Fahrenheit 451 Antiquarian Booksellers

Weijpoort 12, 2415BV Nieuwerbrug,

Contacts: Laurens Heij

We specialise in rare and collectable books.  Specialisations include 16th-19th century books, detective fiction, bibliophile printing, China, India, Indonesia, graphic art and design, photobooks and miscellaneous/ quirky.

Exhibitor's Highlights

Het achterhuis. Dagboekbrieven 12 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944. Pref. Annie Romein-Verschoor. Collection of the FIRST, SECOND and THIRD EDITION, all in their ORIGINAL DUSTJACKETS

Frank, Anne.

£23500.00

Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Complete atlas containing 160 maps of the world, continents, regions and countries

[Atlases]. Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

£4700.00

"Marriage à la mode", complete series of 6 handcoloured etchings by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth

Hogarth, William (1697-1764 - after), Cook, Thomas (1744-1818)

£795.00

Wendingen. Year 4, no.11 (H.P. Berlage on Frank Lloyd Wright). [With original constructivist or avant-garde wrappers designed by El Lissitzky]

Lissitzky, El

£1875.00

Opera Omnia; in novem tomos digesta. Complete in 9 volumes [Very rare complete updated edition of the collected theological works of John Calvin]

Calvinus, J. (Calvin, John; Calvijn (1509-1564))

£2350.00

Le tunnel. Der Tunnel. The Tunnel. [Rare London Thames Tunnel Diorama/ Peepshow]

Diorama. London

£1250.00

Pokhozhdenie Chichikova ili Mertvye dushi: Poema [The Adventures of Chichikov, or Dead Souls: A Poem]

Gogol, Nikolai (1809-1852)

£2150.00

Jersey. 1976. Portfolio containing 12 copperplate colour-etchings of Jersey. [One of 100 numbered and signed copies]

[Jersey]. Richecoeur, Michael A. (b.1946)

£1525.00

Die tragische Geschichte von Hamlet Prinzen von Daenemark in deutscher Sprache.

[Cranach-Presse]. Shakespeare, William, Craig. Neu übersetzt und eingerichtet von Gerhart Hauptmann, begleitet von Auszügen, die den Geschichten von Saxo Grammaticus und François de Belleforest und der Hystorie of Hamblet entnommen sind.

£13750.00

"Negro Figuranti"

[Slavery]. Bridgens, Richard

£325.00

Wiener Kindergraphik. Arbeiten von Schulern der von Professor Franz Cizek geleiteten Jugendklasse an der Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule

[Wiener Werkstatte]. Cizek, Franz (ed.)

£1475.00

Oeuvres. [Finely bound set of the first truly collective edition]

Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662), Bossut, Charles (ed.)

£1925.00

Pair of ink drawings, Italian School, both depicting the brutal siege of a medieval city, pen and brown ink on laid paper

[Italian School, 16th-17th cent.]. Cambioso, Luca (after/ style of)

£1275.00

The Christian's new and complete family Bible : Or, Universal Library of Divine Knowledge. Containing the sacred texts of the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocrypha

[Biblia anglica 1787(?)]. Bankes's Bible

£950.00

"Edinburgh". Supplement to the Illustrated London News, July 18, 1868. [Bird's Eye View of Edinburgh].

Sulman, Thomas

£495.00

The Novels and Stories of Ivan Turgenieff. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood. [Complete set in 16 volumes, one of 204 [no. 2] sets on better paper handbound in original uniform gilt halfmorocco by Stikeman and Co.]

Turgenieff (Turgenev), Ivan (1818-1883)

£2575.00

Original fables, French and English. Adorned with Copper Plates very proper for to Colour. Two volumes. . [Rare copy of the earliest known work published as children's colouring book]

[Fables]. (Kidgell, John (1721/22-ca.1780))

£1695.00

Set of all four Winnie the Pooh books in early editions: When We Were Very Young - Winnie the Pooh - Now We are Six - The House at Pooh Corner. Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard

Milne, A.A. (1882-1956)

£1495.00

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 53rd thous. (1876). - [With:] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. 34th thous. (1873). [Desirable set in early editions of both Wonderland-works, uniformly bound in very fine condition].

Carroll, Lewis (= C.L. Dodgson 1832-1898)

£3850.00

Hellmuth Weissenborn, Engraver. With an autobiographical introduction by the artist. [One of 20 Roman numbered copies in deluxe binding with a suite of plates]

[Whittington Press and Acorn Press]. Weissenborn, H.

£1075.00