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Beautifully illustrated hand-coloured and highlighted in gold album amicorum in an elaborately gold- and blind-tooled binding dated 1590

[ALBUM AMICORUM - EQUESTRIANISM - HERALDRY]. [Late 16th- and early 17th-century album amicorum].
[North-western Europe (specifically the vicinity of Brussels?)], [1585-1615]. 4to. With 45 hand-coloured and highlighted in gold engraved plates of horses and their riders from Europe, North Africa, and the Near and Middle East, numbered 1-50 (skipping nos. 2, 21, 27, 35, and 36), 46 hand-coloured and highlighted in gold engraved heraldic plates (sometimes filled in with manuscript notes), 2 hand-coloured manuscript coats of arms on l. 15v, and 1 black and gold hand-coloured manuscript coat of arms on the back paste-down. Contemporary elaborately gold- and blind-tooled mottled calf, with gold lettering on both boards (front: RVB HZC VFB C.) (back: 1590). 164 ll. Full description
€ 35,000
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With instructions for the newest dances of 1814

[ALMANAC]. Almanach der musen en gratiën, aan vriendschap, liefde en kunst gewijd. 1814.
Amsterdam, E. Maaskamp, [1813]. 16mo. With an engraved title, 7 full-page stipple-engraved plates by Willem van Senus (1773-1851), and 4 engraved leaves with dance instructions. Contemporary orange paper over boards, gilt edges. The work is housed in the original orange slipcase. [16], 15, [5], 112, [2] pp. Full description
€ 650
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The first and most successful Dutch literary almanac

[ALMANAC]. Nederlandsche muzen-almanak, 1837.
Amsterdam, A. Spin for J. Immerzeel Jr., [1836]. 12mo. With a steel-engraved title, a full page steel-engraved portrait of Jan ten Brink, 6 full-page steel engraved plates protected by tissue paper guards, and a folding leaf with musical annotation. Original yellow lithographed publisher's boards, with the title and year of publication printed on the spine. [16], 250, [4] pp. Full description
€ 250
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Dutch literary almanac

[ALMANAC]. Miniatuur almanak voor het jaar 1838. 2de jaargang.
Utrecht, L.E. Bosch en Zoon, [1837]. 12mo. With a lithographed title printed in blue and gold, 4 full-page lithographed plates by H.J. Backer and by De Weijer at Utrecht, and 4 folding leaves with musical score. Original publisher's lithographed pink boards, gilt edges. 51, [2], 121 [5], V, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 250
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Set of three literary almanacs, with dozens of Dutch short stories and poems

[ALMANAC]. Van Zwaamen's en Thompson's Enkhuizer almanak, voor het jaar 1883. Aanwijzende alle jaarmarkten, kermissen, paarden-, beesten- en leermarkten in het Koningrijk der Nederlanden gehouden wordende ...
Rotterdam, E. de Bont & Zn., [1882].
With:
(2) [ALMANAC]. Alkmaarsche almanak voor het jaar 1887. Aanwijzende alle de jaarmarkten, kermissen, Paard-, beest- en leermarkten in het Konigrijk der Nederland.
Alkmaar, Hermannus Coster& Zn. [1886].
(3) [ALMANAC]. Alkmaarsche almanak voor het jaar 1891. Aanwijzende alle de jaarmarkten, kermissen, Paard-, beest- en leermarkten in het Konigrijk der Nederlanden.
Alkmaar, Hermannus Coster& Zn. [1890]. 3 volumes. 16mo (ca. 9.5 x 7.5 cm). With the title and calendar of each work printed in red and black, the woodcut coat of arms of Enkhuizen on the title page of ad 1, and of Alkmaar on the title page of ads 2 and 3, 12 woodcut illustrations in the calendar of each work (1 for each month), and 12 full-page woodcut plates in each work, illustrating the literary contributions. Uniformly bound in contemporary overlapping vellum wrappers with a red closing tie. Each ca. 500 ll. Full description
€ 400
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Extremely rare miniature almamac in a mother-of-pearl chemise

