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On the Christian missionaries in the diocese of Utrecht, in a contemporary armorial binding

BOSSCHAERTS, Willibrord. [Greek:] Diatribai. De primis veteris Frisiae apostolis, sive dissertationes, quibus eoru[m] anni, actus, res, personae, loca, tempora in eorundem actis occurrentia, discutiuntur, illustrantur, erroresque ab aliena manu illapsi refelluntur.
Mechelen, Robert Jaye, 1650. Small 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, and numerous decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a fleuron in each compartment on the spine, the large gilt coat of arms of Jean Baptiste Daneels, Baron of Attenrode and of Corbeeck-over-Loo on both boards, within a single fillet frame, gilt edges. [2], [28], 604, 26, [2] pp. Full description
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Extensive work discussing hundreds of plant species suitable for cultivation in Dutch gardens

[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
€ 950
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Summary of the constitution of the Dutch Republic with the essential text in extenso

[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
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Important treatise on the legal and political status of the Dutch Republic

[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
€ 850
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Navigating the waters around Texel

BRANDLIGT, Laurens. Scylla en Charybdis; behelzende een project, ter verbetering der zeegaten en het vaarwater van Texel, en aanwinning van eenige duizend morgen land.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, Laurens Brandligt, 1780. 8vo. With 4 folding engraved maps, and 1 folding engraved plate. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold. XIII, [1], 194 pp. Full description
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First edition of the history and description of Enkhuizen

[BRANDT, Gerard]. Historie der vermaerde zee- en koop-stadt Enkhuisen, vervaetende haere herkomste, en voortgangh. Mitsgaders verscheide gedenkwaerdige geschiedenissen, aldaer voorgevallen.
Enkhuizen, Egbert van den Hoof, 1666. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of Enkhuizen on the title page, an engraved allegorical frontispiece by H. Bary, 5 full-page engraved portraits by H. Bary, a large folding plan of Enkhuizen after design by O. Suermondt, and a large folding plate with 31 coats of arms of the members of the city council. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [12], 207, [1], 167, [1 blank], [16] pp. Full description
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Biography of the great Dutch naval hero Admiral Michiel de Ruyter. Large paper copy of the first edition

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
€ 3,750
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