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Nieuw Nederlandtsch caertboeck. Waer in volkomentlijcker als oyt te voren vertoont werden de XVII. Nederlanden, soo in ’t geheel, als elck besonder met grote neersticheyt ende kosten gesneden ende in ’t licht gebracht. Mitsgaders een nieuwe beschryvinge uijt verscheyden autheuren ordentlyck tsamen gestelt door Reinier Telle … .Amsterdam, Abraham Goos in de Kalverstraet, [1616]. Oblong 4to (ca. 16 x 21 cm). With an engraved title page (signed by P.S[erwouter] scul.’ (bottom right) after ‘D.V[inck] B[oons]’ (bottom left)), 23 full page maps, several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut tailpieces. 19th-century quarter calf.
GOOS, Abraham. · 1628
€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)
[7], "305" [=294], [2], [1 blank] pp.Rare first edition of one of the first atlases of the Low Countries, with 23 very detailed maps. It is the only atlas published by the mapmaker, Abraham Goos, himself. At the time the present atlas was published, the Seven United provinces ...
Zeelands chronyk-almanach, voor den jaare 1777 (1778-1780, 1785-1788, 1790, 1791-1792). Bevattende eene beschryvinge der Provincie Zeeland … Ten dienste der Jeugd, gesteld in vragen en antwoorden, voorzien met alle het noodige, behooorende tot een Almanach. Als mede veele byzonderheden betrekking hebbende tot de Provincie Zeeland.Middelburg, Jan Dane (1777-1780); P. Gillissen & Zn. (1785-1788, 1790); W.A. Keel & Comp., (1791), 1777-1791. 11 volumes. 16mo. With an engraved emblematic frontispiece in each volume, 18 folding engraved maps, plans, and views, and 18 full-page engraved plates. With the 1777 volume included twice. The second volume in contemporary beige printed wrappers with the coat of arms of Zeeland with the title on the front, and the coat of arms of Middelburg with the imprint on the back. Contemporary gold-tooled red, green, or brown morocco, with the coat of arms of Zeeland in a medallion in the centre of both boards, a banderol underneath with the title, both in an ornamental frame, gilt or marbled edges, gold-tooled board edges, marbled endpapers in all except the first volume.
[ALMANAC]. · 1777
€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)
Each ca. 200 pp.Rare, near complete set of the famous Zeeland almanac, which taught children the history of their province in a playful way, by means of questions and answers. Zeelands chronyk-almanach was published from 1777 to 1792, with each volume focussing on a separate a...
Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour l’année 1807.With: (2) [ALMANAC]. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour l’année 1809.(3) [ALMANAC]. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour l’année 1814.(4) [ALMANAC]. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour l’année 1815.(5) [ALMANAC]. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour l’année 1824.(6) [ALMANAC]. Almanach de la cour de la ville et des départements pour l’année 1825.Paris, imprimerie de J.M. Eberhart (volumes 3-6: imprimerie de Richomme) for Janet, [1806-1824]. 6 volumes. 12mo (ca. 11.5 x 6.5 cm). Each volume with an engraved title and 4 full-page steel-engraved plates protected by tissue paper guards, volume 4 with an extra portrait of Louis XVIII. Contemporary coloured boards (green, pink, blue or grey), gilt edges, volume 3 with lithographed boards and the title printed in black on the spine, volumes 5 and 6 in a matching slipcase, with the title lettered in gold on the spine.
[ALMANAC]. · 1807
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
[32], 190, [2], [12]; [32], 196, [4], [12]; [32], 240, [8]; [32], 228, [4]; [32], 254, [2]; [32], 254, [2] pp.Rare set of six French almanacs for the years 1807, 1809, 1814-1815, 1824, and 1825. They were published by Pierre-Étienne Janet in Paris as a series that ran from 180...
