Includes decorative cartouche showi, Sheet measures 20.3 x 29.3 cm. Ms. no. in upper right corner: 61. Ms. no. in lower left corner: 18:29. Cross Collection no. 236., and Shows southern North America, Central America, northern South America and the West Indies.
Publisher:
s.n.,
Subject (Geographic):
Caribbean Area--Maps--Early works to 1800, Mexico, Gulf of--Maps--Early works to 1800, and West Indies--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Topic):
Coasts--North America--Maps--Early works to 1800 and Coasts--South America--Maps--Early works to 1800
"Rectifier selon la carte de Monsieur Jean Kyrilow, premier secretaire de conseil de l'Empire de Russie publier en l'anne ́1734 ... ", Cross collection no. 54., Includes text of letter written by "Monsieur Sw, Prime meridian: Ferro., and Relief shown pictorially.
"Les cartes géographiques et les figures insérćes dans le texte sont celles de l'édition flamande de 1630"--Willems, Les Elzevier, 1880, no. 497., "This French translation of Laet contains many materials not to be found in the original Dutch, chiefly vocabularies of Indian tribes"--Sabin., First edition published in Dutch at Leyden, 1625, under title: Nieuvve wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien., Printer's mark (the hermit) on t.-p., and T.-p. in red and black.
Publisher:
Chez B. & A. Elseuiers,
Subject (Geographic):
America--Description and travel, America--Discovery and exploration, and West Indies--Description and travel
Collection of approximately twenty letters, fifteen with envelopes, to Carlos Piesaar received during a brief incarceration for Provo-related activities in 1970. Letters from family, friends, and Provo artists and sympathizers include drawings and clippings. With twenty-five empty envelopes, two addressed to Peter Bronkhorst.
Description:
Carlos Piesaar, member of Provo movement in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in the 1960s. and Purchased from John Benjamins Antiquariat B. D. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2010.
Subject (Geographic):
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Subject (Name):
Bronkhorst, Peter, Dutch Counterculture Collection (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library), and Provo (Organization)
Subject (Topic):
Counterculture--Netherlands--Amsterdam and Social movements--Netherlands--Amsterdam
The collection primarily contains letters received by Carel Mondriaan and his wife Mary Mondriaan, including one autograph letter and twelve postcards, signed, from Piet Mondrian writing from Paris (1937-1938), London (1938-1939), and New York (1941). Other correspondents in the papers are Willem Frederik Mondriaan (two telegrams, 1943-1944); Harry Holtzman (one typed letter, signed, 1948), Michel Seuphor (one autograph letter, signed, 1956), and Kunstkreis-Verlag (one typed letter, 1956). Also present is a manuscript inventory in an unidentified hand (1946) listing some of the items in the collection, a printed announcement for Louis Cornelis Mondriaan's funeral (1943), a photograph of Carel and Mary Mondriaan with Piet Mondrian in his studio at 278 Boulevard Raspail, Paris (1936), and an album holding seventy-two carte-de-visite portrait photographs of Mondriaan family members (1870s-1880s).
Description:
Carel Mondriaan was born on June 1, 1880, and died on July 28, 1956. The younger brother of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Mondriaan had a career as an insurance broker. and Purchased from S. W. Myers (Sotheby's sale, 1983 November 7, lot 291) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1983.