642 - 812 CHILDREN'S BOOKS, COMICS, GAMES and TOYS
- Contents fine. Backcover soiled and scratched; frontcover darkened/ fingersoiled along spine and fore-edge; top of spine sl. worn, foot of spine worn/ sl. dam.
= Copy of the rare deluxe edition, larger than the ordinary oblong 4to edition, which is bound in halfcloth. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXI.
- Bookblock loose; some foxing.
= Contains 24 series of 6 cards each (series 6 incomplete), depicting i.a.the four seasons, local dress in different towns/ places; mills; ships and foreign children in their local dress.
- Lacks 1 explanatory/ title ticket; 1 leaf loose; a few lvs. sl. frayed along extremities. Rebacked; sl. rubbed along boardedges.
- A few w. owner's entry/ sl. foxed. Mostly fine.
= Comprises different editions/ reprints, i.a. ''speciale Pickwick editie'' (3x) and different series ''The Peter Rabbit Library'', ''The Original Peter Rabbit Books'', ''The Original Peter Rabbit Miniature Collection'' and ''Beatrix Potter First Board Books''.
AND 2 others: M. LANE, The tale of Beatrix Potter (London/ New York, 1972, (col.) plates, orig. cl. w. dustwr.) and PIETER KONIJN 100 JAAR LATER (Amst., n.d. (2001), ills., orig. boards, large 8vo).
- Contents loose(ning). Binding sl. worn and w. some scribbling in pen; upper corner frontcover dam.
= Rare, not in the usual bibliographies.
Bertha (= C. van Cleeff). De Zomerreis van heer Hans. Alkm., P. Kluitman, n.d. (1906), col. lithogr. title-p. and 15 col. plates each w. 2 ills. and printed caption and orig. clothbacked boards by G. CASPARI, 4to.
- Upper hinge broken; a child's pencil drawings on verso final leaf. Board edges sl. worn.
AND 6 others, i.a. B.E. VAN OSSELEN-VAN DELDEN and M. HILDEBRANDT, Bobo. Geschiedenis van een aap (Amst., n.d. (1907), num. (col.) ills., orig. clothbacked pict. boards, 4to. Very fine copy); A. SUTORIUS, Het Huis met de Wingerd (Rijswijk, n.d. (±1930), 3rd ed., col. ills. and orig. boards by B. JORDENS) and C.O. PETERSEN, Snip Snap Snor (Amst., n.d. (±1930), col. ills., orig. clothbacked boards, 4to).
- Hinges sl. weak. Covers dampstained.
Idem. Les Petites Misères de la Vie des Animaux. Paris, Garnier Frères, n.d. (±1920), (2),50 lvs. (recto only), col. ills. and orig. gilt pict. cl. by B. RABIER, obl. 4to.
- Frontcover sl. spotted; lower joint sl. dam.
- Sl. fingersoiled and stained. Paper over covers sl. chipped at edges.
= Original first French publication of Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys (first publ. in English in 1942), introducing the character Curious George.
- Bookblock split and loose. = Very rare.
- Hinges weak; first few lvs. waterstained; owner's dedication on verso first free endpaper. Covers sl. rubbed/ soiled.
= Bilderwelt im Kinderbuch 663; Brüggeman 775.
- Owner's entry on verso first free endpaper; trifle foxed. Boardedges and covers sl. rubbed.
Samivel. Les malheurs d'Ysengrin. N.pl., Delagrave, 1939, 1st ed., (40)p., col. ills. and orig. clothbacked pict. boards by SAMIVEL, sm. folio.
- Covers sl. soiled; boardedges sl. rubbed.
AND 2 others by the same (incl. one duplicate of the 2nd work in orig. boards).
= Not found in the usual reference works.
Bourassé, J.-J. Esquisses Entomologiques ou Histoire Naturelle des Insectes les plus remarquables. Tours, Mame et Cie., 1844, 264p., 16 steelengr. plates, contemp. calf w. blindst. and richly gilt covers, gilt boardedges, marbled edges.
- Sl. soiled; outer upper corner dam., not affecting the image.
= Scenes showing Sinterklaas, Zwarte Piet, the horse of Sinterklaas and the steamboot.
- Owner's entry on verso frontwr. A very fine copy. = Nicely illustrated.
Abramsz, S. Van Sinterklaas en Pieterbaas. Zutphen, P. van Belkum, n.d. (1911), 12 col. lithogr. plates and 12p. with songs and scores, orig. clothbacked col. lithogr. boards, obl. 4to.
- Lvs. reattached and rebacked.
AND 2 others, i.a. A. SUTORIUS, Het Nieuwe St. Nicolaasboek (Alkm., n.d., (full-p. col.) ills. and orig. boards by S. AAFJES, 4to).
- Sl. foxed. Spine sl. dam. and repaired w. tape. = Rare.
- Contents loose; sl. foxed; lacks (partly) endpapers. Covers loose/ sl. waterstained; lacks backstrip.
= Cf. Rühle 212; The Children's World of Learning 3786; Lust en Leering p.209-211 and p.224; De Koning 405. This is the ed. published on the 50th anniversary of the first Dutch ed.: "De eerste Nederlandsche uitgaaf, van 1848, nauwkeurig gevolgd".
ADDED: Staring Jr., W. De Stokvischorders, in der tijd toegelicht door Lodewijk Mulder en thans in beeld vertoond door -. Haarlem, de Erven F. Bohn, 1884, 19 textp., 12 plates tipped on stiff paper leaves, loose as issued in orig. gilt and dec. cl. portfolio, folio.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; sl. foxed. Covers sl. (water)stained; spine-ends sl. rubbed.
- One tear throughout (partly repaired w. sellotape). = Lust en Leering, p. 379. Rare.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper; some scribblings/ stains in the beginning. Covers soiled; spine sunned.
AND 12 others, i.a. M. KAYE, Black Bramble Wood (ibid., 1938, ills. by M. TEMPEST, orig. hcl., sq. 8vo); A. UTTLEY, Little Grey Rabbit's Party (ibid., 1946, 6th ed., ills. by M. TEMPEST, orig. hcl.) and RAGAMUFFINS (ibid., 1916, ills. by G.L. STAMPA, orig. hcl., large 8vo).