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How to keep your good name

[AERTS VAN BOCXTEL, Henrick]. Den spiegel der jonckheyt dienende voor alle jonckheyt, d'eerbaerheyt en deught beminnende tot eenen spiegel, daer sy in siende, moghen leeren hoe sy hun selven behooren te houden in hun inwendigh gemoet, in hun uytwendigh gaen, staen, kleedinge, spreken, eten, ende alle ander gelaet.
Antwerp, Johannes Petrus Willemsens, [ca. 1766]. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page and final leaf, numerous decorated civilité initials, and a headpiece built up from typographical materials. Contemporary overlapping wrappers. 79, [1] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
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Dutch tourist journal of a bourgeois woman's visit to Paris

ALBERDINGK THIJM, Catharina & Josephus Albertus ALBERDINGK THIJM. Notice de mes souvenirs d'un voyage à Paris, écrite pour mes chers enfans.Amsterdam, 1838. Small 8vo. Manuscript in French, written in ink in a regular and readable hand on 7 quires of writing-paper, some with a slight green cast.
With: ALBERDINGK THIJM, Josephus Albertus. Decemberliedtjen op tantes feest, in 1878. Manuscript poem, signed J.A.Th. 4to. Folded.Loose quires in a contemporary red morocco portfolio with gold-tooled title and ornamental frames on covers, richly gold-tooled turn-ins and silk paste-downs. With 3 pairs of green silk ties. 135, [4 blank]; 4 pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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Beautifully illustrated hand-coloured and highlighted in gold album amicorum in an elaborately gold- and blind-tooled binding dated 1590

[ALBUM AMICORUM - EQUESTRIANISM - HERALDRY]. [Late 16th- and early 17th-century album amicorum].
[North-western Europe (specifically the vicinity of Brussels?)], [1585-1615]. 4to. With 45 hand-coloured and highlighted in gold engraved plates of horses and their riders from Europe, North Africa, and the Near and Middle East, numbered 1-50 (skipping nos. 2, 21, 27, 35, and 36), 46 hand-coloured and highlighted in gold engraved heraldic plates (sometimes filled in with manuscript notes), 2 hand-coloured manuscript coats of arms on l. 15v, and 1 black and gold hand-coloured manuscript coat of arms on the back paste-down. Contemporary elaborately gold- and blind-tooled mottled calf, with gold lettering on both boards (front: RVB HZC VFB C.) (back: 1590). 164 ll. Full description
€ 35,000
Alba Amicorum Art & Art History Dutch Literature Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags Iran / Persia Prints & Print Series
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Extremely rare satirical print series lampooning Louis XIV with the total eclipse of the Sun King,
showing 1 major and at least 3 minor variants not recorded in the literature

[ALLARD, Carel]. Koninglyke almanach: beginnende met den aanvang der oorlog, van anno 1701 .... Waer in duydelijk de loop der zon der ongeregtigheid, met zyn eclipsen, of de regtvaardige straf des heemels, door XVIII zinnbeelden in koopere plaaten vertoond word; ... | Almanach royal. Commencant[!] avec la guere de l'an 1701 jusques .... ou est exactement observé le cours du soleil d'injustice; avec ses eclips; ou la juste punition du ciel. Demonstré dans XVIII emblemes. ...
"Paris" [= Amsterdam], "imprimé â limprimerie royale du Petit Louis" [= Carel Allard, 1706?]. Small folio (32 x 21 cm). Engraved print series with an engraved title-page and 24 engraved prints (9 single-page and 15 double-page; 18 bound in and 6 loosely inserted), the double-page prints with extensive letterpress text flanking and/or below the engraving. Contemporary marbled-paper wrappers. Engraved title plus [25] engraved plates., some with letterpress text. Full description
€ 8,750
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Strikingly hand-coloured humoristic lithographs of anthropomorphic fruits, nuts, and vegetables

ANSINGH, Lizzy; Nelly BODENHEIM (illustrator); Tine BAANDERS (decorated script). 'n Vruchtenmandje. Versjes Lizzy Ansingh. Illustraties Nelly Bodenheim. Sierschrift Tine Baanders.
Amsterdam, De Spiegel (printed by Dieperink & Co.), 1927. Folio (29.5 x 23 cm). With the classic illustrated front board, a small illustration of a tea set on the title-page, 21 full-page illustrations of anthropomorphic fruits, nuts, and vegetables. All illustrations, including the illustrated front board, are lithographs designed by the illustrator herself on stone and coloured by hand by her as well. The verses by Lizzy Ansingh are written by Tine Baanders by hand in a decorative script. The work is printed on Simili Japon paper of the Dutch "Van Gelder" paper factory. Original half parchment and (hand-coloured lithographed) paper over boards, bound in the Japanese style with green ribbon through 5 holes. [1], [1 blank], [41], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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Satirical story of drunkenness, whoring and gambling, possibly aimed at the three Princes of Orange:
second known copy of the second edition

[BEROALDO, Filippo, and anonymous adaptor]. Het stichtigh ende vermakelijck proces van drie ghebroeders, edel-lieden. Den eenen zijnde een dronkaert. [Den] tweden een hoer-eerder. [Den] derden een speelder. Dat wie bevonden sal worden vande drie ghebreken het kleenste begaen te hebben, het meeste erven sal van zijn vaders nae ghelatene goederen, volghens het testament daer af sijnde ghevonden, wesende onder sekere oude papieren, van M. P. v. O.
Including: RULANT, H. Satyra ofte lofsang van droncken drincken.
[Amsterdam?, Jacob Aertsz. Colom?], 1635. Small 8vo (14.5×9 cm). Half calf (ca. 1830s), with the binder's stamp on an endleaf (F. DUQUESNE À GAND). 136, [1], [1 blank]; [30] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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Attractively illustrated and popular medical work

BEVERWIJCK, Johan van and Jacob CATS. Wercken der genees-konste.
Amsterdam, (widow of) Jan Jacobsz. Schipper, 1672. 3 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With engraved frontispiece, 28 engravings in volume one, 29 engravings in volume two (including one on the title-page) and 20 engravings (including one on the title-page) plus 1 woodcut in volume three. Contemporary vellum. [18], 252; [8], 127, [1], 328, 48; [8], “278”[=276], [12] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Dutch Literature Herbals & Medical Botany Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century)
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Complete works of Anna Bijns, criticizing Martin Luther and Protestantism

BIJNS, Anna. Konstighe refereynen vol schoone schrifture ende leeringen, begrepen in drye verscheyde boecken ...
Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen the Younger, 1646. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With the same woodcut printer's device on 3 individual title pages. Contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine, traces of ties. [24], 76; 91; 226, [10] pp. Full description
€ 18,000
Antwerp Belgium Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Dutch Literature Literature Women History
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Four orations on the importance of art

