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Haarlemmer duinzang, tereere van des zelfs vermakelyke land-en watergezigten, van Sandtvoordt af tot Haarlem. Versierd met twaalf naauwkeurige afbeeldingen.Amsterdam, Hendrik Bosch, 1728. Oblong 8vo. With an engraved vignette on the title page, and 12 numbered full-page engraved plates by Claes I. Visscher, including an allegorical frontispiece. Contemporary half red roan.

[TYSENS, Gysbert] & Claes Jansz. VISSCHER. · 1693

€2,000.00 ($2,204.41 | £1,668.29 | ¥352,058)

[4], 12 pp.First edition of an Arcadian poem, glorifying the landscapes surrounding Haarlem and Zandvoort, by Gijsbert Tijsens (1693-1732), poet and writer of comedies. The present work is illustrated with 12 landscape engravings by Claesz. Jansz. Visscher (1587-1652), which a...

Le voyageur en Hollande. Ouvrage indispensable pour chacun qui voyage dans ce pays. Including: [TRAVEL GUIDE]. Atlas faisant partie du Voyageur en Hollande.Amsterdam, The Hague, Middelburg, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Leiden, L.A.C. Hesse, Brothers Van Cleef, S. van Benthem, etc., 1807. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With a folding letterpress title page to the atlas and 19 folding engraved maps and plans. Contemporary gold-tooled half sprinkled calf.

[TRAVEL GUIDE]. · 1806

€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)

[2], 8, 16, 120,129-218 pp.Extremely rare travel guide to the Netherlands, with a separate atlas containing 19 maps and plans, from the library of Henry Tronchin at Bessinge. Published during the reign of Louis Napoleon (1806-1810), the guide provides practical information for...

Preis-courant. Von den nothwendigsten material- und specerey-waaren. [Pressburg (= Bratislava)], 2 April 1781. Ca. 46 x 32 cm. With an engraving of Pressburg (Bratislava), and an engraved title.

[TRADE - SLOVAKIA - HUNGARY - BROADSIDE]. · 1781

€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)

A rare and highly evocative example of an 18th-century “Preis-courant”, or commodity price current, published in Pressburg (modern-day Bratislava, capital of Slovakia). Such documents, produced at regular intervals, often weekly, served as indispensable instruments of commerce...

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. With: (2) [TIRION - VIEWS - NETHERLAND]. 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. Warnars, S. and J. Luchtmans, A. and P. Blussé, Volkert van der Plaats, [ca. 1775]. 10 parts in 2 volumes. 4to. With 845 engraved views, mostly 2 views per plate, some double page, the title page of the first part is printed in red and black. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf

[TIRION - VIEWS - NETHERLAND]. · 1705

€5,000.00 ($5,511.04 | £4,170.72 | ¥880,146)

[4]; [2]; [2]; [2]; [2]; [2]; [2]; [2]; [2]; [2] ll. + 845 viewsComplete set of this extensive topographical work, containing nearly 850 views of Dutch towns, buildings, and landscapes. It is one of the largest illustrated topographical works that was published in the Netherla...

Publicatie. Wy Bernard Texier, Gouverneur Generaal der colonie Suriname, rivieren en disticten van dien, mitsgaaders Collonel over de gezamentlyke militie dezer landen &c. &c. &c. en de raaden van politie en crimineele justitie der voorsz. Colonie &c. &c. ... doen te weeten ... den landbouw ... te foulageeren en ontheffen ...Including:(2) TEXIER, Bernard. Publicatie. Wy Bernard Texier ... en de raaden van politie en crimineele justitie ... doen te weeten ... dat wy ... gedelibereert bebbende[!], over het redres der finantien ...(3) TEXIER, Bernard. Notificatie. Den hove van politie en crimineele justitie, doet by deezen notificeeren ende bekent maken. Dat involge het vierde articul van het placaat noopens de quotisatie off heffinge ten behoeve van de cassa teegens de wegloopers in dato 20 december 1781 ...Paramaribo, widow of Nicolaas Vlier, [after 21 December 1782]. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to in 2s. Modern gold-tooled half sprinkled calf and marbled paper sides.

