Highlights

[ALMANAC - DUTCH]. De kleine tydwyzer of jufferlyke almanach voor den jaare 1797.
Amsterdam, Jan van Gulik, [1796]. 16mo (ca. 63 x 30 mm). With an engraved title-page, 5 numbered double-page engravings, and an engraved text page on the sounding of the bell of the Amsterdam Gate. Contemporary decorated wrappers, side stitched through two holes. The work is inserted into a contemporary mother-of-pearl chemise with a silver spine and a metal clasp. [24] ll. Full description

[AMSTERDAM - CITY GUIDE]. Le guide ou nouvelle description d'Amsterdam, enseignant aux voyageurs, et aux negoçians sa splendeur, son commerce, & la description de ses edifices, ruës, ports, canaux, ponts, ecluses, &c. Nouvelle edition augmentée considerablement.
Amsterdam, Paul de la Feuille, 1720.
With: (2) Tarif general des Provinces Unies pour les droits d'entrée & de sortie que payent les marchandises, tant en ce païs qu'à la Mer Baltique, au passage du Sont.
Amsterdam, Paul de la Feuille, 1718. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with 28 engraved illustrations on 24 folding leaves. Further with a small woodcut vignette on the title page, one woodcut decorated initial, and one woodcut headpiece. Ad 2 with a woodcut floral vignette on the title page, and typographical tables in the text. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, and red sprinkled edges. [1], [1 blank], [4], "216" [= 198], [2 blank]; 123; [2]; pp. Full description

BARLAEUS, Caspar (BAERLE, Kasper van). Medicea hospes, sive descriptio publicae gratulationis, qua serenissimam, Augustissimamque reginam, Mariam de Medicis, excepit senatus populusque Amstelodamensis.
Amsterdam, Joan & Cornelis Blaeu, 1638. Folio (ca. 39.5 x 25 cm). With 17 engraved plates (1 frontispiece, 14 double page, and 2 folding), a woodcut coat-of-arms of the city of Amsterdam on the title-page, two decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary gold-tooled brown morocco, with a laurel wreath in the centre of both boards, set in a double fillet frame. [12], 62, [2 blank] pp. Full description

[BLOOTELING, Abraham (engraver)]. Series of 16 views of Honselaarsdijk.
(Amsterdam, ca. 1683). Oblong 8vo. With 16 fine numbered engraved views (ca. 13 x 16 cm), signed by Abraham Blooteling, tipped in on blank leaves (17 x 23 cm), all hand coloured. Modern half vellum, boards pasted with paper decorated with small flowers. [16] ll. with engravings. Full description

[CAMPEN, Jacob van, Hubert QUELLINUS and Jacob VENNEKOOL]. Architecture peinture et sculpture de la maison de ville d'Amsterdam, representée en CIX. Figures en taille-douce.
Amsterdam, David Mortier, 1719. Royal folio. With a title-page in red and black with an engraved device (a portrait of Erasmus in an elaborate cartouche with allegorical figures), and 124 engraved architectural and sculptural illustrations on 109 numbered plates (6 double-page, 103 full-page).
Contemporary quarter brown sheepskin. 22 pp. + 109 plates Full description

DAPPER, Olfert. 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. [12], 48, [8], 49-152, 145-152, 145-456, 449-456, 449-456, 449-552, [84] pp. Full description

[DOMSELAER, Tobias van, Arnoldus MONTANUS, Isaak COMMELIN, Olfert DAPPER and others]. Beschryvinge van Amsterdam, haar eerste oorspronk uyt den Huyze der Heeren van Aemstel en Aemstellant ... Uyt verscheyde oude en nieuwe Hollandsche Kronijcken, Beschrijvingen, Brieven, Willekeuren, &c. by een vergadert ...
Amsterdam, Marcus Willemsz. Doornick, 1665. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 8 engraved plates (1 folding, 7 double-page), and 111 engravings in the text. Slightly later gold-tooled mottled calf. [8], 284, [2], 312, 446, [114] pp. Full description

