Low Countries

COMENIUS, Johannes Amos. Eerste deel, prima pars, erster teil, der school-geleertheid, scholasticae eruditionis, der schule-gehehrtheit, genoemt, dicta, genennt, het portael: vestibulum: die vorthure: inhoudende, continens, welche begriffet, de grondveste der dingen, en onser wijsheydt omtrent, fudamenta rerum, & nostra sapientiae circa, die grundlage der dinge, und unserer weisheit üm, de dingen.
Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1673. 8vo. With an engraved title and ca. 300 engraved illustrations on 38 full-page plates. Contemporary vellum sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript author, title and imprint on the spine. [16], 166, [90] pp. Full description

COMMELIN, Casparus. Beschryvinge van Amsterdam, zynde een naukeurige verhandelinge van desselfs eerste oorspronk uyt de huyse der heeren van Amstel, en Amstellant, haar vergrootingen, rykdom, en wyze van regeeringe, tot den jare 1691. Voor dezen uit verscheide oude historie-schryvers by gesteld, en uitgegeven; en nu uit een meenigte van oude schriften, authentyke stukken, en met kopere afbeeldingen verciert, nooit voor desen gedrukt geweest.
Amsterdam, widow of Aart Dirksz. Oossaan, 1726. 2 volumes. Folio (31 x 20 cm). Engraved title, two letterpress title-pages, each with the same woodcut coat of arms of the city of Amsterdam, 46 folding and double-page engravings, 11 full-page engraved plates, 77 engravings in the text and some woodcut illustrations of coat of arms and seals. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [20], 600; 601-1223, [1 blank], [40] pp. Full description

[COMMERCE]. Le négociant du Pays-Bas, ou le tarif général de tous les comptes du commerce; tant pour calculer les monnoyes, les intérêts, répartitions, &c. Que toutes sortes de marchandises, denrées & négoces tant en gros qu'en détail. Onzième édition. Augmenté avec la réduction de l'argent de change de Brabant, en celui courant en Brabant, & celui de l'argent courant de Brabant en celui de change de Brabant. Et un tarif pour connoitre le prix d'une livre de marchandise par le prix du cent.
Antwerp, Johannes Judocus Gerardus de Marcour, [ca. 1780?]. 12mo. Contemporary mottled, tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. XXIII, [1], 543, [1] pp. Full description

COMTE, Pieter le II. Afbeeldingen van schepen en vaartuigen, in verschillende bewegingen.
Amsterdam, F. Kaal (printed by J. J. Nesser Jr.), 1831. Oblong 4to (23.5 x 31 cm). With 50 nicely hand coloured lithographic plates in crayon technique, depicting boats and ships, including 1 steam boat and 7 plates showing details of rigging and equipment. Contemporary boards covered with the original letterpress printed paper wrapper. Signed by the author/artist as authentication, and with his embossed stamp in the foot margin of each plate. [8], 60, [3] pp. Full description

[CONFESSIO BELGICA - Hierotheos ABBATIOS (translator)]. Tōn ekklēsiōn tēs Belgikēs christianikē kai orthodoxos didaskalia kai taxis : ēgoun exomologēsis, katēchēsis, leitourchia, kai kanones ekklēsiastikoi.
Leiden, Bonaventura & Abraham Elzevier, 1648. 4to. With Elzeviers woodcut device on the title page, several decorated woodcut initials, and head- and tailpieces. 18th-century gold-tooled calf. [2 blank], [12] 500, [2 blank] pp. Full description

CONRAD, Frederik Willem, Arie Jansz. BLANKEN and Simon KROS. Rapport wegens het onderzoek omtrent eene uitwatering te Catwyk aan Zee, gedaan in 1802. Op last van dykrichter en hoogheemraaden van Rhynland.
Haarlem, François Bohn, 1803[-1804]. Folio. With 2 folding engraved maps, 15 folding engraved plates, and 1 engraved plate, all except one signed by Daniel Veelwaard. Later green half cloth, marbled paper sides. [1], [1 blank], 49, [1 blank], 27, [1] pp. Full description

[CORNELIUS, Andreas]. Croniicke, ende warachtige beschryvinghe van Vrieslant. Beginnende nae des werelts scheppinghe drie duysent ende tseventich jaer: ende deurende voorts tot na de gheboorte Christi, duysent, vijf-hondert, vijf en tsestich ...
Leeuwarden, Jacob Jansen, sold by Cornelis Claesz in Amsterdam, 1597. (colophon: printed in Amsterdam, Nicolaes Biestkens, 1596). Folio. With a half-page engraved map of old-Friesland, "Veterum Frisiorum Habitus" with the coat of arms of Friesland at the top, the map is flanked by 8 full-length portraits of inhabitants of old-Friesland; a double-page engraved map of Friesland and Groningen, "Frisiae Occidentalis Typus" by Cornelis Claesz (= first state, first appearance); a double-page plan of Leeuwarden, "Lewardum Occidentalis Frisiae Opp.", and full page plan of Franeker, "Franicher" with text on its verso. Further with woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. With nine extra drawings (made after 1622) after the well-known series of etched illustrations of Frisian rulers by Simon Frisius in the first edition of Pierius Winsemius, Chronique ofte Historische Geschiedenisse van Vrieslant ...
Original dark brown polished calf over beveled wooden boards. [2 with drawings], [8], "124" [= 122], [2] ll. Full description

COUTINHO, Francisco de Sousa. Propositie ghedaen ter vergaderinghe van hare hoogh-mog: d'heeren Staten Generael der Vereenichde Nederlanden, in 's Gravenhage den XVIen. Augusti 1647.
[Netherlands], 1647. 4to. With a woodcut decoration built up from arabesque typographic ornaments on title-page and a woodcut decorated initial. Modern half calf, marbled sides. 16 pp. Full description

[COYETT, Balthasar and Coenraad van KLENCK]. Historisch verhael, of beschryving van de voyagie, gedaen onder de suite van den heere Koenraad van Klenk ... en sijn hoogheyt den heere Prince van Oranje
Amsterdam, Jan Claesz. ten Hoorn, 1677. 4to. With an etched frontispiece and 6 double-page etched plates. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title at the head of the spine. [8], "214" [= 220], [2] pp. Full description

CROCUS, Cornelius. Ecclesia ad confirmandam fidem catholicorum dogmatum, & stabiliendos animos adversus falsae doctrinae ventos, nimium extremis hisce periculosis temporibus ...
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus (colophon:) for Joannes Steelsius, 1536. 8vo (15.3 x 8.5 cm). With a full page woodcut illustration incorporating Steelsius' device at the end, and with 1 woodcut decorated initial. Modern printer's waste paper binding. [55] ll. Full description