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
Inserted folding leaf : ""Effigies tabvlae smaragdinae."" : 2 representations of the emerald tablet of Hermes. In Hebrew on the left and an exotic tongue (representing Chaldean?) on the right.
Description:
Engraved plate, 185 x 235 mm., tipped in inside front cover., MS consists of 3 loose quires in cover., On paper., and Single columns 175 x 120 mm. bordered in pencil, without ruling.
Subject (Name):
Hermes, Trismegistus. Tabula smaragdina
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy and Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
Descriptio ac delineatio geographica detectionis freti, sive, transitus ad occasum supra terras
Image Count:
1
Description:
Bound in after p. [40]., Map has water stain on recto in upper right corner., Printed on recto in lower right corner: F., and Scale [ca. 1:10,000,000].
Subject (Geographic):
Barents Sea --Maps --Early works to 1800. and Norwegian Sea --Maps --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
Amsterodami Ex officina Hesse lij Gerardi. Anno 1613
Maps numbered in manuscript 1 to 97; wanting 2, 42, 45, 51, 52, 74, 85, 89, 92 and 93., Some maps dated 1704-1717, others without date., Some maps first published in J. van Keulen's De nieuwe groote lichtende zee-fackel and G. van Keulen's De groote nieuwe vermeerderde zee-atlas., Title devised by cataloger., and With engraved title-page: "Gedruckt tot Amsterdam bÿ Ioannes van Keulen, boeck zee-kaardt verkooper en graad-boogh maker aande oost zÿde vande Nieuwebrug inde gekroonde Lootsman. Met previlegie ... 1718"; engraved title-page has same illustration as J. van Keulen's De groote nieuwe vermeerderde zee-atlas ofte water-werelt ... 1681.
Publisher:
s.n.,
Subject (Name):
Keulen, Gerard van., Keulen, Johannes van, 1654-1715. Groote nieuwe vermeerderde zee-atlas ofte water-waereld., Keulen, Johannes van, 1654-1715. Nieuwe groote lichtende zee-fakkel., Schenk, Peter, 1660-1718 or 1719., and Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651 or 1652-1726.