BILDERDIJK, Willem. Redevoering, over de voortreffelykheid der schilderkunst, in derzelver voorwerp beschouwd. ...1794.
[The Hague, B. Scheurleer junior], 1794.
(2). KASTEELE, Reinier Pieter van de. Redevoering tot lof der vaderlandsche schilders en aanspraak.... 1809.
The Hague, P.F. Gosse, [1809]. With an engraved plate with seals of the Academie engraved by C. Lotter.
(3). KASTEELE, Reinier Pieter van de. Redevoering over het aangename en nuttige van de beoefening der teekenkunde. Uitgesproken in de akademiezaal van Pictura. Op den 3 van Bloeimaand 1810.
The Hague, B. Scheurleer junior, 1810. With an engraved plate with seals of the Academie engraved by C. Lotter.
(4). LIMBURG, T. van. Redevoering over het vermogen der schilderkunst ter gelegenheid van het uitdeelen der prijzen... 1811.
The Hague, B. Scheurleer junior, 1811. 8vo. 4 works in 4 volumes. Contemporary decorated paper wrappers. [24], 22, [2]; [16], 43, [3]; [20], 46; [20], 30 pp. Full description
€ 950
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A Flemish didactic satire, illustrated by Antoine van der Does

BORCHT, Willem van der (Guilielmus a CASTRO). Spieghel der eyghen-kennisse, ... in-gheknoopt Het conterfeytsel des wereldts, ...
Brussels, Lambert de Grieck, 1643. 4to. With engraved title-page, engraved portrait of the author (after P. de Backer), both by Antoine van der Does ("AVD"), and 3 nearly full-page engraved illustrations in the text, probably by Van der Does. 18th-century vellum. [16], 271, [1] pp. Full description
€ 2,750
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The enlarged second edition of Puteanus' Dutch poems

BORN, Honorius van den [= Erycius PUTEANUS]. Sedigh leven, daghelycks broodt, met korte jaer-langhe dicht-stichtighe spreuck-beelden, tot deughden voedsel uytghedeylt.
Leuven, Everaert de Witte, 1639. Oblong 8vo (8 x 13.5 cm). With 2 woodcut decorated initials, the text is mainly set in gothic type. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf with the title lettered in gold on the spine; re-backed, with the original gold-tooled backstrip laid down, blue painted endpapers. [1], [1 blank] [22], 366, [10] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
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Witty and erudite anecdotes, its author compared to Montaigne and Bacon

BRUNE, Johan de, the younger. Iok en ernst: dat is; Allerlei deftige hofredenen, quinkslagen, boerteryen, raadsels, spreuken, vragen, antwoorden, gelikenissen; en al wat dien gelijkvormigh met de naam van apophtegmata verstaan wordt. ... 't Eerste deel [all published].
Amsterdam, Jacob Lescaille, 1644. 4to. With engraved vignette on title-page. Contemporary vellum, traces of ties. [8], 352 pp. Full description
€ 850
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Dutch revision of the first Russian emblem book

BURG, Hermanus van den. Verzámeling van uitgekórene zin-spreuken, en zinnebeeldige print-vercieringen, eertyds, op bevel van den aller doorlugtigsten Keizer der Russen, Peter Alexis, of de Gróte, getékent en gesnéden ...
Haarlem, Johannes Marshoorn, 1743. 4to. With engraved frontispiece, with Tsar Peter the Great's medallion portrait surrounded by 8 emblems, and 840 emblems on 140 engraved plates, the facing pages to the left with captions in Dutch, short proverbial phrases in Latin, French and German, and two-line verses in Dutch by Van den Burg. Contemporary half calf. [8], 281, [1 blank], [10] pp. Full description
€ 7,850
Dutch Literature Emblems Russia (incl. Siberia)
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Dutch revision of the first Russian emblem book

BURG, Hermanus van den. Verzámeling van uitgekórene zin-spreuken, en zinnebeeldige print-vercieringen, eertyds, op bevel van den aller doorlugtigsten Keizer der Russen, Peter Alexis, of the Gróte, getékent en gesnéden ...
Haarlem, Johannes Marshoorn, 1743. 4to. With engraved frontispiece by J. Mulder and 840 numbered circular emblems on 140 full-page engravings in text, the facing pages to the left with captions in Dutch, short proverbial phrases in Latin, French and German, and two-line verses in Dutch by Van den Burg. 19th-century half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [8], 281, [1 blank], [10] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
Dutch Literature Eastern Europe Emblems Russia (incl. Siberia)
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Very rare series of 32 erotic prints of the notorious case of father Girard and Mlle Cadière

[CADIÈRE, Catherine and Jean-Baptiste GIRARD (subject)]. Historische print- en dicht-tafereelen, van Jan Baptist Girard, en juffrou Maria Catharina Cadiere.
[The Netherlands?], 1735. Small 4to (24 x 18.5 cm). With 32 "scenes", each consisting of an engraved plate with a letterpress poem on the facing page. Gold-tooled red half goatskin morocco (2nd half of the 19th century), richly gold-tooled spine. 24, [128] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
Alchemy Dutch Literature Erotica French Literature Prints & Print Series
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Very rare large-paper copy in a spectacular Van Damme binding,
with 31 plates coloured by a contemporary hand and highlighted with gold

CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de (Jacob Campo WEYERMAN translator; Antoine COYPEL illustrator). De voornaamste gevallen van den wonderlyken Don Quichot, door den beroemden Picart den Romein ... in XXXI kunstplaaten, na de uitmuntende schilderyen van Coypel in't koper gebragt ...
The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1746. Large folio (42 x 27 cm). Title in red and black with an engraved vignette (Quixote and the windmill), and 31 engraved illustration plates, all coloured by a contemporary hand, heightened with gold and set in in a gilt frame. Further with large woodcut initials and tailpieces, and each text page in an ornamental frame built up from typographic ornaments (the frames not in the 4to issue). Contemporary, richly gold-tooled dark red morocco by the so-called Van Damme bindery in Amsterdam, sewn on 7 supports, each board with Van Dammes typical hourglass- or vase- or flask-shaped central cartouche with a starry sky on a black ground, here showing a short-stemmed chalice or goblet with fire or flame-like leaves (like a snake plant, Dracaena trifasciata) in the cartouche and a basket of flowers topping the cartouche, the whole in an elaborate frame built up from hundreds of impressions of numerous small tools, the spine-title in gold on a black ground in the 2nd of 8 compartments, each of the other 7 with flowers, other decorations and a small flower in a pot, gilt edges. With a tissue guard-leaf before each plate. [2], XXVI, 420 pp. Full description
€ 48,500
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Naval poems and songs from the Franco-Dutch War

COOPMAN, Ocke Jeyes. Zee-clio, of gedichten in 's lants vloot gemaeckt in de jaren 1672, en 1673.
Amsterdam, Carel Allard, [ca. 1673]. 4to. With the woodcut device of the Amsterdam admiralty on title-page (Dutch garden guarded by a lion holding two anchors), 3 woodcut decorated initials (1 series). Modern half calf, marbled sides. 62, [2] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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Rare emblematic work intended for New Year's Eve

