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Three fine, magnificently hand-coloured print series, depicting the most beloved houses
and palaces of Stadholder/King William III

SCHENK, Pieter. Delineatio domus recreatricis adjacentiumque prospectuum amoenissimorum extra urbem Zutphaniensem ...
[Amsterdam], Pieter Schenk, [ca. 1702].
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(2) SCHENK, Pieter. Praetorium dieranum quod a se per omnes partes descriptum ac delineatum Serenissimo Britanniarum Regi Gulielmo III humillime offert Petrus Schenk.
[Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, ca. 1700].
(3) CALL, Johannes van. Loani, ut et villarum Regis Gulielmi reliquarum, conspectus selectiores.
[Amsterdam, Pieter Schenck, ca. 1700]. 3 works in 1 volume. Oblong 4to (26.5 x 31 cm). With an engraved title page for each work, and 50 contemporary hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, with a black morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. [16]; [14]; [23] ll. Full description
€ 25,000
Architecture Castles, Gardens & Mansions Netherlands Prints & Print Series
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The country estate of one of the richest men of the Dutch Golden Age in beautiful engraved views

SCHENK, Pieter. [Afbeeldinge der voornaemste gezichten van Duinrel].
[Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, 1702]. Oblong album (ca. 18.5 x 25.5 cm). With an engraved dedication, and 16 numbered engraved numbered views (ca. 170 x 205mm) of the manor house and gardens of Duinrel in Wassenaar, near The Hague. The 16 plates each show an engraved caption in Dutch and Latin beneath the view. The dedication leaf and the 16 views (each ca. 17 x 20.5 cm) are mounted (attached only at the top of each leaf) on blank leaves (ca. 18.5 x 25.5 cm). Later half vellum, marbled paper sides. [17] ll. Full description
€ 3,500
Architecture Castles, Gardens & Mansions Horticulture Netherlands Prints & Print Series
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The first full depiction of one of the most beautiful estates of Gelderland

SCHENK, Pieter [and Jan van CALL]. Rozendael. Aan den hoog-edel welgeboren en gestengen heere den heere Joan Baron van Arnhem, heere van Rozendael tot Harslo, byzonderen Raad des vorstendoms Gelre en graefschap Zutphen ... word deze afbeelding van Rozendael, opgedragen.
Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, [1702?]. Oblong royal 4to (25 x 31.5 cm). With an engraved dedication also serving as a title-page, and 16 unnumbered engraved views (15 x 18.5 cm). Modern half parchment, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, marbled paper sides. [17] ll. Full description
€ 3,500
Castles, Gardens & Mansions Netherlands Prints & Print Series
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“The Versailles of the Achterhoek”

SCHENK, Pieter. Delineatio domus recreatricis adjacentiumq[ue] prospectuum amoenissimorum extra urbem Zutphaniensem, auspicys & jussu ... Arnoldi Justi ...
Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, [1702 or ca. 1720]. Oblong 4to (21 x 27 cm). With an engraved title-page and 16 numbered engraved views (ca. 15 x 19 cm), each with a caption in Dutch and Latin below the border, mostly in two lines. 19th-century grey-brown paste-paper with a wave pattern over boards. [1], 16, [1 blank] engraved ll. Full description
€ 2,750
Architecture Castles, Gardens & Mansions Netherlands Prints & Print Series
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16 views of the Royal Palace "Het Loo" and its gardens

SCHENK, Pieter and Jacob Pieterszoon ROMAN. Conspectus Novi Praetorii Loo ex accurata delineatione Jacobi Romani ...
[Amsterdam], Pieter Schenk, [ca. 1720]. Oblong royal 4to (ca. 23 x 29 cm). With an engraved dedication also serving as a title-page, and 16 unnumbered engraved views (15 x 18.5 cm). Modern half sheepskin parchment. [17] ll. Full description
€ 2,500
Castles, Gardens & Mansions City Plans, Topography & Views Netherlands
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16 views of the great wooded estate "Duinrel"

SCHENK, Pieter. Afbeeldinge der voornaemste gezichten van Duinrel gediestig opgedragen door zyn hoog-edels onderdanigen dienaer.
[Amsterdam], Pieter Schenk, [ca. 1720]. Oblong royal 4to (ca. 23 x 28.5 cm). With an engraved dedication also serving as a title-page, and 16 numbered engraved views (15 x 18.5 cm). Modern half sheepskin parchment. [17] ll. Full description
€ 2,500
Castles, Gardens & Mansions Netherlands Prints & Print Series
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From the library of the famous Dutch naturalist François P.L. Pollen,
who later worked closely together with Schlegel

SCHLEGEL, Hermann. De vogels van Nederland beschreven en afgebeeld.
Leiden, D. Noothoven van Goor, [1859]. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 362 hand-coloured lithographed plates of Dutch birds, highlighted with an (egg) wash; plates 1-178 in plates volume 1 and plates 179-362 in plates volume 2. All illustrations are captioned in the plate. Contemporary half gold- and blind-stamped tan sheepskin, decorated paper sides, blue floral endpapers. VIII, 699, [1] pp. and 362 plates in the two other volumes. Full description
€ 3,500
Birds - Ornithology Faunas & General Zoology Netherlands
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Expanded and illustrated second edition of a classic description of Friesland

[SCHOTANUS, Christiaan]. Beschryvinge van de heerlyckheydt van Frieslandt tusschen 't Flie end de Lauwers.
[Franeker], Johannes Wellens, [1664]. Folio. With engraved title-page, full-page engraved coat of arms of the province of Friesland, and 46 engraved maps and plans (4 large folding maps, 31 double-page maps and 11 double-page city plans) by Jacob van Meurs after Bernardus Schotanus à Sterringa. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [8], 280, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 5,000
Charts & Maps Church History & Missions City Plans, Topography & Views History / 17th Century Netherlands
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Spectacular atlas of Friesland, beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand

SCHOTANUS VAN STERRINGA, Bernhard. Uitbeelding der heerlijkheit Friesland; zoo in 't algemeen, als in haare XXX bijzondere grietenijen; ... Nu nieuwelijks met bijgevoegde aangrenzingen, en veel vermeerderingen: nevens d'afteekening van Oud Friesland,...
[Leeuwarden], François Halma, 1718. Imperial folio (54.5 x 33 cm). With an engraved allegorical title-page; 3 full-page engraved heraldic plates; and 37 double-page and 2 larger folding engraved maps. Beautiful cartouches and landscapes on all maps, mostly by Jan and Caspar Luyken, all beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary red half roan, later cloth corners and reinforcing. [4] pp. plus plates. Full description
€ 12,500
Atlases & Globes Charts & Maps Netherlands
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Beautifully illustrated early German account of Schoutens discovery of the Cape Hoorn route to the Pacific with 3 nautical charts and 7 views, all in South America

SCHOUTEN, Willem Cornelisz. Historische Beschreibung, der wunderbarlichen Reyse, welche von einem Holländer, Willhelm Schouten genandt, neulicher Zeit ist verrichtet worden: ...
Frankfurt am Main, Paul Jacobi for Johann Theodor de Bry in Oppenheim, 1619. Folio. With 2 title-pages, the main one with an engraving showing Magellan and Schouten sitting across from each other with an armillary sphere between them. Loose quires and leaves. [1], 35, [20] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
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