- Contents sl. frayed along edges; bookblock broken.
= On the plans for the digging of the Noordzeekanaal, between the IJ and the Noordzee near Velsen, where Holland was at its narrowest ("Holland op zijn smalst"). One plate shows a map/ plan of the entire canal as planned, together with the waters to be poldered.
AND 6 others on the same subject, i.a. Het Kanaal door Holland op zijn smalst (Amst., 1863, Dutch/ French text, fold. handcol. lithogr. map (33,6x75 cm.)) and A. HUET, De Noordzee vóór Amsterdam. Eene voorlezing, gehouden in de afdeeling "Koophandel" van de Maatschappij Felix Meritis (ibid., 1862, orig. publ. wr.).
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
= One of 120 numb. copies printed on Simili Japon and one of 20 copies not for the trade, signed by the editors.
- Lacks 1 plate; plates partly (sl.) foxed, lower hinge almost broken.
= Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 235.
- One vol. backstrip partly chafed; index vol. backwr. stained. = Complete set.
= Rare complete run. I.a. w. contributions and edited by Albert Helman, G.A. van Oorschot, André Malraux, Lou Lichtveld, Jo Boer.
= Complete run, incl. 4 issues of Critisch fundament (year 1, no.1-4). Dutch socialist political monthly that was published in the years of the rise of the Nazi party and fascism in Europe.
= Rare socialist political publications by the Werkgroep Manifest. With 4 duplicates.
= Rare complete run that started on May 19th 1945. I.a. contributions and edited by Jeff Last and Henriette Roland Holst. Also numerous cartoons and caricatures.
- No.21, 22, 24, 26 and 59 are photocopies; a few lvs. w. repairs.
= Including a few wrappers with photomontage. Socialist periodical, but mostly anti-fascist.
= Guides for i.a. "Sleeswijk's Kaart van Zuid-Limburg"/ "van Noord Brabant"; "Kaart van Noord-Holland ontworpen (...) door J. Kuyper" (Leeuw. 1896); "Kaart van de rijwielpaden van Gooi- en Eemland, Utrecht m. Omstreken en West. Veluwe" (n.pl., 1925); "Plattegrond van Arnhem" (Meppel, ±1930); "Nassau und Umgebung" (Bad-Nassau, 1911); "Ravensteins Große Rad- und Autokarte. Harz/ Westfalen/ Nürnberg"(Frankf. a.M., ±1930, 3 maps); "Carte Taride - Maroc" (Paris, 1948); "On either side. Depicting & describing features of interest to be seen from the train between London (King's Cross) & Edinburgh (Waverley) Fort William Inverness & Aberdeen" (London & North Eastern Railway, 1935, orig. wr. by BRYAN DE GRINEAU. Folded once) and 3 maps from the series "Bartholomew's New Reduced Survey for Tourists & Cyclists" (Sheet 4, 17 and 21) (Edinb., ±1925, all mounted on cloth).
- All vols. bookplate on upper pastedown; final vol. w. owner's entry on htitle. Fine set.
AND 2 others: H.M. BLANKENBERG a.o. (ed.), Het Utrechts Studenten Corps 1936-1986 (ibid., 1986, (col.) ills., orig. giltlettered cl. w. dustwr.).
- Yellowed (as usual); final textleaf sl. dam. from formerly sticking to final free endpaper; portion of wrap-around band pasted onto lower pastedown; owner's entry on first blank.
= Provenance: Jacqueline van Maarsen.
- Three issues with owner's stamp and annotation in pen on frontpage; several issues sl. frayed and sl. worn/ torn on folds; issue no. 7 large tear; issue no. 11 lacks portion of lower inner corner (affecting the text).
= Remarkable periodical published by the National Socialists, ostensively as an illegal, satirical journal. A rare complete run of this subtle collaborationist propaganda publication. One of the contributors to the periodical was Willy van der Heide (= W.H.M. van den Hout), better known as the author of the Bob Evers series. (cf. Groeneveld, Zwaard van de geest, p.86).
De Gil. Speciale extra editie! N.pl., n.d. (±1950), (4)p., ills., folio (torn on folds).
= Reprint of the so-called "Valse Gil", originally published in The Hague, 1944 by Ons Volk as counter-propaganda against the publishers of the true Gil.
- Lettering on frontcover/ backstrip partly rubbed/ faded.
- Bookblock splitting; a few markings in col. pencil; dedication(?) on first free endpaper ("Wer durchkommt, der hat Glück und wer verreckt, hat Pech!"); some foxing. Binding sl. worn and discol. along edges.
= De Jong 664 (erroneously mentioning 1913 and 1944 as the resp. fictitious and actual date of publication). Very rare clandestine publication written by Etty Hillesum in camp Westerbork (from where she was deported to Auschwitz in 1943) describing life in the camp in a very penetrating way. Published for the benefit of the resistance.
= With the separately published English summary (orig. wr.).
Zentener, C. and Bedürftig, F. Das grosse Lexikon des Dritten Reiches. Munich, Südwest Verlag, 1985, 686p., ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to.
- Portrait of the author mounted to first free endpaper.
= Willem Sassen was a Dutch member of the Waffen SS. After the war he escaped to South America and became, among other things, pr-advisor to Augusto Pinochet and Alfredo Stroessner.
Rost van Tonningen-Heubel, F.S. Op zoek naar mijn huwelijksring. Erembodegem, De Krijger, 1990, 332,(2)p., plates, orig. wr.
= The Black Widow's autobiography. With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION "Onze eer is trouw" on title-p.