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First edition of an iconic description of one of the most important Dutch cities of the early 17th century,
together with the well-known defence of Laurens Jansz. Coster as the inventor of printing

AMPZING, Samuel [and Petrus SCRIVERIUS]. Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland: in rijm bearbeyd ...
Including: SCRIVERIUS, Petrus. Laure-Crans voor Laurens Coster van Haerlem, eerste vinder vande boeck-druckery.
Haarlem, Adriaen Rooman, 1628. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1: With an allegorical frontispiece, 16 engraved plates, and a printer's device on the final page, the text is printed in roman, gothic and civilité type. Ad 2: With a woodcut printers device on the title page, a full-page engraved portrait, and a full-page engraved plate of the first printing office in Haarlem. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled overlapping vellum, gold-tooled oval coat of arms of Haarlem in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a blind-tooled single fillet frame, green closing ties, red sprinkled edges. [88], 520, [8]; 1-5, [3], 9, 6-124 pp. Full description
€ 6,500
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Early 18th-century guide to Amsterdam

[AMSTERDAM - CITY GUIDE]. Le guide ou nouvelle description d'Amsterdam, enseignant aux voyageurs, et aux negoçians sa splendeur, son commerce, & la description de ses edifices, ruës, ports, canaux, ponts, ecluses, &c. Nouvelle edition augmentée considerablement.
Amsterdam, Paul de la Feuille, 1720.
With: (2) Tarif general des Provinces Unies pour les droits d'entrée & de sortie que payent les marchandises, tant en ce païs qu'à la Mer Baltique, au passage du Sont.
Amsterdam, Paul de la Feuille, 1718. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with 28 engraved illustrations on 24 folding leaves. Further with a small woodcut vignette on the title page, one woodcut decorated initial, and one woodcut headpiece. Ad 2 with a woodcut floral vignette on the title page, and typographical tables in the text. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, and red sprinkled edges. [1], [1 blank], [4], "216" [= 198], [2 blank]; 123; [2]; pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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Rules and regulations for life in an Amsterdam orphanage or elderly home in the 17th- and 18th centuries

[AMSTERDAM - WALLOON COMMUNITY]. Ordres et reglemens de la Maison des Orphelins, des vieillards, & des vielles femmes de l'église Walonne d'Amsterdam. Avec des prières à l'usage de cette maison. Nouvelle edition.
Amsterdam, David Pierre Humbert, 1772. Large 4to (21.5 x 27 cm). With an engraved vignette on the title page and a divisional title page for the Prieres, a l'usage de la maison des orphelins walons (on leaf I3r). Further with 2 woodcut headpieces. Near contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. VIII, 91, [8], [1 blank], [6] pp. interleaved with blank pages. Full description
€ 3,500
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First official Antwerp pharmacopoeia

[ANTWERP - PHARMACOPOEIA]. [BOUDEWIJNS, Michiel, and others]. Pharmacia Antverpiensis galeno-chymica.
Antwerp, Joris Willemsens I, 1660. 4to. With an integral engraved architectural title-page by Petrus van Caukercken after Abraham van Diepenbeeck, letterpress title-page with a woodcut decoration, a divisional title for part 2, woodcut tailpieces, woodcut decorated initials. Set in roman and italic, with incidental Greek, textura and pharmacological signs. 18th-century vellum, faded manuscript title on spine. [1], [1 blank], [46], “285” [= 281], [32], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,750
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Incunable on poisons, using various Arabic sources

ARDUINO, Sante. [Incipit:] Incipit liber de venenis ...
(Colophon: Venice, Bernardino Rizzo, 1492). Folio (42 x 28 cm). Set in in 2 columns in 2 sizes of rotunda gothic types, with spaces left for numerous 3-line and 4-line and a few larger initials (with printed guide letters), none filled in. Modern black- and gold-tooled calf. [4], 101, [1] ll. Full description
€ 45,000
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2nd known copy of the only Antwerp edition (1652) of Colom’s 1635 atlas of the Low Countries

[ATLAS - LOW COUNTRIES]. [COLOM, Jacob Aertsz.]. La description de XVII. Provinces, avec les Terres Circonvoicins, a Scavoir Champagnie, Picardie, Liege, Retelle, &c.
Antwerp, Jan Huyssens, 1652. 4to (18 x 14.5 cm). With a double-page letterpress title-page, with a frame built up from typographic ornaments, and 39 unnumbered double-page engraved maps of the northern and southern Low Countries by Jacob Aertsz. Colom, each map coloured in outline. Interleaved with 38 blank leaves and with a manuscript table of contents ([3], [3 blank] pp.) at the end. Later 17th-century mottled calf. Double-page title-page and 39 double-page maps. Full description
€ 4,950
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Putting the British monarchy and nobility in the pillory: 7 fictitious auction catalogues,
satirically describing the British royal collections

