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Rare publications on the dire state of Dutch fortifications in 1784 and the revelation of the Act of Advisership, 3 not in the STCN and 3 only 1 copy in the STCN

WILLIAM V of Orange. Missive van zyn hoogheid [aan de heeren Staten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden. 24 mey 1784].
[The Hague?,] 1784.
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(2) WILLIAM V of Orange. Missive van zyne hoogheid met een detail van de reedenen en motiven waarom niet voor de resolutie van den 7 deezer een groot aantal troupes naar de frontieren had gezonden. Commiss. 25 mey 1784.
[The Hague?,] 1784.
(3) [FORTIFICATION]. Rapport van gecommiteerdens nopens den staat van 's lands frontieren, magazynen en arzenaalen. Overgenoomen. 23 july 1784.
[The Hague?,] 1784.
(4) [FORTIFICATION]. Resolutie op het rapport nopens den staat van 'slands frontieren, magazynen en arzenaalen. 26 november 1784.
[The Hague?,] 1784.
(5) [FORTIFICATION]. Bylaagen gehorende tot het rapport van gecommiteerden nopens den staat van 's lands frontieren, magazynen en arsenaalen, ter vergadering van hun edele groot mog. Overgenoomen den 23 july 1784. Overgenoomen. 23 july 1784.
[The Hague?,] 1784. With 7 folding tables.
(6) [FORTIFICATION]. Extract uit het register der resolutien van de hoog mogende heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden. Jovis den 25 november 1784
Including: Memorie van consideratien en elucidatien van den Raade van Staate ..., op het rapport ..., nopens den staat van 's lands frontieren, magazynen en arsenalen ...
[The Hague?,] 1784.
6 publications in 1 volume. Folio. Contemporary half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. 10, [2 blank]; 5, [3 blank]; 63, [1]; 6, [1 blank], [1]; 288; 55, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,750
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The travel adventures of a famous book and art collector

WILLIGEN, Adriaan van der. Aanteekeningen op eene reize van Parijs naar Napels, door het Tirolsche en van daar door Zwitserland en langs den Rhijn terug naar Holland.
Haarlem, Adriaan Loosjes, (back of half-title parts 2-4: Utrecht, G. Post), 1811-1813. 4 parts in 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With an engraved title-page to the first part (with a stipple-engraved medallion portrait of the author) and 13 engraved plates by J. P. Visscher Bender. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spines. VIII, 269, [1]; IV, 292; VIII, 322; "VIII"[=6], 405, [3] pp. Full description
€ 4,000
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French translation of government regulations for the Dutch East Indies, published in Semarang, Indonesia

WINCKEL, Christiaan Philip Karel. Essai sur les principes régissant l'administration de la justice aux Indes Orientales Hollandaises surtout dans les îles de Java et Madoura et leur application.
Semarang, G.C.T van Dorp; Amsterdam, Scheltema & Holkema, 1880. 8vo. With an original sepia-toned photographic print of a session of the local (indigenous) court on Java and a lithographed folding map of the Dutch East Indies by the widow and sons of E. Spanier in The Hague. Half red sheepskin with blue decorated paper sides, gold-tooled spine, red sprinkled edges. XII, 315, [1] pp. Full description
€ 3,250
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Wonderful first edition of one of the most influential books on 17th-century shipbuilding, beautifully illustrated with more than 110 engraved plates

WITSEN, Nicolaes. Aeloude en hedendaegsche scheeps-bouw en bestier...
Amsterdam, Christoffel Cunradus, 1671. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved title-page by Romeyn de Hooghe, 112 full-page engraved plates, 1 folding double-page engraved plate and 7 small engraved plates printed on smaller strips of paper. With a small woodcut ornamental vignette on the title-page, woodcut decorated initials and woodcut ornamental tail-pieces. Near contemporary (18th-century?) elaborately blind-tooled vellum, sewn on five supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, with a manuscript title in the second (of six) compartment on the spine, later brown leather ties. [16], 516, 40, [4] pp. Full description
€ 22,500
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Exceptionally rare 17th-century flower book with beautiful engravings

WITT, Frederick de. Nieuwt[!] Bloem-Boeck.
[Amsterdam], Frederick de Widt[!], [third quarter of the 17th century]. Folio (31 x 20 cm). With 16 full-page, numbered engravings, comprising the title-page and 15 illustrations of flowers. Modern half-vellum with decorative paper sides (gold, sprinkled red, and with green leaf designs), manuscript title on the spine. [16] ll. Full description
€ 15,000
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Miracles from Brussels, illustrated by Adriaen Collaert

YDENS, Steven. Historie van het H. Sacrament der mirakelen. Berustende tot Bruessel inde collegiale kercke van S. Goedele. Beschreven door M. Steven Ydens Brusselaer, priester, licent. inde H. Godtheyt, ende canonick vande voorseyde kercke.
Brussels, Rutger Velpius, 1608. Small 8vo. With an engraved vignette on the title-page and 17 engravings on the integral leaves (most nearly full-page religious scenes: ca. 9.5 x 6.5 cm, but 1 showing the obverse and reverse of a gold medallion is smaller) by Adriaen Collaert; woodcut pictorial initials; and headpieces built up from typographic ornaments. Later calf (ca. 1700?). [46], 282, [20] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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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.
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-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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Rare Dutch shipbuilding manual, with 8 plates

ZWIJNDREGT (ZWYNDREGT), Leendert van. Verhandeling van den Hollandschen scheepsbouw, raakende de verschillende chartres der oorlogsschepen, tot 's lands dienst, en ter betrachtinge van alle bespiegelende en werkdadige liefhebberen der Hollandsche scheepsbouwkunde, ... Waarby, tot een aanhangsel, gevoegd is eene verhandeling van't bouwen der koopvaardyschepen door C. de Ruiter.
The Hague, Pieter van Thol, 1759. 4to. With engraved frontispiece view of a shipyard, title-page printed in red and black with charming woodcut device, the dedication with an armorial headpiece giving the arms of the dedicatee (Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer) and 8 engraved folding plates, including one very large (83 x 30 cm), showing the most important parts of a Dutch galleon with 50 cannons. 20th-century half vellum. [8], VIII, 126, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 4,750
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