Auction 96 FINE JUDAICA: PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, RABBINIC LETTERS, CEREMONIAL & GRAPHIC ART
By Kestenbaum & Company
Feb 9, 2022
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, Suite 1108 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States

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LOT 115:

(AMERICAN-JUDAICA)
(SURINAM). David da Silva. Verzameling van ...

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



Extensive Dutch manuscript. Beautifully written in an elegant cursive hand throughout, ink on paper. Fine calligraphic title. Text in Dutch and French.
pp. (2), 249, (9). Occasional light stains. Unbound. Folio.
Suriname: 1865


Unpublished literary manuscript.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.