Low Countries

[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

HAVARD, Henry. La Hollande à vol d'oiseau.
Paris, G. Decaux, A. Quantin, 1881. 4to. With a full-page lithographed map of the Netherlands, printed in black and blue, a double suite of 24 full-page heliogravures (one suite in proof-state, the other with the printed text), showing views of the main Dutch cities, and numerous wood-engraved views and illustrations in the text. Contemporary gold-tooled half brown morocco. [6], II, "400" [= 398] pp. Full description

[HERALDRY - FLANDERS - NETHERLANDS - FRANCE]. [Album containing coats of arms of Flemish, Dutch and French noble families].
[France, Flanders and the Netherlands, 17th and 18th century]. Folio. With 390 coats of arms (plus another 49 blank shields) of which 13 on vellum, all but 25 contemporary hand-coloured of which 17 painted with gold and 1 with silver and all but 3 drawn by hand. Mostly all coat of arms are captioned in brown ink in contemporary 17th- or 18th-century cursive hands, in which also the sometimes added manuscript text (on the same or another leaf) is written. Coats of arms on paper and vellum in various sizes, mounted on later folio-sized paper leaves. 18th-century half red roan (sheepskin), brown sprinkled paper sides over boards, manuscript title label on the front board. All loose leaves and quires mounted/stored on [29] ll, the quires loosely stored in a paper slip mounted on a leaf. Full description

HERCKMANS, Elias. Der zee-vaert lof, handelende van de gedenck-waerdigste zee-vaerden met de daeraenklevende op en onder-ganghen der voornaemste heerschappijen der gantscher wereld: zedert haere beginselen tot op den dagh van huyden. In VI boecken beschreven.
Amsterdam, Jacob Pietersz. Wachter (colophon: printed by Jan Fredericksz. Stam), 1634. Folio. With a letterpress half-title, a splendid engraved allegorical title page with Neptune and numerous other figures (title on a cloth held by 4 putti with classical attributes and an armillary sphere), and 18 large engraved and etched illustrations in text (11.5 x 16.5 cm), including an original etching by Rembrandt: an allegorical scene of the "Ship of Fortune", with a nude figure of Fortune standing in a small sail boat, made for the book, signed "Rembrandt f. 1633". The other illustrations are by Willem Basse. Further with numerous woodcut decorated initials (4 series). Set in roman types by Nicolaes Briot with incidental italic. Contemporary sheepskin parchment, sewn on 5 vellum tapes, red sprinkled edges, with the title in manuscript on the spine. [20], 236, [8] pp. Full description

HERP, Hendrik. Specchio della perfettione humana. Opera devotissima e necessaria ad ogni fidel Christiano historiata.
Venice, Batholomeo detto l'Imperadore & Francesco Venetiano, 1546. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page of a Roman emperor, 3 full-page woodcut illustrations depicting the life of Christ, and some woodcut decorated initials. 17th-century(?) vellum, sewn on 5 supports, with the manuscript title on the spine. 122, [2] ll. Full description

HEYBLOCQ, Jacobus. Farrago Latino-Belgica, of mengelmoes van Latijnsche en Duitsche gedichten, gepast op allerhande gelegentheden en voorvallen.
Amsterdam, Pieter van den Berge, 1662 (engraved title: 1663). 8vo. With the title printed in red and black with an engraved printer's device, an engraved title, a full-page engraved view of 't Huys Mannepat, an engraved illustration in the text, several decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum. [24], 267, [1] pp. Full description

[ARNHEM]. HILVERDINK, Jacobus Wilhelmus Adrianus. 'Een boeren landschap. Omstreken van Arnhem'.
1834. 56 x 38.5 cm. Glazed in a contemporary ornamented gold painted wooden frame (57 x 71 cm). Full description

[H.N.v.G.?]. Advys van een goed Patriot des Vaderlants, over de tegenwoordige saecken van Staet.
[No place, no publisher], [1680]. 4to. Later brown wrappers. 16 pp. Full description

HOFFERUS, Adrianus. Nederduytsche Poëmata ...
Amsterdam, Broer Jansz., 1635. 4to. With an allegorical title page engraved by Crispijn de Passe the Younger and 22 half-page engraved emblematical plates in a roundel (with a diameter of ca. 12 cm) bordered in squares (of ca. 12 x 12 cm) of which five probably by Crispijn de Passe the Younger (on pp. 17, 19, 116, 283 and 337).
Contemporary overlapping vellum. [40], 400 pp. Full description

HOGENDORP, Carel Sirardus Willem van. Coup d'oeil sur l'ile de Java et les autres possessions Néerlandaises dans l'archipel des Indes.
Brussels, C.J. de Mat, 1830. 4to. With a steel engraved view of Chateau de Buitenzorg, by Lauters after the engraving by Titsingh and 1 folding map, coloured in outlines, of Java and the other Dutch posessions in the Far East, engraved by F. Callens. Contemporary elaborately gold- and blind-stamped dark blue morocco. XII, 422, [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description