Low Countries

[GRONINGEN]. Effigies & vitae professorum academiae Groningae & Omlandiae; cum historiolâ fundationis ejusdem acad.
Groningen, Johannes Nicolai (colophon: Hindrick Lussinck), 1654. Small folio (ca. 29 x 19 cm). With an engraved title page, and 31 full-page engraved portraits. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [4], 225, [8], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[AUTOGRAPH]. GROOT (GROTIUS), Hugo de. [Autograph letter, signed, to the President and councillors of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands].
[Netherlands], 1609. Letter on 2 half-sheets (31 x 20.5 cm). In Dutch. Full description

GROOT, Hugo de. Nederlandtsche jaerboeken en historien, sedert het jaer 1555 tot het jaer 1609; ...
Amsterdam, the widow of Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgangk and Hendrik & Dirk Boom, 1681. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 20 full-page engraved portraits, and 27 double-page plates, views, and plans, a title page printed in red and black, decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces.
Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with the manuscript author and title on the spine. [44], 591, [1 blank], [76]; 19, [1 blank]; [6], 74 pp. Full description

GUALDO PRIORATO, Galeazzo. Teatro del Belgio ò sia descritione delle diecisette provincie del medesimo; con le piante delle città, e fortezze principali; da chi al presente possesse; come, in qual modo, & in qual tempo acquistate.
Vienna, Michael Thurnmayer, 1673. Folio. With engraved frontispiece with the coat-of-arms of all Seventeen Provinces, engraved military scene on the title-page, folding engraved map of the Low Countries, 2 folding engraved views of a sea-battle and an army crossing the Rhine, and 120 double-page engraved fortification plans. Contemporary mottled sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [14], 148, [6] pp. text Full description

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Descrittione ... di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania Inferiore.
Antwerp, Willem Silvius, 1567. Folio. With the title, the large coat of arms of Philip II, and his portrait set within a woodcut architectural frame with allegorical figures on separate pages, 5 double-page woodcut maps (including 1 folding), 4 double-page woodcut views of cities, 6 double-page woodcut plans of cities, and 2 double-page illustrations of buildings (1 woodcut, 1 engraved). Further with 15 woodcut divisional title-pages for the illustrations and descriptions of the regions and cities set within a woodcut ornamental frame and numerous woodcut decorated initials (at least 4 series). Later overlapping vellum, sewn on 3 parchment tapes laced through the joints. [3], [1 blank], [16], "296"[= 339], [1 blank], [19], [1 blank] pp. Full description

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Description de tout le Païs-Bas autrement dict la Germanie inferieure, ou Basse-Allemaigne ... Avec diverses cartes geographiques dudit païs. Aussi le pourtraict daucunes villes principales ... Avec un ample discours sur le faict de la negotiation et trafique des marchandises qui se fait audit pays. Plus une table ...
Antwerp, Guillaume Silvius, 1567. Folio. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 1 folding engraved map of the Low Countries by Cornelis de Hooghe, 1 folding engraved view of the town hall of Antwerp, the woodcut coat of arms and portrait of King Philip II, and 15 double-page woodcut maps, plans and (bird's-eye) views after Jacob van Deventer in the text, the title is set within a frame of ornamental typographical elements (also used for the half-titles and head-pieces) and woodcut initials. 18th-century mottled calf. [24], "389" [=405], [26] pp. Full description

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Descrittione ... di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania Inferiore.
Antwerp, Willem Silvius, 1567. Folio. With the title, the large coat of arms of Philip II, and his portrait set within a woodcut architectural frame with allegorical figures on separate pages, and 17 double-page plates, maps and views (15 woodcuts, 2 engravings).Further with 15 woodcut divisional title-pages for the illustrations and descriptions of the regions and cities set within a woodcut ornamental frame and numerous woodcut decorated initials (at least 4 series). Later vellum. [3], [1 blank], [16], "296"[= 339], [1 blank], [19], [1 blank] pp. Full description

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania inferiore. Con tutte le carte di geographia del paese, & col ritratto al naturale di molte terre principali; rineduta di nuovo , & ampliata per tutto la terz a volta dal medesimo autore. Al gran're Cattolico don Filippo d'Austria. Con amplissimo indice di tutte le cose piu memorabili.
Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1588. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece of the Low Countries (Belgia), an engraved architectural title in its first state with printed text, an engraved plate with a border of the coat of arms of the 16 Provinces and that of Brabant together with the coat of arms of Philip II in the centre pasted in, an engraved plate with an allegorical depiction of the Arts and Sciences and an architectural border with the portrait of Philip II in the centre, a large woodcut coat of arms of Guicciardini, 64 double-page engraved maps and views, 6 full-page engraved maps and views, 4 single pages with on each 2 engraved maps, woodcut headpieces and initials.
Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, with an oval centrepiece on both boards within a decorative frame, gilt edges, remnants of ties. [24], 432, [18] pp. Full description

GUICCIARDINI, Ludovico and Reinier TELLE (translator). Omnium Belgii, sive Inferioris Germaniae, regionum description: ... recens ex idiomate Italico, ad exemplar tertium ac postremum ab ipso authore recognitum ...
Arnhem, Johannes Janssonius, 1616. Oblong 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, a full-page armorial plate, 7 full-page maps and 100 city views, one of which double-page. Further with several decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary limp vellum. [8], 517, [11] pp. Full description

[GUILLAS, Denis]. Histoire de la bataille navalle faite par les Dieppois & Flamans: qui est l'une des plus furieuses & soudaines expeditions de mer, qui ayt esté entreprise de nostre temps sur les ennemis du Roy.
Paris, Estienne Denise, [1557?]. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm). With 2 woodcut decorated initials and one cast fleuron (Vervliet, Vine leaf ornaments 173). Set in roman type with incidental italic. Finely executed late 19th-century(?) French red morocco by René Aussour, gold-tooled turn-ins, title, place of publication and date 1555 in gold in 2nd and 3rd of 6 spine compartments, gilt edges. [51], [1 blank] pp. Full description