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Driejaarige reize naar China, te lande gedaan door den Moskovicen afgezant, E. Ysbrandts Ides...Including: KAO, Dionyzius. Korte beschrijving van ’t magtig keizerryk China …Amsterdam, Pieter de Coup, 1710. 4to. With an engraved title-page bound as a frontispiece before the typographical title-page, which is printed in red and black, a large folding map of Russia and parts of Asia, 8 folding engraved plates of cities and other views, 1 full-page engraving, and 21 half-page engravings in the text. Further with woodcut and engraved decorated initials, a large engraved head-piece at the start of the main text, 2 woodcut floral tail-pieces, and a small woodcut floral vignette on the typographical title-page. 19th-century gold-tooled light brown splattered paper with a red title-label on the spine.

IDES, Evert Ysbrants. · 1692

Verhandeling van Petrus Camper, over het natuurlijk verschil der wezenstrekken in menschen van onderscheiden landaart en ouderdom; over het schoon in antyke beelden en gesneedene steenen. Gevolgd door een voorstel van eene nieuwe manier om hoofden van allerleye menschen met zekerheid te tekenen.Utrecht, B. Wild and J. Altheer, 1791. Large 4to (ca. 26 x 20 cm). With 10 engraved plates: 5 folding double-page plates, 4 full-page plates, numbered I-IX and all dated ca. 1768-1786 in the plates, depicting heads and skulls of humans and apes engraved by Reinier Vinkeles after Petrus Camper, and 1 unnumbered plate depicting a geometric figure. 19th-century mottled calf, with a circular green morocco inlay lettered in gold, within a gold-tooled laurel wreath as a centre piece on both boards.

CAMPER, Petrus. · 1814

Verhandeling over prenten. Uit het Engelsch vertaald.Rotterdam, P. and J. Holsteijn, 1787. 8vo. With an engraved title page incorporating a vignette by Franciscus Sansom and Hendrik Roosink (dated 1787 in the plate) after Gerard van Nijmegen. Later gold-tooled vellum.

GILPIN, William. · 1768

Icones et descriptiones plantarum minus cognitarum. Decas I.Halle (Saale), Germany, J.J. Curt, 1766. Folio (37.5 x 24.5 cm). With 10 full-page numbered engravings of plants, an engraved image on the title-page, and a woodcut initial on the first page of the preface. Never bound, housed in a modern folder with a printed design of 19th-century marbled paper.

SCHREBER, Johann Christian Daniël von. · 1668

Flora Atlantica, sive Historia plantarum, quae in Atlante, agro Tunetano et Algeriensi crescunt.Paris, L. G. Desgranges, Imprimerie Panckoucke, 1798-1799 (anno sexto). 3 parts in 2 volumes. 4to. With "261" [=263] numbered, full-page, engraved plates. Late 19th-century black morocco.

DESFONTAINES, René Louiche. · 1750

Historia plantarum alsaticarum.Strasbourg and Amsterdam, Johann Daniel Dulsecker and Pieter Mortier, 1742. 4to. With 7 folding copper-engraved plates of plants, an engraved printer's device on the title-page, an engraved coat-of-arms of François-Joseph de Klinglin, baron de Hattstatt etc. as a headpiece above the dedication, 3 woodcut initials, a headpiece made up of typographical ornaments at the start of the main text and the index, a woodcut tailpiece at the end of the main text, and the title-page is printed in red and black. Contemporary gold-tooled, mottled, polished calf.

MAPPUS, Marcus and Johan Christian EHRMANN (editor). · 1707

Zeeuwsche volks-almanak voor het (schrikkel)jaar 1836 (-1847).Zierikzee, J. van de Velde Olivier (vol.12: P. de Looze), [1835-1846]. 12 volumes. 12mo. With the woodcut coat of arms of Zeeland on the title page of each volume, 16 folding lithographed plates, 17 full-page lithographed plates, 2 leaves with musical annotations, and several folding tables. Original yellow or blue printed publisher's wrappers, with the title printed on the spine and front, within an ornamental border, the coat of arms of arms of Zeeland on the back.

[ALMANAC - ZEELAND]. · 1840

Cadsandria, jaarboekje voor 1854 (-1859).Comprising:(1) Cadsandria, jaarboekje voor 1854.(2) Cadsandria, Zeeuwsch-Vlaamsch jaarboekje voor 1855.(3) Cadsandria, Zeeuwsch-Vlaamsch jaarboekje voor het schrikkeljaar 1856.(4) Cadsandria, Zeeuwsch-Vlaamsch jaarboekje voor het jaar 1857.(5) Cadsandria, Zeeuwsch jaarboekje voor 1858.(6) Cadsandria, Zeeuwsch jaarboekje voor 1859.Schoondijke, A.J. Bronswijk (volumes 2-3 printed by J.C. & W. Altorffer at Middelburg), [1853-1858]. 6 volumes. 12mo. With 5 lithographed plates (1 folding, 4 full-page), 1 in each in volumes 2-6. Later quarter black buckram, marbled paper sides, with the original front wrapper pasted to the front board.

