- Trifle foxed. = From the collection of P.J. and L. Buijnsters-Smets.
- Laid down on board; several closed tears in margins.
Beck, Charles (1879-1971). (Farm on the heath). Watercolour, 26x39,5 cm., signed in lower left corner. - AND 8 others, all but one anonymous 19th/ early 20th cent. drawings, i.a. Willem Jilts POL, "Bayona" (drawing, watercolour and pen and ink, signed "Pol", titled and dated "32" in lower left corner. Laid down).
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, w. his collector's stamp on verso; sold in auction Mak, Dordrecht, March 1983 (lot 130). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXX.
- Slightly yellowed/ foxed.
AND a drawing of ships near the shore (pen and watercolour, 19th cent., laid down on cardboard).
= Ticket of B. Houthakker on verso of frame and w. mounted catalogue entry. From the collection of P.J. and L. Buijnsters-Smets.
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his collector's mark on verso. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVIII.
= Provenance: the collection of A.M. van den Broek with his collector's mark on contemporary mount. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVIII.
= With a monogram "EM" on verso.
= With a later 19th century annotation on mount: "De groote kerk te Haarlem, gezien uit den tuin van den heer Steevens. geteekend door Agn. Vrolik, bij dier Heer op School zijnde, waarschijnlijk in 1824". Agnites Vrolik was an amateur artist, who later became the Dutch minister of Finance and one of the founders of the 'Staatsspoorwegen' (national railway company). Provenance: the collection of A.M. van den Broek with his collector's mark on verso.
- Vague brown stain in upper left corner.
= Cf. T. Laurentius, Een kabinet van Haarlemse gezichten (Alphen a/d Rijn, 1968), p.21. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek with his collector's mark on verso.
- Yellowed and sl. foxed; sm. tear in top margin; vague horizontal fold in centre.
- Sl. yellowed; vague foxing. Mount w. heavy traces of glue.
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, w. his collector's stamp on verso.
= Provenance: the collection of A.M. van den Broek with his collector's mark on verso.
- Vaguely foxed.
- Wr. frayed and rather heavily foxed.
= Unrecorded A.B. book with clear cut and brightly coloured large woodengr. illustrations of i.a. D for "Drijftol", J for "Juk", K for "Klomp" and S for "Schoen".
- Good/ fine copy.
- Backstrip and board edges rubbed and sl. worn; covers trifle warped.
= A is een aapje p.123. Rhyming advice for children on how to prevent dental decay.
- Piece of paper mounted on title, covering a paper ticket. Paper over spine partly worn off.
= A is een Aapje p.60-66; Landwehr, Prentgeschenk 5c: "De tendens is patriottisch - dus tegen Oranje - en het tweede gedeelte geeft vrijmetselaars-ideeën, goed versluierd overigens."; Caljé-van Gulik 292; De Koning 20; Waller 1639; Muller 1012; De hele Bibelebontse Berg, p.200-203; The Children's World of Learning 87: "Famous A B C book, as well for the special care given to its composition and production, as also for its Patriotic, i.c. revolutionary democratic, tendency. (...) Today the book easily belongs to the most interesting early A B C books, but at the time it only knew a short-lived popularity, as the Dutch Patriotic Revolution was completely defeated in 1787, only a few years before the outbreak of the Great French Revolution, and never really recovered."; BNK 38: "Wat Swildens voor ogen stond was een geïntegreerd leer- en leesboek in verlicht patriottische geest dat het oude, confessioneel gebonden haneboek geheel zou vervangen."
- Boards worn; ticket on frontcover. Fine copy.
= Huiskamp A78; Van Veen sale II, 58. Very rare.