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Rare second edition in Dutch of the Brussels pharmacopoeia

[BRUSSELS - PHARMACOPOEIA]. [JOCQUET, Joannes, and others]. Brusselsche apotheek, door het gezag van de magistraat bevestigd, en naar de tweede Latynsche druk in het Nederduitsch vertaalt.
Amsterdam, Johannes van Seggeren, 1775. 8vo. With an engraved title page showing an apothecary shop, the preparation of medicines and a botanical garden, and 2 folding engravings identifying alchemical symbols and measurements. Contemporary wrappers, rebacked. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [16], 277, [15] pp. Full description
€ 750
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Ordinances for the Low Countries, issued by Charles V, 4 October 1540, with more in manuscript,
issued by Mary of Hungary, governor of the Low Countries, 14 February 1549

[CHARLES V, Emperor]. Les ordonnances[,] statutes, & edictz, que lEmpereur Charles cinquies. de ce nom, tousjours auguste, a faict publier en la ville de Bruxelles ...
Brussels, Marck Martens; Antwerp, "en l[]escu dArtoys, sur le Pont de Chambre" [= the printing office of Jacob van Liesvelt], [privilege dated from Brussels, 7 October 1540]. 4° (20.5 × 15 cm). Title-page with an elaborate large woodcut showing the Imperial coat-of-arms. 20th-century half sheepskin parchment, boards covered with 2 leaves from Froben & Petris 2° Latin Bible, Basel, 1498, red edges. [20] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
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The complete series of Collaert's views around Brussels in its first state

COLLAERT, Hans I [after Hans BOL or Jacob GRIMMER?]. [Views in the vicinity of Brussels].
[Antwerp], Hans van Luyck, [ca. 1575/80]. Oblong folio album (24.5 x 35.5 cm). Series of 24 engravings (plate size ca. 20 x 14 cm) with views of landscapes around Brussels, by Hans I Collaert possibly after Hans Bol or Jacob Grimmer, each with a caption in the plate (plates 8 and 20 also with Van Luyck and Collaert's monograms "H.V.L.EX[cudit]" and "H.C.F[ecit]"). Trimmed down to the plate edge and mounted on album leaves, numbered in pencil on the album leaves, next to the engravings. Modern red half cloth, marbled sides. [24] ll. Full description
€ 15,000
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Attractive atlas of the Seventeen Provinces, complete with all maps and plates

COLOM, Jacob Aertsz. De vyerighe colom klaer vertoonende in vyftich onderscheydene curieuse caarten de XVII Nederlantsche provincien, alsmede de hartogen, houtvesters en graven van Vlaenderen, Hollandt ende Zelandt. Met desselfs beschryving.
Amsterdam, Jacob Aertsz. Colom, [ca. 1660]. Oblong 4to (ca. 23 x 28 cm). With an engraved allegorical title page by Experiens Sillemans, and 50 full-page numbered engraved plates (47 maps, and 3 plates containing 117 portraits of the Counts of Brabant, Flanders, and Holland). Contemporary vellum. [2], 4, [14], 223, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
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Very rare handbook for merchants and traders in the Southern Netherlands

[COMMERCE]. Le négociant du Pays-Bas, ou le tarif général de tous les comptes du commerce; tant pour calculer les monnoyes, les intérêts, répartitions, &c. Que toutes sortes de marchandises, denrées & négoces tant en gros qu'en détail. Onzième édition. Augmenté avec la réduction de l'argent de change de Brabant, en celui courant en Brabant, & celui de l'argent courant de Brabant en celui de change de Brabant. Et un tarif pour connoitre le prix d'une livre de marchandise par le prix du cent.
Antwerp, Johannes Judocus Gerardus de Marcour, [ca. 1780?]. 12mo. Contemporary mottled, tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. XXIII, [1], 543, [1] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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A Greek Calvinist confession from the library of Charles Townshend, Lord Bayning

[CONFESSIO BELGICA - Hierotheos ABBATIOS (translator)]. Tōn ekklēsiōn tēs Belgikēs christianikē kai orthodoxos didaskalia kai taxis : ēgoun exomologēsis, katēchēsis, leitourchia, kai kanones ekklēsiastikoi.
Leiden, Bonaventura & Abraham Elzevier, 1648. 4to. With Elzeviers woodcut device on the title page, several decorated woodcut initials, and head- and tailpieces. 18th-century gold-tooled calf. [2 blank], [12] 500, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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Moralistic lessons drawn from an Augustinian canon, here embodied by the "Great Cook"

CROON, Petrus. Cocus bonus ofte geestelijcke sinne-beelden ende godtvruchtighe uyt-legginghen op alle de gereetschappen van den kock.
Bruges, Franciscus Beernaerts, [between 1739 and 1762].
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(2) CROON, Petrus. Cocus Bonus. Tweede deel, ofte geestelycke bemerckingen op de tafel ende spysen maeltyt.
Bruges, Widow of P.J. Vincent, [between 1731 and 1769]. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. Ad 1: with an engraved portrait of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1614-1662) mounted on the verso of the second flyleaf as a frontispiece. Further with a woodcut ornament on the title page and some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Ad 2: with a woodcut ornament on the title page and a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine with a black title label lettered in gold, simple blind-tooled fillets on the boards, red sprinkled edges. [1], [1 blank], [18], 207, [1]; "314" [= 312] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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