Dick Elffers (1910-1990)

The letter Y. Printed on thin aluminium. 49 x 48 cm. Signed on verso.

Three titles: (1) Gedenkboek samengesteld ter gelegenheid van het vijf en twintig jarig

jubileum van den heer G.H. Bührmannh 1906 1931 1 Mei Amsterdam. Ed. H.A.J. Baanders, A.B. van Holkema, U. Proost, J.C. Tjeenk Willink et al. Amsterdam, G.H. Bührmann's Papiergroothandel,...

[Bookplates] Collection of ± 150 bookplates,

all 20th cent., mostly (col.) woodcuts by R.M. Wichers Wierdsma (1891-1970), J. Bieruma Oosting (1898-1994), L. Störzer, F. van Acker, L. Rheude, P.G. Rueter, F.W. Schüttelndreier,...

[Typography] Proeven van Oostersche Schriften

der Lettergieterij "Amsterdam" voorheen N. Tetterode. Amsterdam, c. 1910. Tipped-in frontispiece. With New Year's wish from Lettergieterij "Amsterdam" on a double folded folio,...

[Bookplates] Collection of ± 160 bookplates,

various countries (mostly Dutch), mainly first half 20th cent., various media and sizes.

[Bibliography] The history of the library in western civilization

From Petrarch to Michelangelo. Konstantinos Staikos. New Castle, Oak Knoll Press, 2012 + Printers' & publishers' marks in books for the Greek world. Konstantinos Staikos. New Castle,...

[Bookprinting] Die Wappen der Buchgewerbe

Hugo Gerard Strohl. Vienna, Anton Schroll & Co., 1891. Orig. cloth with chromolith. plates on boards. Complete with 9 chromolith. plates. Upper pastedown with bookplate, front...

[Type specimens/proofs] Der Brief. Herausgeber SIA

Frauenfeld, Schweizer Schmirgel- und Schleif-Industrie, 1950. Loose-leafed as issued in lithographed portfolio. 5 single fold leaves. First page inscribed with pencil: Piet Zwart...

[Parisian 15th-century printing offices] "Le mirifique Thrésor des Imprimeurs de Paris

colligé ès Abbayes par R. 1840-1890". Collection of hundreds of mostly woodcut (series of) illustrations, (historiated) initials, alphabets, (letterpress) clippings, complete lvs.,...

[Type specimen] Type specimen of bookbinder G.W.C. Paardekooper

in Amsterdam. Cloth cassette containing 17 loose limp cloth boards with specimens, boards numbered 1-16 and 13a.

[Bookplates. M.C. Escher] Boekcier

Lot with 47 issues of Boercier. Mededeelingen van de Stichting Nederlandsche Exlibris-Kring. Contains in no. 4, August 1946 an article on M.C. Escher by G.H. 's-Gravesande, with...

[Type specimens. Lettergieterij Amsterdam v/h Tetterode] Garamont. Letterproef

van Lettergieterij en Machinehandel voorheen N. Tetterode. Nederland. Design by Henk Krijger. Stapled + Kloosterschrift van de Lettergieterij "Amsterdam" voorheen N. Tetterode,...

[Type specimens] Arbeitsmappe Futura. Bauersche Giesserei

Frankfurt am Main (sm. tear to spine) + Kleukens-Antiqua. Vier Garnituren u. Schmuck. Bauersche Giesserei + Bauersche Giesserei Frankfurt am Main W13. Orig. cloth + 2 more by the...

[Type specimens] Letterbeelden/Typen/Caractères/Typefaces

Charles A. Jongejans & Joke Prins. Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1971. Large folding portfolio (61 x 30 cm) with 5 large folding plates. In orig. shipping box + Drukkerij van Rossum,...

[Type specimens] Javaansch romein-schrift. No. 1494. Lettergieterij Joh. Enschedé

en zonen, 1912 + idem, Moderne randen. Rebacked with cloth strip, sm. chip to front cover, sl. discoloured + idem, Letterproef. Beknopte uitgaaf. Eerste deel 2e supplement. Romein-schriften....