1824 - 2074 CHILDREN'S BOOKS (including COMICS, DRAWINGS, GAMES and TOYS)
= I.a. a zeppelin, aeroplane, mini toy puppet shows. Also an uncut chromolithographic leaf with funny human figures with interchangeable sections and a small school plate.
AND 2 chromolithogr. paper toy masks, 19th cent., British. - ADDED 2 chromolithogr. caricature prints.
- Completeness not verified. Box trifle dustsoiled.
- A few pieces dam. (puzzles complete).
- Usual minor defects. All complete.
- Some vague sl. foxing; last textleaf w. sm. repaired tear. Spine split but repaired w. cloth. A very good copy.
= Extremely rare picture-book. Huiskamp G38 only citing the (sl. different) title from another source, but no copy seen; Lust en Leering p.79-80. Otherwise not in the usual bibliographies and catalogues. The plates depicting "De Bakker", "De Steenhouwer", "De Leerbereider", "De Dansmeester", "De Kuiper", "De Schoenmaker", "De Metzelaar", "De Hoefsmit", "De Kleermaker" and "De Timmerman". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVI.
- Lvs. sl. fingersoiled and frayed; plates 2 and 5 switched, lvs. probably reattached. Spine repaired/ strengthened; covers frayed/ soiled and sl. dam.; larger tear in backcover.
= Rare. Dutch adaptation of The comic adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her dog. Dated 1874 in Brinkman. Landwehr, Vergeten cultuurdragers 498.
AND 9 others, all with various defects, i.a. E. BESKOW, Olle's Sneeuwschoentocht (Nijm., ±1910, orig. clothbacked lithogr. boards, large 4to); M. HILDEBRANDT, Mapje en Papje in het Hazenbosch (Amst., 1906, col. lithogr. ills. and orig. col. lithogr. boards by S. OLFFERS, large 4to) and an 'untearable' toddler's wordless picture book (Mainz, J. Scholz, ±1900, chromolithogr. plates, entirely mounted on linen, orig. clothbacked chromolithogr. boards, 4to).
- First blank and final text leaf loosening. Backstrip and backcover sl. affected by silverfish activity; lower corner trifle rubbed.
= With prize bound in at front for "Jean Breet", dated "Zaandam, le 26 de Juin 1828". Huiskamp G158; Children's World of Learning 2802.
- Partly (sl.) yellowed; hinges weak. Binding sl. browned; spine-ends worn.
= With loosely inserted manuscript poem "Many little children, I bring to you my dear! (...)", signed "your friend Kate Greenaway" and w. small drawing. Printed Kate Greenaway 140, 1b; Osborne Coll. 101; Children's Books Rare Book Div. Libr. of Congress I, 599; Seebaß II, 673 (variant binding); Ray, 254 (id.): "The static quality of Kate Greenaway's art is nowhere better exampled than in this pretty book". The Childrens World of Learning 3286: 'Beautifully illustrated and hand-coloured little childrens book with one of the fairy tales from the "New Mother Goose", told in verse. [...] Not elsewhere found recorded."
- Annots. on first free endpaper; owner's entry on htitle; owner's stamp on title-p. = Bilderwelt 380 (ed. 1875).
Lucas, A. Puppenmütterchens Nähschule. Eine Puppengeschichte zugleich Eine Anleitung, nach welcher junge Mädchen ihre Puppenkleider selbständig herstellen können. Ravensburg, O. Maier, n.d. (±1890), 2 vols., text vol.: 66p., textills., plate vol.: 8 "Schnittmusterbogen" each with loosely inserted (fold.) patterns in separate portfolio, orig. clothbacked col. lithogr. boards.
- Text vol. annots. on first free endpaper; plate vol. annots. on upper pastedown; flaps of portfolio w. tears. Covers sl. soiled.
= Wegehaupt II, 2061; Bilderwelt 1425.
AND 2 others, i.a. W. HEY, Noch fünfzig Fabeln für Kinder (Gotha, n.d. (±1840), ills. by O. SPECKTER, orig. (dam.) publ. boards, sm. 8vo).
