Highlights

[GYSIUS, Johannes]. Oorsprong en voortgang der Neder-landtscher beroerten ende ellendicheden. Waerin vertoont worden de voornaemste tyrannijen, moorderijen, ende andere onmenschelijcke wreetheden, die onder het ghebiedt van Philips de II coninck van Spaengien, door zijne stad-houders in 'twerck ghestelt zijn, gheduyrende dese Nederlantsche troublen ende oorlogen...
[Leiden, Hendrik Lodewijksz. van Haestens], 1616. 4to. With an engraved vignette on the title page, 16 engraved oval portraits (15 full-page, 1 half-page), a full-page engraved plate in the text, and 2 double-page engraved plates. The title page has been printed in red and black. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [8], 411, [1 blank] pp. Full description

HERTWIG, H. C. Praktisches Handbuch der Chirurgie für Thierärzte.
Berlin, August Hirschwald, 1850. Large 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, red morocco spine label, red edges. XII, 811, [5] pp. Full description

HEXHAM, Henry. Journael ofte een ware ende kort verhael van 't veermaerde belegh van de Stadt Breda, door het kloeck-moedich, ende victorieus beleydt van Syne Hoogheydt de Prins van Orangien &c.
Delft, printed for and sold by Henricus Hondius, The Hague, 1638. 4to. With a large folding map of the city of Breda and surroundings during the siege in 1637, with an explanatory text pasted to the bottom margin. Interleaved copy. Early 19th-century gold-tooled red straight-grained morocco. [8], 55, [1 blank], "14" [= 20] pp. Full description

HIGGINS, William John. South Sea whale fishery. A representation of the ships Amelia Wilson & Castor off the Island of Bouro - with their boats & crew in the various process of fishing, shewing the manner the spermacetti whales are caught, also the method of cutting them into the ship, & boiling the oil upon deck.
London, W.J. Huggins, January 1, 1825. Aquatint (plate size: 44 x 56.5 cm), printed on unwatermarked wove paper (50.5 x 61.5 cm). Full description

HOFDIJK, Willem Jacobsz. Leydens wee en zegepraal (1573-1574).
Leiden, P. van Santen (printed by P. W. M. Trap), 1874. Large 8vo. With a tinted lithographed frontispiece, three folding lithographed maps and views, and a full-page lithographed plate. Contemporary gold-tooled half brown morocco, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, brown buckram sides, red sprinkled edges, decorative paper endpapers. [6], 248 pp. Full description

HONDIUS, Petrus. Dapes inemptae, of de moufe-schans, dat is, de soeticheydt des buyten-levens, vergheselschapt met de boucken.
Leiden, for Daniel Roels (colophon: J.A. vander Marsce), 1621. 8vo. With the woodcut printer's device on the title page, the title is set within an ornamental typographical border. Contemporary vellum. 31, [1 blank], 543, [2 blank], [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

HOVE, W. van. [Album of Dutch costumes].
The Hague and Leiden, van Gogh & Co. and August Arnz & Co., [1840-1853]. 8vo. With 12 hand-coloured lithographed plates showing Dutch costumes, lithographed by August Arnz after W. van Hove, captioned in French. Contemporary beige gilt decorated boards. Full description

JUNIUS, Hadrianus. Emblemata, ad D. Arnoldum Cobelium. Eiusdem aenigmatum libellus, ad D. Arnoldum Rosenbergum.
Including: JUNIUS, Hadrianus. Aenigmatum libellus, ad vivum clarissimum, Arnoldum Rosenbergum jurisconsultum.
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1565 (colophon: 15 May 1565). 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo (ca. 17 x 11 cm). With Plantin's woodcut printer's device on both title-pages, 57 woodcut emblems by Geeraard Jansen van Kampen and Arnout Nicolai after Geoffroy Ballin and Peeter Huys. The text of the entire first work and the title-page of the second work are set within a decorative frame built up from typographical ornaments. Further with two woodcut decorated initials. Splendid late 19th-century elaborately gold-tooled red morocco bound by a French book binder named Allô, possibly Paul Charles Allô (1824-1890) and signed "Allo" in the lower turn-in of the front board. With the title lettered in gold on the gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn ins, gilt edges. 149, [3]; [1], [1 blank], [13], [1 blank] pp. Full description

KERSSEBOOM, Willem. Proeven van politique rekenkunde, vervat in drie verhandelingen ...
The Hague, Jan van den Bergh, 1748.
Comprising:
- Eerste verhandeling tot een proeve om te weeten de probable menigte des volks in de provintie van Hollandt en Westvrieslandt; ... Derde druk.
The Hague, Jan vanden Bergh, 1748.
- Tweede verhandeling, bevestigende de proeve om te weeten de probable meenigte des volks in de provintie van Hollandt en Westvrieslandt ...
The Hague, Jan vanden Bergh, 1742.
- Derde verhandeling over de probable meenigte des volks in de provintie van Hollandt en Westvrieslandt ...
The Hague, Jan vanden Bergh, 1742.
- Eenige aanmerkingen op de gissingen over den staat van het menschelyk geslagt, uitreekening van de lyfrenten en 't aanhangsel op beide, begreepen in het boek, genaamt inleiding tot de algemeene geographie, door Nicolaas Struyck ...
The Hague, Jan vanden Bergh, 1740.
With:
(2) [KERSSEBOOM, Willem]. Kort bewys, dat op de afstervinge, voorgevallen in een klein getal persoonen van zeekeren ouderdom, geensins een generale reegel van leevenskracht voor andere te fundeeren is. Hier is bygevoegd een tafel of richtsnoer, naar welke, in proportie van den ordinaris intrest der obligatien, in gereed geld te vinden is de juste koopprys, dewelke moet betaald werden eens, om den kooper geduurende zyn leeven, in proeveniershuizen of diergelyke, zonder schaade of voordeel de kost te konnen geeven.
[The Hague?], 1738.
(3) [KERSSEBOOM, Willem]. Observatien, waar in voornamentlyk getoont word wat is gelyktydigheid, dewelke vereischt word in alle calculatien, die tot voorwerp hebben de probable leevenskracht van persoonen van eenigen voorgestelden ouderdom. Hier is bygevoegt een proeve van de constante ondervinding, dat die van de vrouwelyke sexe doorgaans maar eenige weinige jaaren doormalkander langer leven, dan die van de mannelyke ...
The Hague, Jan van den Bergh, 1740. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 4 parts. 4to. With general title page printed in red and black, an engraved allegorical vignette by A. Bloteling on the 4 divisional title pages of ad 1, respectively dated 1748, 1742, 1742 and 1740. With a woodcut vignette on the general title page and the title pages of ads 2 and 3. Several woodcut decorated initials, woodcut tailpieces, and tables in the text throughout. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf, sprinkled paper sides, with a (damaged) title-label on the spine lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. [1], [1 blank], 44; [2], 65, [1 blank]; [4], 71, [1 blank]; 18; 30; [2], 52 pp. Full description

LANARIO, Francesco and Michel BAUDIER (translator). Histoire des guerres de Flandre depuis le commencement jusques a la fin … Traduicte d'Italien en Francois et augmentee … Avec une brieve narration de l'ancienne Histoire de Flandre ...
Paris, Sebastien Chappelet, 1618. 4to. With an engraved allegorical title page by Jaspar Isaac and several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut headpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, red sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers. [64], 202, [21], [1 blank] pp. Full description