fleurons dorés à l'ancienne ; 1blanc, frontispice, titre ; (6) ff. , portrait de l'auteur, (16) ff. , 522 pp. , (6) ff.
rif. 13144Paris, Melchior Tavernier, 1634. In-4, (11)-(58)-(2 : table) ff., reliure ancienne plein vélin crème (en partie débroché, papier bruni, quelques restaurations anciennes). Tampon humide : "Bibl. Sem. S. Sulp."
1967Signed, without inscription, by author upon title page. Also signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. xvi, 662 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. "Except for the last few chapters, this entire work was written from day to day during the three years of the author's internment in Santo Tomas and is therefore to be considered as a prison document. The writing of any such record as this was forbidden by the Japanese under strong menace. In the end they destroyed their own records and those of the successive internee executive committees, but the author's voluminous typescript, carefully hidden away, was never found by them. Every story is based on interviews with numerous persons who participated in the events they talked about." - Foreword. No dust jacket. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear to grey boards. Binding intact. Please note that we are offering volume one only of this important two volume chronicle. Book
1574rif. LBW-589Anvers 1574-1575 363 x 434 mm.
rif. 4294Paris chez Abraham Pacard 1619 , deux tomes in 8 grand , 1611 pages plus tables page de garde avec gravure , , manque sur la page de garde du tome 1 , reliure aux armes et un ex libris de mR Colin de Saint Marc
1834rif. ABC_45429Noordwijk 1834. Folio 23 x 38.5 cm & 26 x 44 cm. 2 autograph letters each written on a single leaf and folded for posting with the address and remnants of a seal. 2 ll. Both letters were written by Abraham Hendrik Verster van Wulverhorst 1797-1882 living in Noordwijk Binnen near Leiden as a forester in the Dutch province of Zuid-Holland he was Inspecteur der Opperhoutvesterij. The present letters contain detailed observations on the Salamander punctata probably the European spotted salamandar now designated Salamandra salamandra. The letters further offer laudatory words regarding Heinrich Boie 1794-1827 who had also worked at the Rijksmuseum but had left for the Dutch East Indies to study the Southeast Asian fauna and sadly had died there in 1827. Also interesting remarks by Verster as a bird watcher on the bird migration: he had observed that the gallingo snipe and the rusticola woodcock were very early that year.The edges of the second letter are frayed. Otherwise in good condition. unknown
1880rif. 2101Amsterdam The Hague Brussels Vienna and other places 1880. Preserved in a contemporary portfolio with red sprinkled boards held together by two olive green ribbons which also serve as closing ties a paper title label on the front together with two other labels. With ca. 100 contemporary notes and letters several with envelopes. Extensive archive of approximately one hundred letters and notes concerning the Vorsterman family assembled by the genealogist and heraldist Anthonie Abraham Vorsterman van Oyen 1845-1912. The family included the Antwerp printer Willem Vorsterman d. 1543 and the Dutch-Flemish engraver Lucas Vorsterman 1595-1675. Much of the material consists of replies from archivists and librarians to inquiries made by Vorsterman van Oyen in the course of his genealogical research. A large group of letters is written by Nicolaas de Roever 1850-1893 municipal archivist of Amsterdam.The archive gives a good impression of genealogical research in the late nineteenth century when information had to be collected through correspondence with archives libraries and fellow researchers. Vorsterman van Oyen was one of the leading Dutch genealogists of his time and published numerous works on genealogy and heraldry including his three-volume Stam- en wapenboek van aanzienlijke Nederlandsche familiën 1885-1890. He was also one of the founders of the genealogical and heraldic society De Nederlandsche Leeuw founded in 1883.Also included are two resolutions of the States of Holland from 1778 and 1780 respectively granting Abraham Vorsterman Jacobs permission to organise a hare hunt in the woods of Brederode.With the bookplate of Vorsterman van Oyen mounted on the inside of the front board. The portfolio is somewhat worn and with multiple labels; it was probably re-used multiple times. The letters and notes in good condition with only occasional browning.l Cf. Van der Steur "Vorsterman van Oijen Antonie Abraham 1845-1912" in: Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland Huygens ING. hardcover
1880rif. 2101Amsterdam The Hague Brussels Vienna and other places 1880. Preserved in a contemporary portfolio with red sprinkled boards held together by two olive green ribbons which also serve as closing ties a paper title label on the front together with two other labels. With ca. 100 contemporary notes and letters several with envelopes. With: 2 HUNTING. Extract uit de resolutien van de heeren Staaten van Holland en Westvriesland genomen in haar edele groot mog. Vergadering op dingsdag den 8 september 1778.The Hague 1778.3 HUNTING. Extract uit de resolutien van de heeren Staaten van Holland en Westvriesland genomen in haar edele groot mog. Vergadering op dingsdag den 18 april 1780.The Hague 1780. Extensive archive of approximately one hundred letters and notes concerning the Vorsterman family assembled by the genealogist and heraldist Anthonie Abraham Vorsterman van Oyen 1845-1912. The family included the Antwerp printer Willem Vorsterman d. 1543 and the Dutch-Flemish engraver Lucas Vorsterman 1595-1675. Much of the material consists of replies from archivists and librarians to inquiries made by Vorsterman van Oyen in the course of his genealogical research. A large group of letters is written by Nicolaas de Roever 1850-1893 municipal archivist of Amsterdam.The archive gives a good impression of genealogical research in the late nineteenth century when information had to be collected through correspondence with archives libraries and fellow researchers. Vorsterman van Oyen was one of the leading Dutch genealogists of his time and published numerous works on genealogy and heraldry including his three-volume Stam- en wapenboek van aanzienlijke Nederlandsche familiën 1885-1890. He was also one of the founders of the genealogical and heraldic society De Nederlandsche Leeuw founded in 1883.Also included are two resolutions of the States of Holland from 1778 and 1780 respectively granting Abraham Vorsterman Jacobs permission to organise a hare hunt in the woods of Brederode.With the bookplate of Vorsterman van Oyen mounted on the inside of the front board. The portfolio is somewhat worn and with multiple labels; it was probably re-used multiple times. The letters and notes in good condition with only occasional browning.l Cf. Van der Steur "Vorsterman van Oijen Antonie Abraham 1845-1912" in: Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland Huygens ING. hardcover