TEXIER, Bernard. · 1776

€7,950.00 ($8,762.55 | £6,631.45 | ¥1,399,433)

[8]; [7]; [2], [1 blank] pp.Collection of 3 extremely rare (1 hitherto unrecorded) publications in which the colonial Dutch government of Surinam explicates new taxations for plantation holders on their slaves, goods and transportation. This provides new insights into the hist...

[Album with drawings by Johan Christoffel Pieter Willem Apollo Steenkamp].[Aceh, Sumatra; the Netherlands; Germany (Mosel, Eiffel, Taunus), ca. 1895-1930]. Ca. 35.5 x 32 cm. With 4 calligraphed title pages and 64 original drawings and coloured aquatints mounted onto the leaves of the album, all views of encampments, villages and landscapes in Atjeh (Aceh, Sumatra), the Netherlands, and Germany (Mosel, Eiffel, Taunus), most signed and captioned in Dutch. Further with 5 drawings by Steenkamp and other artists loosely inserted. Twentieth-century silver-tooled green imitation leather with Steenkamp's monogram on the spine and the front board, further with "Tekeningen J.C.P.W.A. Steenkamp" lettered in white on the front board.

STEENKAMP, Johan Christoffel Pieter Willem Apollo. · 1865

€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)

[47] ll.Extensive album of sixty-four drawings by the Dutch army officer and artist Johan Christoffel Pieter Willem Apollo Steenkamp (1865-1955), divided into three sections: Aceh, the Netherlands and Germany. The first and most important section contains fifteen views made du...

[Collection of three series of portraits of the Dutch Stadtholder, his spouse and their three children].[Mid- to late 18th century]. Ca. 26.5 x 24.5 cm. With 5 full-page mezzotint portraits, 5 full-page hand-coloured engraved portraits, and 7 smaller stipple-engraved portraits, all mounted onto the leaves of the album, separated by tissue paper guards. 20th-century three-quarter gold-tooled red morocco with the title ("Prins Willem V en zijn gezin") lettered in gold on the spine.

[STADTHOLDER WILLIAM V]. · 1772

€3,950.00 ($4,353.72 | £3,294.87 | ¥695,316)

[12] ll.Album containing seventeen portraits of Stadholder William V, his wife Wilhelmina of Prussia and their children, comprising three series of prints by Benjamin Samuel Bolomey, Georg Matthäus Probst and his son, Mathias de Sallieth and Jeremias Snoek. Together they prese...

XVII provinciae Belgii sive Germaniae inferioris.Augsburg, Tobias Conrad Lotter, [1762-1777]. Ca. 20.5 x 26.3 cm. With a hand coloured engraved map. The map is folded and housed in a contemporary sprinkled paper case, with an engraved title label mounted on the front.

SEUTTER, Matthäus. · 1678

€350.00 ($385.77 | £291.95 | ¥61,610)

Decorative hand-coloured map of the Seventeen Provinces, depicting the Habsburg Netherlands as they existed in the early seventeenth century, encompassing present-day Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands, together with parts of northern France. Originally published by the p...

Monuments de Maestricht, aquarelles lithochromes.[Brussels, Simoneau & Toovey, 1857]. With: (2) SCHAEPKENS, Alexandre. Ancienne enceinte militaire de Maestricht démolie en 1867-1869.[Maastricht? 1872].(3) SCHAEPKENS, Alexandre. Oud Maestricht en buurt. 1ste serie. 2de serie.[Brussels, 1887]. 3 works in 1 volume. Oblong folio. Ad 1 with 30 coloured lithographed plates; ad 2 with 12 coloured lithographed plates; ad 3 with 52 etched plates, all mounted to the leaves of the album. Contemporary half beige cloth, marbled paper sides.

SCHAEPKENS, Alexandre. · 1815

€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)

Remarkable album bringing together three of Alexandre Schaepkens’ (1815-1899) most important series devoted to Maastricht and its surroundings, including the extremely rare third part. Richly illustrated and documentary in character, the present work forms an extensive visual ...

