19 - Friendship Books.- Family book of Gotthelf Heinrich Besser (probably) from Leobschütz (Silesia). With 35 handwritten entries on approximately 115 leaves. Mostly Berlin and Cosel, as well as Leobschütz and Neisse. 1830-42. With 3 watercolors. Oblong small octavo. Contemporary half-leather binding with gilt edges, colored covers with mounted paper borders, and an embossed gold appliqué mounted in the center of the front cover (somewhat rubbed).

Friendship Books.- Family book of Gotthelf Heinrich Besser (probably) from Leobschütz (Silesia). With 35 handwritten entries on approximately 115 leaves. Mostly Berlin and Cosel, as well as Leobschütz and Neisse. 1830-42. With 3 watercolors. Oblong small octavo. Contemporary half-leather binding with gilt edges, colored covers with mounted paper borders, and an embossed gold appliqué mounted in the center of the front cover (somewhat rubbed). With entries by the sisters Auguste and Fridericke, the later wife Emilie Palmig, the brothers-in-law Adolph and Hermann Palmig as well as Johann Peter Neidinger, Albert Neumann, Leo Julius Zellner, Carl Schwindtcke et al. - GH Besser was the house father (or administrator) of a prison in Berlin. - The watercolors show an angel next to a memorial plaque in a green landscape, a still life of fruit with insects and a castle ruin. - Endpaper and 2 leaves loose, partly slightly foxed.]