CROON, Petrus. Keirs en kandelaer snutter en horen voor eenen nieuwe-jaer ver-eert aen alle lichts-gesinde.
Bruges, widow of Joannes Clouwet, 1664. 12mo. With (letterpress?) diamond-head music notes. 19th-century gold-tooled half calf, marbled paper sides, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, marbled endpapers. "67" [= 77], [4], [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 5,000
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In praise of money and Rembrandt

DECKER, Jeremias de. Lof der geldsucht, ofte vervolg der rijm-oeffeningen. Verdeelt in twee boecken. Behelsende gedichten van verscheydene stoffe.
Amsterdam, Widow of Marten Jansz. Brandt, Abraham vanden Burgh (colophon: Pieter Dirksz Boeteman), 1667. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With 51 decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum. [16], 128, [4], 108 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Caricature & Satire Dutch Literature Erasmus History / 17th Century Netherlands
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The complete works of Guillaume Du Bartas in the second and most important translation into Dutch by Zacharias Heyns

DU BARTAS, Guillaume de Salluste. Wercken door Zacharias Heijns.
[Zwolle, Zacharias Heyns], [1621]-1628. 3 parts in 2 volumes. 4to. With 2 engraved title pages, the engraved publisher's device on the title page of part 2, the engraved portrait of Zacharias Heyns in the text of part 1 and 34 full-page engravings (incl. 1 large folding plate and 1 plate outside the collation) illustrating the days of the two weeks and the other texts by Du Bartas. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Both volumes bound in almost matching 17th-century vellum, both spines with manuscript title in black ink. Volume 1: part 1: [12], 1-168, 168-183, [1], 184-313, [1] pp.; part 2: [8], 634, [6] pp. Volume 2: part 3: [8], 150, [2], 231, [1] pp. Full description
€ 8,500
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Rare collection of seven morality plays

[DUTCH MORALITY PLAYS - REDERIJKERS]. Zeven spelen, van die wercken der bermherticheyd. In rym ghemaeckt en nu tot Aemstelredam opentlyck ghespeelt, Anno 1591
Amsterdam, H. J. Muller, 1591. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page, and 6 woodcut illustrations at the beginning of the plays. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine. [302] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
Amsterdam Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Education & Pedagogy Religion (16th Century)
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First edition of the Dutch translation of Erasmus' famous treatise against war

ERASMUS, Desiderius and Zacharias HEYNS (translator). Belli detestatio. Ofte oorlogs vervloeckinge.
Zwolle, for Zacharias Heyns (colophon: printed by Frans Jorrijaensz), 1629. 4to. With a large engraved emblem on the title page, 5 decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, 2 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, a woodcut tailpiece, and a tailpiece built up from typographical ornaments. 19th century half brown morocco. [28] ll. Full description
€ 1,750
Dutch Literature Erasmus Philosophy & Humanism
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Very rare Dutch songbook

GODDAEUS, Conrad. Nieuwe gedichten. Sonder rym, naa de Griexe en Latynse dicht-maten, op allerhande soorten van verssen, ingestelt. Noit voor desen in Neder-duits gesien, noch gebruiklik.
Harderwijk, Joannes Toll, 1656. Oblong 4to. With woodcut of King David playing his harp on the title-page, a fine engraved frontispiece with an open music book below the title in centre, which is flanked by King David playing his harp and Horace playing his lyre, each on a pedestal, with a white swan above and publisher's address below. Contemporary mottled calf. [4], 184, [2] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
Dutch Literature Songbooks
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First edition of a landmark in Dutch literature: Hooft's emblems of love, with 30 expertly engraved plates

[HOOFT, Pieter Cornelisz.]. Emblemata amatoria. Afbeeldinghen van minne. Emblemes d'amour.
Amsterdam, Willem Jansz. Blaeu, 1611. Oblong 4to (15 x 19 cm). With an engraved title-page, with the title in Latin, Dutch and French. With 30 engraved emblems (ca. 10.5 x 13.5 cm), each with tri-lingual mottos in the engraving and distichs in Dutch with Latin and French translations on the opposite page. The Dutch text is mainly set in gothic letters, while the Latin and French texts are set in roman and italic letters respectively. The Dutch songs and sonnets in the second half of the work are set in roman and gothic letters, sometimes in two columns. 19th-century gold-tooled red sheepskin, with two triple-fillet frames and 4 ornamental corner pieces between the two frames. With an elaborately gold-tooled spine, including the French title and the year of publication, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers and a yellow, red and green reading ribbon. 144 pp. Full description
€ 50,000
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Famous poem with moral lessons for unmarried women, married women and widows

HOUWAERT, Jean Baptista. Pegasides pleyn. Ofte den lust-hof der maechden.
Volume 1: Delft, Adriaen Gerritsen, 1615 (colophon: 1614); volume 2: Leiden, Jan Paets Jacobszoon, 1611. 8vo. Volume 1 with an engraved title-page by Jan Wiericx and 8 full-page engravings by Jan Wiericx; volume 2 with the main text set in civilité type. Uniform contemporary vellum. XLVI, [2], 867, [1]; 464, 1-471, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,950
Dutch Literature Education & Pedagogy Women History
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Four plays by Antwerp rhetoricians, erroneously attributed to Johan Baptiste Houwaert

HOUWAERT, Johan Baptista [recté: MOL, Jacob de, Colyn KEYART and “SMEECKEN” (Jan SMEKEN?)]. Den handel der amoureusheyt inhoudende vier poetische spelen, 1. Van Aeneas ende Dido. 2. Narcissus ende Echo. 3. Mars ende Venus. 4. Leander ende Hero. Poetelijck geinventeert ende rethorijckelijck ghecomponeert.
Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberghe III, 1621. 4 parts in one volume. 8vo. With an engraved ornamental title-page with the title in an oval cartouche and 4 roundels in the corners with scenes from the four plays; 4 full-page engraved plates with similar scenes, one in the preliminaries of each play. Contemporary calf, spine richly gold-tooled in compartments with red title label lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges. 237 ll. Full description
€ 5,500
Dutch Literature Erotica Music, Theatre & Dance
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Third edition of the first poetry collection by one of the most famous poets of the Dutch Golden Age

HUYGENS, Constantijn. Ses boecken van de ledige uren, zijnde ghedichten van verscheyden talen, stijlen, ende stoffen. - Otiorum libri sex. Poëmata varij sermonis, styli, argumenti.
Haarlem, Hans Passchiers van Wesbusch, 1641. Oblong 16mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, sewn on 2 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine. [2], 543, [1] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
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The first illustrated edition in any language, in the tradition of Arabian Nights

