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Travelling through the Kingdom of Holland during the reign of Louis Napoleon

[TRAVEL GUIDE]. Le voyageur en Hollande. Ouvrage indispensable pour chacun qui voyage dans ce pays.
Including: [TRAVEL GUIDE]. Atlas faisant partie du Voyageur en Hollande.
Amsterdam, The Hague, Middelburg, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Leiden, L.A.C. Hesse, Brothers Van Cleef, S. van Benthem, etc., 1807. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With a folding letterpress title page to the atlas and 19 folding engraved maps and plans. Contemporary gold-tooled half sprinkled calf. [2], 8, 16, 120,129-218 pp. Full description
€ 1,950
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The earliest topographic print series in the Northern Netherlands

[TYSENS, Gysbert] & Claes Jansz. VISSCHER. Haarlemmer duinzang, tereere van des zelfs vermakelyke land-en watergezigten, van Sandtvoordt af tot Haarlem. Versierd met twaalf naauwkeurige afbeeldingen.
Amsterdam, Hendrik Bosch, 1728. Oblong 8vo. With an engraved vignette on the title page, and 12 numbered full-page engraved plates by Claes I. Visscher, including an allegorical frontispiece. Contemporary half red roan. [4], 12 pp. Full description
€ 2,000
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One of the major 18th-century works on South America

ULLOA, Antonio de and Jorge JUAN SANTACILIA. Historische reisbeschryving van geheel Zuid-America; gedaan op bevel des konings van Spanje, door Don George Juan ... en door Don Antonio de Ulloa ...
Goes, Jacobus Huysman (colophon: printed in The Hague by Jacobus van Karnebeek), 1771-1772 (colophon volume 2: 1773). 2 volumes. Large 4to (ca. 28.5 x 22 cm). With both title-pages printed in red and black with engraved vignettes by H. Vinkeles, an engraved allegorical frontispiece by H. Vinkeles in volume 1, a head-piece above the dedication by J. Huysman after S. Fokke, 15 folding maps and plans (including a large map of the Pacific by J. van Jagen, dated 1771), 2 folding engraved plates, 8 full page engraved plates, and many head pieces built up from typographical ornaments and several woodcut tail pieces. Contemporary half sprinkled calf. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [4], XXIV, 428; [1], [1 blank], VIII, IV, 406, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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First edition of the laws of the city and province of Utrecht, promulgated in 1550

[UTRECHT - LAW]. Costumen, usantien pollitien ende stijl van procederen der stadt jurisdictie, en[de] vrijheyt va[n] Utrecht gheapprobeert en[de] ghedecreteert, . . .
[Colophon:] Amsterdam, printed by Willem Jacobsz. and sold at Utrecht by Jan van Gelre, 1550. 4to. With the title and the arms of the city of Utrecht in red and black in a 4-piece woodcut frame with figures and decoration, the arms repeated below the red and black colophon with the publisher's authenticating signature in dark brown ink; 3 different woodcut coats of arms for the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, each with a different bearing: 2 small in the text, with his motto "plus oultre", and a full-page one on the verso of the last leaf. Late 18th-century boards, marbled paper sides. [16], LVIII, [2] ll. Full description
€ 2,500
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Rare and early teacher's manual, the main source for our knowledge of primary education in the Netherlands at the time

VALCOOGH, Dirck Adriaensz. Een nut ende profijtelijck boecxken, ghenaemt den regel der Duytsche schoolmeesters, die parochie-kercken bedienen.
Alkmaar, Jacob de Meester, for Cornelis Claesz, 1607. 12mo. With musical annotation and 3 pages printed in civilité. Later half red roan, red sprinkled paper sides, red edges. 179, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
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Nine books of memorable deeds: the first Dutch Valerius Maximus

VALERIUS MAXIMUS and Conradus MIRKINIUS (translator). Negen boecken, van ghedenck-weerdighe, loflicke woorden, daden ende gheschiedenissen der Romeynen en de uytlandsche volcken. Overgheset uyt de Latijnsche in onse Nederduytsche tale, door Conradus Mirkinius.
Rotterdam, Jan Leendertsz. Berewout, 1614. 8vo. With woodcut publisher's device on title page, and some woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary limp vellum with the manuscript author on the spine, red sprinkled edges. [8], 610, [26] pp. Full description
€ 1,150
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A gastronomic treasure: rare Elzevier edition of De la Varenne's revolutionary work
on French cuisine, and French patisserie in particular

