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The history of a famous convent of the Regular Canons View picture(s) 121 LATOMUS, Joannes. Corsendonca sive coenobii canonicorum regularum ordinus S. Augustini de Corsendoncq. Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen II, 1644. 8vo. 18th-century calf with small blind stamped flowers and gilt lining on raised spine and borders of sides, new end papers. Small woodcut ornament on title, woodcut initials and endpiece. (16), 180 (28) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Antwerp  Belgicana  Church History  History  Religious Orders  Theology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the classics on the history of the Dutch Republic View picture(s) 122 LE CLERC, Jean. Histoire des provinces unies des Pais-Bas, depuis la naissance de la republique jusqu'à la Paix d'Utrecht et le Traité de la Barrière conclu en 1715, avec les principales medailles et leur explication. Amsterdam, Zacharias Chatelain, 1728-1737. 4 parts in 2 vols. Folio. Contemporary half calf, spines richly gilt in compartments, with red title label lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. With 3 engraved allegorical frontispieces by respectively B. Picard, I. van Munnichuysen after G. De Lairesse, and A. Blooteling after W. Schellinkx, 4 titles in red & black with engraved vignettes by B. Picard, folding engraved map of the United Provinces with the address of Zacharias Châtelain, large engraved folding plate (ca. 47 x 72 cm) by Daniel Marot with the reception of the ambassadors by the members of the States General at the Great Reception Hall in The Hague (the still existing Trève-zaal in the House of Parliament), both in part 1, numerous engravings of medallions in text  in part 4, engraved head- and tailpieces a.o. by Schijnvoet, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. (20), 342; (6), 419 (=421); (4) 473, (1), (20); (6), 208 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: History  Netherlands  Numismatics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Amsterdam as commercial capital of the world View picture(s) 123 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.- 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. Avec un traité des changes curieux, & tres-utile pour tous les négocians. Amsterdam, Pierre Brunel, 1710. 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary half vellum, ms. title on spine, edges sprinkled red & blue. Titles with woodcut vignette, of which the first in red & black. (4), 390 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Amsterdam  Economy  History  Law  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Essential for the history of the Dutch War of Independence View picture(s) 124 LE PETIT, Jean François. La Grande Chronique Ancienne et Moderne, de Hollande, Zelande, West-Frise, Utrecht, Frise, Overyssel & Groeningen, jusques à la fin de l'An 1600. Receüillee tant des histoires desdites Provinces, que de divers autres Auteurs. Dordrecht, Jacob Caninpour l'auteur, 1601. 2 vols. Sm.folio. Contemp. red morocco, with gilt fillets in panel design on spine and sides, with the small gilt crest of Thomas Hutton on spine. With 2 titles within richly engraved allegorical borders, full-page engraved portrait of the author, and 57 mostly full-page engraved portraits, including one portrait in woodcut, and allegorical engraved plate of the States General of the Dutch United Provinces, by Christoph van Sichem. (40), 650 (= 656), (2), 240; (16), 779 (= 788), (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: History  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Translation into English of a short description of The Netherlands View picture(s) 125 LE PETIT, Jean-François. The Low-Country commonwealth contayninge an exact discription (sic) of the Eight United Provinces, now made free. Translated out of french by Ed. Grimeston. (London), G. Eld, 1609. 8vo. Nineteenth-century full gilt mottled calf, spine gilt with brown title label lettered in gold, gilt inner dentelles (by Riviere), marbled endpapers, g.e. Engraved allegorical title-page with Hollandia, the Dutch Virgin, at the top flanked by 6 provincial coat-of-arms (coat-of-arms of Utrecht not present); underneath a view of a Dutch harbour, woodcut head-piece and initials. (8), 303, (1, blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Geography  History  Low Countries  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous notary's manual View picture(s) 126 LEEUWEN, Simon van. Nederlandse practyk ende oeffening der notarissen, ende andre gemeene schrijv en regtvorderers. Waar in by vraags-wijs ondersouk verhandelt werd al het gund een notaris, secretaris, deurwaarder, ende geregts-bode, soo in de grond der regts-saaken, als in de  instelling van alderhande instrumenten, acten, gewijsden, ende wtvoeringe vandien, heeft aan te merken, ende waar te nemen. Den tweeden druk verbetert ende vermeerdert. Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1670. Contemporary vellum, with ms. title on spine. (16), 712 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: History  Law  Notary  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The zenith of 17th-century Hebrew typography in Utrecht View picture(s) 127 LEUSDEN, Johannes. Philologus Hebraeus, in quo pleraeque quaestiones generales philologico-hebraicae, concernentes textum Hebraeum veteris test. dilucidè pertractantur. In fine adjunctus est catalogus Hebraicus & Latinus sexcentorum & tredecim praeceptorum, in quae totus Pentateuchus ex sententiâ Judaeorum divisus est. Utrecht, Meinardus van Dreunen, 1657. 