Illuminated manuscript commonplace book, 19th c. Contains 20 pen and black ink drawings, c. 7,5 x 10 cm, on 200 ff., vellum paper; all monogr., 3 dated 1866, 1873 and 1881. Bound in 1 vol., 19,5 x 14,5 cm, polished brown morocco signed L. Claessens &...
Estimation :
200 / 300
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
fils, gilt rules and floral cornerpieces on covers (some tiny scratches), richly gilt orn. spine on 5 raised bands (sl. rubbed), gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g., later slipcase. Good copy.
Carefully executed small drawings representing views, landscapes, houses, puppets... by the Dutch still life and landscape painter Maria Vos (1824-1906). Nice perpetual calendar and commonplace book, with months and dates calligraphed in gold and coloured ink and each leaf set in border of red ink. On left pp., common sense or literary quotations in French (G. Sand, Boileau, Pascal...), English (Shakespeare, G. Eliot, Byron...), German (Goethe, Schiller...), Dutch (Multatuli, Vondel...) or Italian; on right pp., some short contemp. or later obituary notes, relating to members of the van Bosse family; the death of Maria Vos is for example mentionned on January 11th. Also contains some later Dutch notes (c. 1957), i.a. concerning the provenance of the ms. : it was made by Anna Weber van Bosse for (her sister ?) M.L. van Bosse.
Carefully executed small drawings representing views, landscapes, houses, puppets... by the Dutch still life and landscape painter Maria Vos (1824-1906). Nice perpetual calendar and commonplace book, with months and dates calligraphed in gold and coloured ink and each leaf set in border of red ink. On left pp., common sense or literary quotations in French (G. Sand, Boileau, Pascal...), English (Shakespeare, G. Eliot, Byron...), German (Goethe, Schiller...), Dutch (Multatuli, Vondel...) or Italian; on right pp., some short contemp. or later obituary notes, relating to members of the van Bosse family; the death of Maria Vos is for example mentionned on January 11th. Also contains some later Dutch notes (c. 1957), i.a. concerning the provenance of the ms. : it was made by Anna Weber van Bosse for (her sister ?) M.L. van Bosse.
