Highlights

DALRYMPLE, Alexander. The Spanish pretensions fairly discussed.
London, printed by George Bigg, sold by P. Elmsly and J. Stockdale, [1790]. 8vo. Disbound, kept in a plastic folder. 19, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[DANCKERTS, ALLARD, VISSCHER, DE WIT, MORTIER and others]. Atlas.
[Amsterdam, Theodorus and Cornelis III Danckerts?, ca. 1706 (dated maps 1694-1706)]. Imperial folio (53.5 x 33.5 cm). Composite atlas, with an engraved title-page, 43 double-page engraved maps and 4 double-page engraved tables, all beautifully coloured in a consistent and balanced manner by a contemporary hand, probably in the workshop of the publisher. With maps by Johannes, Justus, Theodorus and Cornelis III Danckerts, Carel and Abraham Allard, Nicolaas Visscher I & II, Frederik de Wit, Pieter Mortier, Caspar Specht and even Alexis-Hubert Jaillot in Paris. Modern maroon sheepskin. Full description

DAUMIER, Honoré. Primo saignare, deinde purgare, postea clysterium donare.
[Paris], Aubert, [1833]. Ca. 36 x 56.2 cm. Under a white and gold passe-partout, framed in a dark reddish brown wooden frame (ca. 54 x 66.5 cm). Full description

DINOTH, Richard. De bello civili Belgico libri VI.
Basel, Conrad Waldkirch, 1586. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page and at the end of the work, 7 decorated woodcut initials, 5 tailpieces and 1 headpiece made up of typographical ornaments. (Near-) contemporary overlapping vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints. [8], 456, [8] pp. Full description

DIONYSIUS CARTHUSIENSIS (Denys van Rijkel). Tractat[us] de co[n]versione peccatoris.
(Colophon: Amsterdam, [Doen Pietersz or Pieter Jansz Tyebaut], for Johannes, priest at Leiderdorp), [ca. 1520]. 8vo. With a full-page woodcut of the resurrection of the dead and a half-page woodcut of the temptation of Christ by the devil in the desert. Modern blind-tooled vellum. [56] ll. Full description

DUHAMEL DE MONCEAU, Henri Louis. Traité de la culture des terres, suivant les principes de M. Tull, Anglois.
Paris, Hyppolite-Louis Guerin and Louis-François Delatour, 1753-1761. 6 volumes. 12mo. With 41 folding plates, and a table in the text. Uniformly bound in contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. Full description

[DUMAS, Antoine-Joseph]. L'art de la musique enseigné et pratiqué par la nouvelle methode du bureau typographique.
Paris, Sr. Auguste [for the author], [1753]. Large oblong 4to (26 x 33.5 cm). Wholly engraved, including an engraved title-page, two-page engraved dedication, a double-page folding engraved musical table ("Elémens de la musique. Plan général du bureau typographique musical") and 427 engraved text pages by Mademoiselle Vandôme. Contemporary gold-tooled dark green (goatskin) morocco, richly gold-tooled spine with red morocco title label, gold-tooled boards with the coat of arms of Louis-Philippe d'Orléans (1725-1785) on both sides, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, pink silk endleaves, gilt edges (attributed to Jean-Charles-Henri Lemonnier). [4], 12-427, [1 blank]; 11, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[DUTCH LAW]. [Collection of four works on law and government in Overijssel, the Veluwe and Twente].
Comprising:
[1] [OVERIJSSEL]. Landtrechten van Over-Yssel.
Kampen, Pieter Hendericksz van Wieringen, 1634.
[2] [VELUWE]. Gereformiert lantrecht van Veluwen und Veluwen-zoom, met de veranderongh op 't capittel van appellatien ende clarongen aen Engellander-holdt ghevallen.
Arnhem, printed by Jan Janssen, 1621.
[3] [OVERIJSSEL]. Ordren ende reglementen omtrent de regeringe der provintie van Overyssel in het toe komende te onderhouden.
Deventer, Jan Colomp, 1658.
[4] [TWENTE]. Hof-hoorige rechten in Twente, mitsgaders de ampliatien ende elucidatien, daer op, by de Staten van Overyssel gemaeckt.
Zwolle, printed by Gerrit Tydeman, 1668. 4 works in 1 volume, the first in 2 parts. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page of each work. Contemporary vellum. [4], 79, [1 blank], 106, [2]; [78], [2]; 44; 42 pp. Full description

[DUTCH REPUBLIC - TREATIES]. Recueil van de tractaten, gemaeckt en gesloten tusschen de Hoog Mog. Heeren Staten Genereael der Vereenighde Nederlanden ter eenre, ende verscheyde Koningen, Princen en Potentaten ter andere zyde.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, [not before 1701]. 73 pamphlets in 1 volume. 4to. With a general title page with the woodcut printer's device of the official printer for the Dutch States General. 70 of the 73 treaties have a separate title page, the other 3 were published without thus the work is complete. 67 of these 70 treaties with a title page contain the woodcut printer's device of the official printer for the Dutch States General, 2 of the earlier treaties bear Van Wouw's woodcut printer's device on their title pages, 1 title page shows a simple woodcut floral vignette, 1 title page does not contain any (woodcut) decoration, and 1 treaty without a title page does contain the woodcut printer's device of the official printer for the Dutch States General at the start of the text. Further with woodcut decorated initials throughout the treaties. The text is set in both roman and gothic type. Later vellum. Full description

[PAINTING]. [EECKHOUDT, Gerbrand vanden, attributed to].

[Portrait of Johannes Commelin].
[Amsterdam], [ca. 1670]. 63 x 48.5 cm (frame 86 x 71 cm). Oil painting on linen. Contemporary richly ornamented gilt wooden frame.

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