History, Law & Philosophy

GUAZZO, Stefano and Gomes van TRIERE (translator). Van den heuschen burgerlycken ommegangh ... waer in een yeder onderwesen ende gheleert werdt, hoe hy hem met allerley lieden, heusch, beleeft, geschickt, behoorlijck ende aenghenaem, sal hebben te draghen.
Alkmaar, Jacob de Meester and Gomes van Triere, 1603. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on title-page, with some woodcut initials, and headpieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [8], 439, [21], [1 blank] pp; [47 blank] ll. Full description

GUEVARA, Antonio de. T'gulden boeck, van het leven ende seynd brieven van den welsprekenden orateur ende keyser Marcus Aurelius.
Franeker, Rombertus Doyema, 1615. 8vo. With woodcut imperial coat of arms on title-page. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. 223, [2] ll. Full description

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania inferiore. Con tutte le carte di geographia del paese, & col ritratto al naturale di molte terre principali; rineduta di nuovo , & ampliata per tutto la terz a volta dal medesimo autore. Al gran're Cattolico don Filippo d'Austria. Con amplissimo indice di tutte le cose piu memorabili.
Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1588. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece of the Low Countries (Belgia), an engraved architectural title in its first state with printed text, an engraved plate with a border of the coat of arms of the 16 Provinces and that of Brabant together with the coat of arms of Philip II in the centre pasted in, an engraved plate with an allegorical depiction of the Arts and Sciences and an architectural border with the portrait of Philip II in the centre, a large woodcut coat of arms of Guicciardini, 64 double-page engraved maps and views, 6 full-page engraved maps and views, 4 single pages with on each 2 engraved maps, woodcut headpieces and initials.
Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, with an oval centrepiece on both boards within a decorative frame, gilt edges, remnants of ties. [24], 432, [18] pp. Full description

[GUNPOWDER - PAPAL STATES]. Bando contro li salnitrari, è polveristi, è quelli che permettono, che nelle loro terre, castelli et altri luoghi si fabrichino salnitro e polvere &c.
Rome, nella stamperia della reverenda Camera Apostolica, 27 January 1651. Ca. 38.5 x 26 cm. With three woodcut coats of arms at the head: those of the Apostolic Camera, Pope Innocent X, and Cardinal Lorenzo Raggi. Further with a decorated woodcut initial. [1] l. Full description

GYSELAAR (GIJSELAAR), Johanna Maria Nicoletta de. Album amicorum.
Gorkum, Leiden, Warmond, Delft, Amsterdam, The Hague, Laarwoude, Zuidlaren and Assen, 1800-1805. 8vo (14.5 x 10 cm). Manuscript album amicorum on paper, with entries in Dutch, French and German. With 3 watercolours of flowers, a small watercolour of roses, and a fine washed pen drawing of a view on a lake with fishermen at work by the owner's niece, J.M. de Gyselaar. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine and turn-ins, yellow silk endpapers. 192 pp. Full description

[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

HAESTENS, Henrick Lodewijksz van. La nouvelle Troye ou memorable histoire du siege d'Ostende le plus signalé qu'on ait veu en L'Europe. En laquelle sont descripts & naïfvement representés en diverses figures, les assauts, deffenses, inventions de guerre, mines, contremines, retranchemens, combats par terre & par mer & autres choses remarcables, advenues de part & d'autre, avec ce qui s'est passé par chascun jour durant le-dit siege depuis le 5 Juing 1601 jusqu'au 20 Septemb. 1604 qu'elle fut renduë. Recoeuillie des plus asseurés memoires.
Leiden, Louis Elzevier, 1615. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Maurits van Nassau, an engraved vignette on the title page, the engraved coat of arms of Maurits van Nassau on the back of the title page, and 12 (of 14) folding engraved plates. Later gold-tooled red morocco with triple fillet panelling (ca. 1885), richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled turn-ins, marbled enpapers (Riviere & Son). [10], "293" [= 295], [1] pp. Full description

HANSWYK, Nicolaas Johannes van. Dissertatio juridica inauguralis de substitutione vulgari.
Leiden, Gerard Corts, 1764. 4to. With the title printed in red and black within an attractive engraved ornamental border by Noach van der Meer. Contemporary red velvet binding, blue silk endpapers. 35, [13], [2 blank] 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

HARPER, Robert Goodloe. Reflexoens sobre a questaõ entre os Estados Unidos e a França.
Philadelphia, London, 1798. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spine with a red morocco title label lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges. 322 pp. Full description