Low Countries / Amsterdam

COMMELIN, Casparus. Beschryvinge van Amsterdam, zynde een naukeurige verhandelinge van desselfs eerste oorspronk uyt de huyse der heeren van Amstel, en Amstellant, haar vergrootingen, rykdom, en wyze van regeeringe, tot den jare 1691. Voor dezen uit verscheide oude historie-schryvers by gesteld, en uitgegeven; en nu uit een meenigte van oude schriften, authentyke stukken, en met kopere afbeeldingen verciert, nooit voor desen gedrukt geweest.
Amsterdam, widow of Aart Dirksz. Oossaan, 1726. 2 volumes. Folio (31 x 20 cm). Engraved title, two letterpress title-pages, each with the same woodcut coat of arms of the city of Amsterdam, 46 folding and double-page engravings, 11 full-page engraved plates, 77 engravings in the text and some woodcut illustrations of coat of arms and seals. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [20], 600; 601-1223, [1 blank], [40] pp. Full description

CROCUS, Cornelius. Comoedia sarca[!] cui titulus Joseph, ad Christianae iuventutis institutionem iuxta locos inventionis, veteremque artem, nunc primum & scripta & edita per Cr. Crôcum Aemsterodami ludimagistrum.
Strasbourg, Jacobi Jucundi [=Jakob Frölich], 1542. 8vo. With a printer's device on the title page and final page, two decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, and three woodcut tailpieces. Early 18th-century gold tooled mottled brown calf. [40] ll. Full description

CUNO, Johann Christian, David Sigmund BÜTTNER and Friedrich WAGNER (transl.) Ode über seinen Garten: Nachmahls Besser. Amsterdam, Jacob Cornelis Schoots van Cappelle, 1750. 8vo. With a folding engraved allegorical title-plate, an engraved printers device on the title-page, an elaborate engraved coat-of-arms on the dedication page and 11 engraved plates (1 folding). Further numerous woodcut allegorical capitals. Contemporary calf. [34], 260 pp. Full description

DAM, Jan Albertsz. van. Nieuw geinventeerde koopmans comptoir- en schrijf-almanach, op het schrikkel-jaar onzes heeren J. Christi M DCC XII. Na de nieuwe styl. Versien met de jaarmarkten, paarde- beeste- en leer-markte, en de dageliksche uure van de maans op en ondergang.
Amsterdam, the heirs of Albert Magnus, [1711 (for the year 1712)]. 12mo. Printed in red and black throught, the title-page with Magnus's woodcut device (Atlas with an armillary sphere on his shoulders), numerous typographical symbols in the text: for example a horse and a goat representing horse and other animal market days, moons in different phases, planetary signs and manicules (pointing hands). With a small etching of an angel (39 mm tall) holding a wreath, cut out of an unidentified source and loosely inserted between 2 blank pages at the end of the book. Contemporary, elaborately gold-tooled mottled calf over thin wooden boards by the so-called Art Book Bindery (1705-1741) in the style made famous by Albert Magnus himself, with more than 100 impressions of about a dozen stamps and one roll, gold-tooled board edges. Further with 4 silver anchor plates (2 on each board), each with the coat of arms of the States of Holland in a decorative cartouche, and each with a silver eye extending over the fore edge, with a silver combination stylus/lead pencil used to fasten the book through the eyes, gilt edges. [120] pp. bound with 46 blank free endleaves: [12] pp. at the front and [22 (coated paper)], [12] pp. at the back. Full description

[DREESING, Harmanus]. [Drop-title:] Notitie van een groote party curieuse kanten, stokgronden en spiegeltralies...
Amsterdam, Marten Smets, [1724]. 4to (16.5 x 21 cm). Formerly sewn through 3 holes but never bound. [8] pp. Full description

[FAGEL, Caspar?]. Trouwhartige aanspraak, aan alle borgers en ingeseetenen der stadt Amsterdam.
[No place, no publisher], 1684. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette. Modern brown wrappers. 12 pp. Full description

[FOKKE, Jan or Myndert DE BOER (attributed to)]. Historie van den Amsterdamschen schouwburg.With: (2) Historie van den nieuwen Amsterdamschen schouwburg.
Amsterdam, Gerrit Warnars and Petrus den Hengst, 1772-1775. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, a small engraved illustration by Noach van der Meer II on both title-pages, 4 folding engraved plates of the old theatre; 5 folding engraved plates of the new theatre, all engraved by the publishers after designs by Van der Meer and 1 by Simon Fokke. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spine. [10], 80, [12]; [6], 56 pp. Full description

[PAMPHLET - HOLLAND & WESTFRIESLAND]. Circulaire brief, van de Heeren Ridderschap en Edelen, van Hollandt en West-Vrieslant; nevens t antwoort van de Ed. Groot Achtb. Heeren Burgermeesteren en Regeerders der stadt Amsterdam, op de voorsz. Brief.
[Amsterdam,] Jan Cyprianus van der Graft [= Jacobus Hackius?], 1685. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette. Blue modern wrappers, new endpapers. 24 pp. Full description

HORTENSIUS, Lambertus. Het boeck van den oproer der Weder-dooperen. Eerst int Latijn beschreven, ende ghedruckt tot Basel ... Ende nu in Nederlandts overgheset. ...
Enkhuizen, Jacob Lenaertsz Meyn, 1614. Folio. With 1 half-page and 8 full-page engraved plates in text (one repeat). Contemporary vellum. [4], 26 ll. Full description

HUYDECOPER, A. Propositie ende protest door de Heeren van Amsterdam ter vergaderingh van haer Ed: Groot Mog: de Heeren Staten van Holland ende West-Vriesland den 9 Juny 1685 gedaen, tegens het heffen van het last en veyl-geldt.
[No place, no publisher], 1685. 4to. Modern brown wrappers. 8 pp. Full description