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Eyewitness account of the Cape under Dutch rule, with the often missing map

BOUCHENROEDER, Baron Friedrich von. Reize in de binnenlanden van Zuid-Afrika. Gedaan in den jare 1803.
Amsterdam, Mortier Covens en zoon; The Hague, B. Besanger, 1806. 8vo. With a large folding engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, and two folding tables showing (1) the fertility of various regions and (2) the products that could be exported following improvements in the cultivation of various crops. Contemporary marbled boards. [4], 231, [13] pp. Full description
€ 1,650
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Early handbook on the government and public institutions of the Dutch Republic

[BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius van]. Politijck ende militair handtboecxken vanden staet der geunieerde provincien: aenwysende des selfs maniere van regieringe, veelvoudigemiddelen &c. als mede de lasten des oorlochs by de selve gedragen tot den jare 1651.
Including: [BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius van (attributed)]. Militair repartitie-boexken aen-wijzende den staet des oorlogs der Geunieerde Provintien, als mede het getal de compagnyen, soo te peert als te voet, in des-selfs dienst gheweest zijnde sedert den jare 1621.
1652. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. Ad 1 with several woodcut decorated initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces; ad 2 with a woodcut vignette on the title page. Contemporary overlapping vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, red sprinkled edges. [4], 260; 141, [3 blank] pp. Full description
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The first complete collected edition

BREDERO, Gerbrand Adriaensz. Alle de wercken. So spelen, gedichten, brieven en kluchten van den gheest-rijcken poëet. Verbetert en daer by ghevoeght eenighe die noyt voor desen ghedruckt zijn gheweest.
Amsterdam, Cornelis Lodewijckz. van den Plasse, 1638. 14 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author on the general title page, an engraved allegorical frontispiece by Jan van de Velde, an almost full-page engraved portrait of the author by Hessel Gerrits, a woodcut vignette on the divisional title of each part. Further with decorated woodcut initials and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Comprising:
(1) Treur-Spel van Roddrick ende Alphonsus.
(2) Griane. Op syn Spreuck het kan verkeeren.
(3) Lucelle.
(4) Moortje.
(5) Spaanschen Brabander Ierolimo.
(6) Stommen ridder.
(7) Angeniet.
(8) Schyn-Heylich.
(9) Spel, op 't oud liedt Het daget uyt den Oosten, op de reghel, Die quaet doet, quaet ontmoet.
(10) Nederduytsche poëmata.
(11) Kluchten als Vande koe.
(12) Klucht, van Symen sonder soetigheydt.
(13) Klucht van den molenaer.
(14) Klucht vanden Hoogduytschen quacksalver.
Contemporary gold-tooled vellum [ca. 800 pp.] Full description
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A masterpiece of early Dutch lithography, with 25 leaves printed in gold

[CAAN, Hendrik Johan]. Vorsten uit het Huis van Oranje geboren op het Lustslot Soestdijk.
[The Hague, A.P. Van Langenhuijsen, 1842]. 2 works. 8vo. Ad 1: with 4 full-page lithographed plates and 17 leaves of lithographed text, partly in calligraphic script and partly in typographic lettering, all printed in gold using bronze powder. Ad 2: fully lithographed. With: (2) CAAN, Hendrik Johan. Toast bij de aanbieding van het Gedenkschrift Diligentia den 13 September 1843.
[Den Haag, A.P. van Langenhuijsen, 1843]. Unbound. [18]; [2] ll. Full description
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Three illustrated first editions by one of the most popular Dutch poets of the Golden Age

[CATS, Jacob], Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus, Vitae humanae ideam, Emblemate trifariàm variato, oculis subijciens.
Middelburg, Johannes Hellenius [= Hans van der Hellen], 1618. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 3 parts. 4to. Ad 1: with an engraved frontispiece for each of the three parts (1 and 3 by Frans Schillemans after Adriaen van de Venne, 1618); 51 numbered emblems in the first part, the well-known folding engraved plate of the "Kinderspelen" (Children games) at the end of part 2, decorated woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces; Ad 2 with a full-page engraved plate of the coat-of-arms of "chaste virgins", a half-page engraved plate of the manor house and garden of Catharina van Muylwijck, 44 emblems engraved by J. Swelinck (?) after Adriaen van de Venne, and extra inserted is the famous full-page portrait of Galathee; Ad 3: with a woodcut vignette on the title-page, 4 half-page engravings in the text, of which three after Van de Venne, decorated woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces.
With: (2) [CATS, Jacob]. Maechden-plicht ofte ampt der ionck-vrouwen, in eerbaer liefde, aenghewesen door Sinne-beelden.
Middelburg, Johannes Hellenius (Hans van der Hellen), 1618.
(3) [CATS, Jacob]. Selfstryt, dat is crachtighe beweginghe van vlees en gheest ... (&c.).
Middelburg, Johannes Hellenius (Hans van der Hellen) for Jan Pietersz van de Venne, 1620.
Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [40], 120; 111, [1 blank]; 107, [5]; [16], 92, [20]; [34], 119, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 5,000
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Spanish account of the 1588-1599 period from the Eighty Years' War

COLOMA, Carlos. De las guerras de los Estados Baxos, desde el año de M.D.LXXXVIII. hasta el de M.D.XC.IX.
Antwerp, Juan Bellero, 1635. 4to. With an engraved title page, 14 decorated woodcut initials, and 8 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum, red edges. [4], 651, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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A strong plea for obligatory education in the Netherlands

CRAMER, Bastiaan. De Geldersche trap der jeugd, in onderscheiding van die, door C. Gelliers te Leeuwarden eertyds opgesteld, of grondige en nauwkeurige fundament-legger der Nederduitsche spel- lees- schrijf- en taal-konst...Kort en klaar tot een algemeen huis- en school-gebruik opgesteld.
Amsterdam, Adam Meijer, [late 18th or early 19th century]. Small 8vo. With musical scores. Contemporary colourful floral wrappers. [8], 136 pp. Full description
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