[ALMANAC - DUTCH]. De kleine tydwyzer of jufferlyke almanach voor den jaare 1797.
Amsterdam, Jan van Gulik, [1796]. 16mo (ca. 6.3 x 3 cm). With an engraved title page, 5 numbered double-page engravings, and an engraved text page on the sounding of the bell of the Amsterdam Gate. Contemporary decorated wrappers, side stitched through two holes. The work is inserted into a contemporary mother-of-pearl chemise with a silver spine and a metal clasp. [24] ll. Full description
€ 1,500
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Complete set of the well-known literary almanac from Zealand

[ALMANAC - ZEELAND]. Zeeuwsche volks-almanak voor het (schrikkel)jaar 1836 (-1847).
Zierikzee, J. van de Velde Olivier (vol.12: P. de Looze), [1835-1846]. 12 volumes. 12mo. With the woodcut coat of arms of Zeeland on the title page of each volume, 16 folding lithographed plates, 17 full-page lithographed plates, 2 leaves with musical annotations, and several folding tables. Original yellow or blue printed publisher's wrappers, with the title printed on the spine and front, within an ornamental border, the coat of arms of arms of Zeeland on the back. Each ca. 200 pp. Full description
€ 700
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Complete set of a literary almanac for Zeelandic Flanders, edited by J.H. van Dale,
the composer of the famous Dutch dictionary

[ALMANAC - ZEELAND]. Cadsandria, jaarboekje voor 1854 (-1859).
Comprising:
(1) Cadsandria, jaarboekje voor 1854.
(2) Cadsandria, Zeeuwsch-Vlaamsch jaarboekje voor 1855.
(3) Cadsandria, Zeeuwsch-Vlaamsch jaarboekje voor het schrikkeljaar 1856.
(4) Cadsandria, Zeeuwsch-Vlaamsch jaarboekje voor het jaar 1857.
(5) Cadsandria, Zeeuwsch jaarboekje voor 1858.
(6) Cadsandria, Zeeuwsch jaarboekje voor 1859.
Schoondijke, A.J. Bronswijk (volumes 2-3 printed by J.C. & W. Altorffer at Middelburg), [1853-1858]. 6 volumes. 12mo. With 5 lithographed plates (1 folding, 4 full-page), 1 in each in volumes 2-6. Later quarter black buckram, marbled paper sides, with the original front wrapper pasted to the front board. XLIII, 152; XXXVI, 182, [2]; XXXVI, 151, [2]; XXXVI, 226, [2]; XLIV, 240; XLIV, 176 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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Dutch artists and art collectors united against the rebellious Belgians

[BELGIAN REVOLUTION; ART EXHIBITION]. Lyst van kunstwerken, door beoefenaars en verzamelaars bijeengebragt, om verloot te worden te behoeve van het Vaderland; tentoongesteld te Amsterdam, in het Nationale Geregtshof.
Amsterdam, Christiaan Andersen Spin, 1831. 8vo. With a lithographed frontispiece. Slightly later neoclassical gold- and richly blind-tooled long-grained red morocco, gilt edges. [2], 76, 8 pp. Full description
€ 1,950
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Satirical story of drunkenness, whoring and gambling, possibly aimed at the three Princes of Orange:
second known copy of the second edition

[BEROALDO, Filippo, and anonymous adaptor]. Het stichtigh ende vermakelijck proces van drie ghebroeders, edel-lieden. Den eenen zijnde een dronkaert. [Den] tweden een hoer-eerder. [Den] derden een speelder. Dat wie bevonden sal worden vande drie ghebreken het kleenste begaen te hebben, het meeste erven sal van zijn vaders nae ghelatene goederen, volghens het testament daer af sijnde ghevonden, wesende onder sekere oude papieren, van M. P. v. O.
Including: RULANT, H. Satyra ofte lofsang van droncken drincken.
[Amsterdam?, Jacob Aertsz. Colom?], 1635. Small 8vo (14.5×9 cm). Half calf (ca. 1830s), with the binder's stamp on an endleaf (F. DUQUESNE À GAND). 136, [1], [1 blank]; [30] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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