Plates and maps partly folded. Paged continuously. and Translation of the author's "Reizen over Moskovie ..." 1711.
Publisher:
Freres Wetstein,
Subject (Geographic):
East Indies--Description and travel., Iran--Description and travel., Lavant (Ont. : Township)--Description and travel., Middle East--Description and travel., Russia--Description and travel., and Soviet Union--Description and travel.
Subject (Name):
Chardin, John,--Sir,--1643-1713., Ides, Evert Ysbrandszoon,--ca.1660-1705., Ides, Evert Ysbrants., Kaempfer, Englebert,--1651-1716., Keyser, Jacob, fl. 1704-1738., Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723., Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733., Pool, Matthys, 1670-ca. 1732., and Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651 or 2-1726.
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.
Subject (Name):
Mondriaan, Carel, 1880-1956 and Mondriaan, Louis Cornelis, 1877-1943