177 - Saxony-Anhalt

Saxony-Anhalt Writing book for Friedrich Günther. Großleinungen, c. 1840-1873. 95pp. 8°. HLdr. d. Zt. verso and recto with gest. (A Portuguese parlor / Octoberfest of the Romans) (rubbed, some small losses in cover, joints chipped). Contains mostly dated various. Contains mostly dated exercise texts (about Dresden, St. Petersburg, Bohemia, mushrooms, clouds, comets, religious matters etc.) as well as the ABC in cursive and calligraphy. - On the endpapers as well as at the beginning and in the appendix with entries on work carried out (forging, grinding, crushing, plowing, journeys with loads of wood, dung, stones, transport of crates and letters from/to Erfurt, Elberfeld, Naumburg), partly with names of the clients, (interest) income and costs (for shoeing a horse, etc.), prescriptions for rheumatism (Karl Simon Compensation-Extract Posen), toothache, for rubbing joints, etc.). - Enclosed: some loose, partly late. Among them a letter from the Wernicke family from Heinrode (1909) / from the Blättermann family from Drebsdorf (1913), business card from Ernst Winterhager from Potsdam. - Some browning due to paper, occasional foxing and fingerstaining, occasional and the loose sheets with small tears, in good overall condition.