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Family registers, 20th century, 3 + supplement - Family registers. Three family registers and entry books from the 20th century. Various formats. Original leather bindings (one spine damaged). 1. Register book of Auguste Leuschner from Saxony. Circa 1910. 90 leaves, of which approximately 58 are handwritten. With one color watercolor. Containing numerous verses, texts, and poems by Schiller (The Bell), Goethe, Geibel, Sophie Moreau, Paul Gerhardt, and others, as well as two entries by female friends. 2. Memorial book of Edmund and Marie Meindl from Prien. 1911–1962. Approximately 200 leaves, of which 29 are handwritten. Containing diary entries, including one on Edmund's death in 1931. 3. Album amicorum of the student Heidi Elbs from Giessen. With approximately 30 handwritten entries on approximately 100 leaves. Mostly Giessen, also Freiburg, Dresden, and others, 1911–1915. With 16 (14 mounted) original portrait photographs. - With entries by numerous female friends, his brother Werner, the school principal Dr. Störike, the teacher Clara Birnbaum, and others. - The photographs are from a carnival performance. - Also included: 5 album pages for Else Baum. Coburg, 1859-66. With 1 pencil drawing, 2 silhouettes, 1 copper engraving, 1 mounted wafer. Loose in a decorative contemporary cardboard box with a lithographed cover illustration.