- Contents fine. Corners showing; paper over boards occas. chipped along edges.
= The Children's World of Learning 3695; De Koning 312; Caljé-van Gulik 491.
Het concert van de vogels. Amst., J. Vlieger, n.d. (1890), (6)p., 3 col. lithogr. (double-p.) plates, orig. col. lithogr. pict. wr.
- Fingersoiled in lower margin. Spine splitting at foot of spine.
= Rare children's book, possibly a Dutch adaptation of a foreign work, in which birds behind the newly built Amsterdam concerthall ("Concertgebouw") form an orchestra. Not in the usual reference works.
- Sl. foxed in upper blank margin; final 30 pages increasingly also in text. Covers rubbed; spine worn/ sl. dam.
AND 5 others in 6 vols., partly incomplete/ mediocre copies, i.a. VOLKS-LIEDJENS. Eerste - Vierde stukjen (Amst., 1790-1791, 22 (of 24) (handcol.) engr. plates, modern green cl. Mostly clumsily handcol.; occas. soiled/ stained).
- With minor imperfections, otherwise a very fine copy.
= Printed by D.H. Koning, lithographer in Zutphen. Children's book as published without a title(page), about Pierrot and Harlekijn, how they grew up, how they became rascals and eventually how they literally struck gold and could buy their own fairground tent. With a plate showing people in traditional Maori costume. Rare, not traced in the usual reference works. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVII.
- Sl. fingersoiled; a few lvs. sl .waterst.; htitle restored.
AND 1 other in 2 vols.: S. ULLIAC TRÉMADEURE, Les Jeunes Naturalistes ou entretiens sur l'Histoire Naturelle (Paris, 1838, 2 vols., steelengr. plates, contemp. unif. blindst. green mor., a.e.g. (rebacked)).
- Covers sl. rubbed.
= Seebaß II, 905: "Ganz reizend phantasie- und humorvoll illustriert, auch die Verse (in Antiquadruck!) sind ansprechend. Ziemlich selten." Bilderwelt im Kinderbuch 627: "(...) Dieses Buch mit seinen in ihrer Flächigkeit und starken Konturierung noch sehr deutlich an den Jugenstil erinnernden Bildern, dessen illustrative und typographische Qualitäten nicht zu übersehen sind, findet hier Erwähnung, weil es mit einer sonst kaum anzutreffenden Vollständigkeit jene wirklichkeitsfremde Mythologie für die Kinder der gehobenen Stände repräsentiert, die noch bis in die jüngste Zeit bei Produzenten und Konsumenten von Bilderbüchern ihre Anhänger hatte. (...)".
Grüger, H. Liederfibel. Kinderlieder im Bildernoten dargestellt. Breslau, Ostdeutsche Verlagsanstalt, 1930, 40p., num. col. ills. and orig. clothbacked pict. boards by J. GRÜGER, scores, 4to.
- Covers sl. foxed. = In Sütterlin-script. Bilderwelt im Kinderbuch 665.
- Spine formerly split (glued back together); frontwr. creased; both wrs. w. chips and repaired tears.
= No copy in usual reference works.
- New endpapers; occas. sm. tears repaired w. paper tape. Rebacked w. cl. and corners frontcover pasted over w. cl.; new backcover; frontcover sl. rubbed.
= Ki.la.ki.le. 572; Lust en Leering p.267f; cf. The Children's World of Learning 3772 (dating early 1860s on basis of publisher's catalogue printed on pastedowns). Rare.
= Each w. accomp. explanatory leaflet: "The first commercial Moomin products from 1956 Tove Jansson [1914-2001] gave permission to manufacture. (...) The labels were exclusively printed for Stockmann luxury department store in Helsinki and NK Stockholm in 1956 to be used for the first commercial Moomin products (...) Printed by Kromipaino Helsinki 1956". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVIII.
- Wrapper doubled.
= BNK 1452; cf. Children's World of Learning 3711 (3rd ed.); cf. Huiskamp K21 (3rd ed.). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVIII.