- Frontcover lacks sm. portion of paper over boards at foot of spine.
= First use of the Zilvertype designed by S.H. de Roos.
- Bookplate P.M. Heringa on upper pastedown; tipped-in card "(Mevrouw Sickenga, Knappert [letterpress]. Welcome in your Holland-Home [manuscript]") on lower pastedown; first few lvs. foxed. Covers trifle dustsoiled.
= De Zilverdistel 15.
- Spine-ends and corners sl. rubbed. = De Zilverdistel 6.
- Usual offsetting from turn-ins on first and last free endpaper; sm. bookplate on verso of first free endpaper. Vellum paper wr. sl. browned and sm. dam. at spine-ends. Good/fine, unopened copy.
= De Zilverdistel 4.
- A few sm. foxed spots.
= Very rare catalogue listing 13 items published by the Zilverdistel Press up to January 1915.
= Published in 500 copies on occasion of the 175th commemoration of the death of Willem Bilderdijk. Contains booklets/ fold. leaflets by i.a. N. BEETS, Ter Nagedachtenis van Mr. Willem Bilderdijk (...). Postscript P. van Zonneveld (fold. leaflet); P. GERBRANDY, 'Een leven vol sukkelingen.' Het levenslange sterfbed van Willem Bilderdijk (15,(4)p., orig. wr.); 'Hoe maak je van je grafkist een camera obscura?' (fold. leaflet, metal pin and piece of paper); R. HONINGS, Een orang-oetan in Haarlem (8p., orig. wr.); 'Kruiden bij gonzingen. Samengesteld door Antonie van der Pigge' (fold. bag containing medicinal herbs against "gonzingen" (headaches), w. fold. "bijsluiter") and 'Mr. Willem Bilderdijk 1831-2006' (decorated porcelain saucer).
- Wr. trifle yellowed at edges.
= With AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION: "Voor Fons, omdat hij heden jarig is. R. Simon." Also with loosely inserted menu for the dinner that Carmiggelt organized on his 50th birthday (1963) in Restaurant Artis, Amsterdam. And with 3 birth anouncement cards (incl. 1 duplicate) for the grand children of Carmiggelt in the style of the wrapper of Twin set.
- Rebacked; trifle rubbed/ worn along boardedges. Good copy = Rare.
Bodenheim, N. ABC. De hond gaat mee. De Kat blijft thuis. Piep zei de muis in 't voorhuis. Amst., Meulenhoff, n.d. (1927), (27) lvs., num. ills., endpapers and clothbacked lithogr. boards by N. BODENHEIM, obl. 8vo.
- Crossed out owner's entry on first free endpaper. Rebacked; boards trifle foxed.
AND 2 other A.B.-books by R. CRAMER.
- Minor imperfections. Fine copy.
= Rare. No copy traced in any of the usual reference works or databases. No copy in NCC.
- Fingersoiled. Backstrip dam. and restored w. sellotape. = Very rare. No copy traced.
- A few very small marginal tears. Spine worn and repaired w. tape.
= Lust en leering p.150; coll. Caljé-Van Gulik 282; cf. cat. Ki.la.ki.le. 56 and Landwehr, Prentgeschenk van 60 ABC boekjes 13b.
Die Nuwe A B C Boek vir die Kinders van Suidafrika. Pretoria/ Amst., J.H. de Bussy, 1921, (4),26,(2)p. (incl. wr.), 26 col. ills., orig. pictorial wr.
- Wr. sl. foxed and fingersoiled. = Rare. A.B.-book in Afrikaans.
Dopheide-Witte, E. ABC. Een vroolijk alphabet. Amst., S.J. van Looy, n.d. (1924), (27) leaves, each w. illustration in black and orange, orig. clothbacked col. lithogr. boards by J. WIEGMAN.
- Hinges weak. Boards sl. foxed.
= A is een aapje p. 141: "Het is een grappig en toen waarschijnlijk als leerzaam beschouwd uitgaafje, met centraal op de pagina tekening en versje: Z is de zon, die zoo weldoend kan schijnen / Dat door haar invloed veel ziekten verdwijnen."
AND ±80 other A.B.-books, all but a few Dutch language, mostly after 1980, i.a. A IS EEN AAPJE (Amst., 1907, chromolithogr. plates and orig. wr. by P.J. VAN GELDORP, folio. Spine split); A. VOS, Het ABC van het Naziregiem (n.pl., 1944, col. ills., orig. wr.); M. GEISLER-PLAT, A.B.C. (n.pl., n.d. (±1900), col. ills., orig. chromolithogr. wr., folio); J.F. VAN DEN BROECKE (Amst., ±1940, col. ills., orig. wr., folio); NIEUW-DIERENABC (n.pl., ±1900, chromolithogr. ills., orig. boards); E. SCHULTZ, A.B.C.-Bogen (Aalborg, 1930, col. ills., orig. wr.); J. ORR, The Happy A.B.C. (London etc., ±1900, col. ills., on linen-backed lvs., orig. wr., obl. 4to) and J. WIJGA, Van Arie tot Zus (Amst., 1953, col. ills., orig. clothbacked boards, obl. folio).
