Low Countries

[DOUAI - PHARMACOPOEIA]. BRISSEAU, Michel, and others. Pharmacopoeia Duacena galeno-chymica nobilissima et amplissimi senatus authoritate et jussu munita & edita.
Douai, Jacques-François Willerval, 1732. Small folio (25.5 x 17 cm). With a woodcut of the then current Douai coat-of-arms (a shield with an arrow and eight drops of blood) on the title-page. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, richly gold-tooled spine. [1], [1 blank], [2], 180, [7], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[DOUARIAIRE VAN ATHLONE, née VAN TUYL VAN SEROOSKERKEN]. Voor de huishouding, ten nutte van alle standen, en van al de geenen, die voor de orde zyn, om eene gemaklyke en naauwkeurige rekening van de kosten hunner huidhouding te houden, door berekenings-tafelen te zamen gesteld; en op de ondervinding gestaafd.
The Hague, G. Bakhuysen, 1815. Small folio. With a woodcut title-vignette and elaborate woodcut head- and tailpieces. Original publisher's blue paper wrappers. [52] pp. Full description

DOU, Jan Jansz. (Johannes Dou I), Steven van BROECKHUYSEN and Melchior BOLSTRA. 'T Hooge Heemraedschap van Rhynland.
[Amsterdam], Isaak Tirion, 1746. Atlas folio (58.5 x 37.3 cm). With 15 double-page engraved plates, all coloured by hand, including 13 maps. The plate size is mostly ca. 44.5 x 55 cm and ca. 41.5 x 55 cm, the map of the Haarlemmermeer has plate size 55 x 63 cm. An illustration of existing and projected sluices for drainage of the polder and another illustration with title, both after drawings by Melchior bolstra. All plates mounted on stubs so that they open flat. Half red sheepskin and intricately marbled paper sides. Full description

DOU, Jan Jansz. (Johannes Dou I), Steven van BROECKHUYSEN and Melchior BOLSTRA. 'T Hooge Heemraedschap van Rhynland.
[Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion], 1746. Very large engraved wall map of the Rijnland water district in 12 map sheets and 1 title-sheet, the title-sheet divided into 3 strips, the whole mounted on cloth (measuring 185 x 169 cm as assembled). Coloured and shellacked by a contemporary hand, with gold for the lettering of the title and the coat of arms. With the water board's coat of arms, and two decorative cartouches listing the members of the water board in 1687 and 1746. Framed. Full description

DOU, Jan Jansz. (Johannes Dou I), Steven van BROECKHUYSEN and Melchior BOLSTRA. 'T Hooge Heemraedschap van Rhynland.
[Amsterdam], Isaak Tirion, 1746. Atlas folio (58.5 x 37.5 cm). With 15 double-page engraved plates (plate size mostly ca. 44.5 x 55 cm and ca. 41.5 x 55 cm), including 13 maps (that of the Haarlemmermeer with plate size 55 x 63 cm), an illustration of existing and projected sluices for drainage of the polder and another illustration with title, both after drawings by Melchior Bolstra. All plates mounted on stubs so that they open flat. Half calf. Full description

[DREESING, Harmanus]. [Drop-title:] Notitie van een groote party curieuse kanten, stokgronden en spiegeltralies...
Amsterdam, Marten Smets, [1724]. 4to (16.5 x 21 cm). Formerly sewn through 3 holes but never bound. [8] pp. Full description

DUDLEY, Robert, Earl of Leicester. Placcaet op tstuck vande convoyen (mitsgaders licenten, ...) ghedaen ... by zyne Excellentie, tot Utrecht den laetsten Aprilis, anno. M. D. LXXXVI.
Utrecht, widow of Coenraet Henricksz, 1586.
With: (2) DUDLEY, Robert, Earl of Leicester. [Incipit:] ¶ Robert, Grave van Leycester ..., allen ... die deze ... sullen sien oft hooren lesen saluyt. Alsoo ...: so ist dat wy ... goet ... geacht hebben, alle de ... lysten vanden goedere[n] gaende naer ... vreemde lande[n], ..., te redigeren en[de] dresseren in ee[n] sijste[! = lijste], ....
(Colophon: Utrecht, printed by Hendrick van Borculo, [1586]). 2 works sewn together. 4to. Disbound. [8]; [17], [1 blank] pp. Full description

DUMBAR Jr., Gerhard. Hedendaagsche historie of tegenwoordige staat, van alle volkeren; behelzende de beschryving der Vereenigde Nederlanden, en wel in 't byzonder van Overyssel.
Amsterdam, P. Schouten, J. de Groot, G. Warnars; Leiden, S. & J. Luchtmans; Dordrecht, A. & P. Blussé; Harlingen, V. van der Plaats, 1781-1803. 4 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, a folding engraved map, and 9 folding engraved views of Deventer, Zwolle, Kampen, Zwartsluis and Hasselt. Uniform white half parchment (ca. 1900/14?), sewn on 4 recessed cords, with hollow backs, nonpareil-marbled sides, title and volume numbers neatly lettered across the spines in black ink. [4], 494; [4], 533; [2], 614; [2], 224 pp. Full description

DUMBAR jr., Gerhard. Proclamatie aan het volk van Overyssel, over het stuk van de Nationale Conventie. Gearresteerd den 21 September 1795.
Deventer, Jan Hendrik de Lange, [1795]. 4to. With a woodcut coat-of-arms of the Province of Overijssel on the title-page. Contemporary marbled wrappers. 12 pp. Full description

[DUTCH ANTILLES]. Reglement op het beleid van de de[sic!] regering, het justitie-wezen, den handel en scheepvaart, mitsgaders de instructien voor den Gouverneur Generaal, en den Raad Contrarolleur Generaal op het eiland Curaçao. Gearresteerd bij besluit van Zijne Majesteit den Koning, in data 14 September 1815, no. 58.
The Hague & Amsterdam, Gebroeders van Cleef, 1815. 3 parts in 1 volume. Tall 8vo (22 x 13 cm). Later marbled wrappers. [4], 38, 20, 13, [2] pp. Full description