[FOUQUET Jr., Pierre]. Nieuwe atlas van de voornaamste gebouwen en gezigten der stad Amsterdam, met derzelver beknopte beschryvingen.
Amsterdam, Daniel Jean Changuion & Petrus van Hengst, 1783. 2 volumes. Folio. With a double-page engraved plan of Amsterdam, and 102 double-page engraved city views (45 in the first volume and 57 in the second), the title-page of each volume printed in red and black. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled half calf. [2], 27; [1], 36 ll. Full description

KRUYF, Cornelis de. Vues choisies d'Amsterdam et ses environs dessinées d'apres nature.
Amsterdam, François Buffa & sons, [1824-25]. 4to. With an engraved title page, and 45 contemporary hand coloured aquatint plates, separated by tissue paper guards. Contemporary half vellum, marbled paper sides. [2 blank], [1], [1 blank], [2] pp. Full description

LUTGERS, Petrus Josephus. [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. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - UTRECHT]. Vrij en ridder hofsteden.
[Utrecht? ca. 1650]. Folio. Manuscript on paper, written in brown ink in a legible hand. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 5 supports laced through the joints. 72 ll. Full description

[MOUROT, Jean François Michel]. [Gezigten van buitenplaatsen en gebouwen tusschen Utrecht en de Grebbe].
Utrecht, I.P. Houtman, [1828-1830]. Oblong 4to. With 2 lithographed index leaves, and 75 full-page lithographed views of estates and gardens in Utrecht (including De Bilt, Zeist, Doorn, Driebergen, Leersum, and Amerongen), protected by a leaf of rice-paper. Contemporary half green morocco, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, marbled paper sides. [2] ll. + 75 plates. Full description

[MULDER, Joseph and DE LESPINE]. Veues de Gunterstein. Dediees A Madame de Gunterstein et de Thienhoven.
Amsterdam, Nicolas Visscher, [ca. 1690]. Oblong 4to (20.5 x 28 cm). With richely engraved allegorical title by J. Mulder, and 15 fine engraved views of the House and Gardens of Gunterstein, on the Vecht near Breukelen, engraved by De Lespine. Old boards. [16] ll. Full description

OUTREIN, Johannes d'. Wegwyser door de heerlykheid Roosendaal ofte, de Roosendaalsche vermakelykheden met een geestelyk en zedelyk ooge beschouwt en in digtmaat gestelt.
Amsterdam, Gerard van Keulen, 1718. 4to. With an engraved full-page portrait of Johan van Arnhem, lord of Roosendaal by J. Baptist, a plate with his engraved coat-of-arms, a large folding engraved bird's-eye view of the House Roosendaal, and 19 folding engraved views of houses, gardens, fountains, bridges and other buildings in Roosendaal and its surroundings, all designed by B. Elshof and engraved by J. Smit. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [40], 88 pp. Full description

PONTANUS, Johannes Isaac. Rerum et urbis Amstelodamensium historia.
Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1611. Folio. With an engraved title, 7 engraved maps and plates (5 folding, 2 double-page), and 50 engraved maps and views in the text. Contemporary limp vellum. [8], 292, [6], 38, [3] pp. Full description

SCHENK, Pieter [and Jan van CALL]. Rozendael. Aan den hoog-edel welgeboren en gestengen heere den heere Joan Baron van Arnhem, heere van Rozendael tot Harslo, byzonderen Raad des vorstendoms Gelre en graefschap Zutphen ... word deze afbeelding van Rozendael, opgedragen.
Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, [1702?]. Oblong royal 4to (25 x 31.5 cm). With an engraved dedication also serving as a title-page, and 16 unnumbered engraved views (15 x 18.5 cm). Modern half parchment, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, marbled paper sides. [17] ll. Full description

SCHENK, Pieter and Jacob Pieterszoon ROMAN. Conspectus Novi Praetorii Loo ex accurata delineatione Jacobi Romani ...
[Amsterdam], Pieter Schenk, [ca. 1720]. Oblong royal 4to (ca. 23 x 29 cm). With an engraved dedication also serving as a title-page, and 16 unnumbered engraved views (15 x 18.5 cm). Modern half sheepskin parchment. [17] ll. Full description