Historische, geographische, konst- en reis almanach, voor den jaare 1779. Bevattende het voornaamste dat onder het opzigt van het Koninklyk Genootschap der Geleerden te Berlijn is uitgegeven. Overzien, en het nodige op de breette en lengte van Amsterdam overgebragt, als ook met eenige bijvoegselen vermeerdert.Amsterdam, The widow Van Esveldt and Willem Holtrop, [1778]. With: [AMANAC]. Historische, geographische, konst- en reis almanach, voor den jaare 1783 …Amsterdam, Willem Holtrop, [1782]. 2 volumes. 12mo. Both volumes with an engraved title page within an ornamental border, an engraved page with the signs of the Zodiac, a folding map of Malakka, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo in vol. 1, and of the west coast of Africa in vol. 2, coloured in outlines, and 12 full-page engraved plates in the calendar. Contemporary sprinkled boards.
[ALMANAC]. · 1779
€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)
[16], 216; [16], 204 pp.Set of two Dutch almanacs for the years 1779 and 1783, focussing on history and art. They are part of a series published from 1767 onwards by Van Esveldt in Amsterdam, which was based on a similar German example. Each volume is illustrated with a map, c...
Wercken door Zacharias Heijns.[Zwolle, Zacharias Heyns], [1621]-1628. 3 parts in 2 volumes. 4to. With 2 engraved title pages, the engraved publisher's device on the title page of part 2, the engraved portrait of Zacharias Heyns in the text of part 1 and 34 full-page engravings (incl. 1 large folding plate and 1 plate outside the collation) illustrating the days of the two weeks and the other texts by Du Bartas. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Both volumes bound in almost matching 17th-century vellum, both spines with manuscript title in black ink.
DU BARTAS, Guillaume de Salluste. · 1544
€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)
Volume 1: part 1: [12], 1-168, 168-183, [1], 184-313, [1] pp.; part 2: [8], 634, [6] pp. Volume 2: part 3: [8], 150, [2], 231, [1] pp.Very rare complete and first set (in 4to) of the works of the famous French Huguenot courtier and Renaissance poet Guillaume de Salluste Du Bar...
Den spiegel van sassen van alle keyserlijcke rechten.Antwerp, Marie Ancxt [= widow of Jacob van Liesveld, 31 October 1550. 4to (19 x 13.2 cm). With the title page printed in red and black with woodcut of the emperor (10.8 x 7.2 cm) holding a sword with coat of arms in the lower left hand corner, between two ornamental borders. 18th-century mottled calf.
[REPGOW, Eike von]. · 1900
€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)
XLIIII ll.Incredibly rare mid-16th century Antwerp edition of the Dutch adaptation of the famous Sachsenspiegel (literally "Saxon Mirror"), one of the most important law books and custumals written, compiled and translated from the Latin between ca. 1220 and 1235 by the Saxon ...
‘sGravenhaagsche stads-almanak, voor het jaar 1835. Met vergunning van Hun Ed. Achtb. de Heeren Burgemeester en Wethouders.The Hague, A.P. van Langenhuyzen for J. Belinfante, [1834]. 8vo. With a lithographed title with vignette with coat of arms of The Hague, 12 lithographed headpieces and 12 small illustrations in the calendar (1 for each month). Original publisher's printed wrappers.
[ALMANAC]. · 1830
€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)
[4], 1-48, 48a-48d, 49-222, 92* pp.Rare issue of a series of city almanacs for The Hague, containing, apart from the calendar and usual contents of almanacs, extensive information on the institutes, schools, churches, magistrates etc. of the city, as well as important rules an...
Opregte ‘sGravenhaagsche stads-almanak, voor het jaar 1823 (Eerste jaargang).The Hague, Mozes Cohen Belinfante, [1823]. 12mo. With the woodcut coat of arms of The Hague on the title page. Original publisher's blue printed wrappers.
