Low Countries

[MADOU, Jean Baptiste and Jean Louis van HEMELRYCK]. Costumes Belgiques anciens et modernes, militaires, civils et réligieux.
Brussels, Lithographie Royale de J.B.A.M. Jobard, 1830. Folio. With a hand-coloured lithographed title, and 124 hand-coloured full-page numbered lithographed plates, of which some heightened with gold, all protected by tissue paper guards. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter polished calf. II, 26, [27-198], IV pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - BRAZIL - FREDERIK HENDRIK, Prince of Orange and Count of Nassau]. [18th-century copy of a letter to the States General originally written on 20 September 1645].
Oosteeklo, originally written on 20 September 1645, this transcription: 18th century. Ca. 23 x 14.5 cm. Kept in a plastic folder between tissue paper. [1] l. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH]. [Journals of four summer trips (1) along the Rhine, (2) to Brabant and Flandres, (3) to Paris and (4) to the waters at Aachen and Spa, written in Dutch by an anonymous traveller from Amsterdam during the consecutive years 1804-1807].
[Amsterdam, 1804-1807]. Folio. With 40 circular aquatints, executed in wash manner, most printed in colour. 14 of the roundels retain their printed captions, while 12 are without captions, all have been cut from the original sheets and trimmed to their circular outlines. The manuscript contains 14 hand-coloured engraved plates, 10 depict the interiors of Parisian theatres, and 2 show their foyers. Contemporary red morocco. 159 ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENTS]. BERGH, Johan van den. Eenige stukken concerneerende criminele procedures in cas d'appel voor het hof geventileerd tusschen den bailluw van Rhijnland contra Pieter Oostenryk in materie van manslag met de ms. schriftuuren.
[Leiden], 1726-1729. Folio (33 x 21.5 cm). Manuscript in Dutch on laid paper, with 2 embossed seals (clein segels). Later blue paper wrappers, with a printed title label mounted on the front wrapper. 28, [8 blank] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT - STAATS BRABANT]. [Drop title:] D'Eerste presiderende ende andere ...
The Hague, 18 November 1697. ca. 35.5 x 20.5 cm. Manuscript in Dutch on vellum, with the blind-stamped "clein segel" of Holland in the upper left corner of the leaf. Folded, kept in a clear plastic sleeve. [1] l. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT]. DODOENS (DODONAEUS), Rembert. [Declaration of financial and other documents received as incoming churchwarden of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Mechelen].
[Mechelen], 27 December 1558. Oblong 4to (19 x 21.5 cm). A document written in dark brown ink on paper, with the opening words filled in afterwards in light brown ink and the signature in light brown ink. [1] ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH]. Resolutien van den Raad van Staaten nopens Sterckten van Staats Vlaenderen en de Schelde.
[Low Countries], 1747. 4to. Manuscript on paper, written in two neat hands, partly in French.Mid-19th-century half red sheepskin, marbled paper sides. 46, 121, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH - LEGAL]. [Four Dutch legal manuscripts on parchment].
1638-1724. All various sizes. The fourth document with contemporary paper wrappers, sewn through one hole, all but the third document are folded, and all are housed together in a white paper folder. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH - VOC - HEALTH]. Ziekten aan boord der uitvarende schepen naar Indië 1774-1783.
1774-1783. Folio. Loosely inserted in contemporary wrappers with the manuscript title on the front. The work is kept in a brown cloth folder, with a red morocco title label on the front, lettered in gold. [5] ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - GENEALOGY & HERALDRY - DUTCH]. [Manuscript genealogies of the noble family Cuylenburgh ( vol. 1) and the noble family Beusichum & Cuylenburgh (vol. 2)].
[Utrecht, Culemborg or Beusichem?], ca. 1655-1675, after 1654]. 2 volumes. Large folio. Manuscript in Dutch, written in one hand in a neat, 17th-century hand cursive hand. With 65 coat of arms, almost all of them coloured by hand. Also with some spaces for coats of arms left blank. A loose leaf added to volume with 34 ink-drawn and contemporary hand-coloured small coats of arms with accompanying text written in a cursive 17th-century hand. 19th-century half brown cloth (volume 1) and red buckram (volume 2), brown decorated paper sides, titles in gold on the front boards. [4 (plus 1 loose leaf)]; [8] ll. Full description