1 - 181 CHILDREN'S BOOKS, CATCHPENNY PRINTS, COMICS, DRAWINGS, GAMES AND TOYS
- Boxes partly sl. worn; the glass slides in good/ fine condition.
= I.a. "Birds and their nests"; "Reineke Fuchs I and II"; "Schmetterlinge" and "Sweep and Whitewasher".
- Bookblock shaken. Boards stained and worn; backstrip partly worn off. = Buijnsters, BNK 1702.
- Partly sl. yellowed/ (water)stained (incl. the plates); one leaf blank corner torn off and restored. Rebacked; covers stained/ soiled.
= Lust en Leering p.335; The Children's World of Learning 4385; Huiskamp M114.
AND 4 others, i.a. C.E. VAN KOETSVELD, Sprookjes in den trant van Andersen (ibid., n.d. (±1880), engr. plates, orig. gilt cl., sm. 8vo) and the 2nd (entirely reworked) ed. of the first work.
- Contents somewhat browned/ foxed; pastedowns (partly) detached; owner's entry on first free endpaper.
= Not in the usual reference works (World of Learning, Huiskamp, Buijnsters etc.).
- Lower edge envelope split.
= Very rare. "Deze map bevat 5 groote platen met teekeningen op ware grootte benevens een boekje met volledige beschrijving voor het maken van: A. Een zeilboot, B. Een telephoon met microphoon, C. Een bascule, D. Een waterrad met stampwerk, E. Een waterrad met hamerwerk" (frontwr.).
AND 3 cut-out model sheets "Met schaar en Lijmpot" by Jan Blok (publ. by Cohen zonen) and 2 "Plakprenten".
- Mint set and box.
= Welsh 1247; Spielman 39-48; The Children's World of Learning 3553; Ki.la.ki.le. 545; cf. Bondy p.75 (ed. Paris, ±1825); not in Gumuchian. Dutch adaptation of Bibliothèque en miniature pour la jeunesse (Paris, Gide Fils, ±1820). "First and only edition of a charming children's instructive library on all school subjects (...)." (The Children's World of Learning). According to Welsh a second Dutch edition was published in 1834. Comprises: De aardrijkskunde; Gewijde Geschiedenis; Vaderlandsche Geschiedenis; Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Viervoetige Dieren; Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Vogelen; Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Insekten, Kruipende Dieren en Visschen; De Kruidkunde; Zedelijke Verhalen; Arabische Vertellingen; De Mythologie. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IV.
- Trifle fingersoiled. = Huiskamp M224, listing the first(?) edition, published ±1835. Rare.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper.
My Own Dollies. Untearable. Ibid., idem, n.d. (±1900), (16)p. (incl. wr.), 4 col. lithogr. plates, ills. and orig. col. lithogr. wr. by R.C. PETHERICK, 4to.
- Owner's entry on first textlvs. Worn along extremities.
AND 2 others publ. by the same, i.a. W. WANDSWORTH, We Are Seven (n.d. (±1890), ills. by M.L. GOW, orig. pict. wr.).
- Contents (sl.) yellowed, but otherwise good. Wapper sl. creased and fingersoiled. = Rare.
Lida (= Durdikova, L.). Albums du père Castor. Bourru l'ours brun. Paris, Flammarion,1936, 35,(1)p., (full-p.) (col.) ills. and orig. wr. by ROJAN.
- Bookplate on verso frontcover; pages sl. yellowed, particularly along the margins. Frontcover w. tear (4-5 cm.) in upper left corner.
AND 4 others, i.a. M.C. VAN OVEN-VAN DOORN, Pikkie Duimelot bij oom Lange Jaap (The Hague, 1934, ills. by RIE CRAMER, orig. cl. w. mounted plate on front cover).
- Lacks final leaf; bookblock loose; title leaf sl. browned. Binding sl. soiled and stained.
= Satirical story of two Chinese officials on a trip to Paris.
- Contents and wrappers loose; 2 parts of pop up sl. defective (but repairable).
AND 1 other: PANORAMA. De haven, het station (Amst., n.d. (±1950), 2 col. pop-up plates (1x partly loose), ills., orig. boards, obl. 4to).
- One plate dam.; w. (repaired) tears in the corners of the frontscenes of the plates. Corners showing; boardedges (sl.) rubbed/ worn.
= A so-called carousel picture book. With the rare text volume. Attractive pop-up book. Krenn's Theater Album no. 2.
Burt, R. and Wells, M. (ed.). The Beatles Story. London, Brown, Wells and Jacobs, 1985, 5 double-p. col. movable and pop-up plates, orig. boards, 4to. - AND 2 others.
- A few lvs. sl. soiled in margins; last few lvs. waterstained in lower part.
= The first edition. Huiskamp L229; Lust en Leering p.24 and p.394-395: "Het eerste Nederlandstalige jeugdboek met luikjesprent. Als men het deurtje op één van de prenten opent blijkt er een aap achter te zitten." Also with proto-Struwwelpeter/ naughty children stories i.a. about a boy who thinks he can cook and burns himself terribly and about a boy who draws on walls.
- Lacks backwr.; frontwr. sl. frayed and creased.
= Extremely rare movable book, probably a Dutch adaptation of a French work. I.a. scenes with a magic lantern (showing i.a. the Eiffel Tower) and a Jack and Judy pantomime. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE V.
- One page w. sl. dam. corners. Front cover sl. creased and w. a few red crayon scribbles, but overall in good condition and in working order.
= "AMA", "Made in Germany" and "D.R.G.M. No. 949318. D.R.P. 441792." printed on front cover and one page.
- Textpages yellowed and occas. sl. frayed w. occas. loss of blank outer edge; one plate loose; one plate lacks a transformation part. Covers sl. soiled and some sm. worn spots along edges; bookblock loosening.
= Rare. The fine movable wheels almost complete and in working order. Montanaro p.228.
- Frontcover foxed.
= Good copy of this rare children's book, w. the red transparent sheet mentioned in the "Invisible Child" section present. Bilderwelt im Kinderbuch 2062 (German ed.): "In diesen in der 30er Jahre äußerst erfolgreichen Kinderbuch kombiniert Thomas Seidmann-Freud Dreh-, Zieh- und Verwandlungsmechanismen auf höchst orginelle Art". Thomas Seidmann-Freud was the pseudonym of Martha Gertrud Freud, a niece of Siegmund Freud.
- Wr. fingersoiled; a few sm. tears. = Showing various uniforms of the Dutch army and navy.
AND 10 others, all w. shaped wrs., incl. 2x w. movable parts, i.a. HALLO MET WIE? (w. movable telephone dial, ±1930) and SLIMME HANSJE (n.pl., n.d. With movable eyes).
- Spine split; wr. loose; sm. hole in frontwr. = Very rare, no copy traced.
Andriessen, S. De Sneeuwman. N.pl., n.publ., n.d. (±1900), 12p., (full-p. chromo)lithogr. ills., orig. shaped chromolithogr. wr.
- Loose; a few sm. marginal tears; sl. brittle. = Only one copy in NCC.
AND 1 other: FABLES DE LA FONTAINE (n.pl., n.d. (±1930), full-p. col. ills., orig. shaped wr.).