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Contemporary account of William II's failed attack on Amsterdam

[AMSTERDAM - PAMPHLET]. Amsterdams journael. Vervatende kortelijk van dag tot dag, alles wat gepasseert is van den 30 Julij, tot den 4 Augusti des Jaers 1650. Met een korte beschrijvinge vande stigting, op-komst en heerlijkheyd der voorseyde stadt Amsterdam. Als oock de af-beeldinge der selve stadt, met zijn om-leggende dorpen, wegen en wateringen, heel curieus in cooper gesneden.
[Amsterdam?], 1650. 4to. With a folding plate containing a map of Amsterdam and surroundings and a waterfront view of the city. 18th-century half brown paper, marbled sides. 28, [4] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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One of the first Dutch humanists on the history of his country, with beautiful woodcuts by Jost Amman

BARLANDUS, Hadrianus. Hollandiae comitum historia et icones. Cum selectis scholiis ad lectoris lucem eiusdem Barlandi Caroli Burgundiae Ducis vita. Item Ultraiectensium episcoporum catalogus & resgestae. Eiusdem argumenti libellus Gerardo Noviomago auctore.
Frankfurt, Johann Wechel for Sigmund Feyerabend, 1585. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut portrait of Gertrude of Saxony on the title page (repeated on p. 25), a woodcut printer's device of Feyerabend on the divisional title page of part 2, a variant of his printer's device on the verso of the last page, 37 half-page woodcut portraits by Jost Amman (all except the first three accompanied by their coats of arms), several decorated woodcut initials, and head- and tailpieces.
With: (2) BARLANDUS, Hadrianus. Traiectensium episcoporum catalogus et eorum res gestae.
Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wechel for Sigmund Feyerabend, 1585. 17th-century vellum. [16], "393" [=391], [1 blank]; 109, [1] pp. Full description
€ 950
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An important early account of the Bax brothers, and one of the first books printed in Breda

BASELIUS, Jacobus. Historisch verhael inhoudende sekere notable explooten van oorloge in de Nederlanden, sedert het oprechten van de companien der heeren gouverneurs ende ritmeesteren van Paulus ende Marcelis Bax.
Breda, Isaac Schilders, 1615. 4to. With a richly engraved allegorical title with portraits of Paulus and Marcelis Bax on horseback, a decorated woodcut initial, and a woodcut headpiece. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the title lettered in gold on the spine, red sprinkled edges. [8], 149, [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,850
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Fine plate book with 62 steel-engraved plates after Robert Batty depecting the scenery
of the Rhine, Belgium and Holland

BATTY, Robert. Scenery of the Rhine, Belgium and Holland, from drawings by Captn. Batty, of the Grenadier Guards F.R.S. Member of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Anne.
London, Robert Jennings, 1826. Large folio. With 62 steel-engraved plates, frontispiece and tail-piece included. Each plate is present two times, in different states. All plates are after drawings by the author engraved by among others W.R. Smith, E. Finden, R. Wallis, W. Woolnoth, and others. Contemporary half red morocco. [189] ll. Full description
€ 2,750
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Rare 1610 Liège edition of one most successful phrasebooks of all time.

BERLAIMONT, Noël de. Colloquia et dictionariolum septem linguarum, Belgicae, Anglicae, Tevtonicae, Latinae, Italicae, Hispanicae, Gallicae. ... Colloques ou dialogues, avec un dictionaire en sept language, Flamen, Anglois, Allemat, Latin, Italien, Espaignol & Francois, ... Colloquien of t samensprekingen, met eenen vocabulaer in seven spraken, Neerduytsch, Engelsen, Hoochduytsch, Latijn, Italiens, Spaens, ende Fransois, van nieu verbetert ende vermeerdert van vier colloquien, seer nut ende profitelik tot der coopmanschap, reyse, ende anderen handelinghen.
Liège, Henricus Hovius, 1610. Oblong 16mo in 8s (9 x 12 cm). Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [400] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
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Inspired by Janus Secundus: rare collection of erotic poetry by a talented Leiden student

BLEU, François le. Minnevlam, brandende in 't hert van Thyrsis, om de schoone Amaril.
Amsterdam, Baltes Boekholt, 1659. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved title page, a woodcut vignette on the letterpress title page, a half-page engraved emblem in the text, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [16], 415 pp. Full description
€ 850
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Against capitulation: a rare pamphlet from the Deventer crisis of 1672

BOECKHOLT, Arnold van. Missive van de heer Arnold van Boeckholt. burgermeester der stadt Deventer. vervattende de naeckte ronde waerheyt van 't overgeven der selver stadt aen die dwinghlandy harer vyanden ...
Amsterdam, Baltus Boeckholt, [1673]. 4to. With 2 woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title lettered in brown ink. [4], 36, [4 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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International scientific exchange of military "secrets" on the use of fuses
and the employment of explosive shapnell projectiles

BORMANN, Charles Guillaume. [Drop-title:] To Captain J.A. Dahlgren ... Sur le mémoire: "Nouveau système de shrapnells ... Notes sur le mémoire "Nouveau Système de Shrapnells de l'artillerie Néerlandaise".
[Liège, 1854]. 4to (21.9 x ca. 17.5 cm). Written in a neat 19th-century cursive in brown ink. Previously folded, with the envelope still present. 24 pp. and an envelope. Full description
€ 1,400
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Magnificent copy of the contemporary history of the origins of the Dutch Golden Age: first complete edition with the extra plates and portraits illustrating the 1679-1684 edition

BOR, Pieter Christiaenszoon. Nederlandsche oorloghen, beroerten, ende borgerlijcke oneenicheyden ...
Leiden, Govert Basson, Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1621-1634. 5 parts in 6 volumes. Folio (33.5 x 22 cm). With 5 engraved allegorical title pages, 39 double-page engraved plates, 41 full-page engraved portraits, a full-page map of the Seventeen Province, 158 half-page illustrations, 13 half-page portraits, 10 smaller portraits, and a woodcut illustration. An additional 19th-century portrait of the author is mounted on the final flyleaf. Uniform 17th-century (ca. 1680) vellum, a blind tooled centre-piece on each side, gold-tooled spines with two black leather title labels lettered in gold, red edges, green closing ties. [6], 350, 193; 126, 230, 48, 48, 60; [12], 73, 91, 120, 102; [6], 103, 118, 63, 63, 1, 33, [59]; [11], 56, 48, [2], 78, 90, [4], 126; [12], 100, 83, 69, 66, 69, [18] ll. Full description
€ 4,750
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