“TUNNEL VIEWS”
Leporello Peepshow in cardboard slipcase
Printed by AB (B. Azulay & T. C. Brandon) c. 1860

Paper peepshow/leporello of the construction of the Thames Tunnel consisting of five hand coloured and cut out lithographed panels plus rear panel.

A peephole in the front panel to provide a three-dimensional image of what the tunnel would look like when completed. Carriages and horses are depicted in the tunnel. However, the ramp that would have allowed access for carriages into the tunnel was never built. The tunnel remained accessible only to pedestrians until it was converted into use by a railway in 1865.
On the front of the slipcae an image of the workers during the construction of the tunnel.

measurements:
panels: 14,5 x 11,5 cm. length unfolded: 65 cm.
slipcase: 15 x 12 cm
In very good condition:
some spots on the back of the leporello and on the front of the cover.


art.no.: 1860.248

HISTORIAE AUGUSTAE SCRIPTORES
Ab Imperio Nervae vsque ad Constantium Constantini filium, Rerum per ccc.ann
variis mundi partibus gestarum feriem & circunstantias explicantes.

HISTORY OF ROMAN EMPERORS
Starting with Nerva Cocceius (c. 30 A.D.) and ending with Carinus, Diocletianus, Maximiamus Herculius, AUGUSTI & CAESARES a Diocletiano ad Constantij & Iuliani imperum (c. 360 A.D.)

Publisher: Lugduni (Leiden) Franciscus Le Preux, 1593
Original (very rare) edition

authors:
Aelius Lampridius, Aelius Spartianus, Iulius Capitolinus, Vulcacius Gallicanus, Trebellius Pollio and Flavius Vopiscus.
This copy also includes books by:
Lucius Cassius Dio, Herodianus, Julius Pomponius Laetus, Sextus Aurelius Victor and Zosimus.
Full list of authors mentioned in the CATALOG with reference to the books and respective pages: (see complete list)

Versus title page: ex libris Ph.J. van Alfen
German text written in pencil on blank (2nd) page:
Seltene Einband.... (see photograph)
Misprint on page 3 of the “Catalog”

903 pages, bound in calf leather,
band decorated with copper fittings
measurements: 17 x 11,3 cm

In good, but used condition:
title page torn, some discolouration here and there


art.no. 1860.230

Neef Paul (pseudonym of P.A. Allebrand)

"KINDERVERSJES EN GEDICHTJES VOOR DE LIEVE JEUGD.
Uit het Zakboekje van Neef Paul."
(Dutch children's book with rhymes and poems)

Published by G. Theod. Bom, Amsterdam, c. 1870

art.no. 1860.225

Harmsen van der Beek, E.M. ten - Flipje en zijn vriendjes
E.M. ten Harmsen van der Beek and Freddie Langeler (drawings and text)
"FLIPJE EN ZIJN VRIENDJES" (Flipje and his friends)
collection album with so-called filmstrips with advertising pictures

contains 40 film strips with 10 pictures each:
series 38, 39, 40 and 41 (8 complete films per series)
Publisher De Betuwe N.V. in Tiel, c. 1940

light blue cardboard, soft cover, in spiral binding
dimension: 49 x 21 cm, oblong

in very good, but used condition: tear in cover page


art.no.: 1960.139

complete set of 24 volumes:
DE TOEGEPASTE KUNSTEN IN NEDERLAND
Een reeks monografieën over hedendaagsche sier- en nijverheidskunst.
(A series of monographs on contemporary arts and crafts. Dutch text)

published by: W.L. & J. Brusse, Rotterdam, 1923-1935
various authors, a.o. W.H. Gispen, C. de Lorm, Jan Wils
uniform cover design: Roelf Gerbrands
soft cover
measurements: 21,5 x 16,5 cm
all volumes: first edition (details: see complete list of titles)

in good, but used, condition


art.no.: 1960.122

DEUTSCHLAND OLYMPIA JAHR 1936
Album with black and white propaganda photos about the performances of the Nazi empire, produced on the occasion of the 1936 Olympic Games. With a.o. a full page photograph of Hitler ("uber allem steht der Fuhrer").

Publisher Volk Und Reich, Berlin, 1st edition, 1936.

approx. 90 pages of photos plus accompanying texts in German on art paper. With photos by, among others Otto Ewald en Heinrich Hoffmann.
Bound in linen band with print.
Measurements: 22 x 23,5 cm.

in very good condition:
light spots on some pages, name in ink on flyleaf

art.no.: 1975.89

Jacobs, Dr. Aletta H. *
DE VROUW. Haar bouw en haar inwendige organen.
Aanschouwelijk voorgesteld door beweegbare platen en met geïllustreerden, verklarenden tekst. Een populaire schets

(The woman. Its construction and its internal organs. Graphically represented by movable plates and illustrated with explanatory text. A popular sketch.)

Edited by: Æ.E. Kluwer, Deventer, 3rd ed., 1900.

Huygens, Constantin (1596-1687)
"KOREN-BLOEMEN"
Nederlandsche Gedichten van Constantin Huygens... in XIX Boecken
(Dutch poems by Constantin Huygens)
's Graven-Hage by Adriaen Vlack, 1658 (first edition)

- engraved first page with title:
.."DE KOREN-BLOEMEN VAN DEN HEERE VAN ZUYLICHEM"
- portrait engraving by:
..C. de Visscher, after a drawing of Christian Huygens
- foldout "Hofwyck"print

1355 pages, bound in parchement
measurements: 22,5 x 18 cm
in fairly good condition:
last pages spotted

art.no. 1860.119

Rotterdamsche LLoyd "Willem Ruys"
ROTTERDAM LLOYD
"provisional passenger accommodation plan WILLEM RUYS"

with corrected printer's errors (see detail photograph)

Drukkerij Wyt, Rotterdam
august 1947
measurements: 80 x 92 cm

in very good condition

art.no.: 1975.86