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[VOC]. [Collection of printed VOC orders, resolutions, instructions and other documents, assembled and published with a printed contents list.]
Amsterdam and possibly elsewhere, Nicolaas Byl, Adriaan Wor and others, 1747-1790. Folio. With 2 woodcut illustrations in item 20, 1 leaf inserted in item 23 printed in red, and several items with a woodcut ship on the title page and/or one or more woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary (ca. 1790) sheepskin parchment. Full description

VRIES, Klaas de. Schat-kamer ofte konst der stier-lieden, zynde een klaar onderwysing der navigatie van al het geen een stierman, aangaande de konst, behoorde te weeten. Hier by gevoegt de tafelen van sinus, tangens, en secans, en de logarithmus, sinus, &c. en de nommer logarithmus, mitsgaders de streek-tafel.
Including: (2) VLACQ, Adriaen. De Tafelen der sinuum, tangentium en secantium ...
Amsterdam, Joannes Loots, 1702. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut illustration on the title page, 4 engraved plates. Further with many woodcut illustrations, and letterpress tables, woodcut head- and tailpieces, woodcut decorated initials (2 series). Ad 2 primarily with letterpress tables of logarithms and trigonometric functions, the present copy lacking those for logarithms. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title in English on spine. [12], 30, [12], [1], 32-272, 271-334, [1], [1 blank]; [3], 44, [1], [12], [90 lacking], [2], [101], [1 blank] pp. Full description

WELPER, Eberhard the elder. Gnomonica, oder gründlicher Unterricht und Beschreibung, Wie man allerhand Sonnen-Uhren auf ebenen Orten künstlich aufreissen und leichlich verfertigen soll &c. Zum andermal aufgeleget und mit nutzlichen Anmerkungen, wie auch dem andern Theil, vermehret, durch einen Liebhaber der Mathematischen Wissenschaften [= Johann Christoph Sturm].
Nuremberg, Paulus Fürstens, printed by Christoph Gerhard, 1672. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With a finely engraved frontispiece (an architectural gate with a wide variety of sundials and other astronomical instruments), 16 engraved plates (1 folding) in the first part (that for p. 48 repeated - at the end of vol. 2 - in accordance with the instructions to the binder), and numerous mathematical illustrations and figures on 13 folding engraved plates lettered A-N in the second part. Contemporary parchment. [12], 88; 74, [2] pp. Full description

WIT, Frederick de. Atlas maior.
Amsterdam, Johannes Covens & Cornelis Mortier, [ca. 1725]. Imperial folio (53 x 35.5 cm). With engraved title page and 76 double-page (or in 8 cases larger folding) engraved maps, the title page and all maps and their decorations coloured by a contemporary hand. Half tanned sheepskin (ca. 1900), gold-tooled spine. Full description

WREN, Matthew. Increpatio Bar Jesu: sive Polemicae adsertiones locorum aliquot S. Scripturae, ab imposturis perversionum in Catechesi Racoviana; collectae hinc indè, per Matthaeum Wren F. Ex opere praegrandi Meditationum croticarum in S. Paginam, conscriptarum à patre suo R.D.M. Episcopo Eliensi in Solitudino suâ carceriâ, de genuino sensu, atque exactâ nostrâ versione Divinorum textuum.
London, Jacobus Flesher for Cornelius Bee, 1660. 4to. With a woodcut headpiece. Contemporary calf, blind ruled along the edges, with a gold-tooled oval centerpiece: the stamp of "The society of writers to the signet" lettered around its coat of arms (this society is also known as the "WS Society", a prestigious, private association of Scottish solicitors dating back to 1594, and based in Edinburgh. The society maintains the Signet Library, Parliament House, Edinburgh); red painted edges. Re-backed: 20th-century gold-tooled spine with a (the original?) red morocco title-label lettered in gold. [24], 762, [2] pp. Full description

[ZACUTO, Abraham Ben Samuel]. Ephemerides sive Almanach perpetuu[m].
(Colophon:) Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein, for Johannes Lucilius Santritter, October 1498. 4to. With a woodcut title page and numerous tables. 20th-century limp vellum, sewn on 2 thin vellum straps laced through the joints, with the manuscript name of the (wrong) author and year of publication on the spine. [122] ll. Full description

[VIEWS - NETHERLANDS - ZEELAND]. Speculum zelandiae[,] dat is een beschryvinge ofte afbeelding der steden, ambachts-heerlijckheden, dorpen[,] castelen, ridderlijcke hofsteden, huysen en gebouwen gelegen inde eylanden en de graeflijckheyt van Zeelandt.
Amsterdam, the widow Joachim Ottens and sons, [1719/25]. Oblong 1mo (34 x 39.5 cm). With engraved allegorical title-page (with the coats of arms of the province of Zeeland and 8 Zeeland cities) and 37 engraved plates (plate size 21 x 28 cm), including 2 different views of Middleburg from the harbour side (the earlier publications included one or the other). 19th-century gold-tooled sheepskin parchment. With the bookplate of Vincent van Gogh. [36] engr. ll. Full description