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ORLERS, Jan Janszoon. Beschrijvinge der stadt Leyden. Inhoudende t begin, den voortgang, ende den wasdom der selver: ... In desen tweeden druck, boven vele vermeerderingen, vergroot met een derde deel, inhoudende den staet ende regeringe der stad Leyden ...
Leiden, printed by Jan Jansz. van Dorp for Andries Jansz. Cloeting (Delft) and Abraham Commelin (Leiden), 1641. 3 parts in one volume. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page depicting the coat of arms of Leiden within an oval banderol inscribed Haec libertatis ergo. The work contains a folding engraved plan of Leiden, after Jan Pietersz. Dou, with a profile view of the city above, two folding engraved maps of Leiden and its surroundingsAlso included are 6 folding double-page plates engraved by Willem de Haen for the first edition of 1614 (usually not present in the second edition), depicting various scenes from the siege and relief of Leiden. Each plate is framed by curious allegorical half-figures of partly nude men or women standing on pedestals.Contemporary vellum. [32], 380 [= 378]; [379]-[576]; [577]-738, [13] pp. Full description

[OTTOMAN-MAMLUK WAR]. Omnia que gesta sunt in Orie[n]te inter Sophi & Maximum Turcarum & Suldanum, & que[m]admodum dux Turcaru[m] caepit Alepum & Damascum & Hierusalem cum om[n]ibus circumiace[n]tibus oppidis, & quo[rum] maximus Turcaru[m] voluit audire una[m] missam apud sanctu[m] sepulchru[m] Iesu Christi.
[Basel, Pamphilus Gengenbach, 1518]. 4to. With woodcut illustration on title-page. 19th-century pink wrappers. [6], [2 blank] pp. Full description

[PADDENBURGH, Gerrit Gijsbert]. Beschrijving van het eiland Curaçao en onderhoorige eilanden. Uit onderscheidene stukken, bijdragen en opmerkingen opgemaakt, door een bewoner van dat eiland.
Haarlem, heirs François Bohn, 1819. 8vo. With folding letterpress table. Contemporary half calf. [4], 90, [2 blank] pp. Full description

PADDOCK, Judah. A narrative of the shipwreck of the Oswego, on the coast of South Barbary, ...
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown (printed by Andrew Strahan), 1818. 4to. 20th-century tan goatskin morocco. XVI, 372 pp. Full description

PEREIRA DE BERREDO, Bernardo. Annaes historicos do Estado do Maranhao, em que se da noticia do seu descobrimento, e tudo o mais que nelle tem sucedido desde o anno em que foy descuberto até o de 1718.
Lisbon, 1749, Francisco Luiz Ameno. Folio (283 x 194 mm). Later half vellum. [26], 710 pp. Full description

[PÉREZ DE HITA, Ginés (ABENHAMIN)]. Historie van Granada, van de Borgherlijcke Oorlogen, ende andere, die in het Granadijnsche coninckrijcke geschiet sijn, van de Mooren tegens de Christenen, tot dat de stadt ghewonnen wert van den koninck Don Fernando de vijfde. Met een discours van de incomste der Mooren in Spaengien (ende hare geschiedenissen) met haren uytgang. Getraduceert uyt de Spaensche in Nederduytsche tale, door Isaac Jansz. Bijl.
Haarlem, Vincent Casteleyn, for Jan Evertsz.Cloppenburch, Amsterdam, 1615. 8vo. Woodcut vignette on the title-page. Contemporary overlapping vellum. 504 pp. Full description

PÉRIN, René. Beautés historiques de la maison d'Autriche.
Paris, Delaunay, 1811. 2 volumes. 12mo. With 16 illustrations on 8 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary light brown mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine. XX, 360; [4], 388 pp. Full description

PEŠINA Z CECHORODU, Tomáš Jan. Mars Moravicus. Sive bella horrida et cruenta, seditiones, tumultus, praelia, turbae: & ex ijs enatae crebrae et funestae rerum mutationes, dirae calamitates, incendia, clades, agrorum depopulationes, urbium vastitates, aedium sacrarum et prophanarum ruinae, arcium et oppidorum eversiones, pagorum cineres, populorum excidia, & alia id genus mala, quae Moravia hactenus passa fuit.
Prague, Joannis Arnolti de Dobroslawina, 1677. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece by Wenceslaus Wagner after A. Lublinsky, a full-page engraved portrait of the author, and large folding engraved map of Moravia (50 x 38 cm) by Samuel Dworzak, dated Prague 1677. Further with numerous woodcut decorated initials and woodcut ornamental head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum, red edges, remnants of green closing ties. [24], "958" [= 956], [16] pp. Full description

PETRI (PETRUS), Suffridus. De scriptoribus Frisiae, decades XVI. Et semis: in quibus non modo peculiares Frisiae, sed & totius Germaniae communes antiquitates plurimae indicantur, & veterum historicorum ac geographorum loci, hactenus non intellecti, explicantur.
Franeker, Jacobus Horreus, 1699. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. [88], 498 pp. Full description

PIRCKHEIMER, Willibald. Germaniae ex variis scriptoribus perbrevis explicatio.
Augsburg, Heinrich Steiner, 1530. Small 8vo (15.5 x 10.5 cm). Title in a wide woodcut ornamented border, 2 woodcut historiated initials. Set in an Aldine-style italic with a word of Greek. Modern brown shell-marbled boards. [69], [3 blank] pp. Full description