[INCUNABLE - GOUDA]. Historia septem sapientiu[m] Rom[a]e.
[Gouda, Gheraert Leeu, before 3 June 1480]. 4to (20.5 x 14 cm). With 4 full-page woodcuts plus 14 repeats. The first initial is supplied in manuscript, in a rich ornamental uncial style in red and blue with brown penwork. All other initials are supplied by hand in simple red uncials. The text is rubricated throughout. Most of the plates are lightly highlighted in yellow and red, by a contemporary hand. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment without a spine, so that the sewing is completely visible. Kept in a modern brown half morocco clamshell box. [79], [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 250,000
Early Printing - 15th century Literature
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Madame de Pompadour’s “histoire scandaleuse”. One of the few copies surviving the protective efforts of the French ambassador

[KERSTEMAN, Franciscus Lievens]. Historie van mevrouwe de hartoginne van Pompadour. [Wrapper-title: Levensbeschryving van de hartoginne van Pompadour].
Zaltbommel, Johannes Willem Kanneman, 1761. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece and title-page printed in red and black. Recased in 18th-century vellum, later endpapers, preserving the original publisher's printed wrappers. [8], 207, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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Very rare Dutch picaresque novel, with the female protagonist getting caught by pirates
and ending up in the household of an Arabic slave trader

[KERSTEMAN, Petrus Lievens]. De vermakelyke avanturesse, of de dienstmaagd van fortuin. Vervattende hare zonderlinge levensgevallen, ontelbare wederwaardigheden en rampen; zeltzame ontmoetingen, en koddige vryagien; deszelfs driejarige dienst als lakye, gevangenneming op de Moorsche kusten, en hare slavernye in Asia by de Arabieren.
Amsterdam, Steven van Esveldt, 1754. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece. Contemporary mottled half calf, gold-tooled spine, later endpapers. [4], 360 pp Full description
€ 3,500
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Dutch Literature Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks North Africa Slavery Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Middle East Women History
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Extremely rare work by Jan Luykens father on profit without loss, here for the first time including the second part

LUYKEN, Caspar. Onfeylbare regel van winste sonder verlies... Hier is noch achter gevoeght De wissel-banck, geopent door den selven autheur. De derde druck.
Amsterdam, Christoffel Luycken, 1663. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With small woodcut vignette on 2 title-pages. Contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine, red speckled edges. 212; 52 pp. Full description
€ 5,000
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Attractive set containing most of the emblematic works of Jan Luyken, with a total of 700 engravings

LUYKEN, Jan (and Caspar). [Set of 11 works by Jan Luyken].
Amsterdam, widow of P. Arentz, and Kornelis vander Sys, 1708 - 1718 (10 vols.); Haarlem, C.H. Bohn, 1767 (1 vol.). 11 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary uniform half calf, richly gold-tooled spines (10 vols.), the 1767 in slightly different half calf, apparently made to match the earlier ones. Full description
€ 12,000
Art & Art History Dutch Literature Emblems
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Very rare edition of an extremely popular history of the most famous
and daring Dutch pirate of the 17th century

[MARITIME HISTORY - PIRACY - CLAES COMPAEN]. 't Begin, midden en eynde der zee-rooveryen, van den alder-fameusten zee-roover, Claes G. Compaen, van Oostzanen in Kennemer-landt. Vervattende sijn wonderlijcke vreemde en lands schadelijcke drijf-tochten. Waer in vertoont wordt, hoe hy met weyningh schepen de zee onveyligh gemaeckt, een ongelooflijcke buyt, en groot getal van schepen van alle landen gerooft ende afgeloopen heeft
Amsterdam, widow of Gijsbert de Groot, 1697. 8vo. With a large woodcut illustration of a Dutch merchant ship on the title page, three woodcut illustrations in the text (including 1 repeat of the title page illustration), and one large decorated woodcut initial. Later greyish-brown wrappers. [1], [1 blank], [4], 42 pp. Full description
€ 8,500
Dutch Literature Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks
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Dutch Beauty and the beast, extra-illustrated with Dutch and French plates, beautifully coloured and highlighted in gold, signed by the author

MARMONTEL, Jean François and Pieter PIJPERS. Zemire en Azor, zangspel. Met konstwerken en balletten. Gevolgd naar het Fransche.
Amsterdam, Jan Helders, Abraham Mars, 1783. 8vo. With an engraved title page including a vignette by H.L. Meyling, a letterpress title page with an emblematic engraved vignette by Reinier Vinkeles. Extra added in this copy are an additional letterpress title page, also dated "1783", but with a portrait of Pieter Pijpers engraved by Theodorus Koning dated 1789, accompanied by the letterpress explanatory leaf with a poem "Op myne afbeelding door Theodorus Koning", dated 1789, signed by Pijpers in brown ink. Further with 3 extra added engraved plates (2 full-page and 1 half-page), plus 1 repeated in an earlier state with no lettering, depicting scenes from the play by various Dutch artists (A. Fokke, H.L. Myling, W. Immink, A. Hulk Jacobsz), 1 dated 1784. And finally with 6 engraved plates by various French artists, made for the original French edition. The engraved title is richly coloured and highlighted with gold (incl. the lettering) by a contemporary hand. The 6 French plates are splendidly coloured and highlighted with gold and gum arabic by a contemporary hand. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine with one brown and a green morocco title label lettered in gold and fleurons in the remaining compartments, sprinkled paper sides. [16], 76, [2] pp. Full description
€ 12,500
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Poetic descriptions of Batavia, India, the Cape, Dutch country estates and notable persons

MARRE, Jan de. Batavia, begrepen in zes boeken.
Amsterdam, Adriaan Wor & heirs of G. onder de Linden, 1740.
With:
(2) MARRE, Jan de. Bespiegelingen over gods wysheid in't bestier der schepselen, en eerkroon voor de Caab de Goede Hoop.
Amsterdam, Adriaan Wor & heirs of G. onder de Linden, 1746.
(3) MARRE, Jan de. Hof- en mengeldichten.
Amsterdam, Adriaan Wor & heirs of G. onder de Linden, 1746.
3 works in 1 volume, the first in 6 parts. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece and an elaborate title-vignette (identical on all three title-pages. And ad. 1 with a folding engraved plate of Jakarta "as it was in 1731" by Jan van der Laan. Contemporary vellum, red spine label. [36], 320, [6]; [42], 178, [22], [20], 214, [4] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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First edition of an important Dutch translation of More's Utopia

MORE, Thomas and François van HOOGSTRATEN (translator). Het onbekent en wonderlijk Eyland Utopia, ontdekt door Rafaël Hythlodeus, en by t'samenspraeke beschreven.
Rotterdam, François van Hoogstraten, 1677. 18mo. With an engraved portrait. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 5 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript author and title on the spine. [24], 263, [1] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
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Choice selection of the 16 most important plays by, or translated by,
Johannes Nomsz in 11 volumes uniformly bound in contemporary blind-tooled vellum