[ALMANAC]. · 1761
€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)
XII, 142, [2], 60* pp.The first issue of a series of city almanacs for The Hague, containing, apart from the calendar and usual contents of almanacs, extensive information on the institutes, schools, churches, magistrates etc. of the city, as well as important rules and laws a...
Almanak, aan bevalligheid & deugd gewijd. 1819.Amsterdam, Marten Westerman, [1818]. 16mo. With an engraved calligraphic title, a folding engraved leaf with musical scores, and 6 full-page engraved plates by P. Velyn. Contemporary vellum over thin boards, gilt edges, house in the original matching slipcase.
[ALMANAC]. · 1818
€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)
[28], 15, [1], 99, [1 blank] pp.Illustrated separate volume in a series of almanacs published from 1818 till 1823 by the poet, painter, book seller and publisher Marten Westerman (1775-1852), who continued his successful series under the title Jaarboekje aan bevalligheid, deug...
Sur l’administration de M. Necker. Par lui-même.Amsterdam, Daniel Jean Changuion & Gabriel Dupour, 1791. 12mo. With a small tailpiece on the final page. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf, with a large gold-tooled centerpiece on both boards (a crowned shield with a "W", flanked by a crowned lion and a wild man with a club), with red morocco author and title labels lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, red edges, marbled endpapers.
NECKER, Jacques. · 1791
€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)
[1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], "328" [= 340] pp.Very rare Amsterdam edition of the first edition of Necker's memoir, published in the same year: Paris, Hôtel Du Thou, 1791. The text is written by Jacques Necker (1732-1804), a Genevan banker who served from 1777 till 1781 as f...
La lyre d'Apollon en poësies meslées, et les mieux choisies de ce temps. Composées par un Zelandois, & amateur d’icelles. En cançons, Aïrs, rondeaux, estrenes, & epitaphes, &c.Middelburg, Pieter van Goetthem, 1657. Oblong 16mo. With the title page, and page 5 and 7 printed in red and black, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 2 supports laced through the joints.
[GOETTHEM, Pieter van (attributed)]. · 1679
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
432 pp.Very rare songbook containing almost 700 short poems in French on various topics, such as friendship, wine, and religion, also including several erotic love poems. It was written by "un Zelandois, & amateur d’icelles", which was probably the publisher, Pieter van Goetth...
Kabinet van Nederlandsche en Kleefsche outheden.Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion, [between 1728 and 1766]. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved title page in each part, and 300 numbered engraved half-page views. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco.
RADEMAKER, Abraham. · 1573
€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)
[76]; [76] ll.Beautifully bound, complete copy of Abraham Rademaker's celebrated series of 300 views of famous sights and buildings in the Netherlands and Cleve. These fine engravings include views of Amsterdam, Hoorn, Egmond, Haarlem, Rynsburg, Leiden, Delft (with the ruins o...
Zaagmans almanach na de nieuwe en oude-stijl. Op 't schrickel-jaer onses Heeren Jesu Christi, 1680. Met de jaer, paerde, beeste en leer-marckten, ’s maens op en ondergang door D.R. van Nierop.Including: (2) Zaagmans tijt-wijser.(3) Korte chronyck van alle de gedenkwaerdigste geschiedenissen t' sedert de geboorte onses Heeren Iesu Christi, tot desen tegenwoordigen jare.(4) MAGINO, Antonio. De Italiaensche waer-segger op het jaer ons Heeren Jesu Christi 1680.[Amsterdam], Gillis Joosten Zaagman, 1680. 4 parts in 1 volume. 24mo. With the title page and calendar printed in red and black, a woodcut vignette on the divisional title page of each part, 13 woodcuts in the calendar (1 for each months and 1 for the eclipses), and 4 half-page woodcuts in the text. Contemporary dark brown shagreen with blind ruling along the edges, gilt edges.
