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Prince Maurits gives Oldenbarnevelt temporary oversight of Den Tempel,
which later gave him his title, signed by Prince Maurits and bearing his armorial seal

MAURITS, Prince of Orange. [Declaration for Jan de Roo].
[The Hague], 4 December 1589. 1mo (41 x 31.5). Document written in brown ink on one side of a whole sheet of paper in an upright gothic cursive hand, with the autograph signature "Maurice de Nassau" and with his armorial seal (3 x 2.5 cm) stamped on a slip of paper over red sealing wax. With (separately added) Maurits's signature clipped out of another document and mounted on a paper slip. [1] leaf, written on one side. Full description
€ 5,000
Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents Netherlands
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Catherine de' Medici and the Ottoman Sultan Murad III

[LETTER - SIGNED]. MEDICI, Catherine de'. [Letter to Jacques de Germigny in Constantinople (Istanbul)].
Chenonceaux, 2 September 1584. Folio (34 x 24 cm). Signed letter in French, in brown ink on paper, written in a clear gothic hand. Folded for sending and addressed on the outside, with a slot for a ribbon and traces of a red wax seal. [1], [3 blank (except for address)] pp. Full description
€ 12,500
Autographs & Letters France Law & Politics Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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First and only edition of the horrible story of the murder of the Polish Kings representative in Copenhagen,
told by the representatives sister-in-law

[MEIBOM, Anna]. Relation veritable de l'horrible et detestable assassinat commis en la personne de Mr. De Schade, conseiller et resident du Roi de Pologne a la cour de Dannemarc; avec les cruelles persecutions & les injustices criantes, qui lui ont été faites pendant son sejour a Copenhague, & qu'on a continué d'exerces après sa mort contre sa veuve.
Utrecht, widow of Ernestus Voskuyl, 1713. 8vo. With a woodcut vase of leafy flowers on the title-page, a woodcut decorated initial, Contemporary tanned half sheepskin. [2], 212 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Poland & Baltic Scandinavia & Arctic
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Satire disguising the French elite as Arabs

MELON, Jean-François. Mahmoud le Gasnevide, histoire orientale. Fragment traduit de l'Arabe, avec des notes.
Rotterdam, Jean Hofhoudt, 1730. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spine, boards, board edges and turn-ins, both boards with the gold-tooled coat of arms of Louis Marie Alexandre, Duc d'Aumont, gilt edges. [2], VI, 162, [4] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Bindings Caricature & Satire French Literature Islamic Art, Culture & Science Law & Politics Literature
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A Spanish view on the Dutch War of Independence

MENDOÇA, Bernardino de. Comentarios de lo sucedido en las guerras de los Payses Baxos, desde el año de 1567 hasta el de 1577.
Madrid, Pedro Madrigal, 1592. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, 5 half-page engraved plates in the text including a map of East Friesland with Emden, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary black-tooled mottled calf. [8], 336, [12] ll. Full description
€ 4,750
Early Printing - 16th century History / 16th Century Military History (16th Century) Netherlands Spain
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The most important early Dutch book on hunting

MERULA, Paulus. Placaten ende ordonnancien op 't stuck vande wildernissen.
The Hague, Beuckel Cornelisz. Nieulandt, 1605. 3 parts in 1 volume. Small folio (31 x 20 cm). With attractive engraved title-page (showing Diana, goddess of the hunt, a hunter and a falconer surrounding an elaborate cartouche together with hounds, birds of prey, and prey) and 2 double-page woodcut plates showing the castles of Teylingen and Warmond. Contemporary vellum. [24], 264; 124; 59, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
Arboriculture & Dendrology Birds - Ornithology Falconry, Fishing & Hunting Law & Politics
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Treaty between The Netherlands and the United States of Mexico

[MEXICO]. Traktaat van vriendschap, scheepvaart en handel, tusschen de Nederlanden, en de Vereenigde Staten van Mexico. | Traité d'amitié, de navigation et de commerce, conclu entre le Roi des Pays-Bas, et les États-Unis du Mexique.
[Brussels], November 1828. 8vo. Sewn. 27, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 500
Economic History & Trade Latin America Law & Politics Mexico Middle America
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