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Lot 159

Dutch 18th Century Hand Illuminated Genealogy

Estimate: $400 - $600

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bound in full leather with six raised bands, elaborately gilt decorated leather bound wooden boards with intact brass clasps, title page dated 1729, with many hand illuminated coats of arms, names including S. Boris Guld, Joncker Cristanus Gillielmus(?), Joncker Franciscus Fredericus, Ludovicus van Goorlaecken, and others, 280 numbered pages (approximately 69 with hand written content and/or drawings/illumination, others are blank), aeg

Provenance: Private Collection, Kingsport, Tennessee

Condition

with wear at extremities and occasional losses to leather, some bumped or chipped corners, pages with light wear and small edge tears, scattered light staining throughout