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Album amicorum voor Maria Beets Op het voorplat: 'Poesie' in goudstempeling Informatie van het antiquariaat of veilinghuis: 'Album amicorum. Dutch. Haarlem, 1857-1862. Contemp. blind and gilt stamped purple morocco, gilt titled Poesie g.e. With 2 fine water-colours, 4 pencil-drawings, woodengraved woman's portrait mounted, and coloured lithographed bunch of flowers cut out and mounted. 46 lvs. Very interesting manuscript with important literary contributions. The owner of the Album was called Maria, probably lived at Haarlem, as most of the contributons are dated at Haarlem, and apparently she was related to the famous Dutch author Nicolaas Beets. One contribution is signed: your loving aunt, G. Thöne, born Beets, and another: your loving niece, D.P.C. Beets, Widow W. de Brieden. Afer the opening of the album by Maria' s mother, the first contributions are: a piece of prose (3 pp.), signed and dated by Cd. Busken Huet, haarlem, 6 January 1857, a 4 line poem, signed and dated by Nicolaas Beets, Utrecht, 21 April 1858, and a 6 line poem, signed and dated by J.P. Hasebroek, Amsterdam, 8 mei 1858. Further interesting contributions by P.A. Tiele, Zenobie van Lennep, Bernard Gewin, J.P. Heye (=Jan Pieter Heije), H.C. Roeters van Lennep, J.C. Roelants, &c. One of the fine water-colours, showing a Dutch landscape, is signed by D. Beets, and the other, showing a pair of dogs, by P.F. van Os. The pencil-drawings show deer, a dog, and 2 womans's portraits, one signed: Anna Thöne.' Met 'Een gelijkenis'door C. Busken Huet, gedrukt door de Avalon Pers, 2000, z.o. ppn 242933386