[ALMANAC - ZEELAND]. · 1828

Korte beschryving van het beroemde en prachtige orgel, in de groote of St. Bavoos-kerk te Haerlem.Haarlem, Johannes Enschedé en zoonen, 1775. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on page 32, showing cherub holding a book with the motto "musica dis curae est" Contemporary marbled wrappers, side stitched through 3 holes.

RADEKER, Johannes. · 1762

Historia insulana das ilhas a Portugal sugeytas no oceano occidental.Lisboa occidental, Na officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram, 1717. Small folio (ca. 28 x 21 cm). With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page, woodcut decorated initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Gold-tooled brown calf from the first half of the 19th century.

CORDEIRO, Antonio. · 1641

Entdeckungs-Reise in die Süd-See und nach der Berings-Strasse zur Erforschung einer nordöstlichen Durchfahrt. Unternommen in den Jahren 1815, 1816, 1817 und 1818, auf Kosten Sr. Erlaucht des Herren Reichs-Kanzlers Grafen Rumanzoff auf dem Schiffe Rurick unter dem Befehle des Lieutenants der Russisch-Kaiserlichen Marine Otto von Kotzebue.Weimar, Hoffmann Brothers, 1821. 3 parts in 1 volume. Large 4to. With 6 engraved maps, 4 folding double-page etched aquatints by Paul Anton Skerl and Carl Ermer after Ludwig Choris, 4 hand coloured full-page engraved portraits of indigenous men and women (of which 3 facing the title-pages of the 3 parts), 11 hand coloured full-page engraved plates (numbered I-XI in the plate) of butterflies by Carl Ermer after Johann Friedrich Gustav von Eschscholtz, 1 full-page engraved plate of skulls, 2 folding printed tables, and several tables and schemes in the text. With a divisional title page for parts 2 and 3. Contemporary half marbled leather.

KOTZEBUE, Otto von. · 1787

Ausführliche und grundrichtige Beschreibung der freyvereinigten Staaten und Spannischen Niederlanden, in gewisse und sonderbare XVII. Länder abgetheilet …Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, Christoph Riegel, 1691. 12mo. With a folding engraved frontispiece, 61 full-page engraved plans, and 59 full-page engraved views of the cities and fortifications of the Low Countries. Contemporary vellum with an oval supralibros mounted in the centre of both boards, red edges, leather closing ties.

[RIEGEL, Christoph]. · 1648

Description de tout le Païs-Bas autrement dict la Germanie inferieure, ou Basse-Allemaigne ... Avec diverses cartes geographiques dudit païs. Aussi le pourtraict d’aucunes villes principales … Avec un ample discours sur le faict de la negotiation et trafique des marchandises qui se fait audit pays. Plus une table …Antwerp, Guillaume Silvius, 1567. Folio. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 1 folding engraved map of the Low Countries by Cornelis de Hooghe, 1 folding engraved view of the town hall of Antwerp, the woodcut coat of arms and portrait of King Philip II, and 15 double-page woodcut maps, plans and (bird's-eye) views after Jacob van Deventer in the text, the title is set within a frame of ornamental typographical elements (also used for the half-titles and head-pieces) and woodcut initials. 18th-century mottled calf.

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. · 1521

[Anonymous eyewitness travel report of a journey to the Arctic region in search of good waters for whaling].[ca. 1790]. 4to. Manuscript written in Dutch in black ink in one clear, although not very sophisticated, hand on paper (sheets varying in origin and size ca. 20-21 x 14-16 cm). Modern artificial brown leather, marbled pastedowns, with the late-18th-century decorated paper wrappers bound in.

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH - ARCTIC REGION]. · 1780

[Five small watercolours of four country houses: "Slotzicht" at Vreeland (2x), Zuylestein Castle near Leersum, "Hoog Beek en Royen" at Zeist and "Huis ter Wegen" at Sassenheim].1863-1864. With 5 watercolours (ca. 6 x 10 cm), all signed and dated in the lower left hand margin, and titled on the back. Four of the watercolours are mounted on thin cardboard (ca. 6.5 x 10 cm), and the fifth is mounted in a late-19th-century blind-stamped passepartout (ca. 10 x 13 cm), with gold edges.

LUTGERS, Petrus Josephus. · 1808

Nouvelle carte itinéraire, qui indique d'une manière très-exacte les routes et stations, ainsi que les distances des principales villes de France et d’Allemagne.Amsterdam, E. Maaskamp, [ca. 1810]. An engraved map printed on linen (ca. 33.5 x 43 cm.), partly coloured by hand in red and blue ink. Folded.

