Low Countries

[NETHERLANDS - STATES GENERAL - PROCLAMATION]. Placcaet ende ordonnantie opte wapeninge ende manninge vande schepen, soo ter coopvaerdye als visscherije, uytte Vereenighde Nederlanden over zee varende.
Including: [drop-title:] Instructie voor de Co[m]missarisen in 't Vlije ende inde Sont, omme opsicht te hebben op de uyt-varende ende inkommende oostersche schepen, en[de] Noordt-Drunt ende Noordt-Caep-vaerders.
The Hague, widow and heirs of Hillebrant Jacobsz. van Wouw, 1627. 4to. With woodcut arms of the States General on title-page. Sewn without supports and not bound. [22], [2 blank] pp. Full description

WASSENAER, Willem Frederik Hendrik van. Specimen inaugurale de coloniis quod favente supremo rerum domino ... A.D. Calend. April MDCCLXXIII H.L.Q.S.
Utrecht, Abraham van Paddenburg, 1773. 4to. With a richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, and an engraved emblematic printer's device on the title page, both by Noach van der Meer. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco by the Utrecht Dissertation Bindery (1773-1800). [4], 62, [6] pp. Full description

[WATERCOLOUR - BELGIUM]. View of the church of St. Dagobert and the parc at Brussels.
[Brussels], 1794. Ca. 11.7 x 18.1 cm. Full description

[WATERCOLOUR - MEUSE RIVER]. [View of the Meuse River with a floating bridge].
[The Netherlands], 12 October 1794. Ca. 11.5 x 18 cm. Full description

[WATERCOLOURS - FLANDERS - MILITARY]. [Four watercolour views of military operations in Antwerp].
[Antwerp, 1794]. With 4 watercolours (each ca. 11.5 x 18 cm), with manuscript captions in French. Full description

[WATER, Jona Willem te]. Bericht wegens het verongelukte Oost-Indische schip Woestduin; ende reddinge der schepelingen door de gebroeders Naerebout.
Middelburg, P. Gillissen en Zoon, 1780. 8vo. With an engraved title page with 2 oval portraits, and a woodcut headpiece. Contemporary decorated wrappers. 52 pp. Full description

[WATER MANAGEMENT - SLUIPWIJK - BROADSIDE]. Waerschouwinge. Den schout ende heemraaden van 't waterschap van Sluypwijck, doen een ieder by dezen weeten dat zy op zullen schouwen alle de wegen, dijken en wateringen, daar zy schouwe op hebben.
[Gouda?, second half of the 18th century]. Ca. 46 x 35.5 cm. With a decorated woodcut initial. [1] l. Full description

[WATERMARK - ELEPHANT]. [A blank half-sheet of paper of the size called "Elephant"].
[France?, used in the Netherlands?], [ca. 1650]. Elephant folio leaf (35 x 52 cm). With a large (87 x 162 mm) elephant watermark. Full description

WELLEKENS, Jan Baptista & Pieter VLAMING. Dichtlievende uitspanningen. Bestaande in herders- hoef- en veldgezangen, tafereelen, brieven enz.
Amsterdam, sold by Andries van Damme (colophon: printed by Willem Goeree the younger), 1710. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved vignette on the title page, 7 full-page engraved part-titles, 7 engraved plates (1 folding, 6 full page), 16 engravings in the text, several woodcut endpieces and initials; all engravings by J. Goeree. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript authors on the spine, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, red and blue sprinkled edges. [16], 228, [2] pp. Full description

WENNING, Johannes Ype. Geschied- en oudheidkundig mengelwerk. Bijeen verzameld door --.
[Leeuwarden?], 1868. 8vo. With a calligraphed and illustrated title page, coloured by hand, a folding coloured drawing of the Wiarda state near Leeuwarden, and 5 smaller uncoloured drawings of other states. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, blue sprinkled edges. [4], 60, [92 blank] pp. Full description