NIEROP, Dirck Rembrantsz. van. · 1680
€3,250.00 ($3,582.09 | £2,711.36 | ¥572,014)
[80] pp + 12 interleaved blanks and 6 thick cardboard leavesUnrecorded issue of the 1680 edition of the popular Amsterdam almanac, compiled by Dirck Rembrantsz. van Nierop (1610-1682) and published by Gilles Joosten Zaagman, often spelled Saeghman, a famous publisher of almana...
Van Zwaamen's en Thompson's Enkhuizer almanak, voor het jaar 1883. Aanwijzende alle jaarmarkten, kermissen, paarden-, beesten- en leermarkten in het Koningrijk der Nederlanden gehouden wordende …Rotterdam, E. de Bont & Zn., [1882]. With: (2) [ALMANAC]. Alkmaarsche almanak voor het jaar 1887. Aanwijzende alle de jaarmarkten, kermissen, Paard-, beest- en leermarkten in het Konigrijk der Nederland.Alkmaar, Hermannus Coster& Zn. [1886].(3) [ALMANAC]. Alkmaarsche almanak voor het jaar 1891. Aanwijzende alle de jaarmarkten, kermissen, Paard-, beest- en leermarkten in het Konigrijk der Nederlanden.Alkmaar, Hermannus Coster& Zn. [1890]. 3 volumes. 16mo (ca. 9.5 x 7.5 cm). With the title and calendar of each work printed in red and black, the woodcut coat of arms of Enkhuizen on the title page of ad 1, and of Alkmaar on the title page of ads 2 and 3, 12 woodcut illustrations in the calendar of each work (1 for each month), and 12 full-page woodcut plates in each work, illustrating the literary contributions. Uniformly bound in contemporary overlapping vellum wrappers with a red closing tie.
[ALMANAC]. · 1883
€400.00 ($440.87 | £333.71 | ¥70,402)
Each ca. 500 ll.Uniformly bound set of three late 19th-century almanacs, including the 1883 edition of the Enkhuizer almanak and an 1887 and 1891 edition of the Alkmaarder almanak. The three almanacs have been uniformly printed with the divisional title pages for the different...
Nederlandsche muzen-almanak, 1837.Amsterdam, A. Spin for J. Immerzeel Jr., [1836]. 12mo. With a steel-engraved title, a full page steel-engraved portrait of Jan ten Brink, 6 full-page steel engraved plates protected by tissue paper guards, and a folding leaf with musical annotation. Original yellow lithographed publisher's boards, with the title and year of publication printed on the spine.
[ALMANAC]. · 1776
€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)
[16], 250, [4] pp.Scarce edition of the Nederlandsche Muzen-almanak, the most successful literary almanac published in the Netherlands in the 19th century. It was the first almanac in which the literary content played a predominant role, although some characteristics of the tr...
Calendrier royal de la cour, pour l’année 1819. Publié pour la première fois en 1756.The Hague, Gosse et Comp., [1818]. 12mo. With the coat of arms of the Dutch Kingdom on the title page, and a folding engraved hand-coloured map of the Dutch Kingdom in a roundel by Basnel & son, with a list of all the provinces of the Kingdom with the numbers of their populations, and distances from Amsterdam, The Hague, and Brussels. Contemporary gold-tooled imitation long-grained red Morocco, with an ornamental border on both boards, gilt edges. The work is housed in the original matching slipcase.
[ALMANAC]. · 1819
€600.00 ($661.31 | £500.56 | ¥105,603)
84, 192, 55, [1] pp.Rare official almanac of the Kingdom of the Netherlands printed by the "imprimeur et libraire de Sa Majesté" for the year 1819 in French, one of the two official languages of the country at the time. Apart from the parts usually present in almanacs (calenda...
