Low Countries

[BOREEL, G.]. [Autograph letter, signed, to ''Monsieur'']. 1 p. text. Full description

BOR, Pieter Christiaenszoon. Gelegentheyt van 's Hertogen-Bosch vierde hooft-stadt van Brabandt. Haer oorspronck, fundatie ende vergrootinge, verscheyden hare belegeringen. Ende eyntlijcke overwinninge verrassinghe ende inneminghe van Wesel ende meer andere geschiedenissen des iaers 1629.
The Hague, Aert Meuris, 1630. 4to. With an engraved title-page, which is part of the collation (page (a)2 recto) and a few decorated initials. Contemporary vellum. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [27], [1 blank], 412, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

BORY DE SAINT VINCENT, Jean Baptiste Geneviève Marcellin and Léon DUFOUR. Voyage souterrain, ou description du Plateau de Saint-Pierre de Maestricht et de ses vastes cryptes, par le colonel Bory de Saint-Vincent; suivi de la relation de nouveaux voyages entrepris dans les Montagnes maudites; par Léon Dufour.
Paris, Ponthieu, 1821. 8vo. With a folding lithographed map of Mount Saint Peter in Maastricht, lithographed by L.A. Paulmier after drawings by the author, and 3 full-page lithographed views. Contemporary gold tooled quarter brown calf. [4], 381, [1 blank] pp. Full description

BOSCH, Johannes van den. De heeren stadhouderen van Vriesland ...
Leeuwarden, printed by Abraham Ferwerda and Gerrit Tresling, 1770. Small folio (ca. 31 x 20 cm). With the title page set within a red decorative border, 21 full-page mezzotint portraits with 3- or 4-line captions in Dutch, and 10 woodcut tailpieces. Later half vellum, boards covered with paper, manuscript title in black ink on the spine, blue sprinkled edges. [19], [1 blank], 87, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[BOTANY - HORTICULTURE]. Bloemkundig woordenboek bevattende eene beschrijving van meer dan 2200 gewassen, (waaronder 170 van de mooiste heiden) zoo boomen, heesters als planten...
Amsterdam, J.C. Sepp & zoon, [1821]. 8vo. Contemporary red sprinkled paper wrappers, with a printed paper title-label on the spine. [2], L, 521, [1 blank] pp. Full description

BOURGOGNE, Antoine de (Antonius à BURGUNDIA). Mundi lapis lydius sive vanitas per veritatem falsi accusata & convicta.
Antwerp, widow of J. Cnobbarus, 1639. 4to. With an engraved title page, 50 engraved emblems, 31 woodcut tailpieces, and 3 decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum, with the title in manuscript on the spine. [28], 249, [27] pp. Full description

BOXEL, Johan. Exercitie memorie van de compagnie guardes van de Ed: Groot Mog: Heeren Staten van Holland en West-Vrieslandt. Bestaende in 't exerceren van 't musquet, spies, ende de generale exercitie.
The Hague, Nicolaes van Coevenhoven, [privilege dated 18 February 1669]. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a letterpress general title page printed in red and black, 2 engraved divisional titles pages, and 82 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf. [24], [2 blank]; [16], [24] pp. Full description

[BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius van]. Verbetert en vermeerdert politijck en militair hantboecxken vanden staet der Geunieerde Provintien, aenwysende des selfs maniere van regieringe, veelvoudige middelen &c.
[Printed in Gouda, Willem van der Hoeve], 1674.Including: (2) MILITAIR repartitie-boeckjen, aenwijsende den staet des oorlogs der Geûnieerde Provincien. Als mede het getal der compagnyen, soo te paert als te voet, in des selfs dienst geweest zijnde, zedert den jare 1621. Den sesten druck.
[Printed in Gouda, Willem van der Hoeve, 1674?].
(3) ARTIKEL-BRIEF, ofte ordonnantie, op de discipline militaire. Met een bequaem register daer toe dienende.
[Printed in Gouda, Willem van der Hoeve, 1674?]. Woodcut ornament on title-page.3 texts in 1 volume. 12mo. With 3 title-pages (the 1st and 3rd each with a woodcut ornament), a divisional title-page for the text of the 1579 Union of Utrecht, 1 woodcut decorated initial and a few headpieces built up from cast typographic ornaments Verhandelinge vande Unie, ofte eeuwigh verbont, ende eendracht, and drop-title for the transcriptions of other documents. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [8], “300” [= 400]; 112; 20, [4] pp. Full description

[BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius]. Commentariolus de statu confoederatarum provinciarum Belgii. Editio sexta auctior & emendatior. Accessit de eadem materia Pauli Merulae Diatriba. Nec non Decretum Ordd. Holl. & West-Frisiae, De antiquo iure Reip. Batavicae.
The Hague, Adriaan Vlacq for Johannes Vlacq, 1668. 12mo. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, boards and board edges, gilt edges. [12], 202 pp. Full description

BRANDT, Geeraert. Het leven en bedryf van den heere Michiel de Ruiter.
Amsterdam, for Wolfgang, Waesberge, Boom, van Someren and Goethals, 1687 (engraved title-page: printed by Pieter and Joan Blaeu, 1686). Folio (34.5 x 22.5 cm). With engraved title-page, engraved portrait of De Ruyter, 7 engraved double-page plates by Sebastiaen Stoopendaal and 1 engraved plate by Joseph Mulder. Late 18th-century calf, gold-tooled spine. [10], "1063" [=1065], [23] pp. Full description