Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis (ILAB/NVVA): Britain
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Met vacantie 1938. Goedkoope retours naar Londen en de voorn. stations in Engeland en Schotland via Vlissingen & Hoek-Harwich.
[Vlissingen, Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland], 1938. Geniet. Omslagontwerp Kees van der Laan. 64 p. Met uitklapkaart van Groot-Brittannië. Tekstbijdragen op rijm van Clinge Doorenbos. Rijk met foto's geïllustreerd. Wat vlekjes op het omslag, o.a. roest. Van binnen mooi. Alles over uw vacantie naar vele, vele toeristische plekjes in Groot-Brittannië! Mooi omslag van Kees van der Laan in de stroomlijnstijl van Cassandre. Gedetailleerd!
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€ 35.00 [Appr.: US$ 37.26 | £UK 30.25 | JP¥ 5767]
Catalogue: Britain
Testament op perkament, gedateerd 1 januari 1735.
Perkament. 39 x 46 cm met klein uitvouwblad. Gevouwen en gesigneerd. Prima staat. Dit is het testament van Ann Bowes (geboren omstreeks 1675), een weduwe, zuster van Martin Bowes uit Bury St. Edmunds en een tante van Ann, de vrouw van Philip Broke, en haar twee zussen Elizabeth en Isabella. Deze vier: Ann, Philip, Elizabeth en Isabella, zijn allemaal samen door Thomas Bardwell geschilderd op één beroemd familieschilderij. "I Ann Bowes of Bury St. Edmunds in the County of Suffolk" vermaakte ongeveer 300 pond (= zo'n 50.000 huidige ponden) aan enkele leden van de familie en verschillende bedienden, maar het grootste deel van haar omvangrijke erfenis aan haar drie nichtjes Ann, Elizabeth en Isabella.
Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PaulbooksProfessional sellerBook number: 283096
€ 150.00 [Appr.: US$ 159.71 | £UK 129.5 | JP¥ 24716]
Catalogue: Britain
Das Hotel Cecil. Strand, & Victoria Embankment, London, W.C.
London, Hotel Cecil, 1908. Original wrappers. 48 p. Printed in brown and black. Illustrated. With two owner's stamps on upper cover and one on first blank. With folding map. Slightly soiled, otherwise fine. German language guide for the famous 800-room hotel on Strand 80, that functioned only from 1890-1918 and was demolished in 1930.
Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PaulbooksProfessional sellerBook number: 276845
€ 35.00 [Appr.: US$ 37.26 | £UK 30.25 | JP¥ 5767]
Catalogue: Britain
British Banks and Banking. A Pictorial History.
Truro, D. Bradford Barton Ltd., 1975. 21 x 21 cm. Cloth with dust jacket. 96 p. Richly illustrated. 1st edition. Fine. Lots of reproductions of ancient documents.
Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PaulbooksProfessional sellerBook number: 275399
€ 18.00 [Appr.: US$ 19.16 | £UK 15.75 | JP¥ 2966]
Catalogue: Britain
English Hammered Coinage. Volume 2: Edward I to Charles II. 1272-1662.
London, Spink, 1975. Hardbound: Cloth with dust jacket. (2), 192, (24) p. With 11 black and white plates. 2nd revised edition (first: 1960). DJ a bit worn.
Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PaulbooksProfessional sellerBook number: 277162
€ 30.00 [Appr.: US$ 31.94 | £UK 26 | JP¥ 4943]
Catalogue: Britain
Autograph Letter Signed to William McCullagh Torrens.
Stationery with blindstamp of the House of Commons. Recto only, 14,5 x 11,9 cm. 5 lines. To 'Dear W. Torrens'. Dated 'Feb. 21. 1884'. Pasted on a piece of stiff paper (with a note on verso, unrelated). About a petition, that Northcote thinks 'very good', but he sees a problem in 'cutting down the School rate quite so low as 6d. in Country Parishes'. Signed 'Yours in haste/ Stafford H. Northcote'. William McCullagh Torrens (1813-1894) was Member of Parliament for Finsbury until 1885.
Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PaulbooksProfessional sellerBook number: 263040
€ 30.00 [Appr.: US$ 31.94 | £UK 26 | JP¥ 4943]
Catalogue: Britain
Collectors' Coins Great Britain Pre-decimal issues 1797-1970 & Decimal issues 1968-2014. (2 books together).
London, Rotographic, 2014. Paperbacks. 116 + 126 p. Illustrated. New. With variants, numbers and value (in British currency) in several conditions.
Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PaulbooksProfessional sellerBook number: 265095
€ 20.00 [Appr.: US$ 21.29 | £UK 17.5 | JP¥ 3295]
Catalogue: Britain
England's Striking History. A Brief History of England and its Silver Hammered Coinage.
