Bloem-Hofje 1674
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Bloem-Hofje
Sizes: Height 0.507", Width 0.351"
This book is a facsimile edition of Bloem-Hofje written by C. Van Lange in 1674. made by B. Smidt.
Like
the original, it is bound in a light brown leather cover with goldleaf
stamped lines and flower motifs. On the spine of the cover there are
goldleaf stamped circles.
It
contains 25 pages. The text was printed in double spreads on one side of the paper.
The bookblock is concertina folded and
pasted together to give the appearance of normal leaves. The 18 karat golden flowershaped clasp is made by M Niemeijer.
Benedikt
Smidt was a printer from Middelburg. He probably produced this mini
miniature as a show-piece to demonstrate his technical ability.
This tiny
book has a limited edition of only 20 copies.
The
price of this special miniature book is € 725,-
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Vergilius
Maronis Opera 1730
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“Vergilius
maronis Opera”
Sizes: Height 1.708", Width 0.551"
The first three books in Latin, of
the complete works of Vergilius Maro (70 v.Chr.-19 v. Chr.). Bound in Olive-green- or chalkwhite leather, with a
white golden lorgnet in the cover. The lorgnet is made by Jens Torp.
The bound bookblock contains 88 pages.
The Koninklijke Bibliotheek gave their full support for using
the original engraved titelpage for this book.
Jan Minell (1625-1670) and
Pancratius Maasvicius (1658-1729) were responsible for the design and
engraving of the titelpage.
The original book is published by Drukkerij
Wetstein in Amsterdam in 1730.
The price of this edition
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Fabels
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Fabels
Sizes:
Height 1/15", Width 3/4"
Fabels, a pop-up book bound
in leather.
A beuatiful pop-up book containing a collection of five
classic fabels written by the French writer Jean de la Fontaine, like `The
Fox and the Crow` and `The Turtoise and the Hare`. The book is folded
concertina and has moving illustrations.
This in dark red eal skin book is hand cut, folded and
bound. The book is closed with a brass slide clip in the shape of a French
Lilly.
The book is sold with a
numbered certificate and has a limited edition of 150 copies in English.
The price of this miniature is € 135,-
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A Christmas Carol, "Scrooge"
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A Christmas Carol
Sizes:
Height 1/15", Width 3/4"
A Christmas Carol, a pop-up book bound
in leather.
This lovely pop-up book, after a story of
Charles Dickens. This book is
concertina folded and contains nine double pages with pop-up and moving
figures. The book is entirely made by hand. The text is set in .5 point times roman and is
readable with a magnifying glass.
The book is bound in darkbroun ealskin. On the front of the cover is a
recycled ivory strip for the leather bands comming from the reverse site of
the bookcover.
This english written book is a limited
edition of 150 copies, the numbers 1 to 20 will be a Deluxe edition with a
silver mounting and lock especially designed and made by Jens Torp.
The price of this miniature is € 145,- (standard edition 130
copies)
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The price of this miniature is € 360,- (exclusive Deluxe edition 20 copies)
this edition is sold out |
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Pop-up Wilhelmina book
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Wilhelmina book
Sizes: Height
10/16", Width 9/16"
This Wilhelmina
pop-up book is a replica of a book published in 1898 for the occasion of the
coronation of Queen Wilhelmina (in 1898). The book tells the story of the
life of Queen Wilhelmina from baby till her coronation. The book contains
four double pop-up illustrations and is bound with a pamflet-stitch. The
cover is water coloured by hand. The miniature book will be sold with a
numbered certificate with a limited edition of 450 pieces.
The story is told in
Dutch.
The price of
this book is € 30.-
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"La
Mode Illustrèe"
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"La
Mode Illustrèe"
Sizes:
Height 1.2", Width 0.9"
A wonderful first
edition of "La mode Illustreé" from 1874, a French fashion
magazine published in Paris.
A weekly that
appeared on Sunday with beautiful etchings of fashion, styling-details
and hairstyles for women.
