History, Law & Philosophy / Law & Politics

GOSSIN, Pierre-François. Décret sur la translation des cendres de Voltaire à Sainte-Geneviève, précédé du Rapport fait par M. Gossin, au nom du Comité de Constitution, le 30 Mars 1791.
[Paris], by order of the Assemblée Nationale, [1791]. 8vo. Modern red half morocco. 3, [1 blank] pp. Full description

GROOT, Hugo de. Nederlandtsche jaerboeken en historien, sedert het jaer 1555 tot het jaer 1609; ...
Amsterdam, the widow of Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgangk and Hendrik & Dirk Boom, 1681. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 20 full-page engraved portraits, and 27 double-page plates, views, and plans, a title page printed in red and black, decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces.
Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with the manuscript author and title on the spine. [44], 591, [1 blank], [76]; 19, [1 blank]; [6], 74 pp. Full description

GUEVARA, Antonio de. T'gulden boeck, van het leven ende seynd brieven van den welsprekenden orateur ende keyser Marcus Aurelius.
Franeker, Rombertus Doyema, 1615. 8vo. With woodcut imperial coat of arms on title-page. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. 223, [2] ll. Full description

[GUNPOWDER - PAPAL STATES]. Bando contro li salnitrari, è polveristi, è quelli che permettono, che nelle loro terre, castelli et altri luoghi si fabrichino salnitro e polvere &c.
Rome, nella stamperia della reverenda Camera Apostolica, 27 January 1651. Ca. 38.5 x 26 cm. With three woodcut coats of arms at the head: those of the Apostolic Camera, Pope Innocent X, and Cardinal Lorenzo Raggi. Further with a decorated woodcut initial. [1] l. Full description

[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

HANSWYK, Nicolaas Johannes van. Dissertatio juridica inauguralis de substitutione vulgari.
Leiden, Gerard Corts, 1764. 4to. With the title printed in red and black within an attractive engraved ornamental border by Noach van der Meer. Contemporary red velvet binding, blue silk endpapers. 35, [13], [2 blank] pp. Full description

[AUTOGRAPH]. HARLOFF, Anton Johan Wouter. [Autograph letter, signed ("A. Harloff"), to Horace Hugo Alexander van Gybland Oosterhoff].
The Hague, 6 May, 1933. Folded double leaf (21.6 x 14). In Dutch. 3 pp text. Full description

HARPER, Robert Goodloe. Reflexoens sobre a questaõ entre os Estados Unidos e a França.
Philadelphia, London, 1798. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spine with a red morocco title label lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. 322 pp. Full description

[HAWAII]. Constitution of the Republic of Hawaii. Promulgated July 4th, A.D. 1894.
[Honolulu, 1894]. 22 x 14.5 cm. Stapled leaves in publisher's original turquoise wrappers, with letterpress title on front. Kept in modern half morocco clamshell box. VI, [2 blank], 56 pp. Full description

[HEYNES, Edward]. Scheeps-togt van Mr. Edward Heynes, van Suratte na Mocha, gedaan in het jaar 1618. Verhalende, op wat wijse de Engelsse de koopmanschap, met de inwoonders, aldaar hebben opgerigt, en door schriftelijk verseekeringen (van den Bassa gegeeven) vast-gestelt. Als mede een beschrijving van de stad Mocha, des selfs huysingen, bolwerken en haven-plaats.
Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, [ca. 1707?]. Folio (25.5 × 40 cm). Modern blue-grey paper covers. [5] ll. (text in 2 columns per page, 4 per leaf, 14 cols. in total). Full description