(SURINAM). David da Silva. Verzameling van Schoonheden van Verschillende Dichters [“An Aesthetic Collection by Various Poets.”]

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $1,600

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author

(AMERICAN-JUDAICA)

Place

Suriname

Publication

1865

Description

Extensive Dutch manuscript. Beautifully written in an elegant cursive hand throughout, ink on paper. Fine calligraphic title. Text in Dutch and French.

summary

Unpublished literary manuscript. Poems and short stories by various authors compiled by David da Silva in Suriname in 1865. This manuscript is entirely unrecorded. The Da Silva family has been prominent in the Jewish community of Surinam for almost three centuries.

pp. (2), 249, (9). Occasional light stains. Unbound. Folio.

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