125 - Berlin

Berlin Korsch, Family Wedding album of the physician general Feodor Korsch (1856-1914) and his wife Hannah Korsch née Meyerhoff for their wedding on April 11, 1893, dedicated by Georg Schütze, a friend of many years. With 6 fulls. Chromolithographs, printed sayings and poems as well as numerous hs. With numerous handwritten entries. Wittenberg, K. Herrosé, n.d. 143 pp. 4°. Gilt, black and blind embossed blue cloth with cover illustration and three gilt edges. Gilt edges (bumped, stained). Contains i.a.: Wedding speech held in the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Berlin by General Superintendent Ernst Dryander (1843-1922, theologian and politician) (transcript). - Approx. 63 eh. Signed by the wedding guests, including J. Aschenborn (Privy Councillor), Minna von Bezold, Bohtz, Margarete and Ernst Dryander, Samuel Hartmann, A. Hartsch, Hermann Meyerhoff (father), Marie Opitz née Roetger, Lt. Schmeltzer, Sophie Toten née Kirchhoff, Hugo Weizsäcker (court assessor), G. and Elisabeth Winter. - Family chronicle until 1913 - Hs. texts/transcripts: German courtship, schoolgirl with portfolio and sandwich box (Marga Hübner), etc. - Late. Entries from Aug. 1893 to July 29, 1907 from Anna, Martin, Oscar and Susanna Korsch, sister Elsa. - Enclosed: OPortrait photo (vintage, silver gelatine print, 14 x 10 cm, mounted), 2 cards with menu of the wedding banquet and music program, 1 double sheet with further, later family notes. - Front endpaper with note from the Alers Family (?) Foundation in Bremen. - Staples somewhat rusty, 1 lithograph (verso with autograph text) loose, occasionally slightly (finger-) stained, otherwise generally well-preserved. Korsch family. - Wedding album of the physician general Feodor Korsch (1856-1914) and his wife Hannah Korsch née Meyerhoff, dedicated to their wedding on 11 April 1893 by Georg Schütze, a friend of many years. With 6 full page chromolithographs, printed sayings and poems as well as numerous handwritten entries. Gilt, black and blind embossed blue cloth with cover illustration and gilt edges (bumped, stained). - Staples somewhat rusty, 1 litho (verso with autograph text) loose, partly slightly (finger-) stained, otherwise overall well preserved.