Books and Manuscripts · Lote 286
Neurath, M. Two
TYPESCRIPT LETTERS SIGNED "Miez" to mrs B.J.A. ["Anneke"] de Kanter-van Hettinga Tromp, dated "13-1-77" and "13-1-83", both 1 leaf, recto only, the first w. printed letterhead of "Isotype Institute Ltd (...)".
Idem. "Voor familie de Kanter van Miez". Small original drawing, col. pencil, 8,2x14,9 cm., recto only (sl. yellowed and some vague folds). Idem. Isotype Charts. London, British Medical Association, 1954, (2)p. (numb. 4-5), pictographs printed in black and red, orig. printed wr.
ADDED: a typescript letter by Robert Kinross to mrs De Kanter referred to above, with her typescript response (carbon copy).
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- ISOTYPE and INFOGRAPHICS
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- 60 € – 80 €
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- 140 €
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Both w. orig. damaged envelope with later annots. in ballpoint.
Notas
Friendly letters, writing that she gave the address of mrs. De Kanter to Robin Kinross because of some questions about an Isotype exhibition that took place in The Hague in the past and where mrs De Kanter first saw Isotype charts, and about current exhibitions on Gerd Arntz and Isotype. "(...) Arntz forgives me that I did not come to the Hague for the opening, as I forgive him that he did not come to Reading. The Reading exhibition will go to Vienna in April, and may go elsewhere afterwards. So things are going on; indeed much better than we could anticipate in those sad en difficult years that you shared with us (...)" [13/01/1977]. Also about the activities celebrating Otto Neurath's 100th birthday, the publishing of his writings and the growing interest in Isotype. "(...) We have now closed down the Isotype Institute, but there is Reading University, and the tradition is being carried on (...)" [13/01/1983].
Offprint from Medical & Biological Illustration, vol.4 (1954), no.1.