Low Countries

HONDIUS, Petrus. Dapes inemptae, oft de Mouffe Schans, dat is de soeticheyt des buyten-levens, vergeselschapt met de boecken.
[Netherlands, 1619(?) (not after 1621)]. 12mo. Recased in 17th-century vellum. 64 pp. Full description

[HOOFT, Pieter Cornelisz.]. Emblemata amatoria. Afbeeldinghen van minne. Emblemes d'amour.
Amsterdam, Willem Jansz. Blaeu, 1611. Oblong 4to (15 x 19 cm). With an engraved title-page, with the title in Latin, Dutch and French. With 30 engraved emblems (ca. 10.5 x 13.5 cm), each with tri-lingual mottos in the engraving and distichs in Dutch with Latin and French translations on the opposite page. The Dutch text is mainly set in gothic letters, while the Latin and French texts are set in roman and italic letters respectively. The Dutch songs and sonnets in the second half of the work are set in roman and gothic letters, sometimes in two columns. 19th-century gold-tooled red sheepskin, with two triple-fillet frames and 4 ornamental corner pieces between the two frames. With an elaborately gold-tooled spine, including the French title and the year of publication, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers and a yellow, red and green reading ribbon. 144 pp. Full description

HOOFT, Pieter Corneliszoon and David van HOOGSTRATEN (editor). Mengelwerken, ten deele nooit te vooren gedrukt. Nu op veele plaatsen verbetert en vermeerdert.
Amsterdam, Henrik Wetstein en Pieter Scepérus; Leiden, Daniel van den Dalen; and Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1704. Folio. With an engraved title page by A. Bloteling after G. de Lairesse, the typographical title page printed in red and black with a large engraved printers device with the motto "Nutt en Vermaeckelyk" and the initials of the publishers in the oval border of a pastoral scene, by Gilliam van de Gouwe after Joseph Mulder, a full-page engraved portrait of King Henry IV of France, 30 half-page engraved fine emblematic plates for the Minnezinne-beelden (from the same plates as used for the original 1611 edition of the Emblemata amatoria), by Christoph le Blon († 1665), P. Serwouters (1586-1657), or Jan Pinas (1582-1631)? Each emblem with mottoes in Dutch, Latin and French, followed by three distichs in Dutch, Latin (by C.G. Plemp), and French (by R.J. de Nérée); engraved initials. Contemporary half red sheepskin (roan). [44], 1-597, (598-612), 613-758, [2] pp. Full description

HOOGHE, Romeyn de. Schouburgh der Nederlandse veranderingen ...
Amsterdam, the author, 1674. Small folio (28.5 x 19 cm). With engraved frontispiece and 6 large engraved folding plates. Contemporary vellum. 36 pp. Full description

HOOGHE, Romeyn de. Spiegel van staat des Vereenigde Nederlands. Waar in de macht en ''t vry bestier, van yder der Zeven verbonde Provincien en haar byzondere steeden, zo in rechten als regeeringen werd ontvouwd. aanwyzende aan, de in, en uytheemschen, alle de hooge en lage rechbanken, collegien en ampten, dewelke in de zelve, tot dienst van den staat, en het recht, zyn ingesteld.
Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1706-1707. 2 volumes, volume 1 in 6 parts, volume 2 in 8 parts. 4to. With an etched frontispiece at the start of each volume, 16 folding etched allegorical plates, and 2 vignettes in the text. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [14], 480, 55, 143, 44, [4]; [16], 335, 339, [8] pp. Full description

[HOOGSTRATEN, Frans van]. Het voorhof der ziele, behangen met leerzaeme prenten en zinnebeelden.
Rotterdam, F. van Hoogstraten (colophon: Hendrik van Puer), 1668. 4to. With a fine engraved allegorical frontispiece and 60 fine engraved emblems in the text, all by Romeyn de Hooghe. Contemporary tree-marbled boards. [16], 199, [9] pp. Full description

[HORSES]. [VAN BURMANIA, U. and H.W. van PLETTENBERG]. Placaat behelzende een reglement op de keur der springhengsten, en instructie voor den keurmeester.
[Leeuwarden, Hendrik Halma, 1772]. 4to. With a woodcut coat of arms at the top of the first page and with a woodcut initial. Modern brown wrappers. 16 pp. Full description

HORTENSIUS, Lambertus. Het boeck van den oproer der Weder-dooperen. Eerst int Latijn beschreven, ende ghedruckt tot Basel ... Ende nu in Nederlandts overgheset. ...
Enkhuizen, Jacob Lenaertsz Meyn, 1614. Folio. With 1 half-page and 8 full-page engraved plates in text (one repeat). Contemporary vellum. [4], 26 ll. Full description

[HOUSE OF COMMONS]. Fourth report from the Committee on the Public Expenditure, &c. of the United Kingdom. Commissioners for Dutch prizes; &c.
[London], for the House of Commons, 24 March 1809. Folio. Original blue printed publisher's wrappers. pp. 313-386. Full description

[HOUTMAN, Johannes Paulus (lithographer)]. [Uniformen van militairen en vrijwilligers, schutter- en jagercorpsen].
[Utrecht, J. P. Houtman, ca. 1831]. Folio (ca. 25 x 21 cm). With 234 hand-coloured lithographic plates (169 unique plates, 65 duplicates) tipped onto the leaves. Further with a detailed handwritten index, a short lithographed index, and a three page lithographed description of the flags tipped onto the first leaf. Later gold-tooled reddish-brown morocco. [176] ll. Full description