Low Countries

[DEUX NÈTHES - PHARMACOPOEIA]. VAN DEN ZANDE, J.B.J., et al (ed.). Pharmacopoeia manualis, a concilio medico praefecturae Utriusque Nethae edita.
Antwerpen, Antonius Grangé, 1812. 8vo. 19th-century green half sheepskin, marbled sides. VIII, 208 pp. Full description

[DEVOTIONAL PRINTS]. [Collection of 37 devotional prints and drawings].
[Flanders and Paris, various publishers, ca. 1630-1850]. 2 volumes. Oblong folio (ca. 29 x 42.5 cm); sheet size ca. 12 x 9 to 35 x 23 cm. With 24 contemporary hand-coloured engravings, of which some heightened with gold, 1 contemporary hand-coloured woodcut illustration, 1 chromolithographed print, 7 watercolour drawings (including 2 on vellum), 3 silk embroidered prints in various sizes, and 1 image made of paper ornaments glued onto a black netting fabric. Further with a folded alphabetical list of the Antwerp printers and engravers of devotional prints in a 19th-century hand tipped onto the first leaf of the album. Several prints are tipped into a 19th-century elaborately gold- and blind-tooled brown morocco album, a blind-tooled ornament in the centre of both boards with the crowned initials "J.B." on the front, surrounded by a double fillet frame with elaborate corner pieces, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, white watered silk endpapers. The work is housed in a 19th-century marbled slipcase, with a paper label with the name of Countess Julie Visart de Bocarmé mounted on the front. The remaining prints have been tipped onto a sheet of sturdy paper, inserted into a clear plastic file folder, which are loosely inserted into a 19th-century elaborately gold- and blind-tooled purple morocco album, with the word "album" lettered in gold on the front, surrounded by a blind-tooled Gothic style border and an elaborate gold-tooled border, gilt edges, black watered silk end papers. Full description

DIJCK (DYCK), Heyman van. Voorne caart-boeck van alle de dorpen, en polders gelegen inden lande van Oost, ende West Voorne, mitsgaders over Flacquée.
[Netherlands, ca. 1701]. Imperial folio (ca. 55 x 38 cm). Etched double-page title-page by Romeyn de Hooghe, dated "1701", and 32 engraved double-page maps (numbered I- VI, A-F and 1-9) engraved by Jan Stemmers and etched by Jan and Caspar Luyken after drawings by A. Steyaart, all in beautiful contemporary colouring. Contemporary red half sheepskin. Full description

DODONAEUS (DODOENS), Rembertus. Cruydt-Boeck ...
Antwerp, Balthasar II Moretus in the Plantin printing office, 1644. Large folio (ca. 25 x 41 cm). With an integral, richly engraved title-page, with 1470 botanical woodcuts in the text, woodcut decorated initials, woodcut tailpiece with the Plantin compasses device at the end of the index and larger woodcut publishers device with the compasses and motto on the last, otherwise blank leaf. Set in textura types with extensive roman, italic and civilité. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled calf over boards, with brass catch- and anchor-plates and one brass clasp. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [32], 1492, [59], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[DOMSELAAR, Tobias van]. Het ontroerde Nederlandt, door de wapenen des konings van Vrankryk ...
Amsterdam, Markus Willemsz. Doornik, 1674.
With:
(2) [DOMSELAAR, Tobias van]. Het tweede deel, van't Ontroerde Nederlandt, door de wapenen des konings van Vrankryk.
Amsterdam, Markus Willemsz. Doornik, 1676.
(3) V. T. V. [= Geeraert BRANDT DE JONGE]. Tweejaerige Geschiedenissen, voorgevallen in de Jaeren 1674 en 1675 ...
Amsterdam, Johannes van Someren, Abraham Wolgangh, and Hendrik and Dirk Boom, 1678. 3 parts in 3 volumes. 4to. Vol. 1 with an engraved frontispiece, 6 engraved folding plates, 1 folding map, 1 full-page coat of arms, and 15 full-page portraits; vol. 2 with an engraved frontispiece, 13 folding etchings, and 7 full-page engraved plates; vol. 3 with an engraved frontispiece, and 8 full-page engraved portraits. Slightly later gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [6], 528, [20]; [6], 822, [10]; [6], 816, [16] pp. Full description

[DOMSELAER, Tobias van, Arnoldus MONTANUS, Isaak COMMELIN, Olfert DAPPER and others]. Beschryvinge van Amsterdam, haar eerste oorspronk uyt den Huyze der Heeren van Aemstel en Aemstellant ... Uyt verscheyde oude en nieuwe Hollandsche Kronijcken, Beschrijvingen, Brieven, Willekeuren, &c. by een vergadert ...
Amsterdam, Marcus Willemsz. Doornick, 1665. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 8 engraved plates (1 folding, 7 double-page), and 111 engravings in the text. Slightly later gold-tooled mottled calf. [8], 284, [2], 312, 446, [114] pp. Full description

[DORDRECHT]. Missive van Parnas, geschreven door Hugo de Groot, aen N.N. syn goede vriend in s Gravenhage, in dato den 22 January 1685.
[Dordrecht?], [no publisher], [1685]. 4to. Modern brown wrappers. 8 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

[DRAWING - TROMPE-L'OEIL - MAPS]. [Trompe-l'oeil drawing of country maps on a decorated background, titled:] Ciels Saint-Vincent.
[France?], August 1888. Brown and black ink, watercolour, chalk and gold paint on paper, mounted on several laminated sheets of paper (69.5 x 52.5 cm). Full description

[DREESING, Harmanus]. [Drop-title:] Notitie van een groote party curieuse kanten, stokgronden en spiegeltralies, als mede Haarlemmer kant, mionetten, pieten, genayde kant, tippen en bandonnen, voor-en achter- werken, langetten, geborduurde schorteldoeken, neusdoeken en dassen, gestikte mans en vrouwe mussen, &c. ... nagelaten by Adriana Smits, wed. van Jan Calenberg. Welke goederen verkogt zullen werden op vrydag, den 15. December 1724. Ten huyze van Harmanus Dreesing in de Keyzers Kroon, in de Kalverstraat ...
Amsterdam, Marten Smets, [1724]. 4to (16.5 x 21 cm). Formerly sewn through 3 holes but never bound. [8] pp. Full description