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

SELS, Willem Hendrik. Salomon, Koning van Israël. In XII boeken.
Amsterdam, F. de Kruyff, A. van der Kroe, 1765[-1768]. 4to (23.5 x 17.5 cm; binding 24.5 x 19.5 x 4 cm). With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 12 engraved plates, a small engraved scene on the title page, and an armorial engraving above the dedication, all coloured by a contemporary hand and heightened with gold. Contemporary richly gold-tooled dark olive morocco by the so-called "Three Acorn Bindery" in Amsterdam, with a central ornament on both boards, surrounded by an elaborate decorative frame, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, a red morocco title label on the spine, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, green ribbon marker. [22], 292 pp. Full description

STOOPENDAAL, Daniel. Veue de la maison de Zeyst avec ses jardins et plantages appartenans à Monsieur Le Comte de Nassau - Het Gezigt van het Huys van Zeyst, met zyn tuynen en plantagien, toebehoorende aan Myn Heer De Graaf van Nassau.
With: STOOPENDAAL, Daniel. [Twenty views of Zeist House and Garden].
Amsterdam, Nicolaus Visscher, [ca. 1700]. Large engraved view (ca. 62 x 87 cm) surrounded by a series of 20 engraved plans and views (each. ca. 16 x 21 cm) all by Daniel Stoopendaal. Framed (ca. 118 x 106 cm). Full description

[STOOPENDAAL, Daniel (engraver)]. [Series of twenty-one views of Zuylestein House and gardens].
[Ca. 1710]. Oblong album (ca. 21.5 x 27.5 cm). With 21 full-page numbered engraved plates, mounted onto the leaves of an album, captioned in Dutch and French. Early 20th-century grey boards, with a paper title label mounted vertically on the spine. [23] ll. Full description

[TENGNAGEL, Mattheus Ganzneb]. Het leven van Konstance: waer af volgt het tooneelspel, de Spaensche heidin.
Amsterdam, Nicolaes van Ravesteyn, voor Johannes Jacott, 1643. Small 4to. With 6 full-page etchings by Pieter Nolpe after Simon de Vlieger, Pieter Quast, and Izak Izaksoon, musical scores by Gerret Bolhamer, a woodcut device on the title-page, 15 decorated woodcut initials of different sizes, and several woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum, 171, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[TRAVEL - LOW COUNTRIES] Het avantuurlyk zomer-tochtje, of omlands reisje, uit Holland door 't Sticht Utrecht, Over-Yssel, Gelderland, Cleeffland, de Myery van den Bosch, Breda, enz. Behelzende eenige nauwkeurige beschryvinge van vele aardige gevallen, vermakelyke gesprekken en aangename historien, op die reize gebeurt of gehoort. Opgestelt door iemand welke dat tochtje zelf met gezelschap gedaan heeft.
[Amsterdam?], printed for the author, 1735. Small 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine, blue sprinkled edges. [8], 439 pp. Full description

[VIANEN, Jan van (illustrator)]. Le château Roial de Ryswick appellée de Neubourg avec les differens apartemens ou se tiennent les conferences de la paix generale.- Het koninklyke kasteel tot Ryswyck. Genaamt Nieuwburg, met alles des selfs kamers en gezigten, in 't bysonder, daar de conferentien der algemeene vreede gehouden werden, &c.
The Hague, Anna Beek, [1697]. Folio (33 x 20.5 cm). With a double-page title in red and black, 13 double-page engraved views (ca. 22 x 27 cm) on guards of Nieuwburg castle, 12 of which signed by Jan van Vianen. Contemporary quarter red sheepskin, marbled paper sides. [14] double-page ll. Full description

[VIEW - AMSTERDAM]. Amsterdam. (Caption:) Amsterdam, ville du Comté de Hollande et la plus considérable des Provinces Unies.
[Amsterdam, between 1660 and 1668 (ca. 1665)]. Engraving: ca. 38.5 x 50 cm; frame: 66.5 x 76 cm. In a passe partout, framed in a modern wooden frame. Full description

