Low Countries

[ORDINANCE - PHARMACY]. Nieuwe geamplieerde en gealtereerde ordonnantie voor het Collegium pharmaceuticum, ende het gehele gilde van de apothekarissen binnen de stadt Leyden.
Leiden, Samuel and Johannes Luchtmans, 1765. 4to. With a woodcut device on the title-page. Bound as sewn. 15, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[ORDINANCE - PHARMACY]. Ordonnantie voor het Collegium Pharmaceuticum, ende het gehele gilde van de apothekarissen binnen de stadt Leyden.
Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1718. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of Leiden on the title-page. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. [1], [1 blank], 12 pp. Full description

[ORDINANCES - DUTCH REPUBLIC]. Recueil van verscheyde placaten, ordonantien, resolutien, instructien, ordres en lysten, etc. betreffende de saacken van den oorlogh, te water en te lande.
The Hague, Jacob Scheltus, Aelbrecht Hendriksz, the heirs of Hillebrandt Jacobsz van Wouw, Paulus Scheltus, 1591-1716. 4to. With woodcut publishers' devices, title vignettes and decorated initials. Vellum over boards, manuscript title on spine, remains of green ties. [8], [ca. 780] pp. containing 92 numbered items (2 folding). Full description

[ORLERS, Jan Jansz. & Hendrik Lodewijksz. HAESTENS]. La genealogie des illustres comtes de Nassau nouvellement imprimée ...
Leiden, Jan Orlers, 1620 (colophon: Amsterdam, Jan Jansz. [= Johannes Janssonius I], 1624). Folio. With an engraved title by Jacques de Gheyn II, a full-page coat of arms of Prince Maurice, a full-page engraved portrait of Maurice, 13 half-page engraved portraits of counts and princes of the Nassau family, 2 double-page engraved maps of the Netherlands and Brabant, and 41 engraved plans and bird's-eye views of cities and battles (39 double-page, 2 folding). Contemporary gold-tooled vellum. [78], 305, [2] pp. Full description

OTTENS, Reinier and Josua OTTENS. Nieuwe kaart van de Vyf Heeren landen gelegen tusschen den Dief en Zouwen dyk.
Amsterdam, Reinier and Josua Ottens, 1741. Engraved map on 4 sheets (85 x 98 cm as assembled), with an engraved title ("Kaart van de Vyf Heerenlanden") with the coat of arms of the water district at the head, and surrounded by 14 engraved coats of arms at the left, right and foot (measuring 122 x 134 cm in total). The map with the title and publisher at the foot left, together with a scale (ca. 1:19,000) and the name of the engraver at the right (Jan van Jagen). Framed. Full description

OTTENS, Reinier and Josua OTTENS. Nieuwe kaart van de Vyf Heeren landen gelegen tusschen den Dief en Zouwen dyk.
Amsterdam, Reinier and Josua Ottens, 1741. Engraved map on 4 sheets (85 x 98 cm as assembled), coloured by a contemporary hand. With the title and publisher at the foot left, together with a scale (ca. 1:19,000) and the name of the engraver at the right (Jan van Jagen). Framed. Full description

OTTO VON PASSAU. Boec des gulden throe[n]s of der xxiiij. ouden en[de] hoemen elke[n] vinden mach en[de] va[n] hoerre leringhen die si leren om te comen totten ewighen leven.
(colophon: Haarlem, [Jacob Bellaert], 25 October 1484). Folio (29 x 21.5 cm). With large woodcut printer's device (142 x 82 mm) on verso of last leaf (with the arms of the city of Haarlem above an eagle holding a larger blank shield, here filled in by a contemporary owner); 4 woodcut illustrations and 20 repeats, representing the 24 elders, each showing one of the male elders, standing, teaching a female novice kneeling before him. Further with spaces left for initials, all filled in with uncials by hand, about 25 with penwork decoration in 1 or 2 additional colours: 1 blue 6-line initial with decorations in red and violate extending far into the margin, about 24 red 3 to 9-line (mostly 7-line) initials with lavendar penwork (1 with 2 green dots), some extending into the margin, and more than 70 2-line red initials without penwork decoration; a few spaces left for ¶-marks, also filled in in red; capitals rubricated throughout. Set entirely in Baellart's textura (99 or 100 mm/20 lines or about 14.5 point). Lacking leaf 137 (the second to last text leaf) and the final blank. Modern sheepskin. [1 blank, 3], "136" [= 135 (of 136)], [1] ll. Full description

OUTREIN, Johannes d'. Wegwyser door de heerlykheid Roosendaal ofte, de Roosendaalsche vermakelykheden met een geestelyk en zedelyk ooge beschouwt en in digtmaat gestelt.
Amsterdam, Gerard van Keulen, 1718. 4to. With an engraved full-page portrait of Johan van Arnhem, lord of Roosendaal by J. Baptist, a plate with his engraved coat-of-arms, a large folding engraved bird's-eye view of the House Roosendaal, and 19 folding engraved views of houses, gardens, fountains, bridges and other buildings in Roosendaal and its surroundings, all designed by B. Elshof and engraved by J. Smit. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [40], 88 pp. Full description

[OVERIJSSEL - MEDICINE & PHARMACY]. Lijst der Medicinae Doctoren, Heelmeesters, Vroedmeesters, Heelmeesters ten Platten Lande, Apothekers, Vroedvrouwen en Drogisten in de Provincie Overijssel, voor den Jare 1821.
[1821]. 8vo. Unbound. 21 pp. Full description

PALINGH, Abraham. 't Afgerukt Mom-aansight Der Tooverye ...
Amsterdam, J. Rieuwertz, 1659. Small 8vo. WIth a woodcut title-vignette showing a witch on a broomstick leaving a house through the chimney (4.3 x 5.2 cm), 13 etched full-page illustrations on 8 plates by Salomon Savry. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [16], 429, [19] pp. Full description