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Extremely rare miniature almamac in a mother-of-pearl chemise

[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
€ 1,500
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Early 18th-century guide to Amsterdam

[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
€ 1,250
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Maria de Medici's visit to Amsterdam with all the plates in the first state

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
€ 17,500
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Unrecorded original issue of a series of 16 views of the Honselaarsdijk palace, coloured by hand

[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
€ 3,500
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Magnificent plates of one of Amsterdam's most important monuments

[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
€ 1,950
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The first substantial, influential and magnificently illustrated description and history of Amsterdam

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
€ 8,500
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One of the important histories of Amsterdam at the time the city grew into
one of the most important cities of the world

[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
€ 3,500
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18th-century Amsterdam depicted - The famous atlas of Fouquet in its rare first edition with the text

[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
€ 15,000
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Magnificent coloured aquatints of Amsterdam in the first quarter of the nineteenth century

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
€ 4,500
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Five charming small watercolours of four country houses in the surroundings of Utrecht and Leiden

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
€ 7,500
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