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The Dutch Revolt and the atrocities of Spanish rule, extensively illustrated

[GYSIUS, Johannes]. Oorsprong en voortgang der Neder-landtscher beroerten ende ellendicheden. Waerin vertoont worden de voornaemste tyrannijen, moorderijen, ende andere onmenschelijcke wreetheden, die onder het ghebiedt van Philips de II coninck van Spaengien, door zijne stad-houders in 'twerck ghestelt zijn, gheduyrende dese Nederlantsche troublen ende oorlogen...
[Leiden, Hendrik Lodewijksz. van Haestens], 1616. 4to. With an engraved vignette on the title page, 16 engraved oval portraits (15 full-page, 1 half-page), a full-page engraved plate in the text, and 2 double-page engraved plates. The title page has been printed in red and black. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [8], 411, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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The great siege of ’s-Hertogenbosch in 1629, documented in maps and plans

HEINSIUS, Daniël. Rerum ad Sylvam-Ducis atque alibi in Belgio aut a Belgis anno MDCXXIX gestarum historia.
Leiden, Abraham and Bonaventura Elzevier, 1631. Folio. With an engraved allegorical title page, 2 engraved folding plans of s-Hertogenbosch, 3 double-page engraved plates, 5 full-page engraved maps and plans, several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum. [12], "141" [=143], [24], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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Eyewitness account of the siege of Breda (1637), with the rare folding plan

HEXHAM, Henry. Journael ofte een ware ende kort verhael van t veermaerde belegh van de Stadt Breda, door het kloeck-moedich, ende victorieus beleydt van Syne Hoogheydt de Prins van Orangien &c.
Delft, printed for and sold by Henricus Hondius, The Hague, 1638. 4to. With a large folding map of the city of Breda and surroundings during the siege in 1637, with an explanatory text pasted to the bottom margin. Interleaved copy. Early 19th-century gold-tooled red straight-grained morocco. [8], 55, [1 blank], "14" [= 20] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
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The siege and relief of Leiden, with maps, plans and the original prospectus

HOFDIJK, Willem Jacobsz. Leydens wee en zegepraal (1573-1574).
Leiden, P. van Santen (printed by P. W. M. Trap), 1874. Large 8vo. With a tinted lithographed frontispiece, three folding lithographed maps and views, and a full-page lithographed plate. Contemporary gold-tooled half brown morocco, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, brown buckram sides, red sprinkled edges, decorative paper endpapers. [6], 248 pp. Full description
€ 450
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Tulips, poetry, and the pleasures of country life at the Moffenschans

HONDIUS, Petrus. Dapes inemptae, of de moufe-schans, dat is, de soeticheydt des buyten-levens, vergheselschapt met de boucken.
Leiden, for Daniel Roels (colophon: J.A. vander Marsce), 1621. 8vo. With the woodcut printers device on the title page, the title is set within an ornamental typographical border. Contemporary vellum. 31, [1 blank], 543, [2 blank], [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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An Italian voice on the Dutch Revolt against Spain

LANARIO, Francesco and Michel BAUDIER (translator). Histoire des guerres de Flandre depuis le commencement jusques a la fin ... Traduicte dItalien en Francois et augmentee ... Avec une brieve narration de lancienne Histoire de Flandre ...
Paris, Sebastien Chappelet, 1618. 4to. With an engraved allegorical title page by Jaspar Isaac and several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut headpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, red sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers. [64], 202, [21], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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Extremely rare second edition of a series of 20 plates of the Amsterdam Town-Hall, the Trippenhuyis
and 11 plates of houses on the Heeren- and Keizersgracht

LETH, Hendrik de & Cornelis DANCKERTS. Het Stadthuys van Amsterdam, beneffens verscheyde van de grooste en nieuwste gebouwe nieuwelycks uytgegeven door Hendrik de Leth.
[Amsterdam, Hendrik de Leth, ca. 1730]. Oblong folio. With 20 plates, engraved by Cornelis Danckerts, adapted and (re-)published by Hendrik de Leth, 8 of the Amsterdam town-hall, 1 of the Trippenhuis, and 11 of other houses on the Heren- and Keizersgracht. Later (early 20th-century) three-quarter vellum. Full description
€ 2,500
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