Slighty coloured through the years, though hardly damaged because the ladies
handled their favourite fashion magazine with great care.
“La
Mode Illustrée” costs €
6,50
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Piggelmee, Het tovervisje
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Piggelmee,
Het tovervisje
Sizes: Height
1-1/32 " , Width 6/8 "
This Dutch book
'Het tovervisje' tells a story of our childhood.
The 36 page's are fullcolour offset printed.
The book is bound en will be delivered in a cassette with the
illustration of the coverpage of this book on the frontside.
The price of
this book is € 23.-
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Cookery book
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Cookery books
Sizes: Height 13/16", Width
10/16"
From four countries 4 different cookery books. German, English Dutch and
Danish recipes for your Dolls House.
Each in their own language and clearly readable because of the. high
standard offset printing The inner section of 6 pages is printed. The Dutch
cookery book has recipes like:
- Brood met pruimen
- Rijstebrij
- Boekweitgort en karnemelk
The price of this book is € 20.-
The copy already made 'old' costs € 23.-
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Victorian bookstand
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Victorian bookstand
Sizes: Height 1 1/8", Width
7/8"
To protect your precious cookerybooks against grease-, dough-
or waterstains in (during) Victorian times the book was placed on a
cast-iron bookstand with weightson strings to hold the pages.
This adorable bookstand casted in pewter is made by Jens Torp and John
Hodgson and is sold either with brass or black weights on black silk
threads.
The price of this stand is € 69.-
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Stamp- and Cigar band album
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Stamp album
Sizes: Height 29/32", Width 6/8"
The cover of this
album in dark blue or dark red imitation leather has a crown blind tooled on
the front. The book block has six pages of which three of them are filled
with stamps with perforation. The other three pages are ready for use. The
stamps aren’t glued on the pages but are stocked behind the little strips
and can be removed with the silver coloured genuine miniature tweezers. The
stamps are copies of real Dutch stamps from the period 1876 until 1950.
The price per tweezers is € 5.50
The price per album is € 45.-
Cigar
band album
Sizes: Height 23/32", Width 27/32"
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An
der schönen blauen Donau
by
Johann
Strauss
Menuet by Boccherini
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"An der schönen blauen Donau” (1876)
Sizes: Height 1.062", Width 0.748"
”An
der schönen blauen Donau” for piano, containing the complete composition
by Johann Strauss.
An
der schönen blauen Donau costs € 5,50
“Menuet by Boccherini” (1790)
Sizes: Height 1.063", Width 0.787"
“Menuet”for piano
containing the complete
composition by Luigi
Rodolfo Boccherini
This Menut costs € 3,50
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"Eine kleine Nachtmusik" Mozart
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"Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Sizes: Height
1-1/32", Width 6/8"
”Eine kleine
Nachtmusik” music for
violin, containing the complete composition by
Mozart.
The price of this issue is € 5.50
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”For Elise” Beethoven
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”For Elise” Beethoven
Sizes: Height
1-1/32", Width 6/8"
”Für Elise” music for
piano, containing the complete composition by Ludwig van Beethoven.
The price of this issue is € 3.50 |
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Liquor bottle- and Jewellery book
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Book with liquor bottle
Sizes: Height
27/32", Width 19/32"
”……Don’t disturb me darling, I’m
reading…...”
The cover of this
book is manufactured in various “old” colours imitation leather, dark green,
dark brown and dark red. The book block has a secret ”hole” with a small
liquor bottle. The bottle is made by miniaturist glassblower Leo Reijnders
and can be taken out of the book.
The price of this book is € 23.-
Jewellery book
Sizes: Height
27/32", Width 19/32"
The cover is
manufactured in various colours imitation leather. Together with a romantic
endpaper inside the book. The book block has a secret space where you will
find a necklace with a ’diamond’, a love letter and two rings.
The price of this book is € 35,-
New: Jewellery book
bound in fine leather with in the cover a embedded real cameo included
jewellery and love letter with rings.