Compendium chronicorum Flandriae, per Iacobum Meyerum Balliolanum. Opus nunc recens aeditum, anno M.D.XXXVIII. Norimbergae apud Io. Petrium.Neurenberg, Johannus Petreius, 1538. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer’s device on the title page of each work, and 33 decorated woodcut initials (2 in ad 1, 31 in ad 2). With: PANORMITA, Antonius (Antonio BECCADELLI). De dictis et factis Alphonsi Regis Aragonum libri quattuor. Commentarium in eosdem Aeneae Sylvii quo capitatim cum Alphonsinis contendit. Adiecta sunt singulis libris Scholia per Iacobum Spiegelium.Basel, Ex officina Hervagiana (Joannes Hervagius & Joannes Erasmus Froben), 1538.Contemporary panel-stamped calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, blind-tooled diagonal cross-hatching in the top and bottom compartment, a central panel on both boards (measuring 156 x 93 mm) with acorns on branches, surrounded by a floral border with acorns and wyverns, and an escutcheon at the bottom, the titles written in a humanistic hand at the top of the front board and on the fore edge, remnants of closing ties.
MEYER, Jacques de. · 1491
€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)
[14], 134 ll; [8], 1-125, 226-299, 100-108, 209-212, 203, 213-214, 214-216, 117, 218-230, 221-278 [=282], [2] pp.Ad 1: First edition of an early humanist history of Flanders from 445 to 1278, in a beautiful contemporary, likely Flemish, binding with exceptionally clear impress...
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.
[STUDENT ALMANAC]. · 1823
€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)
[2], 127, [1 blank] pp.One of the earliest volumes of the Utrecht students' almanac, and the first to be edited by the students themselves. The almanac was published annually from 1823 until 1996. From 1882 onwards, the almanac was a report of the activities of the Utrechtsch ...
Almanac généalogique pour l’an 1787 avec l’approbation de l’Académie Royale des sciences et belles lettres à Berlin.Berlin, George Jacques Decker, [1786]. 24mo (10.7 x 6.2 cm). With an engraved portrait of Princess Frederique of Prussia by C. Tounley after Cuningham, dated 1786 as a frontispiece. This is printed on one double-leaf with the engraved title page. Further with a folding engraved map (13 x 18.2 cm) by D.F. Soltzmann after C.L. Oesfeld (1785) showing the projected Kiel Canal, 12 numbered etchings illustrating the 12 months of the calendar by Daniel Chodowiecki. Text of all pages printed within a frame with small corner pieces. Contemporary German embroidered binding: ivory silk over boards, sides purled with (blackened) silver threat, a double row of silver sequins enclosing on the front cover the embroidered year "1787" within a wreath of silver thread hanging on an embroidered knot and on the back cover a basket with colored flowers also hanging on a knot, spine ornamented with silver thread, gilt edges.
[ALMANAC]. · 1787
€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)
[240] pp.Rare almanac for 1787, from a series of Berlin almanacs that appeared under various titles from 1769 to 1813. The almanacs could be acquired with etched plates illustrating the 12 months by the greatest German book illustrator of the 18th century Daniel Chodowiecki. H...
De van ouds vermaarde Erve Stichters Enkhuiser (...), voor den jare 1819. Aanwijzende alle de jaarmarkt., kermiss[en], paard[en], beest[en] en leermarkt[en]. in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden gehouden wordende; het op en ondergaan de maan, benevens de watergetijden, enz. Berekend op den middag-cirkel van Amsterdam door Jacob de Gelder.Amsterdam, H. van Leeuwen, [1818]. 16mo (ca. 9 x 7 cm). With the woodcut coat of arms of Enkhuizen on the title page, the title and calendar printed in red and black, 12 half-page woodcut illustrations (1 for each month), and 11 full-page woodcut illustrations. Original publisher's printed wrappers, with the title on the front and back.
GELDER, Jacob van. · 1819
€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)
[252] pp.Rare edition of the famous "Enkhuizer Almanak", for the year 1819. It starts with the calendar, the dates of holidays and markets held all over Holland, astronomical data (times of the sun and moon rises and tides; by the Leiden professor and Dutch mathematician Jacob...