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One of the earliest Antwerp records of Charles V’s Italian financier

[MANUSCRIPT - NOTARIAL DECLARATION]. AFFAITATI, Giovan Carlo (Johannes Carolus de AFFAYTADI). Ratificatio facta p[er] m[agnifi]cu[m] d[ominum] Jo[hannes] Carolu[s] de Affaytalis, in favorem m[agnifi]ci et r[everen]di d[omino]. Guidi d[e] Crema et Rafaelis Krumani p[e]r Castro S[anc]ti Laurentii et terris.
Antwerp, 20 January 1546. Manuscript notarial document in Latin, written in a Latin hand on one side of a single piece of sheepskin parchment (31 x 54.5 cm), opening with a large capital and closing with the notary's decorative signature, with the title and "M. Johan Carlo" on the back. Folded and loosely inserted in a paper folder (ca. 1690s?). [1] leaf. Full description
€ 1,250
Belgium Economic History & Trade Italy Manuscripts & Documents
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Album amicorum with many illustrated contributions (some hand-coloured),
particularly by women reflecting the rage for alba amicorum among 19th-century noble women

[ALBUM AMICORUM & SCRAPBOOK - THE NETHERLANDS]. [Album amicorum of a Miss van Boetzelaer (?)].
Heerenveen, 1831-1849. Oblong 4to. Manuscript with many contributions in French and English, a single contribution in Dutch and a four-line verse in German, mainly written in the same hand, probably of the owner of this album. With 45 mounted or occasionally loosely inserted drawings, paintings and prints in various formats, some coloured by contemporary hands. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled brown morocco, each board richly decorated with frames and an oblong lozenge-shaped centrepiece, gilt edges. [96] ll. Full description
€ 3,850
Alba Amicorum Literature Women History
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Album amicorum written by members of the Utrecht literary society,
beautifully bound by the Utrecht Lacework bindery

[ALBUM AMICORUM - NETHERLANDS]. [Album amicorum of Simon (van Someren) Brand L. H. S.].
[Utrecht, ca. 1770-1775]. Oblong 4to. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, in the center of both covers an inlay of plain, somewhat lighter calf, with "Album Amicorum" lettered in gold on the front, and "S[imon]. Brand L[itt.]. H[um.]. S[tud.] 1770" on the back, both surrounded by two ornamental borders, gold-tooled board edges, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. 89 ll. (of which 1-26, 46, 51, 53-56, and 59-89 blank). Full description
€ 2,950
Alba Amicorum Bindings Literature Manuscripts & Documents Netherlands
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Lieutenant Colonel Rudolph Bentincks army journals in the Netherlands, the Mediterranean and Portugal:
inspecting fortifications, mines, troops and young ladies

[BENTINCK, Volkier Rudolph]. [Wrapper-title:] Journael zedert 1771.
[Maastricht, Bois-le-Duc, Bergen op Zoom, Namur, etc., 7 July - 3 September 1771 & The Mediterranean and Portugal, 23 May - 18 August 1774]. 2 matching journals. Folio (32.5 x 20.5 cm). Two manuscript journals in French, written in brown ink on laid paper. Contemporary coarse brown paper wrappers, with the 1771 journal in loose bifolia (never sewn) inserted. [2], [2 blank], [11], [1 blank]; 18, [6 blank] pp. Full description
€ 5,950
Belgium Manuscripts & Documents Military History (18th Century) Netherlands North America UK - United Kingdom
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Interesting Catholic devotional manuscript ("Diurnale") in Dutch

BOSSCHE, Johannes Baptista van den. Instructie om deuchdelick synen tyt, oft den dach over te brenghen, en religieuselick naer syn vocatie Godt te dienen, ghemaeckt by den Eerwerdighen heere, Johannes Baptista vanden Bossche, prior en pater, van het Syon, tot oorbaer ende profyt van syn religieusen int jaer 1617.
[The Netherlands?], 1617. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, red painted edges. [88] ll., last blank pasted to back cover. Full description
€ 3,500
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Picturesque view of houses and fishing boats on the river Lek, showing Vianen on the opposite bank

[BURG, Dirk van der (formerly attributed to Nicolaas WICART)]. [View of Vianen across the river Lek with fishermen and their boats and houses in the foreground].
[North bank of the Lek River, near Vianen], [Ca. 1760/70]. Oblong Elephant 4to or possibly cut down oblong whole sheet (1mo) (19.5 x 31 cm). Original watercolour view on laid paper, looking southwest across the river, with Vianen in the background on the opposite bank, and a tree, houses, 11 people (mostly fishermen) and 3 fishing boats in the foreground. Mounted with 2 paper hinges on green laid paper in a passe partout (35 x 50 cm). Full description
€ 4,500
City Plans, Topography & Views Drawings & Watercolours
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Obligation contract for plantations in Essequebo and Demerary, signed during the zenith of the colonial plantation economy

CHANGUION, Daniel; Jan Wouter VALKENIER; Cornelis Jacob VAN DER LYN. [Signed negotiation contract dated 1770 for an obligation of 1000 gulden for plantations in Rio Essequebo and Rio Demerary].
Amsterdam, 6 February 1770. Folio (ca. 26 x 41 cm). Disbound. [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 650
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