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Important Orangist pamphlet of the "Doelenlopersbeweging" against the Amsterdam Patriciate
and nepotism in September 1672

[ORANGIST MOVEMENT]. Dam-praetje tusschen vier Amsterdamsche Burgers: Waermondt, Geerlof, Stouthart en Heb-recht. Handelende van de oude privilegien, vryheden, en gerechtigheden van de burgery en schuttery.
[Amsterdam], voor de Doele-schutters, 1672. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page, and a woodcut initial. Modern light yellow marbled wrappers, with a printed label on the front. 16 pp. Full description
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Zeeland Orangist suggests Johan and Cornelis de Witt, murdered by a mob incited by the Dutch head of state (stadtholder Willem III, the future King William III of England), brought it on themselves

[ORANGISTS]. Kort verhael van den oorspronck en onderganck der Loevesteynsche factie. Mitsgaders een vertoogh van t recht dat de gemeente in Zeelandt gehad heeft, om in den jare 1672. Sijn Hoogheyt Prins Willem Hendrik, ... te herstellen ... ende hoe de bedienaers des goddelijcken woorts in Zeelandt haer daar omtrent gedragen hebben ...
[The Hague or Amsterdam?], voor de liefhebbers van Sijn Hoogheyd, 1673. 4to. Modern brown wrappers. [6] ll. Full description
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Rare ordinance addressing the negligence of officers of the law, in order to prevent a further rise in crime in Holland

[ORDINANCE - CRIME - HOLLAND]. [CHARLES V]. Ordonnancie va[n] die Keyserlijcke Mayesteyt roerende die dootslaghers cessionanten ende banckeroeten. Ghepubliceert inden jare duysent vijfhondert vier ende veertich.
The Hague, sold by Frans Duyck Pietersz. (colophon: Delft, printed by Symon Jansz.), May 1544. 4to. With the woodcut crowned coat of arms of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (with the order of the Golden Fleece, a column on either side and the motto "plus oultre") on the title-page. Set in 2 sizes of textura gothic type, with 2 lombardic initials (cast type). Modern half brown buckram, marbled paper sides, blue endpapers, with an older (ca. 1840?) front wrapper bound in. [1], [1 blank], [12], [2 blank] pp. Full description
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Issuing merchants to sell provisions at fixed prices to military troops

[ORDINANCE - MAASTRICHT]. Memorie der levens-middelen en der selver prysen, soo als die ten dienste der Armée door den edelen achtbaaren raad der stad Maastricht getaxeert zyn, voor den tyd van drie weeken te beginnen met dato den 25. july 1746.
[Maastricht, 23 July 1746]. Folded half-sheet (36 x 44 cm). Full description
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92 documents concerning the army and navy of the Dutch Republic during its Golden Age

[ORDINANCES - DUTCH REPUBLIC]. Recueil van verscheyde placaten, ordonantien, resolutien, instructien, ordres en lysten, etc. betreffende de saacken van den oorlogh, te water en te lande.
The Hague, Jacob Scheltus, Aelbrecht Hendriksz, the heirs of Hillebrandt Jacobsz van Wouw, Paulus Scheltus, 1591-1716. 4to. With woodcut publishers' devices, title vignettes and decorated initials. Vellum over boards, manuscript title on spine, remains of green ties. [8], [ca. 780] pp. containing 92 numbered items (2 folding). Full description
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In honour of the victories of Prince Maurice - from the library of Paulus van Uchelen, bound by Magnus

[ORLERS, Jan Jansz. & Hendrik Lodewijksz. HAESTENS]. La genealogie des illustres comtes de Nassau nouvellement imprimée ...
Leiden, Jan Orlers, 1620 (colophon: Amsterdam, Jan Jansz. [= Johannes Janssonius I], 1624). Folio. With an engraved title by Jacques de Gheyn II, a full-page coat of arms of Prince Maurice, a full-page engraved portrait of Maurice, 13 half-page engraved portraits of counts and princes of the Nassau family, 2 double-page engraved maps of the Netherlands and Brabant, and 41 engraved plans and bird's-eye views of cities and battles (39 double-page, 2 folding). Contemporary gold-tooled vellum. [78], 305, [2] pp. Full description
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First illustrated edition of Osiander's Harmony of the Gospels, with 98 woodcuts

OSIANDER, Andreas. Harmoniae Evangelicae libri quatuor, in quibus Evangelica historia ex quatuor Evangelistis ita in unu[m] est contexta, ut nullius verbum ullum omissum, nihil alienum immixtum, nullius ordo turbatus, nihil non suo loco positum. ... Elenchus harmoniae, ...
(Colophon: Antwerp, Matthias Crom, 1540). 8vo. With a woodcut vignette at the foot of the title-page and the head of the first page of the main text (illustrating Luke 11), 1 full-page and 97 half-page woodcut illustrations by Levinus de Witte (including a few repeats). 17th-century limp sheepskin parchment. [164] ll. Full description
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