- First and final leaf browned, otherwise contents fine. Binding browned and w. some stains.
= Printed on thick laid paper. De Bodt/ Kapelle p.247; Fondscat. Brusse 33. Otherwise not in the usual bibliographies. Nice plates. On the artist (pupil of i.a. Puvis de Chavannes), see Scheen I, 72-73. Rare.
AND 6 other vols. of folktales and fairy tales, i.a. J. WIEGMAN, Fabelen van de la Fontaine voor de jeugd (The Hague, n.d. (±1923), col. lithogr. ills. and orig. pict cl. w. dustwr. by J. WIEGMAN, 4to) and A. SNELLEN, In de muizenwereld. Een nieuwe vertelling (Amst., n.d. (±1911), ills. and orig. pict cl. by L.W. R. WENCKEBACH, 4to).
- Frontwrapper lacks sm. portion; sl. soiled. Spine strengthened w. tape.
Gerard Keller's Prentenboeken voor zijne Kinderen. Leida's Kasteel. Arnhem and Rott., J. van Egmond and J.G. Robbers, n.d. (±1860), 12p., 6 chromolithogr. plates, orig. lithogr. wr., 4to.
- A few lvs. lack sm. portion of outer blank margin; sl. soiled. Spine strengthened w. tape.
AND 1 other.
- Sl. stained and fingersoiled. Binding worn; backstrip partly worn off. = Huiskamp A109.
AND 1 other: MUSEUM VOOR DE JEUGD. Eerste stuk (ibid., 1806, 16 handcol. engr. plates, contemp. marbled boards, obl. sm. 12mo. Without the 2nd vol.; lacks frontisp.; bookblock loose).
- Envelopes sl. worn/ browned at corners/ edges.
Greenaway, K. Kleurboek voor 't jonge volkje. Rott., Nijgh & Van Ditmar, (1881), 100[=98]p., lithogr. ills. by KATE GREENAWAY, orig. lithogr. boards, sm. 4to.
- A few ills. contemp. handcoloured. Sl. worn along extremities.
AND 16 other 20th cent. (Dutch) colouring books, i.a. MET ZWART EN ROOD. TWEEDE/ DERDE DEELTJE (The Hague, n.d., 2 vols., ills. by P. MARÉE, orig. unif. pict. wr., obl. 4to) and R. BOS and CH. STEENBEEK, Mijn teekenboek (Gron., 1925/ 1930, 2 vols., ills., orig. dec. wr., large obl. 8vo).
- Joints weak; potentially lacks free endpapers; w. old dedication on upper pastedown dated 1876 w. partially removed dedication dated 1887 below. Binding worn.
- Owner's entry on upper pastedown. Slight discolouration on front cover, otherwise fine.
AND 1 other: M. TWAIN, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (London and New York, n.d. (±1940), num. col. plates, pict. endpapers and orig. pict. cl. by G. WHITTAM).
- Occasionally trifle foxed. Spine-ends sl. worn/ dam.
AND 1 other.
- Fingersoiled in lower and outer margin. Covers sl. foxed and fingersoiled; spine worn in lower part.
= Rare.
Callenfels, C. Op reis in 't Sprookjesland. Ibid. idem, (±1890), (10)p. (incl. wr.), entirely chromolithogr., orig. chromolithogr. wr., folio.
- Minor imperfections.
= Rare. A Dutch adaptation of a British children's book with a Humpty Dumpty figure.
Mare, Stella (= E. Visser-Zadoks). Al spelende leer ik! N.pl. (Amst.), n.publ. (J.C. Dalmeijer), n.d. (±1890), (12)p., num. (chromo)lithogr. ills., orig. chromolithogr. wr., 4to.
- Contents loose; marginal stains from rusty staples; sl. (finger)soiled (incl. covers).
= Nice educational work, i.a. on various types of food and beverages (rice, porkmeat, cocoa, coffee and tea) and on various animals. Not in the usual reference works.
AND 7 others, i.a. LIESJE IN HET DROOMENLAND (n.pl, n.d., (chromo)lithogr. ills., orig. wr., 4to) and LIZE'S AVONTUREN IN HET WONDERLAND (first Dutch nursery adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. Incomplete copy, without binding).
- Contents partly foxed. Wrappers loose/ dam. Sold w.a.f.