Londen, Rotographic, 2013. Original wrappers. 150 p. Illustrated with drawings. New. All about British coins from 959-1688. Easy explanation of coins, mints en mintmaster signs, variants and developments, texts and their meaning. Good basis for the collector.
Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PaulbooksProfessional sellerBook number: 265096
€ 15.00 [Appr.: US$ 15.97 | £UK 13 | JP¥ 2472]
Catalogue: Britain
Pillen voor Joe. Teekeningen van Jan Feith - Bijschrift van Kees van Ponten.
Amsterdam, Cohen Zonen, [1900]. Oblong 20 x 26 cm.(Drawings by Jan Feith with captions by Kees van Ponten). Amsterdam, Cohen Zonen, [1900]. Oblong 20 x 26 cm. Illustrated wrappers (with 2 lithographs). 28 p. with 28 color lithographs. 1st edition. Some tears in the cover, some cracks, backstrip worn and discolored. Very beautiful and fragile picture book of the gifted caricaturist Jan Feith (pseudo: Chris Kras), directed against the English in the Boer War. The rhymes by Van Ponten were written out by the artist. On the front, Paul Kruger carries a spoonful of pills to the British Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, while on the lower cover, the man who rides a donkey dressed with a monocle, strongly reminds us of Winston Churchill.
Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PaulbooksProfessional sellerBook number: 204099
€ 45.00 [Appr.: US$ 47.91 | £UK 39 | JP¥ 7415]
Catalogue: Britain
Trains from Woodford Halse, Aylesbury, Chesham, Rickmansworth & Watford to London. On and after September 10, 1951. Large British Rail Station Timetable Poster.
[London, British Railways], 1951. 106 x 63 cm (42 x 25 inch). Printed on one side in black with a red border by Knapp, Drewett & Sons Ltd and Waterlow & Sons Ltd in (probably) 200 copies. Some brownish stains. Left and right a small part of the edges clipped (max. 1 cm - ask for detail photos). Rolled, not folded. A bit of light creasing from rolling up. Vintage train poster. From the collection of Huib van Krimpen.
Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PaulbooksProfessional sellerBook number: 280694
€ 40.00 [Appr.: US$ 42.59 | £UK 34.75 | JP¥ 6591]
Catalogue: Britain
Twelve Plates of English Silver Coins from the Norman Conquest to Henry the Eighth Inclusive with a Calculation of their Respective Values and Short Observations upon each Plate, Principally Designed for the Use of Young Collectors and all Dealers in Silver.
London, R. Withy & I. Ryall, Book and Print Sellers, 1756. 25 x 20 cm. Full calf, spine renewed. Engraved title plus 13 engraved plates of coins with tables and texts. 1st edition. Cover a bit worn. A few unobtrusive wormholes and stains. Fascinating early coin collectors book about British coins with in the end a supplementary leaf of 'Nummi Argentei', 'Ancient & Singular Coins, which were lately found near & in the Isle of Thanet' and offered for sale by John White, 'in hopes that it may be a means of discovering by Whom, in what Age, or part of Europe they were minted': we now know that this is an early presentation of British and Continental sceattas!
Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PaulbooksProfessional sellerBook number: 281855
€ 400.00 [Appr.: US$ 425.88 | £UK 345.25 | JP¥ 65908]
Catalogue: Britain
Souvenir of Warwickshire.
No place, No publisher, (about 1920). Oblong 19 x 24 cm. All in brown: printed in dark brown ink on stiff light brown wrappers, photo's printed in brown offset on cream-coloured paper. Original cord binding. Cover edges slightly damaged, one small piece torn off. 12 pictures of sights in and around Stratford-on-Avon, Warwick, Leamington and Coventry. No publisher or date mentioned, but probably about 1920.
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€ 22.00 [Appr.: US$ 23.42 | £UK 19 | JP¥ 3625]
Catalogue: Britain
Her Housekeeping Book.
Cambridge, University Press, (1952). Original cloth. viii, 40 p. With engravings by Lawrence Josset. Title page engraved by H.K. Wolfenden. Printed in 250 copies on special Whatman paper. First edition. Cover a bit worn and discolored, edges of pages browned. Nice typographical bookplate 'gb'. Attractive book about the tasks of an 18th century housewife, in this case the wife of paper maker James Whatman II, whose father was the inventor (and most important producer) of wove paper. The book was assembled in 1776-1787. Humorous, refined engravings. The scanned picture illustrates the 'unnecessary temptations of inferior servants' when they find large joints of meat unnattended.
Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis - PaulbooksProfessional sellerBook number: 256605
€ 25.00 [Appr.: US$ 26.62 | £UK 21.75 | JP¥ 4119]
Catalogue: Britain
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