Bidspirit auction | Karl Kuder's family register

Karl Kuder's family register - Family registers. Album amicorum of Karl (von) Kuder from Alsace. With 146 handwritten entries on approximately 126 leaves. Mostly Bayreuth, also Darmstadt, Münster, and Amberg, 1797–1802. With 11 partly colored watercolors, 3 pencil drawings, 1 silhouette, and 2 handwritten musical score pages. Oblong octavo. Richly gilt-stamped contemporary leather binding with cover title 'Dedicated to Friendship', spine flap and gilt edges on three sides, in a marbled dust jacket and contemporary cardboard slipcase. Karl von Kuder (1787-1851) was a Privy Councillor in Darmstadt and later a Ministerial Councillor in the Grand Ducal Hessian Ministry of the Interior and Justice. - With entries by his cousins Luise, Margarethe, and Julia Jäglin; his cousin and cousin von Biarowsky; his cousin Friedrich von Ross; his friends Susette and Ludwig Strecher; Herwarth von Bittenfeld; Dürrschmidt; Wilhelm, Fritz, and Gustav von Flotow (1789-1864; Director of the Economic Society in the Kingdom of Saxony); Albrecht Anderson; Püttner; Pausch; Alexander Franz von Velderndorf; and others. - Some entries in French.