4to. 19th-century half black cloth with marbled boards. Title in red & black, woodcut endpieces and initials. Printed in Roman and Hebrew type. (22 incl. title), 447 (9) pp. [Collation: a-c4 (-c4, blank?) A-3L4]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Hebraica  Hebraica & Judaica  History  Judaica  Typography  Utrecht  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The history of the Great Northern War View picture(s) 128 LIMIERS, Henry Philippe de. Histoire de Suede sous le regne de Charles XII. Où l'on voit aussi les révolutions arrivées en differens tems dans ce Royaume. Toute la guerre du Nord. Amsterdam, Janssonius van Waesberge, 1721. 6 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, decorated gilt spine in compartments, marbled endpapers, red edges; uniformly bound. With an engraved frontipiece to vol. I, printed title-page in red and black to each vol., in total 2 folding maps (Scandinavia, Denmark and Sweden including the Baltics, Poland and part of Russia (1), a map showing Charles' campaings from 1700-1718 (2)) and 58 plates (21 folding (mainly views and battle scenes) and 37 full-page (mainly portraits)), all engraved. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  History  Poland  Russia  Sweden  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The history of the diocese of Deventer: still an important source of information on the Modern Devotion View picture(s) 129 LINDEBORN, Joannes. Historia sive notitia Episcopatus Daventriensis ex ecclesiarum membranis, monasteriorum tabulis, authenticic annotatis & classicis authoribus eruta ac publici juris facta. Cologne [= Amsterdam], Joachim à Metelen, 1670. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With printer's device on title. (16), 556 (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: History  Netherlands  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A very nice set of 12 of Lipsius's most important works on Ancient Roman history, together with his 'Mirror of Princes' and his letters, all published during his lifetime by Joan. Moretus View picture(s) 130 LIPSIUS, Justus. Collection of 12 important works uniformly bound in contemporary blind tooled pigskin, in 3 vols. Antwerp, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Joannes Moretus, 1596-1605. 3 vols. Large 4to. Original blind tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards (bound shortly after 1605), with three different rolls around a central panel with decorative roll, divided by triple lines: (1) roll with 4 scenes from the life of Christ with the captions 'Satisfa', 'Hic est', 'Ecce ag(nus Dei)', and 'Iustifi'; (2): roll with 4 portraits of Paul, David, and Christ with 4 captions: 'Apparuit benignit(as)', 'Ecce agnu(s) Dei qui to(llit)' (=Gospel acc. to John, I:29); 'Data est mihi omn(is)' (=Gospel acc. to Matth. I:18, and 'De fructu ventrist(uo)' (=Psalm 131:11); (3) roll with 4 different small portraits in roundels with coats-of-arms; the original brass clasps on leather thongs and catches, ribbed spines, two of them with two slips of yellow paper with the titles of Lipsius's works written in a neat Humanistic hand. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Antiques  Classical Antiquity  History  Philosophy  Plantin  Rome  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The foreign politics of Spain View picture(s) 131 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 vander Horst, 1608. 4to. Wodcut ornament on title, woodcut initial and endpiece. (7, 1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  History  Pamphlets  Politics  Spain  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The rare first Livius translation into Dutch printed in the Northern Netherlands View picture(s) 132 LIVIUS, Titus. De Roomsche historie oft gesten, door den alder welsprekensten ende vernaemsten histori-schrijver Titum Livium beschreven. Waer uut niet alleen alle wereltlijcke staten tot vromicheyt ende ridderlijcke manlijcke feyten beweecht ende ghedronghen, maer oock alle ander staten tot grooter recreatien ende gheneuchten des herten ghetrocken sullen worden. Leiden, Jan Paedts Jacobszoon & Jan Bouwenszoon, 1585. 4 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary full paneled calf over thick beveled wooden boards blind tooled with two decorated rolls, the outer one with the portraits of four reformers (Johann Friedrich, Philippus Melanchton, ....land?, and Luther), and the highly interesting inner one with three burlesque portraits within floral motives, dated 1571! ribbed spine and leather ties fastened to brass clasps. Large printer's device showing David and Goliath in an oval with the caption 'Hy heeft gewelt gedaen doer zynen arm ende de hoveerdige in haers herten gedachten verstroit' within richly decorated architectural border, repeated on the three part-titles, woodcut initials. (12) 301 ff.; Collation: *-2*6, A-3C6, 3D8-1 (last blank lacking). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Latin  Leyden  Rome  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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19th century Holland through the eyes of a man of the world View picture(s) 133 LOVETT, Richard. Pictures from Holland. Drawn with Pen and Pencil. London, The Religious Tract Society, 1887. Large 8vo. Orig. blue cloth, spine gilt, with coloured and richly gilt illustration on front cover. With wood-engraved map, 26 full-page wood-engraved plates by Whymer, Butterwijck, Dillen, etc., and 104 large and smaller views and costumes of the Netherlands in text. At the end 8 pages of publisher's advertisements, also richly illustrated with wood-engravings. 