Highlights

[VIEWS - THE NETHERLANDS - SILK]. [Twelve views of the Netherlands, printed on silk].
Comprising:
The views relating to the Flood of 1775:
(1) Gezicht van het Bergsche veld, in het land van Heusden ... den 15den November 1775
(2) Gezicht uit Oosthuizen, op de dijkbreuk by Warder ... den 15den November 1775.
(3) Gezicht van den hogen vloed, in den N.N.W. storm, voor Scheveningen, den 15den November 1775.
(4) Gezicht van de dijkbreuk, aan den douk, op Texel ... den 15den November 1775.
(5) Gezicht van de overstrooming der sluis te Delfshaven, 's avonds den 14den November 1775.
(6) Gezicht van het Kattenburger plen te Amsterdam ... 's morgens den 15den November 1775.
(7) Gezicht in de Koekkoek, bij Kampen ... den 15den November 1775.
The views relating to the Flood of 1776:
(8) Gezicht van de overstrooming en doorbraak, van den IJsseldijk, buiten Gouda ... den 21sten en 22sten November 1776.
(9) Gezicht der overstroominge, op de Hooge Swaluwe, den 22sten November 1776.
(10) Gezicht van den storm en hogen vloed, voor Elburg, den 21sten November 1776.
(11) Gezicht der overstroominge en dijkbreuk, tusschen Vollenhoven en Kampen, den 22sten November 1776.
(12) IJgezicht, naar 't Blaauw Hoofd, voor Amsteldam ... den 21sten November 1776.
[Amsterdam], widow of Jacobus Loveringh and Johannes Allart, [1775-1776]. Folio. With 12 full-page engravings printed on silk, with the selvedge on the bottom, captioned in Dutch with the word "proefdruk" (proof) printed in the lower right. Kept in a pebble-grained dark brown buckram folder lined with blue patterned paper. Full description

VINSON, Auguste. Voyage a Madagascar au couronnement de Radama II.
Saint-Cloud & Paris, widow Belin for Roret, 1865 (changed with a printed slip to Eugène Belin/Belin frères, without date), [ca. 1865]. Large 8vo (28 x 18.5 cm). With 7 engraved plates of lemurs, spiders and butterflies by Annedonce and Debray after J. Huet and A. Vinson, all beautifully coloured by hand by Mme. Migneaux. Original yellow printed wrappers. [8], 575, 7, 4, 6, 48 pp. Full description

VIRGIL and Cornelis van GHISTELE (translator). De twaelf boecken Aeneas, ghenaemt int Latijn Aeneidos.
Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberghe, 1609. Small 8vo. With a woodcut portrait of Virgil on the title page, and 12 woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary overlapping vellum. 264, [3], [1 blank] ll. Full description

[VOC]. [Collection of printed VOC orders, resolutions, instructions and other documents, assembled and published with a printed contents list.]
Amsterdam and possibly elsewhere, Nicolaas Byl, Adriaan Wor and others, 1747-1790. Folio. With 2 woodcut illustrations in item 20, 1 leaf inserted in item 23 printed in red, and several items with a woodcut ship on the title page and/or one or more woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary (ca. 1790) sheepskin parchment. Full description

[VOC - MEDICINE - BROADSIDE]. Catalogus der medicamenten voor het retour-schip.
Batavia, in 's Compagnies medicinale winkel, [before 1738].
With: (2) [BAUD, J. C.]. Proeve van eene geschiedenis van den handel en het verbruik van opium in Nederlandsch Indië.
1853. 1 broadside, and 1 booklet. Ca. 53 x 42 cm. The booklet with grey paper wrappers. 79-220 pp. Full description

[VOC - SPICE TRADE]. [Two ordinances of the States-General].
1667-1669. Ca. 23.5 x 26.5 cm and ca. 20 x 24 cm. With a woodcut decorated initial on each ordinance. Full description

[VOC - WIC]. Bericht der vergadering van Zeventien, by de provisionele repraesentanten des volks van Zeeland, den 22 september gerequireerd op het decreet der provisionele repraesentanten des volks van Holland van den 15 derzelve maand, aangaande een verandering in de directie der Generale Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.
Middelburg, Isaac de Winter, 1795. 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled boards. [2], 72, [28] pp. Full description

VORSTERMAN VAN OYEN, Abraham Antonie. Geslacht Vorsterman. Hiertoe behooren Willem en Lucas Vorsterman.
Amsterdam, The Hague, Brussels, Vienna and other places, 1880s and 1890s.
With: (2) [HUNTING]. Extract uit de resolutien van de heeren Staaten van Holland en Westvriesland, genomen in haar edele groot mog. Vergadering op dingsdag den 8 september 1778.
[The Hague], 1778.
(3) [HUNTING]. Extract uit de resolutien van de heeren Staaten van Holland en Westvriesland, genomen in haar edele groot mog. Vergadering op dingsdag den 18 april 1780.
[The Hague], 1780. With ca. 100 contemporary notes and letters, several with envelopes. Preserved in a contemporary portfolio with red sprinkled boards, held together by two olive green ribbons which also serve as closing ties, a paper title label on the front together with two other labels. Full description

[WALL MAP - THE NETHERLANDS - COLOM, Jacob Aertsz.]. Comitatus Hollandiae et Dominii Ultraiectini tabula = Carte nouvelle de la Comté de Hollande et de la Seigneurie d'Utrecht.
Amsterdam, Covens & Mortier, [ca. 1725]. Ca. 160 x 289 cm. Mounted on linen, folded and kept together in a paper slipcase, the whole kept in a book-shaped box. Full description

[WATERCOLOUR - BELGIUM]. [View of the church of St. Dagobert and the parc at Brussels].
[Brussels], 1794. Ca. 11.7 x 18.1 cm. Full description