Tonneel der wereldtse rampsaligheden, vertoonende Godts wraake, over de roepende en verfoeyelijke zonde der moedtwillige en voor-bedachte moordery. Welkers wonderlijke ontdekkingen en gestrenge straffe beschreven worden in XXX. bezondere jammerlijke historien: vervattende veel droevige en gedenkwaardige geschiedenissen: historische, zedelijke en goddelijke lessen.Amsterdam, (colophon: widow of Tymon Houthaak) for Gerrit van Goedesbergh, 1667. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved printer's device on the title page, and 30 full-page engravings, each with 8 separate illustrations, depicting 240 scenes from the many stories. Contemporary vellum.

REYNOLDS, John and Johannes GRINDAL (translator). · 1622

€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)

[8], 888 pp.First Dutch edition of John Reynolds's collection of thirty dramatic tales of passion, crime and murder, regarded as an early example of true crime writing. The stories include adultery, jealousy, duels, poisoning and murder, but the perpetrators are always discove...

Plan de la ville et carte des environs de La Haye.Comprising: (1) REDING, H. Nieuwe platte grond der stad s' Gravenhage/ Nouveau plan de La Haye.(2) REDING, H. Carte des environs de La Haye.The Hague, chez F. J. Weygand, 1838. Each ca. 32 x 39.5 cm. With 2 hand coloured lithographed maps printed on coated linen. Both maps are folded and housed in the original publisher's reddish brown buckram case, with an engraved blue title label mounted on the front.

REDING, H. · 1806

€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)

Pair of two finely lithographed maps of The Hague and its surroundings, printed on coated linen and preserved in their original publisher's case. They were issued by François Joseph Weygand Jr. (1806-?), son of the royal printer François Joseph Weygand (1771-1837), the first D...

Cours van coopmanschappen tot Amsterdam den 13 February. Anno 1741.Amsterdam, Hendrik Boussière, [1741]. A long sheet (ca. 40.5 x 14.5 cm), printed on two sides, with the woodcut coat of arms of Amsterdam at the head. Tipped into a passe-partout.

[PERIODICAL - TRADE - AMSTERDAM]. · 1609

€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)

[2] pp.Exceptionally rare issue of a commodity price current for the Amsterdam market, providing merchants with up-to-date market prices for a wide range of goods. This publication was issued every Monday from 1609 onward, although comparable price lists are known to have circ...

Roteiro da costa da provincia do Maranhão, desde Jericoacoara ate a Ilha de Sto. João, e da entrada, e sahida pela bahia de Sto. Marcos, qu edeve acomanhar a carta redudiza da costa da sobredita provincia ... Survey of the coast of the province of Maranham, from Jericoacoara to the Island of St. John, and of the entrance of the bay of St. Marcos; intended as an accompaniment to the reduced chart of the coast of the aforesaid province. (Colophon: Liverpool, F.B. Wright, printer), 1821. 4to. Contemporary gold-tooled tree-marbled calf.

PEREIRA DO LAGO, Antonio Bernardino. · 1777

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

21, [1 blank] pp.Exceptionally rare work about the coastline of the Brazilian province of Maranhão, intended as a navigation guide for sailors. The text, written in both Portuguese and English, describes the coast from Jericoacoara to the Island of São João, giving details abo...

[Collection of contemporary manuscripts and documents regarding the Amfioensociëteit].Comprising: (1) [OPIUM TRADE - VOC - MANUSCRIPT]. Octroy door de edele hoge Indiase regering, verleend aan de societeyt van den Amphioen handel, tot Batavia.(2) [OPIUM TRADE - VOC - MANUSCRIPT]. Prolongatie van het octroy van D'Amphioen Sociteit.(3) [OPIUM TRADE - VOC - MANUSCRIPT]. Memorie voor mijne gemagtigden heeres(?) Themans en Bovie.[In or after 1762]. 3 parts in 1 volume.With: (4) [OPIUM TRADE - VOC - MANUSCRIPT]. [Collection of 12 Dutch documents].1793-1807. Various sizes. With 12 manuscript documents, and a manuscript on paper in 2 different hands. Ad 1-3: Contemporary sturdy paper wrappers, sewn on 3 vellum supports; ad 4: the 12 documents are held together by a narrow paper wrapper with the text: "Onafgedaane Indiësche zaaken, concentreerende de Amphioen Societeyt", and a string.