223, (1), 8 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  English  History  Netherlands  Picture Books  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The history of the world in 50 maps View picture(s) 134 LÖWENBERG, Julius. Historisch-geographischer Atlas zu den allgemeinen Geschichtswerken von C. v. Rotteck, Pölitz v. Becker in 40 colorirten Karten. Freiburg im Breisgau, Herder, 1839. Folio. Half calf with gilt title on spine and blind tooled ornaments in compartments, marbled boards and endpapers. With 46 lithographed double-page maps (10 of 62x41 cm, 36 of 42x33 cm) and 4 full-page lithographed maps of 31x41 cm, all partly coloured by hand. 2 leaves with title-page and table of contents, 50 lithographed maps. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  German  History  Maps  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A 'Guide Michelin avant-la-lettre': early travel guide for the Low Countries View picture(s) 135 MAASKAMP, Evert. Le voyageur dans les Pays-bas Unis. Ouvrage indispensable pour chacun qui voyage dans ces Pays. Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1815. 12mo. Original printed covers over boards. With title-page, 19 maps and plans (3 folding maps, 16 double-page maps and plans), 3 plates (2 full-page, 1 folding and hand-coloured), all engraved. [2], 380, XXII, [10] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Dutch  History  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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18th century edition of a medieval classic View picture(s) 136 MAERLANT, Jacob van. Spiegel historiael of rijmkronijk met aanteekeningen door Jacob Arnout Clignet en Jan Steenwinkel. Eerste deel. Tweede deel. Derde deel met aanteekeningen van Jan Steenwinkel. Vierde deel. Leyden; Amsterdam, Frans de Does; M.F. Pieper; G. van Tyen, 1784-1849. 4 parts in 4 vols. Large 8vo. Contemporary half black cloth, spines gilt. Engraved portrait of Van Maerlant, designed by M. van Noort and executed by L. Brasser in first vol. (2), LXXII, 466, 84 (1-84); (4), 14, 476, 62 (85-146), (2); (40, XLVIII, 352, 73, (1); (4), IV, 437, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: History  Literature  Middle Ages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most complete edition of this celebrated work on 'the Indies', esp. on Brazil and Japan View picture(s) 137 MAFFEI, Joan Petri. Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI. Selectarum, item, ex  India epistolarum libri IV. Accessit liber recentiorum epistolarum; à Ioanne Hayo ... Antwerp, Ex officina Martini Nutij, 1605. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum with ink lettering on spine and small gilt stamp of a rooster in centre of covers, rests of ties. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials. (72), 478, (2, blank); 401, (7) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Asia  Brazil  East Indies  History  Japan  Jesuits  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The abridged version of Olaus Magnus' history of the Northern People, probably printed by Plantin View picture(s) 138 MAGNUS, Olaus. Historia de gentibus Septentrionalibus. A Cornelio Scribonio Graphaeo ... sic in epitomen redacta, ut non minus clare quam breviter quicquid apud Septentrionales scitu dignum est, complectatur. Antwerp, Joann. Bellerus (= Christopher Plantin?), 1562. Small 8vo. Later vellum with title in ink on spine. With woodcut printer's device on title, and 138 fine woodcut illustrations in text. (8), 192 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  History  Scandinavia  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the library of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor View picture(s) 139 MARLOT, Guillaume (& FLODOARDUS REMENSIS). Metropolis Remensis historia, a Frodoardo primum arctius digesta, nunc demum aliunde accersitis plurimum aucta, et illustrata, et ad nostrum hoc saeculum fideliter deducta. Tomus I; [Title of vol. 2:] Metropolis Remensis historia. Sive supplementum Frodoardi, ab anno CMLXX. Ad nostram aetatem fideliter et accurate productum. Lille, Nicolas de Rache, 1666 (vol. I) & Reims, Protasius Lelorain, 1679 (vol. 2). 2 vols. Folio. Vol. 1: Dated binding: full calf, spine gilt in compartments with the gilt coat-of-arms of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI in the centre of both sides, on the front cover dated '1740', gilt edges; vol. 2: contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with two red morocco title labels lettered in gold. Titles with woodcut vignettes, vol. 1 with one full-page beautiful engraving of the facade of the Cathedral of Rheims and 6 half-page engravings in text, 3 of which are signed by J. Dassonneville, woodcut head- and endpieces, woodcut initials. (14), 668, (16); (8), 1-754, (2), 755-858, (2), 867-886, (28) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Bindings  Church History  French  History  Provenance  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous catalogue of a famous library View picture(s) 140 MARTIN, Gabriele. Catalogus librorum bibliothecae illustrissimi viri Caroli Henrici comitis de Hoym, olim regis Poliniae Augusti II. Apud regem Christianissimum legati extraordinarii. Paris, Gabriel & Claude Martin, 1738. 8vo. Modern half marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title label. With woodcut coat of arms on title and woodcut head- and tailpieces. (6), XX, 528, (58) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: History  Law  Libraries & Collections  Literature  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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