Beheer

LOT 742
SOLD €100,00

Nicolaas Beets (13 September 1814-1903). Letter in pen and ink,

dated "Utrecht, 31 Juli 1900", addressed to "Lieve Mary" [Mackay] [= Marie Corelli], bifolium with only the first page written, elegantly monogrammed "NB", 18 x 11.5 cm. (waterstained in top edge), pasted in a very poor copy of the 20th edition of the Camera Obscura (1900) in original cloth (heavily waterstained on inside and outside), with on the free endpaper the dedication "Voor Mary Mackay van Hildebrand, 1 Aug. 1900".

See also lot 724. Lovely letter by the old Nicolaas Beets, as a result of the publication of this twentieth edition: "Gun mij het genoegen, lieve Mary, u met mijn beste wenschen voor uw leven en geluk, het product van eens vijfentwintigjarigen aan te bieden, waarvan juist op dezen uwen verjaardag de twintigste uitgave in het licht verschijnt. Met een hart vol liefde Uw warme vriend [monogram]". Mary Mackay is the pseudonym of Marie Corelli (1855-1924), famous writer, see https://tinyurl.com/kkpx3qh. UB Leiden keeps a letter from Beets to Mackay, dated 1900.

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