Holograph journal kept by an unnamed traveler journeying from Ramsgate to Brussels with a friend, Henry Hargrave. The author describes the journey in detail, including his impressions of the scenery, the voyage, meals and table manners among the Belgi...
Description:
Binding: original mottled notebook boards; spine repaired with tape.
Subject (Geographic):
Belgium--Description and travel, Belgium--History--1814-1830, Belgium--Social life and customs, English Channel--Description and travel, and Waterloo (Belgium)--Description and travel
"Il a été tiré de cet ouvrage cinq exemplaires sur hollande Van Gelder, numérotés de un à cinq, et cent vingt exemplaires sur vergé, numérotés de siz à cent-vingt-cinq"--Colophon.
Publisher:
Les Lèvres Nues
Subject (Name):
Deknop-Kornelis, Evelyn Übers and Willems, Robert Ill
Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818 Repton, J. Adey (John Adey), 1775-1860
Call Number:
GEN MSS VOL 221
Image Count:
43
Abstract:
Manuscript volume written in a formal script, with additions and corrections in another hand, possibly Repton's. With eight plates (original wash drawings), one folded and some with movable pieces; two are signed "by H[umphry] & J[ohn] A[dey] Repton ...
Holograph narrative of a two week tour of Belgium. The author and his companion took the steam-ship "Menoir" to Ostend on June 26th; traveled by train to Bruges and Ghent, where they viewed paintings, principal buildings, and the Convent of the Beguin...
Description:
Binding: contemporary half morocco, gilt decoration on spine, with marbled end papers.
Subject (Geographic):
Belgium--Description and travel
Subject (Topic):
Railroad travel, Tourists, Travelers' writings, English, and Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815--Description and travel
Marriage contract, manuscript, ink on vellum, dated 17th of Adar 5550 at Gibraltar (1790). The text is in cursive. The outlines of a decoration appear in pencil, but the decoration was never completed. It would appear that the bride and groom were of ...
Subject (Geographic):
Gibraltar, --Religious life and customs
Subject (Topic):
Ketubah --Gibraltar and Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law)