1699 - 1952 CHILDREN'S BOOKS (including COMICS, DRAWINGS, GAMES AND TOYS)
- Without the original sample leaf, but contents identical to Zoologischer Garten; box w. sm. defects. = Rare.
Zoologischer Garten. 'Richter' puzzle game, ibid., idem, ±1915, box w. 15 stone pieces, fold. lithogr. leaf ("Zoologischer Garten") w. examples.
- Fold. leaf dam. on folds.
Picco. T3. Miniature 'Richter' puzzle game, ibid., idem, ±1920, sm. box w. sleeve, 8 stone pieces and fold. lithogr. leaf.
- Box sl. defective. = Rare.
AND 7 others similar by the same, i.a. 2x facsimile and a modern one: Schiller's Glocke (±2000), Qualgeist (1916), Kopfzerbrecher/ Anchor (±1912) and Blitzableiter.
- Boxes occas. sl. defective.
= Nice set of puzzle-games in the style of Tangram. 3. Ei des Kolumbus; 4. Geduldprüfer; 7.Kobold. 15. Sphinx.
- Boxes (sl.) defective, but all complete.
= Blitzableiter, Ei des Kolumbus, Kopfzerbrecher, Kreis-rätsel, Qualgeist, Stern-rätsel, Zornbrecher.
AND 5 others by the same, but boxes lacking lid: Ei des Kolumbus, Stern-rätsel, Nicht zu hitzig, Pythagoras, Ruhig Blut. - AND num. loose stone pieces and booklets from various sets.
- Most boxes sl. defective.
= Blitzableiter, Ei des Kolumbus, Geduldprüfer, Kopfzerbrecher, Kreisrätsel, Kreuzspiel, Pythagoras, Qualgeist, Ruhig Blut, Sternrätsel and Zornbrecher.
- Most boxes (sl.) defective; booklets prob. later added.
= Comprises: Anchor-Puzzle (Kopfzerbrecher), Alle Neun, Blitzableiter, Ei des Kolumbus, Der Geduldprüfer, Herzrätsel, Kreis-Rätsel, Kreuzzerbrecher, Kobold, Nicht zu hitzig, Pythagoras, Quälgeist, Ruhig Blut, Sphinx, Sternrätsel and Zornbrecher.
= I.a. Vorm-Spel. 1000 figuren uit 7 steenen te vormen (7 ceramic pieces, booklet, orig. box), DOMUSTO TASCHEN-GEDULDSPIEL (6 ceramic pieces, leporello booklet, orig. box w. sleeve); HET ROODE KRUIS Geometrisch geduldspel (16 red & white painted wooden pieces, orig. box);
- Some minor marginal defects; two sheets w. a figure cut out; incl. a few duplicates.
= When Benjamin Pollock married Eliza Redington in 1877, he took over his shortly earlier deceased father-in-law John Redington's toy theatre shop at 73 Hoxton Street. Here he sold both the toy theatre sheets inherited from his father-in-law and from J.K. Green, on which he only changed the imprint. The theatre sheets consisted of particular collections for a specific play (e.g. 5 sheets of characters, 7 of scenes or backdrops and 3 for wings) as well as general scenes or wing-sheets "to suit any play". They could be bought for 'a penny plain and twopence coloured' and were to be pasted to cardboard. Pollock died in 1937, but the shop still exists, now in Covent Garden. This nice collection contains i.a. 2 COMPLETE SETS for the play Douglas (each 4 character plates, 5 scenes and 2 wing sheets, all uncoloured, and with the 16p. accomp. booklet (orig. wr., sm. 8vo)), all 5 character plates to Lord Darnley (all handcol.; 2x w. piece cut out) and its 16p. booklet (w. the address of Redington. Repaired in upper margin), odd sheets (incl. duplicates) to Whittington and his Cat (11x, 2x handcol.), The Corsican Brothers (7x), The Miller and its men (4x), Blackbeard the Pirate (4x), The Blind Boy (3x), Jack the Giant Killer 93x), Don Quixote (2x), Baron Munchausen (2x), The Children in the Wood (2x), The Red Rover (2x: a handcol. and an uncol. scene sheet no. 5), a "Pollock's New Drop Scene of the Britannia Theatre" (uncol.) and "(...) of the City of London Theatre" (handcol.), some "Rough Waters" and "Foot Pieces" and "Side Wings" "to suit all pieces(/ plays)", and 11 cut-out and mounted handcol. scenes/ side wing parts to The Woodman's Hut/ The Mistletoe Bough (incl. a scene w. a movable part and 4 side wings that suit any play). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.
- The silhouette figures not necessarily belonging to the backgrounds and w. defects; backgrounds trifle stained and 2x w. sm. tear in cloth.
= The backgrounds show "Amsterdam" (canal view with the Munt tower and a synagogue), "Wilhelmshöhe [?]/ Cassel", "Rom" (Forum Romanum), "Venedig", "Berlin" and the interior of a house (w. a plaquette reading "Anno 1884" on the mantelpiece).
