Low Countries

MAASKAMP, Evert, and others. Tableau des principales vues des palais et edifices; representations et des coutumes et usages, dans les Provinces Septentrionales du Royaume des Pays-Bas.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, [ca. 1825]. Oblong folio. With 68 hand-coloured engraved plates and aquatints by different artist, some of them in proof-state with manuscript captions, depicting Dutch city views and Dutch costumes. Contemporary boards covered with dark-brown paper with a gilt border along the edges and a gilt-stamped title on the front board; preserved in a grey modern cloth box. 69 ll. Full description

[MAASKAMP, Evert (publisher)]. [Collection of 13 aquatint views of Amsterdam].
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, [ca. 1826]. Oblong 4to (21 x 25 cm). With 13 sepia aquatint plates (image size ca. 15.5 x 19 cm). Contemporary green boards. [13] ll. Full description

[MACNENY, Patrick]. Wederlegginge van de argumenten ...
Including:
(2) [PESTERS, Ernst]. Copie van de memorie door den Heere Pesters ...
(3) [VOC, Directors of the]. Copie van de Remonstrantie van de bewindthebberen van de Oost-Indische Compagnie der Vereenighde Nederlanden.
(4) [BASSECOUR, Johan de la; Directors of the WIC]. Copie van de Remonstrantie van de Bewindthebberen van de West-Indische Compagnie.
The Hague, Paulus & Isaac Scheltus, 1723. 4to (21 x ca. 16.5). With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, the text is primarily set in gothic type, and a large woodcut tailpiece on p. 75. 20th-century dark green morocco, signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London at the bottom turn-in at the front of the work. With the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. 75, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[MADOU, Jean Baptiste and Jean Louis van HEMELRYCK]. Costumes Belgiques anciens et modernes, militaires, civils et réligieux.
Brussels, Lithographie Royale de J.B.A.M. Jobard, 1830. Folio. With a hand-coloured lithographed title, and 124 hand-coloured full-page numbered lithographed plates, of which some heightened with gold, all protected by tissue paper guards. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter polished calf. II, 26, [27-198], IV pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - BRAZIL - FREDERIK HENDRIK, Prince of Orange and Count of Nassau]. [18th-century copy of a letter to the States General originally written on 20 September 1645].
Oosteeklo, originally written on 20 September 1645, this transcription: 18th century. Ca. 23 x 14.5 cm. Kept in a plastic folder between tissue paper. [1] l. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH]. [Journals of four summer trips (1) along the Rhine, (2) to Brabant and Flandres, (3) to Paris and (4) to the waters at Aachen and Spa, written in Dutch by an anonymous traveller from Amsterdam during the consecutive years 1804-1807].
[Amsterdam, 1804-1807]. Folio. With 40 circular aquatints, executed in wash manner, most printed in colour. 14 of the roundels retain their printed captions, while 12 are without captions, all have been cut from the original sheets and trimmed to their circular outlines. The manuscript contains 14 hand-coloured engraved plates, 10 depict the interiors of Parisian theatres, and 2 show their foyers. Contemporary red morocco. 159 ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENTS]. BERGH, Johan van den. Eenige stukken concerneerende criminele procedures in cas d'appel voor het hof geventileerd tusschen den bailluw van Rhijnland contra Pieter Oostenryk in materie van manslag met de ms. schriftuuren.
[Leiden], 1726-1729. Folio (33 x 21.5 cm). Manuscript in Dutch on laid paper, with 2 embossed seals (clein segels). Later blue paper wrappers, with a printed title label mounted on the front wrapper. 28, [8 blank] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT - STAATS BRABANT]. [Drop title:] D'Eerste presiderende ende andere ...
The Hague, 18 November 1697. ca. 35.5 x 20.5 cm. Manuscript in Dutch on vellum, with the blind-stamped "clein segel" of Holland in the upper left corner of the leaf. Folded, kept in a clear plastic sleeve. [1] l. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT]. DODOENS (DODONAEUS), Rembert. [Declaration of financial and other documents received as incoming churchwarden of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Mechelen].
[Mechelen], 27 December 1558. Oblong 4to (19 x 21.5 cm). A document written in dark brown ink on paper, with the opening words filled in afterwards in light brown ink and the signature in light brown ink. [1] ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH]. Resolutien van den Raad van Staaten nopens Sterckten van Staats Vlaenderen en de Schelde.
[Low Countries], 1747. 4to. Manuscript on paper, written in two neat hands, partly in French.Mid-19th-century half red sheepskin, marbled paper sides. 46, 121, [1 blank] pp. Full description