[OPIUM TRADE - VOC - MANUSCRIPT]. · 1745

€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)

[15], [1 blank]; [3] ll.Collection of thirteen Dutch manuscripts concerning the Amfioensociëteit (Amfioen Society), documenting both its establishment in 1745 and its dissolution half a century later. Founded by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to maintain its monopoly on th...

Catalogue des tres belle[!] oignons des fleurs, comme jacinthes, tulipes, ranuncules, anemones, bouquet-narcissen, etc. Qu'on trouve à vendre chez Isaak Moerbeek, fleurist à Harlem en Hollande.[Haarlem?], 178[4]. 12mo. Contemporary half brocade paper wrappers with floral paper sides.

[NURSERY CATALOGUE - FLOWER BULBS - HAARLEM]. · 1784

€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)

40 pp.Only known copy of the 1784 nursery catalogue of the company of Isaak Moerbeek in Haarlem, listing the prices of several hundred varieties of flower bulbs, including numerous cultivars of hyacinths, tulips, ranunculus, anemones, and daffodils, alongside lilies, fritillar...

[A royal Portuguese proclamation during the Pernambuco Revolution 1817]. [Drop title:] Propclamação. Habitantes de Pernambuco!Rio De Janeiro, Impressão Régia, 1817. Folio. Disbound, kept in a clear plastic folder.

[MONTEIRO, José Maria]. · 1817

€2,750.00 ($3,031.07 | £2,293.90 | ¥484,080)

[4] pp.Rare and historically significant proclamation offering a visceral window into one of the most turbulent chapters of Brazil’s early 19th-century history, the Pernambucan Revolution of 1817. On 6 March, the Captaincy of Pernambuco rose in a bloody coup against the Portug...

Recueil de vues pittoresques.[France?], 1824. 4to. With an illustrated title-page heightened in gold, two smaller titles also heightened in gold, and 52 original watercolours. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, "M.B." in gold on the front board, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.

MILLE, Louis. · 1783

€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)

[112] pp.Charming manuscript album containing 52 original watercolours, each executed in a delicate naïve style and mostly accompanied by contemporary French captions. The album is divided into two sections: 30 topographical views and 22 picturesque genre scenes, with a manusc...

[Collection of 22 manuscript occasional poems written by members of the Amsterdam family Van Middelburg(h)].[The Netherlands, ca. 1717-1749]. 22 broadsheets (one: 32.5 x 20 cm; the other 21: ca. 41.5 x 32.5 cm), containing occasional poems written in a sometimes childish hand, all within a calligraphic frame, five of which printed: full of angels, horses, lions, skaters, a tour by sledge, city view with the daily activities, and religious scenes (Resurrection, Ascension, etc., see no. 21) in the margins. One of the printed broadsheets coloured by a contemporary hand (no. 16). Never bound, kept together in a clear plastic folder.

MIDDELBURG, Isaak van; Catrina van MIDDELBURG, and others. · 1717

€1,800.00 ($1,983.97 | £1,501.46 | ¥316,853)

[22] ll.Extensive collection of 22 manuscript occasional poems written by members of the Amsterdam Van Middelburg family and their relatives during the first half of the eighteenth century. Written for Christmas, New Year, Easter, Pentecost and the annual fair (kermis), the po...

[Collection of 84 original drawings for Economische Liedjes].[Amsterdam, 1792-1798]. With 84 drawings, each ca. 7.3 x 12.7 cm. All drawings carefully tipped onto board leaves, several mounted within elegant grey ink-washed borders.

MEURS, Jacob van. · 1783

€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)

A large and remarkable series of original model drawings prepared for the engraved plates illustrating the Economische Liedjes by Betje Wolff (1783-1804) and Aagje Deken (1741-1804), first published in three volumes by Isaac van Cleef in The Hague in 1781.The engraved plates, ...

Lijste der medicijnen. relatief tot het placcaet in dato 10 april, als hier onder.[Antwerp, in or after 1684]. Ca. 51 x 37 cm.

[MEDICINE LIST - ANTWERP - BROADSIDE]. · 1684

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

Rare and substantial 17th-century pharmaceutical broadside, listing approximately 150 composite medicines required to be held in specified locations, such as apothecaries or ships’ medicine chests. The document was formally concluded in the sessions of the “Maandagsche Raad” (...