NOMSZ, Johannes. [A choice collection of 6 original plays written by Johannes Nomsz and 10 plays of French playwrights - Racine, Corneille, Voltaire and others - together with other texts highly interesting for the history of the Amsterdam stage, and Nomszs historical work on the life of Mohammed in 2 volumes].
Amsterdam, Izaak Duim, Johannes Smit, David Klippink, widow of David Klippink, Hendrik Gartman, Johannes Smit, heirs of David Klippink, 1764-1780. 16 plays, 3 essays and 1 biography bound in 11 volumes. 8vo. With two portraits of Nomsz by Reinier Vinkeles (vol. I) and J. Houbraken (vol. IX), a portrait of Mohammed by J. Houbraken (vol. I) and 14 frontispieces by the best engravers of the time: Jan Punt, Reinier Vinkeles, Simon Fokke, P. Tanjé and Th. Koning. Uniform contemporary vellum with a blind-tooled centrepiece and cornerpieces on each board, manuscript titles on spines. [8], 76; [8], 64; [8], 56; 14; 62; [8], 54; 12, [74]; [4], 54; [12], 74; [6], 71; [8], 71; [6], 58; [12], 78; [6], 112; [8], 82, [2]; 35; [4], 88, [2]; 43; [10], 113; [10], 67; [12], 73, [2]; XXVI, 182; [4], 190 pp. Full description
€ 2,950
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Heralds of a new age: three first editions, including the first Renaissance narrative poetical works in Dutch (with 17 Coornhert illustrations)

NOOT, Jan van der. Cort begryp der XII. boeken Olympiados. ... Abregé des douze livres Olympiades.
Antwerp, Gillis van den Rade, 1579. With 1 engraved plate (portrait of the author), 17 full-page engravings (ca. 16 x 11.5 cm.) by Dirk Volkertsz. Coornhert after designs of the monogrammist CVSK and a full-page woodcut of an obelisk at the end, signed with the monogram "HE".
With:
(2) NOOT, Jan van der. Lofsang van Braband. ... Hymne de Braband.
Antwerp, Gillis van den Rade, 1580. With 4 full-page woodcuts (portrait of the author, allegorical illustration, arms of Brabant and the other 16 provinces, and an obelisk).
(3) NOOT, Jan van der. Verscheyden poeticsche werken. ... Divers oeuvres poetiques.
Antwerp, Gillis van den Rade, 1581. With full-page woodcut portrait of the author, and a full-page woodcut obelisk at the end. 3 works in 1 volume. Folio. All 3 works with text in Dutch and French. Early 18th-century gold-tooled mottled calf. [14], 87, [1]; [8], 33, [4]; [40] pp. plus 1 plate. Full description
€ 35,000
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Most complete set known of the extremely rare series of laudatory poems by the first Dutch Renaissance poet

NOOT, Jan van der. De poeticsche werken van mijn Heer vander Noot. Les oeuvres poetiques du Sr. Jan vander Noot.
Antwerp, Daniel Vervliet and Arnout Coninx (shared printing), "1594" [=1588-1595]. Folio. With the general title page bearing Vervliets 1594 imprint, the only part-title (for the Inkomste bifolium) bearing sConincxs 1594 imprint, 7 small bust portraits, 2 portraits of the author, 10 small rectangular illustrations, 2 medium illustrations, and 8 full-page illustrations (on integral leaves), all woodcut, some (and the 2 title pages) in architectural and/or arabesque woodcut frames. The text is variously set in 1, 2 or 3 columns, sometimes even mixing them on one page, each page in a frame (made partly from rules) and with the running titles in Dutch and French at the foot of the page. An occasional bifolium includes a woodcut decorated initial. The text, in Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, and Greek, is set in dozens of roman, italic, textura, civilité, fraktur and Greek printing types plus interlaced typographic capitals and arabesque typographic ornaments. Blind-tooled calf (ca. 1725/30?) by the so-called "Minnewit" bindery in Amsterdam. [102] ll. Full description
€ 35,000
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Beautifully illustrated work containing miscellaneous Latin poems and citations
by a merchant writing poetry in Groningen

NYENBORGH, Johan van. Variarum lectionum selecta, figuris æneis applicata.
Groningen, Jacobus Sipkes, 1660. Small 8vo. With an engraved vignette showing Europa on a bull, and 21 full- or half-page engravings in the text from various series or suites: one by Cornelis Kittensteyn (1598-1652) after A. van de Venne (p. 17) and 8 by Cornelis Visscher after a series with Roman Heros by Hendrick Goltzius. Further with one decorated woodcut initial and a small woodcut tailpiece on the last page of a castle and three roses. Contemporary vellum. 189, [3] pp. Full description
€ 4,950
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The best edition of the laudatory poems on the House and Gardens of Castle Roosendaal near Arnhem

OUTREIN, Johannes d'. Wegwyser door de heerlykheid Roosendaal ofte, de Roosendaalsche vermakelykheden met een geestelyk en zedelyk ooge beschouwt en in digtmaat gestelt.
Amsterdam, Gerard van Keulen, 1718. 4to. With an engraved full-page portrait of Johan van Arnhem, lord of Roosendaal by J. Baptist, a plate with his engraved coat-of-arms, a large folding engraved bird's-eye view of the House Roosendaal, and 19 folding engraved views of houses, gardens, fountains, bridges and other buildings in Roosendaal and its surroundings, all designed by B. Elshof and engraved by J. Smit. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [40], 88 pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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First edition of a rare Dutch book on witchcraft containing some unsettling visuals
depicting supernatural phenomena and instances of extreme torment

PALINGH, Abraham. 't Afgerukt Mom-aansight Der Tooverye ...
Amsterdam, J. Rieuwertz, 1659. Small 8vo. WIth a woodcut title-vignette showing a witch on a broomstick leaving a house through the chimney (4.3 x 5.2 cm), 13 etched full-page illustrations on 8 plates by Salomon Savry. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [16], 429, [19] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
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50 portraits of adulterous men and women

PASSE, Crispijn de (the younger). Les abus du mariage | Misbruick des houwelycx | Misbrauch des ehlichen Standes.
[Amsterdam], 1641. Small oblong 4to (15 x 19 cm). With engraved frontispiece, an etched plate, and 25 engravings in text (ca. 9.5 x 14 cm), each of the engravings showing 2 oval portraits of men and women, who sinned against the rules of marriage. The etching shows a cart drawn by two goats, a satyr as driver, and on the cart a joyful party of three women and two men. Modern half vellum. [45] ll. Full description
€ 15,000
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The snow sculptures of Antwerp

[PAUWELS, Jan Antoon Frans]. Berigt, van constig-gemaeckte sneeuwe beelden van half Januario tot het begin Februarii tot Antwerpen gezien . . .
Antwerp, Joannes Petrus de Cort, 1772. 4to. With title-page in a geometric border built up from cast fleurons and each page in a thick-thin border built up from cast units. 19th-century(?) decorated cloth, modern endpapers. 30 pp. Full description
€ 1,600
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Important bibliographical source for the history of Friesland and the first bibliography
exclusively devoted to Dutch authors