[MAP - FRANCE - GERMANY]. · 1815

Vierentwintig printtekeningen met couleuren, verbeeldende Hollandsche buitenplaatzen, met derzelver beschrijvingen. Na het leven getekent en in plaat gebracht .... Vingtquatre vues des maisons de campagne, situees en Hollande ...Amsterdam, [H. Numan, J. Yver and J.W. Smit], 1797. Oblong 4to (ca. 23.5 x 27 cm). With 24 full-page hand-coloured aquatints of various country houses. Contemporary or slightly later quarter brown paper, sprinkled paper sides.

NUMAN, Hermannus. · 1744

Historische beschryving der stadt Amsterdam: waer in de voornaemste geschiedenissen … die … hier ter stede voor-gevallen zijn, verhandelt, en al de … gebouwen, in meer als tzeventigh kopere platen … vertoont worden ...Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1663. Folio (ca. 30.5 x 20 cm). With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, a full-page engraved coat-of-arms of the Witsen family and a loosely inserted extra engraving of the same coat-of-arms, 72 double-page (of which 4 somewhat larger and folded, including the well-known profile view of Amsterdam seen from the IJ, and 3 bird's-eye plans from 1482, 1613, and the plan published by Dapper for this 1663 edition) maps, plans and views of Amsterdam buildings and churches after the drawings of Jan Veenhuysen, and 1 half-page engraving in the text. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum.

DAPPER, Olfert. · 1635

Friesch comptoir almanach, op het jaar onzes Heeren Jesu Christi 1779. Waar in de voornaamste jaar-, paarde, beeste en leermarkten te vinden zijn: als mede de maans op- en ondergang: mitsgaders de vacantien voor den Hove van Friesland, enz.Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda and Gerrit Tresling, 1779. With (bound before ad 1): [MEMO BOOK]. Practisijns dagwijser, begrijpende de XII. maanden des jaars 1779. Benevens de maanden January en February van Ao. 1780.Amsterdam, Petrus Schouten and Reinier Ottens, [1779]. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page of ad 1, and a vignette built up from typographical ornaments on the title page of ad 2, the first two quires of ad 1 are interleaved with blank leaves. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the coat of arms of Friesland in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a double fillet frame with corner pieces, gold-tooled board edges, red sprinkled edges, red sprinkled end papers.

[ALMANAC]. · 1716

Receuil [!] de pieces authentiques pour la parfaite connoissance des dernieres revolutions d’Espagne et autres pieces concernant les affaires du Nord ...Amsterdam, Nicolas Chevalier, 1701. 12 parts in 1 volume. Small 4to (ca. 20 x 15 cm). With a general title and 2 divisional titles (for ad 6 and ad 11), all with a woodcut vignette, further with 2 hand-coloured engraved maps, 1 folding engraved plate, and several woodcut initials. Comprising:[1]. Lettre ecrite d’Anvers le 29. Decembre 1700. Par Monsieur N** à Monsieur P** en Hollande. Sur le testament de Charles II. Roy d’Espagne.[2]. Seconde (- sixieme) lettre sur le matière du temps contenant les nouvelles de l’Assemblée du Parlement.[3]. X. Remarques sur les affaires des tems [!] present. Traduites de l’Anglois. Depuis [26 February - 15 March] 1701.[4]. XII. Remarques sur les affaires des tems [!] present. Traduites de l’Anglois. Depuis [12-29 March] 1701.[5]. Harangue de sa Majesté Britannique au Parlement d’Angleterre. Prononcée le 21. de Fevrier 1701.[6]. Lettre d’un gentilhomme, de la province de Kent en Angleterre ecrite à un Ministre d’Etat, pour luy representer le danger éminent, où le Royaume se trouve d’estre envahi par la France. Traduit de l'anglois. Suivant la coppie [!] de Londres.[7]. [QUIRÓS, Francisco Bernardo de]. Memoire de Mr. de Quiros, ambassadeur extraordinaire de sa Majesté catholique, presenté à Messieurs les Etats Généraux des Provinces Unies.[8]. [MESMES, Jean Antoine de]. Memoire de Mr. le Comte d’Avaux ambassadeur extraordinaire de sa Majesté très-chrêtienne, presenté à Messieurs les Etats Généraux des Provinces-Unies.[9]. Response des hauts & puissants Seigneurs les Etats Generaux des Provinces Unies au memoire … par … le Comte d’Avaux … le 26. Juillet 1701. Extrait du registre des resolutions ... le premier d' Aoust 1701.[10]. Soixante-huitieme (- soixante-douzieme) lettre. Traité entre le Roy tres-chretien, le Roy de la Grand' Bretagne, & les Seigneurs Etats Generaux des Provinces-Unies des Païs-Bas.[11]. Lettre d'un noble Venitien, a un magistrat hollandois, sur les affaires d’Espagne. Traduitte sur l'original Italien. Suivant la copie de Venise.[12]. Traduction de la réponse d’un gentilhomme Italien à une lettre d’un de ses amis sur la prétenduë proscription du Duc de Mantoüe.Contemporary limp vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine, and a paper shelf mark label at the foot.

[WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION]. · 1699