Low Countries

BORY DE SAINT VINCENT, Jean Baptiste Geneviève Marcellin and Léon DUFOUR. Voyage souterrain, ou description du Plateau de Saint-Pierre de Maestricht et de ses vastes cryptes, par le colonel Bory de Saint-Vincent; suivi de la relation de nouveaux voyages entrepris dans les Montagnes maudites; par Léon Dufour.
Paris, Ponthieu, 1821. 8vo. With a folding lithographed map of Mount Saint Peter in Maastricht, lithographed by L.A. Paulmier after drawings by the author, and 3 full-page lithographed views. Contemporary gold tooled quarter brown calf. [4], 381, [1 blank] pp. Full description

BOSCH, Johannes van den. De heeren stadhouderen van Vriesland ...
Leeuwarden, printed by Abraham Ferwerda and Gerrit Tresling, 1770. Small folio (ca. 31 x 20 cm). With the title page set within a red decorative border, 21 full-page mezzotint portraits with 3- or 4-line captions in Dutch, and 10 woodcut tailpieces. Later half vellum, boards covered with paper, manuscript title in black ink on the spine, blue sprinkled edges. [19], [1 blank], 87, [1 blank] pp. Full description

BOSCH, Lambert van den. Tooneel des oorlogs, opgerecht in de Vereenigde Nederlanden; door de wapenen van de Koningen van Vrankryk en Engeland, Keulsche en Munstersche Bisschoppen. Tegen de Staten der Vereenigde Nederlanden en hare geallieerden. Nevens de aanmerkwaardigste saken, door de geheele werelt ... voorgevallen, zedert her jaar 1669, alwaar de Historie van L. van Atzema eyndigt ... .
Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs & Johannes van Someren, 1675. 4 parts in 2 volumes. Large 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, a woodcut vignette on the title page, 37 double-page engraved plates, views and plans, several decorated woodcut initials and tail pieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [8], 298; 162 pp., 161-164 ll., 165-338; [2], 168 pp., 169-176, cols., 177-296; 350, [15], [1 blank] pp. Full description

BOSCH, Lambert van den. Het leven en bedryf van Willem de Darde. Koning van Groot-Brittannie, Vrankryk en Yrlant &c. &c. Prince van Orangie &c. &c. &c. Sijn geboorte, jongelingschap, erf-stadthouderschap en koninglyke waardigheyd. Onder wiens heerschappy en bestieringe werden verhandelt, saken van staat en oorlog van den jare 1650. tot het uytgaen van 1693.
Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1694. 4 parts in 2 volumes. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece by Caspar Luyken, a folding engraved map of the battle of Landenon on 29 July 1693, and 12 folding engraved plates (of which 6 by Jan Luyken, 1 by Caspar Luyken, and 4 by Daniel de la Feuille after Jan Luyken). Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a brown morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, and the volume number lettered in gold below, the coat of arms of Aron de Joseph de Pinto in the centre of both boards in a triple fillet frame, and his monogram (the crowned initials AJDP) in 4 of the 6 compartments on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, blue edges, marbled end papers. [8], 432; 442, [6]; [2], 180; 528, [8] pp. Full description

BOSSCHAERTS, Willibrord. [Greek:] Diatribai. De primis veteris Frisiae apostolis, sive dissertationes, quibus eoru[m] anni, actus, res, personae, loca, tempora in eorundem actis occurrentia, discutiuntur, illustrantur, erroresque ab aliena manu illapsi refelluntur.
Mechelen, Robert Jaye, 1650. Small 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, and numerous decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a fleuron in each compartment on the spine, the large gilt coat of arms of Jean Baptiste Daneels, Baron of Attenrode and of Corbeeck-over-Loo on both boards, within a single fillet frame, gilt edges. [2], [28], 604, 26, [2] pp. Full description

[BOTANY - HORTICULTURE]. Bloemkundig woordenboek bevattende eene beschrijving van meer dan 2200 gewassen, (waaronder 170 van de mooiste heiden) zoo boomen, heesters als planten...
Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp & zoon, [1821]. 8vo. Contemporary red sprinkled paper wrappers, with a printed paper title-label on the spine. [2], L, 521, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius van]. Verbetert en vermeerdert politijck en militair hantboecxken vanden staet der Geunieerde Provintien, aenwysende des selfs maniere van regieringe, veelvoudige middelen &c.
[Printed in Gouda, Willem van der Hoeve], 1674.Including: (2) MILITAIR repartitie-boeckjen, aenwijsende den staet des oorlogs der Geûnieerde Provincien. Als mede het getal der compagnyen, soo te paert als te voet, in des selfs dienst geweest zijnde, zedert den jare 1621. Den sesten druck.
[Printed in Gouda, Willem van der Hoeve, 1674?].
(3) ARTIKEL-BRIEF, ofte ordonnantie, op de discipline militaire. Met een bequaem register daer toe dienende.
[Printed in Gouda, Willem van der Hoeve, 1674?]. Woodcut ornament on title-page.3 texts in 1 volume. 12mo. With 3 title-pages (the 1st and 3rd each with a woodcut ornament), a divisional title-page for the text of the 1579 Union of Utrecht, 1 woodcut decorated initial and a few headpieces built up from cast typographic ornaments Verhandelinge vande Unie, ofte eeuwigh verbont, ende eendracht, and drop-title for the transcriptions of other documents. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [8], “300” [= 400]; 112; 20, [4] pp. Full description

[BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius]. Commentariolus de statu confoederatarum provinciarum Belgii. Editio sexta auctior & emendatior. Accessit de eadem materia Pauli Merulae Diatriba. Nec non Decretum Ordd. Holl. & West-Frisiae, De antiquo iure Reip. Batavicae.
The Hague, Adriaan Vlacq for Johannes Vlacq, 1668. 12mo. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, boards and board edges, gilt edges. [12], 202 pp. Full description

BRANDLIGT, Laurens. Scylla en Charybdis; behelzende een project, ter verbetering der zeegaten en het vaarwater van Texel, en aanwinning van eenige duizend morgen land.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, Laurens Brandligt, 1780. 8vo. With 4 folding engraved maps, and 1 folding engraved plate. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold. XIII, [1], 194 pp. Full description

[BRANDT, Gerard]. Historie der vermaerde zee- en koop-stadt Enkhuisen, vervaetende haere herkomste, en voortgangh. Mitsgaders verscheide gedenkwaerdige geschiedenissen, aldaer voorgevallen.
Enkhuizen, Egbert van den Hoof, 1666. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of Enkhuizen on the title page, an engraved allegorical frontispiece by H. Bary, 5 full-page engraved portraits by H. Bary, a large folding plan of Enkhuizen after design by O. Suermondt, and a large folding plate with 31 coats of arms of the members of the city council. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [12], 207, [1], 167, [1 blank], [16] pp. Full description