Low Countries / Art. Architecture & Literature

BUIJS, Jacobus. [Set of 22 drawings and 1 engraving].
[Ca. 1781]. Various sizes. 22 washed pen and ink drawings and 1 engraving on paper. Mostly loose, nos. 8, 10, 20-23 pasted on paper support. Full description

BURG, Hermanus van den. Verzámeling van uitgekórene zin-spreuken, en zinnebeeldige print-vercieringen, eertyds, op bevel van den aller doorlugtigsten Keizer der Russen, Peter Alexis, of de Gróte, getékent en gesnéden ...
Haarlem, Johannes Marshoorn, 1743. 4to. With engraved frontispiece, with Tsar Peter the Great's medallion portrait surrounded by 8 emblems, and 840 emblems on 140 engraved plates, the facing pages to the left with captions in Dutch, short proverbial phrases in Latin, French and German, and two-line verses in Dutch by Van den Burg. Contemporary half calf. [8], 281, [1 blank], [10] pp. Full description

BURG, Hermanus van den. Verzámeling van uitgekórene zin-spreuken, en zinnebeeldige print-vercieringen, eertyds, op bevel van den aller doorlugtigsten Keizer der Russen, Peter Alexis, of the Gróte, getékent en gesnéden ...
Haarlem, Johannes Marshoorn, 1743. 4to. With engraved frontispiece by J. Mulder and 840 numbered circular emblems on 140 full-page engravings in text, the facing pages to the left with captions in Dutch, short proverbial phrases in Latin, French and German, and two-line verses in Dutch by Van den Burg. 19th-century half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [8], 281, [1 blank], [10] pp. Full description

[CAMPEN, Jacob van, Hubert QUELLINUS and Jacob VENNEKOOL]. Bouw schilder en beeldhouwkonst, van het stadhuis te Amsteldam, vertoont in CIX figuuren: ...
Amsterdam, Johannes Covens, Cornelis Mortier and Johannes Covens junior, [ca. 1758?, ca. 1767? or possibly 1772/83]. Large folio (49.5 x 30 cm). With the title page printed in red and black with J. Covens & C. Mortiers engraved device by Bernard Picart ("JCCM" cypher monogram in a laurel wreath carried by 6 putti, dated 1730); 2 preliminary plates containing portraits of Jacob van Campen [by Lutma] and Arthus Quellinus by Henricus Quellinus; CIX (109) numbered engraved and etched architectural plates. All plates have French captions, some with laudatory verses below, and are described in Dutch in the letterpress text (pp. 3-15). Contemporary half red roan (sheepskin), brown sprinkled paper sides. 15 pp. Full description

[CATS, Jacob], Silenus Alcibiadis, sive Proteus, Vitae humanae ideam, Emblemate trifariàm variato, oculis subijciens.
Middelburg, Johannes Hellenius [= Hans van der Hellen], 1618. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 3 parts. 4to. Ad 1: with an engraved frontispiece for each of the three parts (1 and 3 by Frans Schillemans after Adriaen van de Venne, 1618); 51 numbered emblems in the first part, the well-known folding engraved plate of the "Kinderspelen" (Children games) at the end of part 2, decorated woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces; Ad 2 with a full-page engraved plate of the coat-of-arms of "chaste virgins", a half-page engraved plate of the manor house and garden of Catharina van Muylwijck, 44 emblems engraved by J. Swelinck (?) after Adriaen van de Venne, and extra inserted is the famous full-page portrait of Galathee; Ad 3: with a woodcut vignette on the title-page, 4 half-page engravings in the text, of which three after Van de Venne, decorated woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces.
With: (2) [CATS, Jacob]. Maechden-plicht ofte ampt der ionck-vrouwen, in eerbaer liefde, aenghewesen door Sinne-beelden.
Middelburg, Johannes Hellenius (Hans van der Hellen), 1618.
(3) [CATS, Jacob]. Selfstryt, dat is crachtighe beweginghe van vlees en gheest ... (&c.).
Middelburg, Johannes Hellenius (Hans van der Hellen) for Jan Pietersz van de Venne, 1620.
Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [40], 120; 111, [1 blank]; 107, [5]; [16], 92, [20]; [34], 119, [1 blank] pp. Full description

CLOET, Jean-Joseph de. Voyage pittoresque dans le Royaume des Pays Bas, dédié a S.A.I. & R. Madame la Princesse d'Orange ...
Brussels, J. B. A. Jobard, 1825.
With: (2) [CLOET, Jean-Joseph de]. Chateaux et monumens des Pays-Bas faisant suite au voyage pittoresque.
Brussels, J.B.A. Jobard, 1827-1829. 2 parts in 4 volumes. Oblong 4to. Each volume with a lithographed title page. The whole work comprises 407 full-page lithographic plates protected by tissue paper guards, 2 folding maps, and a lithographic portrait. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. Full description

CORDES, Jan Willem Hugo. In Oranjes lusthof. Wandeligen in het Koninklijk park van het Loo.
Apeldoorn, T.D.H. Pull, [1895]. Small 4to. 19th-century gold-tooled black sheepskin. [8], 64 pp. Full description

[COSTUMES - NETHERLANDS]. Costumes de Hollande.
(ca. 1800). (ca. 28.2 x 20.1 cm). Green sheepskin with gilt single fillet and blind tooled decorative panel on boards. [24] 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

DECKER, Jeremias de. Rym-oeffeningen, verdeelt in dry boecken vervattende gedichten van verscheyden stijl en stoffe.
Amsterdam, Abraham van Blancken (colophon: Gouda, Willem van der Hoeven), 1659.
With: (2) DECKER, Jeremias de. Lof der geldsucht.
Amsterdam, Jacobus vander Deyster and Jan Blom, 1687. 2 works in 1 volume, the first work in 3 parts. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a woodcut vignette on the title pages of both works, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum over boards. [8], 2, [12], 18, [4], 112, [4], 164, [2], "183"[= 185], [1]; [16], 128 pp. Full description