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Manuscript laudatory poem on the old country-seat "Amelisweert",
one of the places of refuge of the French author Caron de Beaumarchais during the Revolutionl

BEAUMARCHAIS, Pierre Augustin CARON DE Vers de M. de Beaumarchais sur Ameliswert pres d'Utrecht au Marquis de Saint Simon.
[Amsterdam, ca. 1793]. Folio. Poem written on paper in brown ink in a regular cursive hand in two columns of 46 lines each on recto and finished on one column on verso with another 8 lines, followed by an "Envoi" of 22 lines. Folded. [2] pp. Full description
€ 5,000
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With important provenance

BOCKENBERG, Pieter Cornelisz. Catalogus & brevis historia pontificum Ultraiectensium. Item catalogus & brevis historia antistitum Egmondanorum.
Leiden, Jan Jacobsz. Paets, 1586 (Colophon: 'Extant Goudae, apud Leonardum Theodori Librarium, ad pontem Hornensem'). Small 8vo. [16], 99, [12] [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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On the Christian missionaries in the diocese of Utrecht, in a contemporary armorial binding

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
€ 2,750
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Essential for the history of the Dutch War of Independence

LE PETIT, Jean François. La grande chronique ancienne et moderne, de Hollande, Zelande, West-Frise, Utrecht, Frise, Overyssel & Groeningen, jusques à la fin de l'An 1600. Receüillee tant des histoires desdites provinces, que de divers autres auteurs.
Dordrecht, Jacob Canin for the author (colophon volume 2:) printed in Dordrecht by Guillaume Guillemot, 1601. 2 volumes, Folio. With the title set within a richly engraved allegorical border, repeated for the title in volume 2, a full-page engraved portrait of the author, and 57 mostly full-page engraved portraits in the text, including one portrait in woodcut, and allegorical engraved plate of the States General of the Dutch United Provinces, by Christoph van Sichem. Further with several large woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, with the small gold-tooled crest of Thomas Hutton and the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges. [1], [1 blank], [38], "650" [= 656], [2], 240; [1], [1 blank], [14], "779" [= 788], [15], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 5,000
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Splendid view that brought renown to Heemstede’s gardens

MOUCHERON, Isaac de. Plan ou veüe de Heemstede, dans la province d'Utrecht | Afbeeldinge van Heemstede, in de provincie van Utrecht.
[Amsterdam], Nicolas Visscher, [ca. 1700]. Very large etched bird's-eye view of the Heemstede estate and gardens (99 x 71 cm) engraved by Daniël Stoopendaal and printed on 2 2/3 sheets from 2 copper plates. Framed. Full description
€ 15,000
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The third Utrecht Students’ Almanac

[STUDENT ALMANAC]. Utrechtsche studenten almanak, voor het jaar 1825.
Utrecht, J. van Schoonhoven & Comp., [1825]. 12mo. With an engraved title page with the logo of the University of Utrecht. Original publisher's green boards, with the title printed on the front, and the logo of the University of Utrecht hand drawn on the back. [2], 127, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 150
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