Autographs, Documents & Manuscripts

[MANUSCRIPT - Lucas WALKIER (subject)]. [The official graduation diploma awarded to Lucas Walkier on the occasion of obtaining the doctorate in medicine at the University of Padua on 22 February 1662]
Padua, 22 February 1662. Ad 1: ca. 24.5 x 19 cm.; ad 2: 12.6 x 20 cm.; ad 3: 47 x 45.5 cm.; ad 4: 46 x 29.3 cm. Ad 1: with the beautifully hand-coloured painted oval portrait of Lucas Walkier in a laurel wreath, facing his coat of arms, both within a hand-coloured and heightened with gold floral border. This is followed by the neatly calligraphed text in dark brown ink and highlighted in gold, written within frames of double gold lines. All written and drawn on vellum. Ad 2: a hand-coloured and hand-drawn coat of arms, captioned below in manuscript: Walkier. Ad 3: a broadsheet (folded, printed text within ornamental woodcut border: 30 x 45.5 cm) with the blind-stamped seal of the "Natio Germanica" in Padua, and 4 engraved coats of arms (ca. 7 x 6.5 cm) printed in the four corners. Ad 4: printed on blue silk, within a floral border of 4 blocks, and crowned. With:
(2) [Leaf with the hand-coloured and -drawn coat of arms of Walkier].
(3) [Application form for the "Natio Germanica" at the University of Padua, and admission to the doctoral degree, under the auspices of the Collegium Venetum, (drop-title:) Ex voluntate, et decreto Serenissimi Principis excelsique Senatus Veneti ...].
(4) BÉRIGARDUS, Nicolaus. Augurium Apollinis in auspicatissimam Phil. & Med. Laur. Nobilissimi, & Excellentissimi Domini Lucae Walckier Nob. Lugdunensis Batavi.
Padua, Giovanni Battista Pasquati, 1662.
In a magnificent contemporary gold-tooled vellum over boards, in a so-called Italian fan design, remnants of ties (the silk ties are kept loose in behind the final leaf of ad 1). [4]; [1]; [1]; [1] ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - GERMAN - SWEDISH POLICIES]. Relation. Von dem gegenwartigen Zustande des Konigreichs Schweden.
With: [MANUSCRIPT - FRENCH]. Journal de LAmbassade envoyée de la part de S. M.té le Roy de Suède vers le Grand Duc de Moscovie lan 1684, dressé par un des Gentils-hommes de la Suite.
1684-1688. Folio (ca. 30 x 20 cm). The German part is neatly written in a Kurrent script, and the French part in a cursive hand. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, sewn on 7 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the initials "M.F.K" in the centre of the front board, red and black sprinkled edges, green closing ties. 167 ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - HORSES - HAIR]. Chevaux. Observations sur les chevaux Arabes du désert. ... Cheveux.
[France, ca. 1794-ca. 1813]. Folio. Disbound. [10], [2 blank], [3], [1 blank], [4], [2 blank] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - IBN SINA (AVICENNA)]. [Mahmud ibn Muhammad ibn Umar AL-GAMINI and others]. [Qanunceh (= Small canon)].
[colophon: 1279 AH (= 1862 CE)]. (ca. 17.5 x 10.5 cm). Manuscript on paper, written in a cursive, Persian-Arabic script in 15 to 23 lines per page. With 1 leaf containing 8 hand coloured illustrations, with captions, of medical instruments (4 instruments on respectively the recto and verso of leaf 26). Contemporary brown calf, with blind-stamped decorations. [29] ll. Full description

THOMSON, George Malcolm. [Manuscript letter from George Malcolm Thomson to Alphonse Milne-Edwards].
High school, Dunedin, New Zealand, 30 August 1882. 20.5 x 12.5 cm. Written in a neat cursive in brown ink on laid paper made in Scotland watermarked "A Cowan & Sons Ivory". Folded. [2], [2 blank] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT LETTER - VOC - CEYLON]. [Mattheus SCHENKENBERG]. [Contemporary copy of a letter dated 3 January 1699 from Mattheus Schenkenberg to his uncle Harmen van Soelen].
[Jaffanapatnam, Ceylon, 3 January 1699]. Folio (33 x 21 cm). The Dutch letter is written in a neat late 17th-century cursive hand in brown ink. Folded and kept together by an orange, white and blue piece of string in the left margin (1.5 cm from the edge of the leaves, in the middle). [5], [3 blank] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - MAPS - INDONESIA - ISLANDS in the PACIFIC OCEAN]. [Suitte du journal depuis le départ de Manille NIII 1755].
1755. Manuscript of 24 pages, 6 printed maps on cardboard. [24] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - MEDIEVAL TIMEKEEPING]. Calculus temporum ecclesiasticus.
[Possibly England, ca. 1360]. Small 4to (15.5 x 22.5 cm). Latin manuscript on paper. Brown ink in an early bastarda hand, the final three leaves in a slightly later (still quite contemporary) hand. 19th-century paper wrappers, with the manuscript title on the front wrapper. 30 ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - MORLOT DE WENGI, Alcibiade]. Etude de diverses parties de l'art de la Guerre
[France], January 1820. Small 4to (ca. 20.5 x 16 cm). With 6 hand-coloured folding illustrations, 3 full-page plates (on pp. 36, 57, and 83), 1 half-page plate (on p. 79), and numerous smaller mathematical figures, tables, and other illustrations in the text, most with grey washes and some in colour. The work is written in French in a very neat cursive hand. Contemporary half green painted sheepskin, red sprinkled paper sides. 151, [152-155 blank] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - NAVIGATION - DUTCH]. De schat kamer ofte de konst der stuurlieden.
[The Netherlands], [ca. 1702/13?]. Folio (33.5 x 21.5 cm). With more than 300 mathematical figures and illustrations, mainly full-, half- and quarter-circle diagrams. The Dutch text is written in a clearly legible, 18th-century cursive hand in brown ink. Contemporary flexible paperboards. [213], [4 blank], [1] pp. Full description