Auction 362 Manuscripts, Letters a.o. Written Documents
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"SENTENTIEN van den Hove van Justitie (…) tegen Everhard Engelen, Jan Gerrit Waltelingh, Frans Metzger, en Margaretha Wilhelmina Waltelingh. Gepronunciëerd op den 29. July 1799". Den Haag, 1799. 53 pp. 4°. Printed report of a law case regarding a robbery of elderly people in the vicinity of Rotterdam, interspersed with 2 handwritten death sentences by Cornelis Felix van Maanen on 2 lvs. , r° and v°, imposed on two of the perpetrators, dated 26 July 1799 and 16 May 16 1800. Bound in folio early 20th c. clothbacked binding. -- Added: Binder containing 18 testimonies (copies), a.o. legal documents in ms. relating to various legal cases (mostly relating to man slaughter), dated between 1720 and 1807. c. 70 lvs., r° and v°. Fol. -- Also added: 4 similar binders w. various similar arrests, testimonies, from the 17th-18th c., etc., partly in letterpress, partly in ms. -- Tog. in 6 binders.

Curious collection apparently without much coherence, but probably collected and bound by a criminal case enthusiast.

€ 300

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