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At the end of the Company: Zeeland and the reorganisation of the VOC

[VOC - WIC]. Bericht der vergadering van Zeventien, by de provisionele repraesentanten des volks van Zeeland, den 22 september gerequireerd op het decreet der provisionele repraesentanten des volks van Holland van den 15 derzelve maand, aangaande een verandering in de directie der Generale Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.
Middelburg, Isaac de Winter, 1795. 8vo. Contemporary sprinkled boards. [2], 72, [28] pp. Full description
€ 750
Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Netherlands VOC WIC
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An urgent call for the merger of the Dutch East and West India Companies

[VOC - WIC - MERGER]. Twee deductien, aen-gaende de vereeninge van d'Oost ende West-Indische Compagnien, aen de ... Heeren Staten van Hollandt ende West-Vrieslandt, vande West-Indische Compagnie, over-gelevert.
The Hague, Jan Veely, 1644 Small 4to. With a woodcut on the title-page showing a Dutch ship in full sail. Reddish-brown wove paper back wrapper (ca. 1900?). 21, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets History / 17th Century Netherlands VOC WIC
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A passionate plea for the merger of the Dutch East and West India Companies

[VOC - WIC - MERGER]. Schaede die den staet der Vereenichde Nederlanden, en dinghesetenen van dien, is aenstaende, by de versuymenisse van d'Oost en West-Indische negotie onder een octroy en societeyt te begrijpen.
The Hague, Jan Vreely, 1644. Small 4to. Flexible boards. 51, [1] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Brazil Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets Economic History & Trade Latin America Netherlands South America VOC WIC
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Against stock jobbing, stock manipulating and other abuses
relating to the trade in shares (actiën) of the Dutch West and East India Companies

[VOC - WIC - SHARES FRAUD]. Relaes en contradictie op de motiven, om het koopen en verkoopen van Oost- en West-Indische actien, die niet getransporteert werden, ende optie partyen te beswaeren met eeen impost by de Heer Nicolaes Muys van Holy, advocaet tot Amsterdam, onwetende voorgestelt, en daer en boven getoont waer in waerlyyk Hollants intrest en welvaren bestaende is.
[Amsterdam or Rotterdam?, 1687]. 4to. Later decorated paper wrappers. 16 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Amsterdam Economic History & Trade History / 17th Century Law & Politics VOC WIC
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Early 19th-century illustrated Dutch manuscript, based on a classic 18th-century work on navigation

VRIES, Klaas de and Sietse DAUWES. Konst der stierlieden[!] voor deezen beschreeven van den navigateur Klaas de Vries. Uijtgewerkt door Sietse Dauwes. Van de Lemmer. Begonnen, in den jaare 1814. Maand Januarij.
Lemmer, Friesland, The Netherlands, 1814. Folio (32 x 21 cm). With more than 350 instructive diagrams and drawings and several tables. The Dutch text is written in a clearly legible, 19th-century cursive hand in brown ink. Contemporary quarter red sheepskin and blue marbled paper sides. [1], [100], [115 blank] ll. Full description
€ 8,500
Manuscripts & Documents Mathematics Navigation
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Beautiful examples of 18th-century penmanship by 2 Dutch brothers

WALBEEK, Willem and Frans WALBEEK. [Three calligraphic prize books by Willem and Frans Walbeek].
Warmond (near Leiden), the Netherlands, 1752-1756.
Comprising:
(1) WALBEEK, Willem. Prijs boek. Inhoudende verscheyde geschriften.
Warmond, 1752.
(2) WALBEEK, Willem. Prijs-boek. Inhoudende eenige schriften.
Warmond, 1753.
(3) WALBEEK, Frans. Prijs boek.
Warmond, 1756.
Three oblong albums (ca. 35 x 44 cm). With the same hand drawn illustration of 2 putti holding a laurel wreath on the title-pages of ads 2 and 3, and an ink drawing of a compass as part of a calligraphic exercise also in ads 2 and 3. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. [12]; [1 blank], [13]; [10] ll. Full description
€ 3,500
Calligraphy Education & Pedagogy Manuscripts & Documents Netherlands
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A monument to Dutch cartography: Colom’s 40 sheet wall map of Holland and Utrecht

[WALL MAP - THE NETHERLANDS - COLOM, Jacob Aertsz.]. Comitatus Hollandiae et Dominii Ultraiectini tabula = Carte nouvelle de la Comté de Hollande et de la Seigneurie d'Utrecht.
Amsterdam, Covens & Mortier, [ca. 1725]. Ca. 160 x 289 cm. Mounted on linen, folded and kept together in a paper slipcase, the whole kept in a book-shaped box. Full description
€ 15,000
Charts & Maps Holland Utrecht
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An English perspective on the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland

WALSH, Edward. A narrative of the expedition to Holland in the autumn of the year 1799.
London, for G.G. and J. Robinson (colophon: printed by S. Hamilton, Fleet Street), 1800. Large 4to. With a double-page engraved map of North Holland and 7 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. [2], ii, 164 pp. Full description
€ 2,750
Holland Military History (18th Century) Netherlands
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