The price of this book is € 70,-
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Album
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Photo Album
Sizes: Height
1-3/32", Width 1-11/32"
The photo album can
be manufactured in different colours of eelskin, it is also possible to
bind the album in imitation leather. The photo album has a bound book block
of black paper with pergamijn paper in between and contains 12 pages.
The price of this album manufactured in eel leather is €
35.-
The price of this album manufactured in imitation leather
is € 30.-
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Miniature
books
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Miniature books
Sizes: Height
23/32" - 7/8", Width 5/16" – 10/16"
The miniature books
are manufactured in different colours of imitation leather. The spine of the
book has two or three ribs, depending on the size of the book. The books can
be made with or without a gold- or silver coloured ornament (clasp). The
book on the picture above shows a gold coloured clasp.
The price of this book with ornament is € 14.-
The price of this book without ornament is € 12.50
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Desk set
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Desk set
Sizes: Height 2/8", Width 6/8"
The desk set consists a desk set, letter standard and a pencil holder. The
desk set can be made of various colours eelskin or imitation leather. The
pencil holder and letter standard can be made of eelskin or hand marbled
paper in a matching colour. The pencil holder contains genuine miniature
pencils.
The price of this desk set manufactured in eel leather is €
25.-
The price of this desk set manufactured in imitation leather is € 20.-
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Writing map
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Writing map
Sizes: Height
27/32", Width 1-17/32"
A beautiful portfolio
in various colours imitation leather or bookbinders linen. On the inside of
the map you will find; at the left side a little compartment with envelopes
and at the right side a writing block containing ten pages. The front of
this block, as well as the envelope compartment is made of a matching
coloured hand marbled paper. A genuine miniature pencil is placed in the
spine of the map.
The price of this issue € 19,00
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holder
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File holder
Sizes:
Height 1-1/16", Width 15/16"
The file holders are
manufactured in four colours, black, grey, green or red. The spine of the
file holder has a silver coloured ring and a special label. The file holder
contains a two rings silver coloured ‘mechanism’, with five different
coloured sheets which subdivides the different documents.
The price of this issue € 22.50 |
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Cash-book
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Cash-book
Sizes: Height
1-1/32", Width 25/32"
The price of this book is € 8.- |
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Poetry Album
Sizes: Height
23/32", Width 10/16"
This poetry album is
a typical Dutch item. The album is usually for girls and women, who asks
relatives, and friends to write little poems and kind thoughts joined with a
romantic or nostalgic illustration. On the cover, manufactured in various
colours imitation leather, the word “poesie” is gold tooled. It is
sold with a hand-written poem and a small illustration.
The price of this album is € 12.- |
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Diary
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Diary
Sizes:
Height 23/32", Width 10/16"
The cover
of the diary is manufactured in romantic flower print paper. The gold
coloured clasp closes the diary for unauthorised viewers. On the first page,
the name of the owner to be can be written, as well as the opening words of
the first letter.
Dear
Diary,
……..Today was the most …….
The price of this Diarry is € 5.- |
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Portfolio
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Portfolio
Sizes: Height
57/64", Width 1-7/32"
This portfolio is made in four different colours hand marbled paper; green,
yellow, blue and purple. The inside of the portfolio is completed with
matching coloured paper. The corners are made of textile print paper and the
map is tied with black silk ribbons. The art map will be sold with two
complementary drawings/paintings
The price of this issue is € 12.50
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Bookends
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Bookends
Sizes: Height
19/32" – 23/32", Width 19/32" – 23/32"
The bookends are
manufactured in the colours oak, maroon or deal. There are two models,
elephants and camels. The figures are hand cut and made from bone, which are
imported from India.
The price of this issue is € 10.- per pair
Only for sale at my stand on Miniature
& Dolls house fairs
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Geographical map of the
Netherlands
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Geographical map of the Netherlands
Sizes:
Height 10 cm, Width 8 cm.
The geographical map of the Netherlands in 1950
with al province's .
The price of this issue is €
17,50 |
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