1636 - 1699 DUTCH HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY
= Rare.
- Two sm. bookplates on upper pastedown; cat. clipping tipped onto first free endpaper; sl. foxed; owner's entry on dedication leaf; first few lvs. sl. browned. Spine sl. discoloured.
= With loosely inserted list of all the Alumni of the University of Leyden who died between 1940-1945 and booklet ''Mededeelingen uit de Civitas Academica Lugduno Batava'' dated 26 November 1946.
Kroon, J.E. and Blok, A.J. Album Studiosorum Academiae Lugduno-Batavae MDCCCLXXV-MCMXXV. Leyden, A.W. Sijtoff, 1925, X,462p., orig. gilt cl. (almost unif. w. the preceding), t.e.g., 4to.
- Sm. bookplate on upper pastedown. Upper joint sl. rubbed.
- Stamp on title-p. and verso of all plates; occas. trifle foxed in blank margins; hinges weak. Corners and top of spine sl. worn.
= Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 475: "The best book on The Hague (of that period)". Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVIII.
- Remnants of bookplate on upper pastedown; sl. browned. Covers soiled; spine-ends rubbed.
S.S. Statendam. Holland Amerika Lijn. Dubbelschroef Turbine Stoomschip. Amst., L. van Leer & Co., n.d. (1929), (16)textp., num. (full-p.) (col.) ills., orig. wr., obl. sm. 4to.
- Sm. annots. on titlep.; sl. browned/ (finger)soiled. Wr. frayed.
''Marnix van St. Aldegonde''. Bruto register tons 19000. N.pl., n.publ., 1935, col. fold. plan, 66x56 cm., folded in 12 sections, frontcover printed on one section on verso.
- Sl. creased; some sm. brown stains. = Rare.
AND 4 others similar, i.a. PROUD FLAGSHIP OF N.A.S.M. A FAMOUS FLEET (New York, n.d. (±1960), num. (col.) (photogr.) (full-p.) ills., orig. wr., obl. sm. 4to).
- Bookblock broken; sellotape in inner margin first blank; 2 maps with marginal tear. Frontcover loose; spine dam.
= Attractive profiles and views of Amersfoort, Rhenen, Wijk bij Duurstede, Montfoort and Abcoude.
- All vols. spine-ends sl. rubbed; 1st vol. sm. tear in top of spine.
= Facs. reprint of the ed. Amst. 1646.
- Sl. (dust)soiled. Frontcover dam. from heavy nibbling by silverfish; lacks backcover. Sold w.a.f.
= National-socialist propaganda A.B.-book. ''A is Albarda; hij is thans legaal. B is de bijstand aan 't Spaansch filiaal''.
- Bookblock loosening; dedication on first free endpaper; sl. browned. Dustwr. sl. frayed/ dam. at spine-ends.
WITH: H. PAAPE a.o. (ed.) De Dagboeken van Anne Frank (The Hague/ Amst., 1986, (full-p.) photogr. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to).
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper; occas. trifle foxed. Dustwr. torn in two along upper joint and lacks most of the spine; wr. frayed/ chipped. Cover sl. yellowed along margins and on backstrip; lower joint splitting over 2 cm. at foot of spine.
= Rare: copy with four misprinted pages at the end: p.248, 249, 252 and 253. Proloog-reeks.
- Bookplate on title-p.; without orig. wrappers. Cloth w. some sm. soiled spots.
= Very rare first publication of any part of Anne Frank's diary, preceding the first book edition (1947). In 1946, Anne's father Otto Frank, after several failed attempts to have the diary published, gave a typed transcript to a friend who in turn lent it to Jan Romein (professor of modern history and one of the editors of the journal De Nieuwe Stem) and his wife Annie Romein-Verschoor. Romein was very impressed and arranged the publication of excerpts in his journal (p.432-442).
- A few lvs. w. scratch; mostly fine.
= Very rare publication mentioning Edith Frank, the mother of Anne Frank. It came out two years prior to the publication of Anne Frank's diary. "Op een morgen komen nieuwe patiënten binnen. Ineens herken ik Edith, zij komt uit een andere ziekenafdeeling. Zij is nog maar een schim. Enkele dagen nadien sterft zij, totaal uitgeput" (p.29). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIX.
- Original wrs. w. 2 sm. stamps; occas sm. tear in edge.
= Not chronologically bound together. Comprises: year 1, nr.1-7 and 9-12; year 2, nr. 1-4, 7 and 8; year 3, nr. 4 -6; year 4, nr. 6. Groeneveld, Zwaard van de geest, p.155-156.
- Wr. sl. foxed/ dam.
= Rare textbooklet in which P. Joosen, member of the command post L.b.d., writes about the period from 28th of August till the 5th of November.
- Both vols. w. owner's entry in pen and ink on frontcover (1x sl. faded); covers trifle rubbed.
- Spine-ends and corners bumped; paper over backstrip sl. flaking off.
AND 5 others, i.a. J. VREDENDUIN PZ., De overstrooming van Januari 1916 en hare gevolgen voor den polder Westzaan (n.pl., ±1920, ills., orig. gilt cl.); D. VIS, De Zaanstreek. Een beschrijving van het Zaansche volksleven in zijn historische ontwikkeling (Leyden, 1948, plates, orig. cl.) and M.A. VERKADE a.o., Zaandam 150 jaar stad 1811-1961. Bijdragen tot de ontwikkelingsgeschiedenis van de stad (Zaandam, 1962, plates (1 fold col.), orig. gilt cl., 4to).