Low Countries

[PAMPHLET - DUTCH - BERGEN OP ZOOM]. Cort verhael ende rechte verclaringe vande entreprinse, die des Eertz hertogen Albertus volck ghedaen heeft op de stadt Bergen op den Zoom ende de wercken daer voren gelegen, op den XXIen Augusti 1605 onder t' beleyt ende conduitte van Mons d'Hericourt...
Bergen op Zoom, Jacob Canin, 1605. 4to. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initial and small endpiece. Modern blue half morocco with gilt title on spine. [8] pp. Full description

[PAMPHLET - FRIESLAND]. Resolutien ende missiven van de Edele Moogende Heeren Staten van Frieslandt, ende dHeeren der selver Gedeputeerden, ter occasie van seeckere Remonstrantie overgegeven aen Haer Ho: Mo: de Staten Generael der vereenighde Nederlanden.
Leeuwarden, Rinnert Sydtses Arumsma, 1678. 4to. With the woodcut coat-of-arms of the States General on the title-page and woodcut initials. Later brown wrappers. 20 pp. Full description

[PAMPHLET - HOLLAND & WESTFRIESLAND]. Circulaire brief, van de Heeren Ridderschap en Edelen, van Hollandt en West-Vrieslant; nevens t antwoort van de Ed. Groot Achtb. Heeren Burgermeesteren en Regeerders der stadt Amsterdam, op de voorsz. Brief.
[Amsterdam,] Jan Cyprianus van der Graft [= Jacobus Hackius?], 1685. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette. Blue modern wrappers, new endpapers. 24 pp. Full description

[PANORAMA - ROTTERDAM]. Johan Conrad GREIVE jr. (illustrator). Panorama de Rotterdam.
Amsterdam, [printed by R. de Vries for] François Buffa & Sons, [1861]. Oblong (14.5 x 25 cm). The panorama is made up of 6 numbered views, which were originally published on three loose leaves of 2 views per leaf. The viewer looks northward from the river Meuse over the city from the old "sailor's house" (zeemanshuis) in the west along the Willemskade and the Haringvliet to the train station and large warehouse (rijks entrepot) in the east. Original brown blind-stamped wave-grained cloth. 6 numbered views folded making 12 pages. Full description

[PASSE, Crispijn de (the younger) and Jan VOS]. Verklaringe van verscheyden kunst-rijcke wercken en hare beweginghe, door orlogie-werck ghedreven, ... Alles te sien in 't Oude Doolhof tot Amsterdam, op de hoeck van de Loyers-gracht.
Amsterdam, Tymen Houthaeck, 1648. Small 4to (19 x 15 cm). With a engraved illustration of a labyrinth on title-page, an engraved plate by P. Holsteyn after A. Vinckenbrinck, 3 engravings in text and a folding engraved plate of David & Goliath. Modern marbled wrappers. [8] ll. Full description

[PASSPORT]. Alder-doorluchtichste, ... heeren ... die dese opene letteren sullen sien ... doen wy burgermeesteren .. der stadt Amsterdam te weten, dat schipper Jurriaen Gerritsz. van Amsterdam ... dat het schip genaemt de Helena ...
Amsterdam, 7 November 1710. 41 x 30.5 cm. Letterpress passport, with a large woodcut initial and spaces where the city, skipper, ship and size are filled in in manuscript, with two seals, signed in the left margin by François Fagel (1659-1746) and at the foot by J. Aley(?). Full description

[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

PETIT, Jean François le. La grande chronique ancienne et moderne, de Hollande, Selande, West-Frise, Utrecht, Frise, Overyssel & Groeningen, jusques à la fin de l'an 1600.
Dordrecht, Jacob Canin (and volume 2: G. Guillemot), 1601. 2 volumes. Folio (30.5 x 19 cm). With 2 hand-coloured engraved title pages, a hand-coloured engraved portrait of the author, a contemporary hand-coloured woodcut illustration in the text, heightened with gold, and 56 engraved illustrations in the text (of which 55 contemporary hand-coloured and heightened with gold). Late 17th- or early 18th-century gold-tooled sprinkled calf, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. [22], "652" [= 658], 240, [18]; [16], "779" [= 774], [15], [1 blank] pp. Full description

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

PFEIFFER, François Joseph junior, Jacob van LENNEP and Gerrit van ENST KONING. Tooneel decoratief, voorgesteld in op steen geteekende platen door F.J. Pfeiffer Jr.
Amsterdam, Coenraad Weddepohl, 1845. Folio. With a lithographed portrait of the artist (mounted), 8 lithographed plates of stage designs, and 9 poems in red decorated letterpress frames, the lithographs by Desguerrois & Co. With the 8 plates of stage designs hand-coloured as published. Original publisher's cloth, with a gold-blocked lyre in the centre of each board. [2 blank], [1], [1 blank], 10 pp., [9] ll. + plates. Full description