Liber amicorum - Family book of the Soest grammar school teacher Johann Anton Friedrich Kleine (1764-1801). With 7 sheet-sized watercolors or brush and ink drawings (2 signed by the owner), 67 inked silhouettes or profile drawings in the text or on inset pages, 17 small vignettes in watercolor, pen and ink or lead, 4 examples of sheet music and 1 handwritten letter by the owner. Soest and other places in Westphalia, 1784-93, Halle 1785/86, Benkendorf 1786. 169 pp. (instead of 187 according to the old count), 4 pp. index. With over 240 entries, 9 of which in precisely labeled and folded copies from the 2nd half of the 19th century. 12 x 18 cm. Modern leather binding in the style of the time. Still a very rich friendship album. About 2/3 of the entries are from Kleine's home country, the rest from his student days in Halle. In addition to fellow students, the following academic teachers are listed: Johann August Eberhard (profile in brush), Johann Reinhold Forster (profile in brush) Georg Christian Knapp (profile in lead), Ludwig Natorp, August Hermann Niemeyer, Christian Friedrich Prange and Johann Salomo Semler (half-profile in brush). - Some entries were made in 1786 on the Benkendorf estate acquired by the physician and numismatist David Samuel von Madai (1709-80), mostly by family members, some with silhouettes in ink. - From Westphalia, entries by members of the noble families von Mallinkrodt and von Hymmen should be mentioned. - Some browning and fingerstaining throughout, 1 leaf with cut-out, 2 others with marginal tears. - Comes with: Family register of the jurist Johann Franz August Lampe from Bielefeld, created in Halle 1785. With approx. 110 entries, mainly from fellow students in Halle 1786/87, including the holder of the above family register, J.A.F. Kleine, on 9.IX.1786. 12 x 19 cm. Contemporary leather binding with new spine label, remnants of cover gilding and calico paper endpapers (rubbed). - Several leaves removed, otherwise in good condition.