Highlights

DINOTH, Richard. De bello civili Belgico libri VI.
Basel, Conrad Waldkirch, 1586. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page and at the end of the work, 7 decorated woodcut initials, 5 tailpieces and 1 headpiece made up of typographical ornaments. (Near-) contemporary overlapping vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints. [8], 456, [8] pp. Full description

DIONYSIUS CARTHUSIENSIS (Denys van Rijkel). Tractat[us] de co[n]versione peccatoris.
(Colophon: Amsterdam, [Doen Pietersz or Pieter Jansz Tyebaut], for Johannes, priest at Leiderdorp), [ca. 1520]. 8vo. With a full-page woodcut of the resurrection of the dead and a half-page woodcut of the temptation of Christ by the devil in the desert. Modern blind-tooled vellum. [56] ll. Full description

[DUTCH LAW]. [Collection of four works on law and government in Overijssel, the Veluwe and Twente].
4 works in 1 volume, the first in 2 parts. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page of each work. Comprising:
[1] [OVERIJSSEL]. Landtrechten van Over-Yssel.
Kampen, Pieter Hendericksz van Wieringen, 1634.
[2] [VELUWE]. Gereformiert lantrecht van Veluwen und Veluwen-zoom, met de veranderongh op t capittel van appellatien ende clarongen aen Engellander-holdt ghevallen.
Arnhem, printed by Jan Janssen, 1621.
[3] [OVERIJSSEL]. Ordren ende reglementen omtrent de regeringe der provintie van Overyssel in het toe komende te onderhouden.
Deventer, Jan Colomp, 1658.
[4] [TWENTE]. Hof-hoorige rechten in Twente, mitsgaders de ampliatien ende elucidatien, daer op, by de Staten van Overyssel gemaeckt.
Zwolle, printed by Gerrit Tydeman, 1668. Contemporary vellum. [4], 79, [1 blank], 106, [2]; [78], [2]; 44; 42 pp. Full description

[DUTCH REPUBLIC - TREATIES]. Recueil van de tractaten, gemaeckt en gesloten tusschen de Hoog Mog. Heeren Staten Genereael der Vereenighde Nederlanden ter eenre, ende verscheyde Koningen, Princen en Potentaten ter andere zyde.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, [not before 1701]. 73 pamphlets in 1 volume. 4to. With a general title page with the woodcut printer's device of the official printer for the Dutch States General. 70 of the 73 treaties have a separate title page, the other 3 were published without thus the work is complete. 67 of these 70 treaties with a title page contain the woodcut printer's device of the official printer for the Dutch States General, 2 of the earlier treaties bear Van Wouw's woodcut printer's device on their title pages, 1 title page shows a simple woodcut floral vignette, 1 title page does not contain any (woodcut) decoration, and 1 treaty without a title page does contain the woodcut printer's device of the official printer for the Dutch States General at the start of the text. Further with woodcut decorated initials throughout the treaties. The text is set in both roman and gothic type. Later vellum. Full description

[FRESCHOT, Casimir]. Histoire abregée de la ville, et province d'Utrecht. Avec une connoissance ébauchée de la noblesse de cette province, & une liste de touts les grands schouts, ou chefs de justice connus autrefois sous le nom de vicontes ou burgraves d'Utrecht.
Utrecht, Guillaume Meester, 1713. 8vo. With a richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by A. Schut. Added are two finely executed manuscript frontispieces, both with hand-coloured coats of arms: the first showing the arms of the Bishop of Utrecht together with those of the five collegiate churches of Utrecht; the second displaying the arms of the Province of Utrecht and its five principal cities. The first part, devoted to the history of the bishops of Utrecht, is illustrated with 41 hand-coloured manuscript coats of arms of the bishops of Utrecht, distributed over 35 leaves. The section on Utrecht castles, manor houses, and nobility contains 237 hand-coloured manuscript coats of arms on 37 leaves. The manuscript supplement includes a further four leaves with 33 coats of arms, of which six remain unfinished. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [16], 264, 64 pp. Full description

FREZIER, [Amédée François]. Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud aux cotes du Chili, du Perou, et du Bresil. Fait pendant les années 1712, 1713 & 1714.
Amsterdam, Pierre Humbert, 1717. 2 volumes. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece, the title pages printed in red and black, 27 engraved plates showing maps, city plans, plants and flowers, activities of the local people. Contemporary calf. XX, 1-294; [2], 297-600 pp. Full description

[GALVEZ, Josef de, edited by Manuel CARVALLO]. Reales ordenanzas para la direccion, rejimen y gobierno del importante cuerpo de la mineria de Nueva-España, y de su Real Tribunal Jeneral. De orden de su Majestad. Impresa en Madrid año de 1783.
Santiago (Chile), Imprenta de la Opinion, R. Rengifo, 1833. Folio. Contemporary blue wrappers. [4], IV, 108, 36, XXXIII pp. Full description

[GENNEPERHUIS]. Kort en bondich verhael wat sich heeft toegedraghen van dach tot dach voor het Huys te Gennep, zedert dat het door sijn Hoogheyt den Prince van Orangien is belegert geweest ...
Including: [GENNEPERHUIS]. Cort verhael wat gepasseert is aen des konincks van Hispanjens zijde 't sedert het belegh van het Casteel van Gennep.
[Amsterdam], sold by Broer Jansz. and Jan van Hilten, 1641. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page and a large folding engraved map of the surroundings of the Genneperhuis Castle near Gennep (ca. 23.5 x 32.5 cm). Contemporary grey wrappers with the annotation "Frijntie Mars" on the front. [12] pp. Full description

GHEYN, Jacob II de. The exercise of armes for calivres, muskettes, and pikes. After the ordre of his Excellence Maurits Prince of Orange Count of Nassau etc.
The Hague, [1607 (added in manuscript on the title page)]. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio (ca. 37 x 27 cm). With engraved title page with at the head of the page the coat of arms of the dedicatee, Prince Henry Frederick, eldest son of King James I of England within a wreath of lilies and roses, which - together with the title and the imprint were engraved on 3 separate slips of paper pasted over areas left blank for that purpose; and 117 (including one repeat) expertly engraved plates (ca. 26 x 19 cm): 42 numbered plates in part 1, 43 partly-numbered plates in part 2 and 32 numbered plates in part 3. All engravings including the engraved title-page are magnificently coloured and highlighted in gold and silver by a contemporary hand. The plates show exercises with the arquebus (part 1), musket (part 2), and pike (part 3). Mid-19th-century gold-tooled half (faded) red morocco and red cloth sides, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, bound in 1840-ca. 1860 by the celebrated British bookbinder Robert Riviere (1808-1882) with his stamp "Bound by Riviere" in the bottom outer corner of the verso of the first flyleaf. [4]; [2]; [3] ll. Full description

GIRAFFI, Alessandro and Lambert van den BOS (translator). Historisch verhael van de schrickelijcke beroerte van Napels; met de wonderlijcke opkomst en ongheluckige ondergangh van Mas Aniello.
Amsterdam, Nicolaes Ravesteyn, 1650. 12mo. With a woodcut printers device on the title page, several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum. [8], 275, [5 blank] pp. Full description