Highlights

BOR, Pieter Christiaenszoon. Oorsprongk, begin, en vervolgh der Nederlandsche oorlogen, beroerten, en borgerlyke oneenigheden ... in XXXVII boeken, en IV stukken verdeelt ... voorts met een byvoeghsel van authentyke stukken en nieuwe registers vermeerdert.
Amsterdam, the widow of Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgangh, Hendrick and Dirck Boom, 1679-1684. 9 parts in 4 volumes (with the index "Algemeene blad-wyser" by Abraham van Poot published in 1684 in volume IV). Folio (ca. 39.5 x 23.5 cm). With 4 identical frontispieces, 5 identical woodcut publishers marks, the title of volume I is printed in red and black, 4 identical portraits of the author, 36 full-page engraved portraits, and 40 double-page plates. Uniform contemporary blind-tooled vellum, both panelled boards with large blind-stamped ornament in the centre, ribbed spines with manuscript title in black ink, sprinkled edges, remnants of green ties. Volume I: [36], 1006, [2], [188]; volume II: [16], 1-232, 235-242, 241-672, 679-994, [128]; volume III: [16], 1-532, [6], 529-623, 626-627, 626-690, 693-[896], [28]; volume IV: [8], 1-419, 432-[512], 517-[692], [4], 14, 16, [184] pp. Full description

BOUCHENROEDER, Baron Friedrich von. Reize in de binnenlanden van Zuid-Afrika. Gedaan in den jare 1803.
Amsterdam, Mortier Covens en zoon; The Hague, B. Besanger, 1806. 8vo. With a large folding engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, and two folding tables showing (1) the fertility of various regions and (2) the products that could be exported following improvements in the cultivation of various crops. Contemporary marbled boards. [4], 231, [13] pp. Full description

BREDERO, Gerbrand Adriaensz. Alle de wercken. So spelen, gedichten, brieven en kluchten van den gheest-rijcken poëet. Verbetert en daer by ghevoeght eenighe die noyt voor desen ghedruckt zijn gheweest.
Amsterdam, Cornelis Lodewijckz. van den Plasse, 1638. 14 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author on the general title page, an engraved allegorical frontispiece by Jan van de Velde, an almost full-page engraved portrait of the author by Hessel Gerrits, a woodcut vignette on the divisional title of each part. Further with decorated woodcut initials and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Comprising:
(1) Treur-Spel van Roddrick ende Alphonsus.
(2) Griane. Op syn Spreuck het kan verkeeren.
(3) Lucelle.
(4) Moortje.
(5) Spaanschen Brabander Ierolimo.
(6) Stommen ridder.
(7) Angeniet.
(8) Schyn-Heylich.
(9) Spel, op 't oud liedt Het daget uyt den Oosten, op de reghel, Die quaet doet, quaet ontmoet.
(10) Nederduytsche poëmata.
(11) Kluchten als Vande koe.
(12) Klucht, van Symen sonder soetigheydt.
(13) Klucht van den molenaer.
(14) Klucht vanden Hoogduytschen quacksalver.
Contemporary gold-tooled vellum [ca. 800 pp.] Full description

BROUGHTON, William Robert. Voyage de découvertes dans la partie septentrionale de l'Océan Pacifique, fait par le capitaine W.R. Broughton, commandant la corvette de S.M.B. la Providence et sa conserve, pendant les années 1795, 1796, 1797 et 1798; dans lequel il a parcouru et visité la côte d'Asie, depuis le 35° degré nord, jusqu'au 52°; l'île d'Insu, ordinairement appelée Jesso; les côtes Nord, Est et Sud du Japon; les îles de Likeujo et autres îles voisines, ainsi que la côte de Corée.
Paris, Dentu, 1807. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a large folding engraved map of the North-East coast of Asia and Japan, a folding engraved map of the islands Likeujo and Madjicosemah, 4 large folding engraved plates with plans and views of harbours and coastlines in Japan, Taiwan, and China, and a full-page engraved plate showing the costumes of Volcan's Bay. Contemporary gold-tooled tree-marbled calf. [6], XXXII, 243, [3]; [4], 341, [1] pp. Full description

