Low Countries / Netherlands

[PHARMACOPEIA - THE NETHERLANDS]. Pharmacopoea Batava.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1805. Large 8vo. With 2 folding tables. Prize-book of the Latin School at Haarlem: polished mottled calf with gilt panel of the city-virgin of Haarlem holding the coat-of-arms of the city as her shield; underneath the motto: Vicit vim virtus, on both sides, ornamental gilt border along the edges of both sides, spine gilt with orange title label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, green ties. Complete with the dedication of the Latin school, presenting the book to Jacob Warning, dated Haarlem, 17 Dec. 1817 and signed by the rector and teachers of the school, bound in before the first fly-leaf. [2], L, 304, 34, [13] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT]. PHILIP (FELIPE) II, King of Spain. [Mortgage agreement, granting Jan Hanneman, Steward General of North Holland, the rights to the tithes of the King's lands of Voorburg and Voorschoten].
The Hague and Brussels, 1557 (with additions to 1565). Folio (36 x 25.5 cm). Manuscript mortgage agreement, signed by King Philip's representatives, written in brown ink on parchment in a nearly upright cursive gothic hand. With a typescript transcription of the main text and an interlinear translation in Spanish. [2 blank], 9, [1 blank] pp. Full description

PLACENTIUS, Johannes Leo. Catalogus omnium antistitum Tungarorum, Traiectensium, ac Leodiorum, & rerum domi, bellique gestarum compendium.
Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, [1530?; preface dated 14 September 1529]. Small 8vo (13.5 x 10 cm). Title with woodcut coat-of-arms of Cardinal Everard van de Marck in a 4-piece woodcut border, a large woodcut coat of arms on the last page, 2 woodcut illustrations, one showing Mary and Jesus with Saint Anne (63 x 42 mm), and the other a bishop in his study (45 x 43 mm), each in the same 4-piece woodcut border (different from that on the title-page). Capitals rubricated throughout, some woodcuts also rubricated and some headings and other words underlined in red. Vellum (ca. 1700?). [16], [216] pp. Full description

[RECIPE BOOK - TWENTE]. [Recipe book].
[Twente, ca. 1865]. 4to. with many added notes. Contemporary half calf. [ca. 300] pp. Full description

[REYGERSBERCH, Jan Janse]. Dye cronijcke van Zeelandt.
Antwerp, Widow of Heyndrick Peetersen, 1551. 4to. With an allegorical woodcut title with the coat of arms of the province of Zeeland, Charles V and Maximilian, a folding woodcut map of Zeeland, a small woodcut portrait of Charles V, a full-page woodcut coat of arms of Zeeland on the verso of the last leaf, and 6 mostly full-page woodcut coats of arms of Maximilian, the province of Zeeland, and of the cities Middelburg, Veere, Zierikzee and Cortgene in the text, further with numerous decorated woodcut initials. 17th-century gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [194] ll. Full description

REYNDERS (REIJNDERS), Pieter. [Rural and small town scenes in Holland].
[Amsterdam, ca. 1800]. ca. 32 x 25 cm. A series of 3 three-dimensional papercuts: hand-cut craftwork in a lace-like style, all 3 depicting typical Dutch scenes with farmhouses, windmills, churches, farmers, animals and a small town. White paper cuttings mounted on blue surface-stained paper, framed in a white cardboard passe-partout with clear plastic protecting the scenes. Full description

[ROGHMAN, Roelant (etcher)]. [Collection of 24 etchings showing Dutch landscapes with views].
[ca. 1670]. Oblong 8vo. With 24 etchings tipped onto the leaves of an album. 19th-century diced half red morocco, red cloth sides, with the name of the etcher lettered in gold on the spine. [26] ll. Full description

SCHENK, Pieter [and Jan van CALL]. Rozendael. Aan den hoog-edel welgeboren en gestengen heere den heere Joan Baron van Arnhem, heere van Rozendael tot Harslo, byzonderen Raad des vorstendoms Gelre en graefschap Zutphen ... word deze afbeelding van Rozendael, opgedragen.
Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, [1702?]. Oblong royal 4to (25 x 31.5 cm). With an engraved dedication also serving as a title-page, and 16 unnumbered engraved views (15 x 18.5 cm). Modern half parchment, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, marbled paper sides. [17] ll. Full description

SCHENK, Pieter. Delineatio domus recreatricis adjacentiumq[ue] prospectuum amoenissimorum extra urbem Zutphaniensem, auspicys & jussu ... Arnoldi Justi ...
Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, [1702 or ca. 1720]. Oblong 4to (21 x 27 cm). With an engraved title-page and 16 numbered engraved views (ca. 15 x 19 cm), each with a caption in Dutch and Latin below the border, mostly in two lines. 19th-century grey-brown paste-paper with a wave pattern over boards. [1], 16, [1 blank] engraved ll. Full description

SCHENK, Pieter and Jacob Pieterszoon ROMAN. Conspectus Novi Praetorii Loo ex accurata delineatione Jacobi Romani ...
[Amsterdam], Pieter Schenk, [ca. 1720]. Oblong royal 4to (ca. 23 x 29 cm). With an engraved dedication also serving as a title-page, and 16 unnumbered engraved views (15 x 18.5 cm). Modern half sheepskin parchment. [17] ll. Full description