Low Countries

CONRAD, Frederik Willem, Arie Jansz. BLANKEN and Simon KROS. Rapport wegens het onderzoek omtrent eene uitwatering te Catwyk aan Zee, gedaan in 1802. Op last van dykrichter en hoogheemraaden van Rhynland.
Haarlem, François Bohn, 1803[-1804]. Folio. With 2 folding engraved maps, 15 folding engraved plates, and 1 engraved plate, all except one signed by Daniel Veelwaard. Later green half cloth, marbled paper sides. [1], [1 blank], 49, [1 blank], 27, [1] pp. Full description

COUTINHO, Francisco de Sousa. Propositie ghedaen ter vergaderinghe van hare hoogh-mog: d'heeren Staten Generael der Vereenichde Nederlanden, in 's Gravenhage den XVIen. Augusti 1647.
[Netherlands], 1647. 4to. With a woodcut decoration built up from arabesque typographic ornaments on title-page and a woodcut decorated initial. Modern half calf, marbled sides. 16 pp. Full description

[COYETT, Balthasar and Coenraad van KLENCK]. Historisch verhael, of beschryving van de voyagie, gedaen onder de suite van den heere Koenraad van Klenk ... en sijn hoogheyt den heere Prince van Oranje
Amsterdam, Jan Claesz. ten Hoorn, 1677. 4to. With an etched frontispiece and 6 double-page etched plates. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title at the head of the spine. [8], "214" [= 220], [2] pp. Full description

CRETSER, Gysbert de and Constantijn HUYGENS. Beschryvinge van 's Gravenhage, behelsende desselfs eerste opkomste, stichtinge en vermakelyke situatie, het Graven-hof aldaar gebouwt ... Mitsgaders de oude coustumen ... Waar achter bygevoegt is de Zeestraat op Scheveninge door de Heer van Zuylichem [= Constantijn Huygens].
Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1711. 3 part in 1 volume. 4to. With 2 engraved frontispieces (by Jan Luyken and Jan van Lamsvelt] and 9 engraved plates (4 folding). Contemporary vellum. [16], 140, [8], 104, [8]; 56 pp. Full description

CROCUS, Cornelius. Comoedia sarca[!] cui titulus Joseph, ad Christianae iuventutis institutionem iuxta locos inventionis, veteremque artem, nunc primum & scripta & edita per Cr. Crôcum Aemsterodami ludimagistrum.
Strasbourg, Jacobi Jucundi [=Jakob Frölich], 1542. 8vo. With a printer's device on the title page and final page, two decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, and three woodcut tailpieces. Early 18th-century gold tooled mottled brown calf. [40] ll. Full description

CROON, Petrus. Grabbelingh oft vermakelijcke raetsels op keucken en disch, inde griel gheworpen ende stichtelyck op-gheraept.
Bruges, widow of Johannes Clouwet, 1666. Oblong 16mo (7 x 9.5 cm). With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. 315, [4], [1 blank] pp. Full description

CUNO, Johann Christian, David Sigmund BÜTTNER and Friedrich WAGNER (transl.) Ode über seinen Garten: Nachmahls Besser. Amsterdam, Jacob Cornelis Schoots van Cappelle, 1750. 8vo. With a folding engraved allegorical title-plate, an engraved printers device on the title-page, an elaborate engraved coat-of-arms on the dedication page and 11 engraved plates (1 folding). Further numerous woodcut allegorical capitals. Contemporary calf. [34], 260 pp. Full description

DAENDELS, Herman Willem. Staat der Nederlandsche Oostindische bezittingen, onder het bestuur van der gouverneur-generaal Herman Willem Daendels, ridder, luitenant-generaal, &c. in de jaren 1808-1811.
The Hague, (colophon: Hendrik van Teeckelenburgh and the Van Cleef brothers), 1814. 4 volumes. Folio. With a small portrait of Daendels mounted on the half-title of the first volume. Contemporary boards. [6], 128, [1 blank]; [334]; [596]; [488] pp. Full description

DAM, Dirk Jansz. van. Almanach, d'erven stichters comptoir op 't jaar onses Heeren Jesu Christi, 1771. Voorzien met alle de jaar-, paarden-, beesten- en leermarkten, als mede de vacantien, het varen der trekschuyten en beurtschepen, het ryden der posten, &c. Nevens de maans op en ondergang.
Amsterdam, the heirs of the widow of Cornelis Stichter, [1770]. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page of ad 1, a large coat of arms of Amsterdam on the title-page of ad 2, and 12 half-page woodcuts, one for each month, printed in red and black in ad 1. With: [ALMANAC]. Schutters wagt-almanach, anno 1771, aanwijsende wat compagnien, en op wat nagt zy te zamen waken moeten, om de vijftiende nagt. Nevens een ordre wat posten yder heeft te besetten. Onder de E. E. Heeren Colonellen Jacob Elias. Arent Hartjes. Theodorus Wynants. Hendr. Balth. van Aalst. en S. J. B. Barchm. Wuytiers.Amsterdam, the heirs of the widow of Cornelis Stichters, [1770].
Contemporary elaborately silver-tooled vellum, with the coat of arms of Amsterdam in the centre of the front board, and an impression of three drummers on the back, both signed "Duisburg F[ecit]", both boards with a baroque ornamental border, with the coats of arms of each of the seven Dutch provinces at the top (with that of Holland prominently in the middle), the coats of arms of the 20 largest Dutch cities on the sides (Dordrecht, Delft, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Rotterdam, Leiden, Gouda, Hoorn, Alkmaar and Enkhuizen on the left side; Middelburg, Vlissingen, Amersfoort, Arnhem, Nijmegen, Groningen, Leeuwarden, Franeker, Zwolle and Deventer on the right side), and at the bottom an image that probably shows the transfer of goods near a city. [32]; [5], [1 blank] pp. Full description

DAM, Jan Albertsz. van. Nieuw geinventeerde koopmans comptoir- en schrijf-almanach, op het schrikkel-jaar onzes heeren J. Christi M DCC XII. Na de nieuwe styl. Versien met de jaarmarkten, paarde- beeste- en leer-markte, en de dageliksche uure van de maans op en ondergang.
Amsterdam, the heirs of Albert Magnus, [1711 (for the year 1712)]. 12mo. Printed in red and black throught, the title-page with Magnus's woodcut device (Atlas with an armillary sphere on his shoulders), numerous typographical symbols in the text: for example a horse and a goat representing horse and other animal market days, moons in different phases, planetary signs and manicules (pointing hands). With a small etching of an angel (39 mm tall) holding a wreath, cut out of an unidentified source and loosely inserted between 2 blank pages at the end of the book. Contemporary, elaborately gold-tooled mottled calf over thin wooden boards by the so-called Art Book Bindery (1705-1741) in the style made famous by Albert Magnus himself, with more than 100 impressions of about a dozen stamps and one roll, gold-tooled board edges. Further with 4 silver anchor plates (2 on each board), each with the coat of arms of the States of Holland in a decorative cartouche, and each with a silver eye extending over the fore edge, with a silver combination stylus/lead pencil used to fasten the book through the eyes, gilt edges. [120] pp. bound with 46 blank free endleaves: [12] pp. at the front and [22 (coated paper)], [12] pp. at the back. Full description