PETRI (PETRUS), Suffridus. De scriptoribus Frisiae, decades XVI. Et semis: in quibus non modo peculiares Frisiae, sed & totius Germaniae communes antiquitates plurimae indicantur, & veterum historicorum ac geographorum loci, hactenus non intellecti, explicantur.
Franeker, Jacobus Horreus, 1699. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. [88], 498 pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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Fortune telling for parties and weddings in the 18th century, the incredibly rare second edition

[POPULAR LITERATURE - FORTUNE TELLING]. De vermakelyke heydin, of wonderbare goedergelukzegster, zeggende op een vermakelyke wys, een yder zyn geluk, of ongeluk, wat hem overkomen zal, op twee duyzent, drie hondert en sestig differente manieren.
The Hague, Burger Vermeulen, [second half of the 18th century]. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece and the title-page printed in red and black. Later red and white floral-patterned decorated paper wrappers. (12),118,(6) pp. Full description
€ 2,950
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Variant issue of an account of the "Landjuweel" of Ghent 1539

[RHETORICIANS]. Spelen va[n] sinne byde[n] .xix. gheconfirmeerden cameren van rhetorijcken binnen der stede van Ghendt comparerende, verthoont, volghende den octroye vander K. Maiesteyt, Grave va[n] Vlaendren, onsen gheduchte[n] Heere, schepenen der selver stede, en[de] camere van rhetorijcke vander heylige drievuldicheyt, gheseyt de fonteynisten, verleent, en[de] der charte uutghesonde[n] op de questie, welck den mensche stervende, meesten troost is: die selve spele[n] beghinnende by ordre, so hier na volcht, de[n] .xii. junij, int jaer m.ccccc.xxxix. En[de] werde[n] volspeelt en[de] gheeyndt, den .xxiii. vanden jare en[de] maent voorsz.
(Colophon: Antwerp, [Matthias Crom], 25 October 1539). 8vo. 18th-century half vellum. [220] ll. Full description
€ 13,500
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Extremely rare and finely hand-coloured Dutch early 19th-century children’s book

ROEMER, Jan. Vruchtmandje voor de jeugd.
Amsterdam, J. Kaal, [1811]. 8vo. With a hand-coloured vignette (a fruit basket) on the title-page and 18 hand-coloured full-page plates. Original publisher's stiff brown printed paper boards. "XXXII" [= XXX], 111, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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Rare 1st edition of collected poetry of the Netherlands' first great poet, a century before Cats & Vondel,
with well over 100 poems, many published here for the first time

SECUNDUS, Janus (Joannes or Jan EVERAERTS). Opera. Nunc primum in lucem edita.
Utrecht, Herman van Borculo, 1541. With Van Borculos winged stag and book device on the title-page and another on the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf. Small 8vo (16 x 10.5 cm). Contemporary vellum wrapper. [324], [3 blank], [1] pp. Full description
€ 12,500
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Beautifully hand-coloured engravings, heightened with gold, in a splendid Amsterdam binding

SELS, Willem Hendrik. Salomon, Koning van Israël. In XII boeken.
Amsterdam, F. de Kruyff, A. van der Kroe, 1765[-1768]. 4to (23.5 x 17.5 cm; binding 24.5 x 19.5 x 4 cm). With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 12 engraved plates, a small engraved scene on the title page, and an armorial engraving above the dedication, all coloured by a contemporary hand and heightened with gold. Contemporary richly gold-tooled dark olive morocco by the so-called "Three Acorn Bindery" in Amsterdam, with a central ornament on both boards, surrounded by an elaborate decorative frame, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, a red morocco title label on the spine, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, green ribbon marker. [22], 292 pp. Full description
€ 12,500
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First and only edition of a Catholic devotional work with nearly 700 Van Sichem woodcuts

SICHEM, Christoffel II van. 't Schat der zielen, dat is: Het geheele leven ons Heeren Jesu Christi naer de vyer Evangelisten. Naer vervolgh des tijdts by een ghevoeght, in seven stucken verdeelt. Met seer schoon figuren verciert, gesneden door C. van Sichem, voor P. J. P[aets].
Amsterdam, Pieter J[acobsz]. P[aets], 1648. With 686 woodcuts, many full-page, by Christoph van Sichem (many with his monogram), after his own designs and after drawings and paintings by Aldegrever, Goltzius, Dürer, Bloemaert, the Wierix brothers, Lucas van Leyden, Maarten van Heemskerck, Joannes Stradanus, etc. 17th-century vellum, manuscript title on smooth spine. 800, [4] pp. Full description
€ 8,000
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One of the most important and rarest Dutch songbooks, with early poems by Hooft and Vondel

[SONGBOOK - DUTCH]. Den nieuwen verbeterden lust-hof, gheplant vol uytgelesene, eerlijcke, amoreuse ende vrolijcke ghesanghen, als mey, bruylofts, tafel, ende nieu jaers liedekens, met noch verscheyden tsamen-spreeckinghen tusschen vryer en vryster...
Including: [VLACQ, Michiel]. Bruylofts bancket. Verciert met veerthien liedekens, dienende tot vermakelijckheyt ende stichtinghe, so wel in bruyloften als in andere eerlijcke vergaderinghen van oude ofte jonghe lieden...
Amsterdam, Dirck Pietersz Pers, [ca. 1610]. 2 parts in 1 volume. Oblong 8vo. Each title-page with the same large engraving of a company making music after David Vinckboons. Later vellum, manuscript title on spine. [8], 96; 24 pp. Full description
€ 15,000
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Songs on the Dutch victories over the Spanish conquerors

[SONGBOOK - DUTCH]. Eerste [-Tweede] deel van 't nieu geusen liet boeck, waerinne begrepen is den gantschen handel der Nederlanden, beginnende anno 1564. uit alle oude geusen liet-boecken by een versamelt. Verciert met schoone oude refereynen en[de] liedekens, te voren noyt in eenige liet-boecken ghedruct. Met de figuren der gouverneurs.
Amsterdam, Gerrit van Breugel, 1616. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Title-page printed in red and black with borders built up from typographic ornaments, woodcut on title-page, and 10 small woodcut portraits in text of the two parts together. Later limp sheepskin parchment, with remnants of ties. [1], 93, [1]; 86, [1] ll. Full description
€ 5,000
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A raunchy satire of country life in Holland ca. 1700 with appendices on the Cape,
East Indies and fictitious Isle of Pines

SPAAN, Gerrit van. Het koddig en vermakelyk leven van Louwtje van Zevenhuizen, of het schermschool der huislieden, vervat in twee deelen. Waar agter gevoegt is de Afrikaansche en Aziaansche weg-wijzer, ...
Rotterdam, Pieter de Vries, 1752. 4 parts in 2 volumes, bound as 1. 8vo. With engraved allegorical frontispiece, a letterpress general title-page, 4 part-titles. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine. [20], 483 pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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Marvelously illustrated emblematic work on moral education

