[PHILATELY - Album Amicorum]. - Lot 123

[PHILATELY - Album Amicorum]. [Dutch Stamps]. No. 52: Dutch Postcards, Strips, and Stamped Envelopes. Stamp and Postage Varieties. No place (ca. 1890–1910). Folio (37 x 28.5 cm), 92 leaves. Later fawn half-basane leather binding with maroquin finish, spine with faux raised bands, gilt title and metal fittings (some scuffing on the head and foot caps). An intriguing album bringing together numerous stamps and postcards with stamps alongside many black-and-white engravings, taken from periodicals or publications of the time, illustrating various countries around the world throughout its pages. Most of the engravings, affixed to the pages, have been captioned in fine handwriting with a pen. Some pages contain several dozen stamps of the same face value. Numerous “briefkaarten” or envelopes with stamps. Some pages are free of stamps; they may have been removed. The stamps are canceled. Names have been blacked out on most of the postcards or envelopes. NEDERLANDS.