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Extremely rare bound copy of a mid-19th-century panorama cityscape of the Dutch city of Rotterdam

[PANORAMA - ROTTERDAM]. Johan Conrad GREIVE jr. (illustrator). Panorama de Rotterdam.
Amsterdam, [printed by R. de Vries for] François Buffa & Sons, [1861]. Oblong (14.5 x 25 cm). The panorama is made up of 6 numbered views, which were originally published on three loose leaves of 2 views per leaf. The viewer looks northward from the river Meuse over the city from the old "sailor's house" (zeemanshuis) in the west along the Willemskade and the Haringvliet to the train station and large warehouse (rijks entrepot) in the east. Original brown blind-stamped wave-grained cloth. 6 numbered views folded making 12 pages. Full description
€ 4,950
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First edition of an account of Tsar Peter's visits to the Dutch Republic, with 3 plates

SCHELTEMA, Jacobus. Peter de Groote, keizer van Rusland in Holland en Zaandam in 1697 en 1717.
Amsterdam, Hendrik Gartman, 1814. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 2 engraved title-pages showing a portrait of Peter the Great, 1 letterpress title-page and 2 half-titles, and 3 engraved plates. Mid-19th-century tree calf, each board with a gold-tooled fillets, gold-tooled spine and board edges, antique spot marbled endpapers, green ribbon markers. XXVI, 339; [2], XXXI, [1 blank], 328 pp. plus engraved titles and plates. Full description
€ 1,500
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Magnificent 18th-century view Leiden's trade and commerce centre

[VIEW - NETHERLANDS - LEIDEN]. SCHENK, Leonardus [and Abraham RADEMAKER]. Gesigt van de Visbrug, de Waag en Vismarkt, te sien naar de Hooglandsche kerk en Stadhuys tooren, tot Lyden. | Vüe du Visbrug, du Pois et Poissonerie, vers l'eglise de Hooglande et la tour de la Maison de Ville a Leide.
[Amsterdam], Leonardus Schenk, [ca. 1728/35]. Large engraved wall print on 2 sheets, (together 58 x 97 cm) the sheets overlapping each other slightly, showing the traditional business centre of the city of Leiden. The title, both in Dutch and French, is printed in a banderole at the head, with putti on each side supporting the arms of Leiden and Holland. Leonardus Schenk's name appears as engraver and publisher at the right tip of the banderole. In black passepartout and gilt frame (82 x 121 cm). Full description
€ 8,500
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Beautiful 18th-century view of Leiden

[VIEW - NETHERLANDS - LEIDEN]. SCHENK, Leonardus [and Abraham RADEMAKER]. Gesigt van de stadt Leyden beroemt door syn hooge schoole geleege in Holland op den verstopten Ryn. | Vue de la ville de Leide fameuse par son academie située en Hollande sur le Rhin bouché.
[Amsterdam], Leonardus Schenk, [ca. 1728/36]. Large engraved wall print on 2 sheets (together 57.5 x 97 cm) showing the Leiden city wall between the Koepoort and Zijlpoort, with various windmills and prominent buildings in the background identified by name. The title appears in a banderole at the head, with putti on either side holding the arms of Leiden and Holland. Leonardus Schenk's name appears as engraver and publisher at the right end of the banderole. Framed (82.5 x 121 cm). Full description
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98 lovely engravings of the Vecht region by Stoopendaal

[STOOPENDAAL, Daniël and Andries de LETH]. De zegepraalende Vecht, vertoonende verscheidene gesichten van lustplaatsen, heeren huysen en dorpen; beginnende van Uitrecht en met Muyden besluytende.
Including: [BRUIN, Claas]. Speelreis langs de Vechtstroom, op de uitgegeevenen gezichten van de zeegepraalende Vecht.
Amsterdam, Widow of Nicolaus Visscher, 1719. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With engraved frontispiece, 1 engraved map of the river Vecht and 102 engravings on 51 leaves (numbered 1-98). Contemporary red half sheepskin. [2], 16, 37, [1 blank] pp Full description
€ 2,000
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Very rare first edition of a very interesting early 19th-centure travel guide for The Netherlands

[TRAVEL GUIDE - THE NETHERLANDS]. Le voyageur dans les Pays-Bas Unis. Ouvrage indispensable pour chacun qui voyage dans ces Pays. Orné de 28 cartes, plans, vues, etc.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1815. 12mo. With a title vignette showing the Amsterdam publishing house of Evert Maaskamp, 3 folding maps, 13 double-page maps by I.B.D.B., 3 double-page city plans of Amsterdam, the Hague and Rotterdam, 6 full-page plates of the coins in use in The Netherlands on 1 folding leaf and 2 full-page plates of the ground floor of the Amsterdam city hall and Paleis Het Loo; all coloured by a contemporary hand. Original publisher's blue paper wrappers over boards. [2], 380, XXII, [10] pp. Full description
€ 1,850
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Well-executed wall map of polder land between Gouda and Utrecht

[MAP]. [VINGBOONS, Johannes, Justus and David]. 'T hooghe heymraedtschap vanden lande van Woerden.
[Amsterdam, Hendrik de Leth], 1740. Wall map of the water district Woerden (South Holland) in 9 large loose untrimmed sheets (each 48 x 67 cm), with the title in a banderole across the head of three sheets, information about the 14th-century charters in a cartouche, a list of city and town officials in 1739 on a plinth, a compass rose, and a scale of Rijnland rods. Full description
€ 6,500
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