WESTERBAEN, Jacob. Arctoa Tempe. Ockenburgh. Woonstede van den Heere van Brandwyck. In de Clingen buyten Loosduinen.
The Hague, Johannes Rammazeyn for Anthony Tongerloo, 1654. 4to. With a letterpress title-page in red and black, a folding engraved view of Ockenburgh by Adriaen Matham after the drawing by Arent Ravesteyn, and 2 decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript author and title on the spine, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints. [48], 205, [2] pp. Full description

[WETSTEIN, George]. Het gelukkig ongeval. Bly-eindend treurspel.
Amsterdam, Heirs of J. Lescailje en Dirk Rank, 1721.
With:
(2) IDEM. Erik, Prins van Zweden. Treurspel.
Amsterdam, Heirs of J. Lescailje and Dirk Rank, 1722.
(3) IDEM. Gustavus Adolphus. Koning van Zweden, beschermer der Duitsche vryheit. Oorlogspel.
Amsterdam, Heirs of J. Lescailje and Dirk Rank, 1723. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Each work with an engraved frontispiece, the original preliminary ink drawing for the frontispiece, protected by tissue paper guards, and an engraved device on the title page. Contemporary gold-tooled olive morocco, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine lettered, bound by the so-called Fleur-de-Lis Bindery (The Hague 1729-ca. 1756; Storm van Leeuwen, IIA, pp. 110-117). With the coat of arms of Aaron de Joseph de Pinto in the centre of both boards, tooled onto a red morocco inlay of the same shape, surrounded by richly ornamental borders with the crowned monogram of De Pinto (ADJP) in the corners, the same monogram repeated in 5 of the 6 compartments on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. 88; 83; 87 pp. Full description

WILLINK, Daniel. Amstellandsche arkadia, of beschryving van de gelegenheit, toestand en gebeurtenissen van Amstellandt, met deszelfs onderhoorige dorpen, heerlykheden, ambachten, lusthoven, wateren, enz.
Amsterdam, Arent van Huyssteen, 1737. 2 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece and an engraved title vignette in each volume, the first volume with 37 double-page engraved plates, a folding portrait of the author, and a double-page map, the second volume with 32 double-page engraved plates, and a double-page letterpress family tree. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled vellum. [16], 400; [2], 327, [9] Full description

ZESEN, Philipp von. Beschreibung der Stadt Amsterdam. Darinnen von derselben ersten Ursprunge bis auf gegenwärtigen Zustand, ihr unterschiedlicher Anwachs, herliche Vorrechte, und in 60 Kupferstücken entworfene führnehmste Gebeue, zusamt ihrem Stahtswesen, Kaufhandel, und ansehnlicher Macht zur See, wie auch wass ich in und mit derselben märkwürdiges zugetragen, vor Augen gestellet werden. Hier ist auch beigefügt, ein Appendix oder Beschreibung der neuen Auslage der Stadt Amsterdam, samt den Kupferstücken.
Amsterdam, Markus Wilhelmsen Doornik, 1664. 12mo. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, and 58 engraved plates (2 full-page, 4 folding, and 52 double-page). Contemporary overlapping vellum. [22], 567 pp. Full description

ZESEN, Philipp von. Beschreibung der Stadt Amsterdam: Darinnen von derselben ersten ursprunge bis auf gegenwärtigen Zustand, ihr unterschiedlicher anwachs, herliche Vorrechte, und in mehr als 70 Kupfer-stükken entworfene führnehmste Gebeue, zusamt ihrem Stahts-wesen, Kauf-handel, und ansehnlicher macht zur see, wie auch was sich in und mit derselben märkwürdiges zugetragen, vor augen gestellet werden.
Amsterdam, Joachim Noschen, 1664. 4to. With a richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, a large engraving in the text showing two prisoners at work in the Amsterdam penal institution, the "Rasphuis", and 73 (one added twice) engraved plans and views of Amsterdam (1 full-page, 68 double-page, 4 folding). Contemporary overlapping vellum. [8], 398, [22] pp. Full description