SPINNIKER, Adriaan. Leerzaame zinnebeelden, ... Tweede druk.
Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1757.
With: (2) SPINNIKER, Adriaan. Vervolg der Leerzaame zinnenbeelden, Spiegel der boetvaardigheid en genade en eenige stichtelyke gezangen.
Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1758. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. Ad 1 with engraved frontispiece and 50 beautifully engraved emblems in text. Ad 2 with same engraved frontispiece (with revisions), 30 engraved emblems in text and 4 engraved emblems on plates with letterpress text. Contemporary gold-tooled, tanned sheepskin. [16], 220, [3, 1 blank]; [8], XII, 144, 90, [2] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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Emblem book with engravings by Vander Vinne and Philips

SPINNIKER, Adriaan. Vervolg der leerzaame zinnebeelden, spiegel der boetvaardigheid en genade en eenige stichtelyke gezangen.
Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1758. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With engraved frontispiece, engraving on the title page, 30 engraved emblems in text (ca. 10 x 12.5 cm) by Vincent vander Vinne in the first part, and 4 engraved emblems in text (10 x 12.5 cm) by Jan Caspar Philips in the second part. Contemporary marbled wrappers. [8], XII, 144, [2], 90 pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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Iconic songbook by the most famous Frisian poet of the Golden Age in its third most complete edition

STARTER, Jan Jansz. Friesche Lust-hof, beplant met verscheyden stichtelijcke minne-liedekens, gedichten, ende boertighe kluchten. Den derden druck op nieuws vermeerdert ende verbetert ... Midtsgaders oock noch verrijckt ende verçierd met schoone kopere figuren; ende by alle onbekende wysen de noten, ofte musycke gevoeght.
Amsterdam, Widow of Dirck Pietersz. Voscuyl, [1624]. Oblong 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved portrait of the author, 10 engraved plates in the text, musical annotation, and decorated woodcut initials. 18th-century mottled brown calf. [14], 206, [40] pp. Full description
€ 14,500
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A neoclassical epic poem in Dutch with beautiful hand-coloured frontispiece by Reinier Vinkeles

STEENWIJK, Frans van. Klaudius Civilis, in zestien zangen, ...
Amsterdam, Pieter Meijer, 1774. Large 4to. With engraved frontispiece by Reinier Vinkeles, included both uncoloured and beautifully hand-coloured and highlighted with gold. Near contemporary half calf (ca. 1800), richly gold-tooled spine. [4], 395, [1] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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Colourful account of a shipwreck near Mauritius

STOKRAM, Andries. Korte beschryvinghe van de ongeluckige weer-om-reys van het schip Aernhem, nevens noch zes andere schepen, onder't gebiedt van den heer Arnout de Vlaming van Outshoorn, van Batavia na het vaderlandt afgevaren, op den 23. december 1661. van welcke gemelte schepen noch drie vermist worden.
Amsterdam, Jacob Venckel, 1663. Small 4to (19.5 x 16 cm). Modern marbled wrappers. 16 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Dutch Literature Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks VOC
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Dutch poetical works by a noble poetess from Groningen;
in a presentation binding by the "Bird Bindery" in Groningen

SYTZAMA, Clara Feyoena van. Bellingeweerder uitspanningen, behelzende eenige geestelyke- en mengel-stoffen, in rym ... benevens een voorrede en aanhangsel, betreffende het doorlugtigste huis van Orange en Nassau.
Groningen, Jurjen Spandaw, 1746. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, the title page is printed in red and black, several decorated woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary richly gold-tooled red morocco, sewn on 6 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the author and title lettered in gold on the spine, a central floral ornament on both boards, surrounded by an ornamental and a floral border, gold-tooled board edges, brocade paper pastedowns, gilt and gauffered edges. [92], [58], 92, [3] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
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The first great international investment fraud & scandal,
including 10 very rare broadsheets with woodcut illustrations

[TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID]. [Collection of satirical plates and illustrated poems related to Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid].
Including:
-11 very rare broadsheets, each of the first 10 with a satirical poem and 1 or more woodcut illustrations, the last with a verse by Joost van den Vondel and an engraved illustration.
[Netherlands, ca. 1720] (items 1-10); Rotterdam, Pieter vander Veer, 1721 (item 11). 1mo. Modern green half cloth.
-8 engraved prints with letterpress text by Jan de Ridder.
[Netherlands, ca. 1720]. Folio. Modern green half cloth.
-45 engraved satirical plates (including 2 made up of 4 separate prints each, and with a duplicate plate).
[Netherlands, ca. 1721]. Various formats. Each in passepartout.
-12 separate prints (a few with letterpress text) and 2 copies of an engraved map in 2 parts, showing the coast of South America and the South Sea.
[Netherlands, ca. 1721]. Various formats.
The whole kept together in a large 20th-century green half cloth portfolio (50×70 cm). Full description
€ 17,500
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First great international investment fraud and scandal

[TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID]. LAW, John (subject). Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankrijk, Engeland en de Nederlanden, gepleegt in den Jaare MDCCXX.
[Amsterdam], 1720. Folio (ca. 39 x 25.5 cm). With the title-page printed in red and black and 76 engraved plates, mostly double-page and several are larger folding sheets, including several maps, the plate with the complete set of 52 playing cards, and an extra copy of plate 18 (Muller) loosely inserted at the front of the work. Contemporary elaboratly gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 6 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine and with the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, marbled edges, bound by the so-called Double Drawer Handle Bindery in Amsterdam (between 1720 and 1742? - Storm van Leeuwen) [1], [1 blank], 25, [1], 52, "31" [= 29), [1 blank], 8, 10 pp. and engraved ll. Full description
€ 9,500
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First edition of a popular play, with fine etched plates by Pieter Nolpe

[TENGNAGEL, Mattheus Ganzneb]. Het leven van Konstance: waer af volgt het tooneelspel, de Spaensche heidin.
Amsterdam, Nicolaes van Ravesteyn, voor Johannes Jacott, 1643. Small 4to. With 6 full-page etchings by Pieter Nolpe after Simon de Vlieger, Pieter Quast, and Izak Izaksoon, musical scores by Gerret Bolhamer, a woodcut device on the title-page, 15 decorated woodcut initials of different sizes, and several woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum, 171, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 5,000
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Very rare first French edition of an important Dutch jestbook printed in Antwerp,
no copies in Belgian libraries

TIRON, Antoine (translator). Recueil de plusieurs plaisantes nouvelles, apophtegmes, et recreations diverses ...
Antwerp, Hendrick Henricsz, 1578. 8vo. With 18 half-page woodcuts in the text, including the one on the title page. 19th-century brown morocco, with the title, year of publication, and name of the bookbinder (Bauzonnet) lettered in gold on the spine. [6], 165, [8], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 25,000
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First Blaeu edition

