Low Countries

[STATES GENERAL - ALGIERS - TREATY]. Tractaat tusschen haar hoog mogende de heeren Staaten Generaal ... en de regeeringe van Algiers. Geslooten in het jaar 1757.
With: (2) Ampliatie tot het tractaat van vrede tusschen ... de Staaten Generaal ... en den Dey en regeering van Algiers. Exhibitum den 10 October 1760.
Middelburg, Johan Bakker, [1758]. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of the Dutch admiralty on the title page. Contemporary marbled wrappers. 18; 3, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[STATES GENERAL - COPYE]. Copye vande Brieven der Heeren Generale Staten vande Gheunieerde Provintien. Gheschreven aen den Heeren Staten van Hollandt ende West-Vrieslandt, ofte haere E. Ghecommitteerde Raden. Inhoudende de Limiten hoe verre den Stilstandt van Wapenen te Water ende te Lande is streckende.
Delft, Jan Andriesz., [1607/08]. Small 4to. With a woodcut rampant lion holding a sword within a garden fence (symbolizing the Dutch Republic) surrounded by a wreath, and 1 woodcut decorated initial letter. Modern plain paper wrappers. [4] pp. Full description

STEENKAMP, Johan Christoffel Pieter Willem Apollo. [Album with drawings by Johan Christoffel Pieter Willem Apollo Steenkamp].
[Aceh, Sumatra; the Netherlands; Germany (Mosel, Eiffel, Taunus), ca. 1895-1930]. Ca. 35.5 x 32 cm. With 4 calligraphed title pages and 64 original drawings and coloured aquatints mounted onto the leaves of the album, all views of encampments, villages and landscapes in Atjeh (Aceh, Sumatra), the Netherlands, and Germany (Mosel, Eiffel, Taunus), most signed and captioned in Dutch. Further with 5 drawings by Steenkamp and other artists loosely inserted. Twentieth-century silver-tooled green imitation leather with Steenkamp's monogram on the spine and the front board, further with "Tekeningen J.C.P.W.A. Steenkamp" lettered in white on the front board. [47] ll. Full description

[STERLINCX, Pierre]. Een corte waerachtighe beschrijvinghe, van alle gheschiedenissen, aenslaghen, stormen, schermutsingen, ende schieten voor de vrome stadt Haerlem in Hollandt gheschiet. Midtsgaders hoe, ende met wat conditien de selve den al ghemeynen Viant Ducque dAlbe overghelevert is, oock hoe hy met den soldaten, ende burgheren ghehandelt heeft, ende dat tot den 12 Septembris anno 1573.
Delft, [printed by Aelbrecht Hendricksz and the widow of Herman Schinkel (the Schinkel-Hendricksz press)], 1574. 4to. With the oval woodcut printers device on the title page. Later (18th-century) half vellum. [51], [1 blank] pp. Full description

STEVIN, Simon. La castrametation, ...
Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberge, 1618.
With: (2) STEVIN, Simon. Nouvelle maniere de fortification par escluses. ...
Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberge, 1618. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. With more than 50 woodcut illustrations in the text (many full-page or nearly full-page). Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [4 of 8], 54, [2 blank]; [4], 61, [1 blank] pp. Full description

STOOPENDAAL, Daniel and Laurens SCHERM. Verscheyde schoone en vermaakelyke gezigten, in de Hofstede van Clingendaal gelegen by 's Gravenhage.
[Amsterdam], Nicolaas Visscher, [ca. 1697/1701]. Small oblong folio (18 x 24 cm). With 32 numbered engraved prints (13 x 16.5 cm), including the title-page, captioned in Dutch, with views of the country house and gardens of Clingendaal near The Hague, designed and etched and engraved by Daniel Stoopendaal, Laurens Scherm and Leon Schenk. Blind- or black-tooled half calf (ca. 1900), marbled paper sides and endpapers. [32] engraved ll. Full description

[STOOPENDAAL, Daniël and Andries de LETH]. De zegepraalende Vecht, vertoonende verscheidene gesichten van lustplaatsen, heeren huysen en dorpen; beginnende van Uitrecht en met Muyden besluytende.
Including: [BRUIN, Claas]. Speelreis langs de Vechtstroom, op de uitgegeevenen gezichten van de zeegepraalende Vecht.
Amsterdam, Widow of Nicolaus Visscher, 1719. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, 1 engraved map of the river Vecht and 102 engravings on 51 leaves (numbered 1-98). Contemporary red half sheepskin. [2], 16, 37, [1 blank] pp Full description

STRAAT, Pieter. D'Oranjeboom verheerlykt [above:] Geslachtboom van de huizen van Oranje en van Nassau, ...
(Colophon: Amsterdam, Hendrik de Leth), [1747]. 4to. With an engraved armorial title-page by Hendrik de Leth, with the subtitle in a banderol at the head, a crowned tree representing the family tree of the houses of Orange and Nassau (with 27 family coats of arms), a wreath with an orange tree, the 7 arms of the Dutch provinces and military attributes, the whole beautifully hand-coloured as published. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, by the Van Damme bindery in Amsterdam, a rosette and fillets in each of the spine compartments, gold-tooled board edges, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Engraved title-page plus [17], [1 blank] pp. Full description

STRADA, Famiano. De bello Belgico decas prima.
(Colophon:) Rome, Francisci Corboletti, 1632)
With: STRADA, Famiano. De bello Belgico decas secunda.
(Colophon:) Rome, Francisci Corboletti, 1647. 2 volumes. Folio. With an engraved title page with the Leo Belgicus in both volumes and 30 engraved plates showing battles and sieges (28 double-page, 2 full-page). 19th-century gold-tooled sheepskin parchment with tan morocco title and volume labels on the spine, lettered in gold, red edges. [12], 374, [88], [2 blank]; [12], 480, [56] pp. Full description

STRADA, Famiano. De bello Belgico decades duae ab excessu Caroli V. Imp. usque ad initium praefecturae Alexandri Farnesii Parmae placentiaeque Ducis III. Ad annum 1678 [recté 1578]. continuatae ....
Frankfurt am Main, Johannes Beyer, 1651. 4to. With an engraved Leo Belgicus map as a frontispiece, 26 engraved portraits (one of the author), and 30 folding engraved battle scenes. Contemporary richly blind-tooled pigskin. [8], 778, [104] pp. Full description