Low Countries / Netherlands

SCHENK, Pieter. Afbeeldinge der voornaemste gezichten van Duinrel gediestig opgedragen door zyn hoog-edels onderdanigen dienaer.
[Amsterdam], Pieter Schenk, [ca. 1720]. Oblong royal 4to (ca. 23 x 28.5 cm). With an engraved dedication also serving as a title-page, and 16 numbered engraved views (15 x 18.5 cm). Modern half sheepskin parchment. [17] ll. Full description

SLICHTENHORST, Arend van. XIV. Boeken van de Geldersse Geschiedenissen, van 't begin af vervolghd tot aen de afzweeringh des Konincx van Spanien; ...
Arnhem, Jacob van Biesen, 1654. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved title page, a letterpress half-title, a large folding engraved map, 20 double-page plans and maps, 28 woodcut coats of arms in the text, as well as woodcut medals, and letterpress genealogical tables. With exception of some medals all plates and illustrations are coloured by a contemporary hand and partly highlighted with gold. Early 18th-century gold-tooled mottled calf by the so-called "Vase Block Bindery". [16], 116, [4]; 596, [24] 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

[TIRION - VIEWS]. Het verheerlykt Nederland of kabinet van hedendaagsche gezigten van steden, dorpen, sloten, adelyke huizen, kerken, torens, poorten; en andere voornaame stad- en land- gebouwen, in en omtrent alle de byzondere Vereenigde Nederlandsche provinciën.
Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion and widow of Isaak Tirion, 1745-1774. 10 parts in 2 volumes. 4to. With 843 engraved views, mostly 2 views per plate, some double page, the title-page of the first part is printed in red and black. With: (2) [IDEM]. Het verheerlykt Kleefschland of kabinet van Kleefsche oudheden en gezichten van steden, dorpen, sloten, adelyke huizen, kerken, torens, poorten; en andere stad- en land-gebouwen in Kleefschland (...) dienende tot een aanhangzel van het verheerlykt Nederland, by I. Tirion uitgegeeven.
Amsterdam/ Leiden/ Harlingen/ Dordrecht, P. Schouten, J. de Groot, G. Warnsars/ S. and J. Luchtmans/ A. and P. Blussé/ Volkert van der Plaats, [ca. 1775].

Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a red morocco title label in the second compartment and a green morocco volume number label in the third, both lettered in gold, repeating fleurons in the remaining compartments, gold-tooled board edges, marbled end papers, red edges, green reading ribbon. [4]; [2]; [2]; [2]; [2]; [2]; [2]; [2]; [2]; [2] ll. + 843 views Full description

[VIEWS - NETHERLANDS - ZEELAND]. Speculum Zelandiae dat is: een beschryvinge ofte afbeelding der steden, ambachts-heerlijckheden, dorpen, castelen, ridderlijcke hofsteden, huysen en gebouwen gelegen inde eylanden en de graeflijckheyt van Zeelandt.
Amsterdam, Widow of [Joachim] Ottens and sons, [ca. 1720]. 1mo (32 x 32.5 cm). With an engraved armorial title page and 36 full-page engraved views. Contemporary gold-tooled brown half calf. [37] ll. Full description

[MAP]. [VINGBOONS, Johannes, Justus and David]. 'T hooghe heymraedtschap vanden lande van Woerden.
[Amsterdam, Hendrik de Leth], 1740. Wall map of the water district Woerden (South Holland) in 9 large loose untrimmed sheets (each 48 x 67 cm), with the title in a banderole across the head of three sheets, information about the 14th-century charters in a cartouche, a list of city and town officials in 1739 on a plinth, a compass rose, and a scale of Rijnland rods. Full description

[WADDEN ISLANDS - TEXEL] Akte van kaveling van Eijerland, (eiland Texel.) verdeeld in zes hoofddeelen.
[The Netherlands], 1840. Folio. With the large folding map (87 x 74.5 cm) of Eijerland with hand-coloured in outline.
Half beige leather, marbled paper sides. [1], [1 blank],128 pp. Full description

[WICQUEFORT, Abraham de]. Advis fidelle aux veritables Hollandois. Touchant ce qui s'est passé dans les villages de Bodegrave & Swammerdam, & les cruautés inoüies, que les François y ont exercées. Avec un memoire de la derniere marche de l'armée du Roy de France en Brabant & en Flandre.
[The Hague, Jan and Daniel Steucker], 1673. 4to. With 10 finely engraved scenes on the horrors of war on 8 folding/double-page plates. Further with a woodcut device on the title page and a woodcut tailpiece on the final page. 17th- or 18th-century calf. [1, 1 blank], 202 pp. Full description

WILDEMAN, Jan Ernst. Verslag eener proeve van het vormen, bakken en gebruiken van zware tigchelsteenen, voor het maken van steenglooijingen, of tot dekking der glooijingen van dijken.
Amsterdam, Pieper en Ipenbuur, 1825. 8vo. With 3 large, folding engraved plates. Contemporary red sprinkled boards. 24 pp. Full description

WILLEM FREDERIK of Orange. [Autograph letter, signed, to Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt].
Berlin, 2 October 1791. 4to (23 x 18.5 cm). Autograph letter in French, in ink on laid paper, signed and dated. [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description