VISSCHER, Roemer. Brabbelingh. By hem selven oversien, en meer als de helft vermeerdert.
Amsterdam, Willem Jansz. (Blaeu), 1614. 16mo. Woodcut emblem on title-page, 2 engraved emblems with jesters titled "Elck heeft de zijn" and ''Quaeso''. Contemporary vellum. 220, (2) pp. Full description
€ 3,950
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One of the most popular emblem books of the Dutch Golden Age

VISSCHER, Roemer. Zinne-poppen; alle verciert met rijmen, en sommighe met proze: door zijn dochter Anna Roemers.
Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1669. 12mo. With engraved emblematic title page, an emblem on the back of A5, and 193 engraved emblems by Claes Jansz. Visscher, in text. With 2 engraved emblems pasted on first blanks (including a repeat of the emblem on A5). Contemporary vellum, green ties. [10], 196, [4] leaves. Full description
€ 6,500
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Roemer Visscher's popular emblem book together with his early poetry

VISSCHER, Roemer. Zinne-poppen; alle verciert met rijmen, en sommighe met proze: door zijn dochter Anne Roemers.
Amsterdam, Sander Wybrantz. and Andries Vink, 1678. With engraved title-page, an engraved emblem on the back of A5, and 193 engraved emblems by Claes Jansz. Visscher.
With: (2) VISSCHER, Roemer. Brabbelingh... By hem selven oversien, en meer als de helft vermeerdert.Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1669. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. [10], 196, [4] ll.; 212, [4 blank] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
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Magnificently bound for Aaron de Pinto by the "Fleur-de-Lis Bindery" in The Hague; with the original drawings for the frontispieces

[WETSTEIN, George]. Het gelukkig ongeval. Bly-eindend treurspel.
Amsterdam, Heirs of J. Lescailje en Dirk Rank, 1721.
With:
(2) IDEM. Erik, Prins van Zweden. Treurspel.
Amsterdam, Heirs of J. Lescailje and Dirk Rank, 1722.
(3) IDEM. Gustavus Adolphus. Koning van Zweden, beschermer der Duitsche vryheit. Oorlogspel.
Amsterdam, Heirs of J. Lescailje and Dirk Rank, 1723. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Each work with an engraved frontispiece, the original preliminary ink drawing for the frontispiece, protected by tissue paper guards, and an engraved device on the title page. Contemporary gold-tooled olive morocco, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine lettered, bound by the so-called Fleur-de-Lis Bindery (The Hague 1729-ca. 1756; Storm van Leeuwen, IIA, pp. 110-117). With the coat of arms of Aaron de Joseph de Pinto in the centre of both boards, tooled onto a red morocco inlay of the same shape, surrounded by richly ornamental borders with the crowned monogram of De Pinto (ADJP) in the corners, the same monogram repeated in 5 of the 6 compartments on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. 88; 83; 87 pp. Full description
€ 16,500
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Very good artist's copy of the most extensive handbook on Dutch art of the 18th century

WEYERMAN, Jacob Campo. De levens-beschryvingen der Nederlandsche konst-schilders en konst-schilderessen, met een uytbreyding over de schilder-konst der ouden.
The Hague, widow of E. Boucquet, H. Scheurleer, F. Boucquet, J. de Jongh, 1729 (vols. 1-3); Dordrecht, Ab Blussé & son, 1769 (vol. 4). 4 volumes. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, title-pages in red and black and with engraved vignettes, a folding portrait of Willem Karel Hendrik Friso (1711-1751), Prince of Orange and from 1747 hereditary Stadtholder Willem IV, a portrait of the author, 40 engraved plates by Houbraken with multiple portraits of artists on each plate, 1 plate with a night scene, 1 mezzotint and 118 engraved vignettes. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with manuscript titles on spines. Sprinkled edges. [16], 412, [6]; [4], 412, [6], [4], 446, [4]. Full description
€ 4,000
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Very rare Utopian satirical periodical that brought the author five years in prison

[WIBMER, Jean Baptiste Didier]. Utopiaansch weekblad nos. 3-9 & 11-13.
Amsterdam, A. Vink, [1820-1821]. 10 (of 14) parts, lacking parts 1, 2, 10 & 14, supplied in photocopy. 8vo. With a woodcut illustration as headpiece on the opening page of 9 of the 10 parts. Later green cloth.
With: (2) [WIBMER, Jean-Baptiste Didier]. Utopiaansche courant no. 6
Amsterdam, H. Moolenijzer, "Dageraad, den 44 Stoeborn A[nn]o. 5569" [= 1819]. Folio broadsheet (44 x 26.5 cm). With a woodcut illustration as headpiece. Folded and unbound. 112 pp. (incl. photocopies) Full description
€ 1,500
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Four extremely rare broadsides with elegies on the death of Willem IV, Prince of Orange

[WILLIAM IV of Orange]. MEIJER, Jan. Billyke traanen, uitgestort op het overlyden van zyne doorluchtigste hoogheid Wilhem Carel Hendrik Friso.
Amsterdam, Theodorus Crajenschot, 1751. 1mo broadside (53 x 39 cm). With an engraved mortuary vignette.
With:
(2) OMMERING, Adriaan van. Op het schielyk afsterven van zyne doorluchtige hoogheid Willem Carel Hendrik Friso.
Amsterdam, Andries & Jacobus Stanhoffius, 1751. 1mo broadside (49 x 33 cm).
(3) KLOEKHOF, Cornelis Albertus. Treurzang op het afsterven van syne doorlugtigste hoogheyd Willem Carel Hendrik Friso.
Utrecht, Nicolaas van Vucht, 1751. 1mo broadside (52.5 x 39 cm).
(4) Op het allersmartelykste en voor den lande allerdroevigst afsterven van zyne doorluchtige hoogheid Willem Carel Hendrik Friso.
Amsterdam, Antoni Waldorp, [1751]. 1mo broadside (52 x 38 cm). Full description
€ 1,850
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17th-century love songs and poems

YSERMANS, Joan. Triumphus Cupidinis. In-houdende veel schoon stichtighe, en[de] seer vermaeckelijcke liedekens, en[de] andere ghedichten, verciert met veel loffelijcke sententien, als oock sommighe epitalamien, bruyloft-liedekens en andere poëmata.
Including:
-Ecomium matrimonii. In-houdende een bruy-loft spel, epithalamien ende sommighe liedekens.
-Nederlantsche poëmata. In-houdende sommighe sonetten, liedekens, graf-dichten ende andere.
Antwerp, widow of Jacob Mesens, 1628. 3 parts in 1 volume. Small oblong 8vo (8.5 x 12.5). With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by Anthoni Spirincx and many songs accompanied by music scores. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. 374, [2] pp. Full description
€ 5,750
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