Low Countries / History, Economics, Law & Politics

KIRCHNER, Christian. Holland, oder Beschreibung der sieben vereinigten niederländischen Provintzen, nebenst denen darzu eroberten Oerten, darinnen alle Städte, Festungen, Flecken, Seen und Flüsse samt andern merckwürdigen Sachen, auch die vornehmsten Städte und Festungen darbey in Kupffer gestochen.
Leipzig, Christian Kirchner, 1672. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece and 31 folding engraved plans of various cities in the Low Countries. Contemporary vellum. [14], 229, [3 blank], 32, [8] pp. Full description

KLUIT, Adriaan. Historie der Hollandsche staatsregering, tot aan het jaar 1795. Of geschied- en staatkundig onderzoek, in welken zin de staten van Holland, gedurende de republikeinsche regering, zijn geweest de wettige souvereine vertegenwoordigers van 't gansche volk van Holland, of der geheele natie.
Amsterdam, Wouter Brave 1802-1805. 5 volumes. 8vo. With one folding plate, in vol. 1 between pp. 462 and 463. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, red spine labels lettered in gold, green ribbon markers. 12, 520; [1], [1 blank], 547; [1], [1 blank], 556; IV, 630; [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 652 pp. Full description

KOCKERS, George. Nauwkeurige afbeelding van de Nationale Vergadering in Den Haag.
Middelburg, 1797. 1mo (77 x 63 cm).Stipple engraving (plate size: 68 x 61.5 cm). Full description

LAET, Johannes de. Historie ofte iaerlijck verhael van de verrichtinghen der geoctroyeerde West-Indische Compagnie, zedert haer begin tot het eynde van 't jaer sesthien-hondert ses-en-dertich. Begrepen in dertien boecken, ende met verscheyden koperen platen verciert.
Including:
IDEM. Kort verhael uyt de voorgaende boecken ghetrocken vande diensten ende nuttigheden die desen staet heeft genooten by de West-Indische Compagnie; ende schaden die deselve den koningh van Spagnien heeft ghedaen sedert haer begin tot het eynde van den jaere 1636.
Leiden, Bonaventura and Abraham Elzevier, 1644. Folio. With the title printed in red and black, with the Elzevier woodcut device, and 13 double-page engraved maps and views. Contemporary sprinkled calf, gold-tooled spine with a black morocco title-label lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges, gold-tooled board edges. [32], 544, 31, [1 blank], [11], [1 blank] pp. Full description

LE MOINE DE L'ESPINE, Jacques. Le negoce d'Amsterdam, ou traité de sa banque, de ses changes, des Compagnies Orientales & Occidentales, des marchandises qu'on tire de cette ville, & qu'on y porte de toutes les parties de monde, des poids, des mesures, des aunages, & du tarif. ...
Including: MONDOTEGUY, Jacques. Traité des arbitrages qui se sont par change sur les principales villes de l'Europe, ou la ville d'Amsterdam à change ouvert.
Amsterdam, Pierre Brunel, 1710. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. 18th-century half vellum. [4], 388, [2] pp. Full description

[LETTERS - DIPLOMATIC]. [Official contemporary copies of incoming diplomatic correspondence to the Dutch government in The Hague from Dutch ambassadors, envoys, diplomatic residents and others in Vienna, Graz, Schaffhausen, Turin, Madrid, Paris, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Moscow, Cologne, Frankfurt, Dresden, Regensburg, Warsaw, Grodno, Maastricht, The Hague, Brussels and Ostend].
[The Hague], letters dated 26 January-17 December 1715 and 7 November 1725-22 November 1729. Folio (32.5 x 20.5 cm). 96 letters clearly written in dark brown ink on paper, 84 in Dutch and 12 in French, mostly in a Latin hand (the Dutch ones from 1715 in a semi-gothic hand). Loose leaves in a modern portfolio. [96] letters ([138] written pp. on [97] ll.). Full description

PHILIP III, King of Spain (Jan Huygen van LINSCHOTEN, translator). Missive ofte placcaet van den coninck van Spangien ghesonden aenden hartoch van Lerma, aengaende het bannen ende verjaghen van de Moriscos, dat zijn de oude landtsaten vant coninckrijck van Valencien in Spangien.
Enkhuizen, Jacob Lenaertsz Meyn, 1609. 4to. With an ornamental woodcut title vignette and a woodcut initial. Modern marbled paper over boards, new endpapers. [3] ll. Full description

LIPSIUS, Justus. Sent-brief, in welcke hy antwoorde gheeft aen een seker groot Heer op de vraghe, welck van dryen den Coninck van Hispaengien best gheraden ware, oorloghe of pays oft liever bestant met den Fransman, Engelsche ende Hollander. Gheschreven den derden Januarij 1595. Ghetrouwelijck uyt den Latijn in Nederduytsche tale over-gheset, ende (soo veel alst moghelijcken is) den stijl ghevolcht.
Dusseldorf, Werner van der Horst, 1608. 4to. Woodcut ornament on title, woodcut initial and endpiece. Disbound. [7], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[MACNENY, Patrick]. Wederlegginge van de argumenten ...
Including:
(2) [PESTERS, Ernst]. Copie van de memorie door den Heere Pesters ...
(3) [VOC, Directors of the]. Copie van de Remonstrantie van de bewindthebberen van de Oost-Indische Compagnie der Vereenighde Nederlanden.
(4) [BASSECOUR, Johan de la; Directors of the WIC]. Copie van de Remonstrantie van de Bewindthebberen van de West-Indische Compagnie.
The Hague, Paulus & Isaac Scheltus, 1723. 4to (21 x ca. 16.5). With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, the text is primarily set in gothic type, and a large woodcut tailpiece on p. 75. 20th-century dark green morocco, signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London at the bottom turn-in at the front of the work. With the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. 75, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENTS]. BERGH, Johan van den. Eenige stukken concerneerende criminele procedures in cas d'appel voor het hof geventileerd tusschen den bailluw van Rhijnland contra Pieter Oostenryk in materie van manslag met de ms. schriftuuren.
[Leiden], 1726-1729. Folio (33 x 21.5 cm). Manuscript in Dutch on laid paper, with 2 embossed seals (clein segels). Later blue paper wrappers, with a printed title label mounted on the front wrapper. 28, [8 blank] pp. Full description