[VARENNE, François-Pierre de la (attributed)]. Le pastissier[!] François. Où est enseigné la maniere de faire toute sorte de patisserie, tres-utile à toute sorte de personnes. Ensemble le moyen dáprester toutes sortes d'oeufs pour les jours maigres, & autres, en plus de soixante façons.
Amsterdam, Lodewijk & Daniel Elzevier, 1655. 12mo. With an engraved title page, Elzevier's woodcut device on the title page, and several woodcut decorated initials and headpieces. 19th-century gold-tooled red morocco, bound by Georges Trautz ("Trautz-Bauzonnet"). The book is kept in a protective red paper slipcase, the whole kept in a custom-made beige cloth box, lined with red cloth. [12], 252 pp. Full description
€ 38,500
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4 rare Dutch travel works concerning the Middle East, Arabia, the East Indies and other exotic lands,
including the first recorded non-Islamic visitor to Mecca (350 years before Sir Richard Burton)

VARTHEMA, Ludivico di and Felix van SAMBIX DE JONGE (translator). De uytnemende en seer wonderlijcke zee-en-landt-reyse van de heer Ludovvyck di Barthema, ... gedaen inde Morgenlanden, Syrien, vruchtbaer en woest Arabien, Perssen, Indien, Egypten, Ethiopien, en andere.
Utrecht, Gerald Nieuwenhuysen and Willem Snellaart, 1654.
With:
(2) ROE, Thomas. Journael, van de reysen ...
Amsterdam, Jacob Benjamin, 1656.
(3) MOCQUET, Jean. Reysen in Afrique, Asien, Oost- en West Indien, ...
Dordrecht, for Abraham Andriesz. (colophon: printed by Nicolaes de Vries), 1656.
(4) BLANC, Vincent le and Jan Hendrik GLAZEMAKER (translator). De vermaarde reizen van de heer Vincent le Blanc van Marsilien die hy sedert d' ouderdom van veertien jaren tot aan die van zestig in de vier delen des werrelts, Europa, Asia, Afrika en Amerika, gedaan heeft. Te weten in Oost- en Westindien, in Persien, Arabien, Pegu, en in meest alle de landen van Oostindien, in de koninkrijken van Fez en Marokko, in Guinea, en in 't geheel innerlijk deel van Afrika, van de Kaap de Bone Esperance af, tot in Alexandria, deur de landen van Monomotapa, Abissyna, en Egypien, in Spanjen, Frankrijk, Italiën en Nederlant, en in veel vermaarde eilanden van de werelt.
Amsterdam, for Jan Hendriksz. Boom & Jan Rieuwertsz., 1654. 4 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1: with an engraved title page, 4 engraved plates and woodcut initials, headpieces and tailpieces. Ad 2: with an engraved title page, 4 large engravings in the text, 3 with scenes of the Mughal court life and the other depicting a sea battle, and woodcut decorated initials. Ad 3: with an engraving on the title page showing a shipwreck, repeated in the text on p. 87, and 9 other large engravings in the text. Ad 4: with an engraved title page, 7 engraved plates, 2 extremely finely engraved initials with pictorial decoration on p. 1 and p. 3 of the first part (the V with an allegorical female figure giving a plate of fruit to the author(?) with his books and an armillary sphere, and a T with a group of turbaned figures) and 1 larger decorated woodcut initial. Contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine, new endpapers. 126; [8], 56, 56, 24, [2]; [14], 153, [1 blank]; [4], 152, 116 pp. Full description
€ 8,500
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Unique collection of 100 plates engraved ca. 1735-1750, most from well-known print series
containing mainly views of Alkmaar, Delft, Dordrecht, Oudewater, Rotterdam
and 10 great Manor houses in Kennemerland

[VIEWS - DUTCH]. Verzameling van honderd afbeeldingen, bestaande in: land- en watergezigten, oudheden, landhuizen, hofsteden, tuinen, lusthoven, enz. allen naar het leven geteekend en in koper gebragt door de Hollandsche meesters A. Rademaker, J.C. Philipo, J. Punt en anderen; tot nut van teeken-, schilder- en bouwkundigen.
Amsterdam, D. da Cunha & J.D. Gertner, [ca. 1835-1850]. Oblong 4to. With a title page and 100 views (one double) and plans (ca. 16.5 x 20 cm), partly numbered. The numbered ones are views of manor houses and have a more elaborate frame (except for 57, 59 and 71 which have the number of their original series): they come from the Zegepralend Kennemerland and Het Verheerlykt Watergraafs- of Diemer-Meer. Later (ca. 1900) three-quarter vellum, spine with old red Morocco label lettered in gold, and marbled sides. Full description
€ 3,950
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