[AUCTION CATALOGUES - FICTITIOUS]. Beredeneerde catalogus van een zeer fraaie, capitaale en pragtige inboedel ... byeenverzameld, door den Heere G. R. Zullende ... by exëcutie verkogt worden binnen London, ... in ... May of Juny deezes jaars. Door de makelaers Thomas Brandi, William Roastbeuf en James Punch, ... Derde druk.
Amsterdam, Johannes Geyger, [1781].
With:
(2) Commissie brief van den heere Wilhelmus Batavus, een aanzienlyke Nederlandsche patriot, aan den heere Lambertus Koopmans, commissionair te Londen. Benevens een notitie der commissien, door gemelden heer Batavus gegeeven, op de fraaye capitaale en prachtige inbedoel des heeren G.R.
[The Hague?, 1781].
(3) Catalogus van eene zo ongemeene zeldzaame, als uitmuntende verzameling van manuschripten[!]. ... byeen vergadert door den Lord W. Gordon ...
London [= Amsterdam or The Hague?], sold by Thomas Henly, [1781].
(4) Beredeneerde notitie van 't vorstlyke poppe- en speel-goed, der kinderen van den heere G.R. ...
[Amsterdam?, 1781].
(5) Sleutel of noodige ophelderingen der onlangs uitgekomene catalogus, van een fraaije capitaale en prachtige inboedel ... byeenverzameld, door den heere G.R. ...
Dordrecht, Abraham and Pieter Blussé; Rotterdam, Cornelis van den Dries; etc., [1781].
(6) Beredeneerde catalogus eener verzameling van schilderyen, der eerste meesters van Nederland.
The Hague, Thomas Pietersz. van Os, [1783/1789?].
(7) Beredeneerde catalogus, van eene uitmuntende verzameling schilderyen, door de vermaardste Nederlandsche meesters, uit het Fransch vertaald.
Holland, 1783.
7 fictitious auction catalogues in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 2: the introductory letter, from "Wilhelmus Batavus" to "Lambertus Koopmans" is dated from The Hague, 15 February 1781. Ad 3: the introductory letter, from Thomas Henly, is dated 2 February 1781. Ad 4: this catalogue presents itself as a second appendix to ad 1. Both the original catalogue and the first appendix describing themselves as catalogues for the sale in May or June 1781. Ad 6: with the supposedly authenticating woodcut on the title-page, showing the coat of arms of William the Silent hanging from a memorial cross. Contemporary half mottled calf, brown spine label with blind-tooled text and with some gold-tooled floral decorations, 20th-century marbled sides and endpapers. [4], 27, [1]; 16; 16; 16; 15, [1]; 32; 37, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,950
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First edition of the "Divisiekroniek", with 239 woodcut illustrations, in an interesting binding

[AURELIUS, Cornelius]. Die cronycke van Hollandt, Zeelandt en[de] Vrieslant beghinnende va[n] Adams tiden tot die geboerte ons heren Jh[es]u[m] voertgaende tot de[n] jare M.CCCCC. ende Xvij.
Leiden, Jan Seversz., 18 August 1517. Folio. With the title-page printed in red and black with a large woodcut between different woodcut borders, and 239 woodcuts in text, including 121 woodcut portraits. Black blind-tooled goatskin (1637), with gold-tooled title and binding date on side. [2], 436 ll. Full description
€ 45,000
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The most important expanded edition of the famous “Divisiekroniek”, the Dutch national chronicle, complete with the map of Holland in its first state

[AURELIUS, Cornelius and Ellert de VEER]. Die cronycke van Hollant, Zeelant ende Vrieslant. Dordrecht, Peeter Verhaghen, 1591, 1591, 1590. 3 volumes bound as 1. Small folio (30.5 x 20.5 cm). With 3 title-pages, each with a different woodcut full-length portrait (the first count of Holland Dirck I, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and King Philip II of Spain), 1 double-page engraved map of Holland in part 2 (in its first state), and 36 woodcut portraits in text. Blind-tooled vellum (ca. 1740?). [6], 264; [6], 162; [1], 1-110, 110-130, [6] ll. plus the map. Full description
€ 6,500
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