BRUMMELKAMP, Anthony. Verzameling van gedichten van A. Brummelkamp.
[The Netherlands?], 1860. 4to. Manuscript in Dutch, written in black ink on paper, with the title page decorated in black and grey. Later boards covered with decorated paper with a fleur-de-lis pattern. [47] ll. Full description

[CAAN, Hendrik Johan]. Vorsten uit het Huis van Oranje geboren op het Lustslot Soestdijk.
[The Hague, A.P. Van Langenhuijsen, 1842]. 2 works. 8vo. Ad 1: with 4 full-page lithographed plates and 17 leaves of lithographed text, partly in calligraphic script and partly in typographic lettering, all printed in gold using bronze powder. Ad 2: fully lithographed. With: (2) CAAN, Hendrik Johan. Toast bij de aanbieding van het Gedenkschrift Diligentia den 13 September 1843.
[Den Haag, A.P. van Langenhuijsen, 1843]. Unbound. [18]; [2] ll. Full description

CAPELLA, Galeazzo Flavio. De rebus nuper in Italia gestis libri octo.
Nuremberg, Johann Petreius, 1532. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page and several decorated woodcut initials in the text. 19th-century gold-tooled mottled calf. 75, [1 blank] ll. Full description

[CASANOVA, Giacomo]. Esposizione ragionata della contestazione, che sussiste tra le due Repubbliche di Venezia, e di Olanda.
[Vienna or Venice?], 1785.
With:
(2) [CASANOVA, Giacomo]. Supplimento alla esposizione ragionata della controversia, che suffifte tra la repubblica di Venezia, e quella dOlanda.
1785.
(3) [CASANOVA, Giacomo], Signed at end: L.A.S.D.V. Lettera ai signori Giovanni e Stefano Luzac contenente alcune offervazioni sopra la Narrazione dellaffare che ha prodotto la differenza vertente fra la repubblica di Venezia e quella di Olanda, pubblicata nei numeri xxi. C xxii. della loro gazetta.
1785. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Ads 1 and 2: with a woodcut decoration on the title page, rococo-decorated titling capitals used for one word in the title and one initial, thick-and-thin rules, ad 3: with the same decorated initials as ad 1 and 2, and with woodcut headpieces throughout. Contemporary half vellum with marbled boards, gold-tooled spine, and a black leather spine label lettered in gold: "Miscellanea". LXX, [4 blank]; LXIX, [5 blank]; 48 pp. Full description

[CATS, Jacob], Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus, Vitae humanae ideam, Emblemate trifariàm variato, oculis subijciens.
Middelburg, Johannes Hellenius [= Hans van der Hellen], 1618. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 3 parts. 4to. Ad 1: with an engraved frontispiece for each of the three parts (1 and 3 by Frans Schillemans after Adriaen van de Venne, 1618); 51 numbered emblems in the first part, the well-known folding engraved plate of the "Kinderspelen" (Children games) at the end of part 2, decorated woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces; Ad 2 with a full-page engraved plate of the coat-of-arms of "chaste virgins", a half-page engraved plate of the manor house and garden of Catharina van Muylwijck, 44 emblems engraved by J. Swelinck (?) after Adriaen van de Venne, and extra inserted is the famous full-page portrait of Galathee; Ad 3: with a woodcut vignette on the title-page, 4 half-page engravings in the text, of which three after Van de Venne, decorated woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces.
With: (2) [CATS, Jacob]. Maechden-plicht ofte ampt der ionck-vrouwen, in eerbaer liefde, aenghewesen door Sinne-beelden.
Middelburg, Johannes Hellenius (Hans van der Hellen), 1618.
(3) [CATS, Jacob]. Selfstryt, dat is crachtighe beweginghe van vlees en gheest ... (&c.).
Middelburg, Johannes Hellenius (Hans van der Hellen) for Jan Pietersz van de Venne, 1620.
Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [40], 120; 111, [1 blank]; 107, [5]; [16], 92, [20]; [34], 119, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[CHARRIÈRE, Isabelle de (Belle van ZUYLEN)]. Considération sur l'affaire des canoniers[!] français ...
[Switzerland?], 1787. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, a woodcut headpiece, and 4 woodcut tailpieces. Disbound. "35" [= 31] pp. Full description