Low Countries / History, Economics, Law & Politics

[GYSIUS, Johannes]. Oorsprong en voortgang der Neder-landtscher beroerten ende ellendicheden. Waerin vertoont worden de voornaemste tyrannijen, moorderijen, ende andere onmenschelijcke wreetheden, die onder het ghebiedt van Philips de II coninck van Spaengien, door zijne stad-houders in 'twerck ghestelt zijn, gheduyrende dese Nederlantsche troublen ende oorlogen...
[Leiden, Hendrik Lodewijksz. van Haestens], 1616. 4to. With an engraved vignette on the title page, 16 engraved oval portraits (15 full-page, 1 half-page), a full-page engraved plate in the text, and 2 double-page engraved plates. The title page has been printed in red and black. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [8], 411, [1 blank] pp. Full description

HAGIUS, Guilielmus. Afgeparste waerheyt, ofte nodige en naeckte aenwijsinge: Hoe dankbaerlijk de magistraat, enige uyt de vroedtschap, ende alle de praesente bevelhebbers van Leeuwarden tracteren hare gecommitteerden, die sy, tot het instellen en bevorderen van de reformatoire poincten, op den 27sten. Septembris 1672. by dEd. Mog. Heeren Staten van Frieslandt gearresteert, hebben genomineert ende versocht. Ingestelt door G. Hagius.
[Leeuwarden], for Haucke Egberts Heringa, [1673]. 4to. 19th-century blue wrappers. [8] pp. Full description

[AUTOGRAPH]. HARLOFF, Anton Johan Wouter. [Autograph letter, signed ("A. Harloff"), to Horace Hugo Alexander van Gybland Oosterhoff].
The Hague, 6 May, 1933. Folded double leaf (21.6 x 14). In Dutch. 3 pp text. Full description

[H.N.v.G.?]. Advys van een goed Patriot des Vaderlants, over de tegenwoordige saecken van Staet.
[No place, no publisher], [1680]. 4to. Later brown wrappers. 16 pp. Full description

HOGENDORP, Carel Sirardus Willem van. Coup d'oeil sur l'ile de Java et les autres possessions Néerlandaises dans l'archipel des Indes.
Brussels, C.J. de Mat, 1830. 4to. With a steel engraved view of Chateau de Buitenzorg, by Lauters after the engraving by Titsingh and 1 folding map, coloured in outlines, of Java and the other Dutch posessions in the Far East, engraved by F. Callens. Contemporary elaborately gold- and blind-stamped dark blue morocco. XII, 422, [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

HOGENDORP, Dirk van. [Autograph letter by Dirk van Hogendorp to the Amsterdam solicitor J. de Vries jr.].
[Amsterdam], 12 July 1833. 8vo (ca. 19,5 x 22,7 cm). Text within a black border, which does not continue along the lower edge of the sheet. [4] pp. Full description

HONDIUS, Hendrick (I). [Tweede basuyne. en t boosdoens heylige wraeck-spiegel ...].
[Netherlands, Hendrick Hondius (I), 1623]. Broadside (51 x 26.5 cm). Two separate leaves, one with the engraving (plate size 14 x 17.5 cm) and the other with letterpress verses (37 x 26.5 cm), originally assembled to form a single broadside. The leaf with the engraving lacking the letterpress heading with the title and the letterpress psalm in 2 columns that flanked the engraving. Mounted on a paper support. With a second copy of the text leaf loosely inserted. Full description

HONDIUS, Petrus. Dapes inemptae, of de moufe-schans, dat is, de soeticheydt des buyten-levens, vergheselschapt met de boucken.
Leiden, for Daniel Roels (colophon: J.A. vander Marsce), 1621. 8vo. With the woodcut printers device on the title page, the title is set within an ornamental typographical border. Contemporary vellum. 31, [1 blank], 543, [2 blank], [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[HORSES]. [VAN BURMANIA, U. and H.W. van PLETTENBERG]. Placaat behelzende een reglement op de keur der springhengsten, en instructie voor den keurmeester.
[Leeuwarden, Hendrik Halma, 1772]. 4to. With a woodcut coat of arms at the top of the first page and with a woodcut initial. Modern brown wrappers. 16 pp. Full description

[HOUSE OF COMMONS]. Fourth report from the Committee on the Public Expenditure, &c. of the United Kingdom. Commissioners for Dutch prizes; &c.
[London], for the House of Commons, 24 March 1809. Folio. Original blue printed publisher's wrappers. pp. 313-386. Full description