- Stage partly repaired w. tape; frieze w. mounted manuscript plate ("Circus Mandera"); some worn/ creased spots. Portfolio waterstained, sl. worn and repaired w. tape.
WITH: Het wereldberoemde Circus Ombramaan an Liedjes die wij allen kennen (both n.pl., n.d. (±1935), 2 textbooks and ±35 silhouettes, orig. portfolio. All silhouettes cut-out and some sl. dam.; textbook w. a few manuscript entries) and Liedjes die wij allen kennen
- One board lacks large portion in upper margin (edges scorched); sl. stained/ spotted.
- Occas. trifle foxed. Backstrip worn away.
= Bibliotheca Gastronomica 431; Landwehr 157. Otherwise not in the usual children's books- and gastronomy-bibliographies. Rare.
- Upper hinge broken; lvs. occas. sl. soiled.
= Cf. Buijnsters, Lust en Leering p.200, only mentioning the 2nd edition. Rare.
- Covers fingersoiled. = Van der Weg p.27. Fine copy of the true first edition in Frisian language. Rare.
Bodenheim, N. Waarom en waardoor. Nieuwe natuurlijke historie. Oude volksverhalen. Text adapt. C. van der Graft. Amst./ Antw., N.V. De Spieghel/ Het Kompas, n.d. (1936), (40)p., 17 full-p. col. lithogr. ills. and orig. col. lithogr. frontcover by N. BODENHEIM.
- Covers sl. foxed. Good/ fine copy. = De hele Bibelebontse berg p.563.
AND 5 others.
- Four lvs. loose; one leaf w. marginal tear; title-p. browned; a few sm. stains. Boardedges sl. rubbed; covers sl. soiled.
= Rare. This is one of three works Jordens illustrated for this publisher, the only one by this author. Cf. De Bodt/ Kapelle p. 241.
Abramsz, S. A.B.C. Wie van de kindertjes leest er méé? Zutphen, P. van Belkum Az., n.d. (1920), (24)p., 24 col. lithogr. lvs. and orig. clothbacked pict. boards by D. VIEL.
- One leaf browned. Sl. fingersoiled; sl. worn along the edges.
= D. Viel worked as an illustrator between 1920 and 1930. De Bodt/ Kapelle p.144; A is een aapje p.140 (according to the author never published).
AND 2 others, i.a. illustrated by B. JORDENS.
- Hinges weak. Backstrip worn away. = Very rare, not in the usual reference works.
Spieker, C.W. Sophia Overveld, of het huishoudelijk meisje; eene leerzame familiegeschiedenis voor jonge dochters van alle standen. Dutch adapt. T.S. Haarlem, A. Loosjes Pz., 1808, 1st ed., VI,241p., 6 contemp. handcol. engr. plates, orig. printed boards, sm. 8vo.
- Lacks backstrip (replaced w. scotch tape); covers creased and sl. worn.
- Contents fine; envelope frayed. = Children's toy embroidery set. Rare and unused. Stevan p. 23.
Idem. Daan Hoeksema's Gebonden Prenten met versjes van P.A.E. Oosterhoff. De verkeerde wereld of Als alles anders was. Bussum, Koster, n.d. (±1935), (10) lvs., num. col. ills., stiff paper wr., obl. 12mo.
- Wr. sl. rubbed. = With the theme of the world upside down.
Hoe Daan Hoeksema onze aloude Bakker- en Kinder-Rijmpjes zag. Prentjes uit zijn jeugd. Ibid., idem, n.d. (±1920), (16) lvs., num. col. ills., stiff paper wr., obl. 12mo.
- A few scribblings; clumsily hand coloured. Sl. rubbed.
AND 8 others illustrated by the same, i.a. Hokus-Pokus-Pas (Bussum, ±1950); De Struwelpetertjes uit Daan Hoeksema's teekenstift (ibid., ±1925) and Hollandsche Zwartjes (Amst., ±1915). - ADDED: S.J. STEVAN, Daan Hoeksema Tekenaar en Kindervriend (Wedde, 2003, ills., orig. wr.).
- Fine. = Cat. The Children's World of Learning 3999. Rare.
- Contents partly loose(ning); contemp. owner's entry on title-p. Wrappers restored w. sellotape.
= Rare children's book on the theme of an inverted world. Not in the usual reference works; only 2 copies in NCC. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXI.
- This copy in loose leaves; mostly w. uncut/ untrimmed margins; frayed/ some marginal tears; formerly laid down, w. some traces on verso. Sold w.a.f.
= One copy in NCC. Rare.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper in all vols.; a few sm. stains; 3rd vol. bookblock loose; two plates waterstained on verso. Bindings rubbed along extremities; 3rd vol. joints splitting.
= Huiskamp L223-225.