Baron borrekens (2 risultati)

Portraits; The portraits depict members of a wealthy Belgian-French family around the end of the 19th century. On one of the pictures one deciphers the names of Baron Joseph de Zegwaard, Knight Schouthede, Legrelle (-Borrekens).These names are written on a ribbon attached to a birth-gift bouquet. Binding; Full blue morocco binding, on the front-cover in large blind-tooled letters;raits. Back with 6 raised bands. Endpapers in blue watered silk, first and last endpaper mounted in a gilt ornamental border. Signed on the second leaf; Giraudon, Paris, rue Thérèse, Avenue de l'Opéra. Apart from a small restauration at one of the hinge a nice binding. Photograph portrait album of a rich family of Belgian-French nobility. Although none of the pictures are signed some of them have a real artistic merit. Quite a number of the photographs offer also a great interest for the elaborate costumes worn by the sitters. …

2. S.l. (Antwerpen), manuscript on paper, written in ink, dated 14th may 1784, in-folio, 4 pp ( one with text), written in French, very neat handwriting. In this letter signed by the directors of the Société Impériale de Trieste pour le commerce Aziatique; they officially declare that it is their intent to divert the five ships of the company due to arrive from China and destined for the port of Hamburg to the port of Ostend. The reason given is the dangerous pre-war situation along the Dutch coast. Provenace; from the archives of Charles de Proli ; photostat of a typed letter from 23 May 1945 refers to Theophile Smekens who was still occupied with Proli's bancruptcy in the late 19th c. ( see Denucé, Antwerps Archievenblad 2e reeks, 7 , 1932 nr.1). We have other archive records relating to Charles Proli and the ''Société Impériale de Trieste pour le commerce Aziatique'' on offer. If you would be interested in acquiring several documents a more advantageous price will be applied. Please inquire via e-mail.…