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The complete series of Collaert's views around Brussels in its first state

COLLAERT, Hans I [after Hans BOL or Jacob GRIMMER?]. [Views in the vicinity of Brussels].
[Antwerp], Hans van Luyck, [ca. 1575/80]. Oblong folio album (24.5 x 35.5 cm). Series of 24 engravings (plate size ca. 20 x 14 cm) with views of landscapes around Brussels, by Hans I Collaert possibly after Hans Bol or Jacob Grimmer, each with a caption in the plate (plates 8 and 20 also with Van Luyck and Collaert's monograms "H.V.L.EX[cudit]" and "H.C.F[ecit]"). Trimmed down to the plate edge and mounted on album leaves, numbered in pencil on the album leaves, next to the engravings. Modern red half cloth, marbled sides. [24] ll. Full description
€ 15,000
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First edition of an account of The Hague, with 2 frontispieces and 9 plates

CRETSER, Gysbert de and Constantijn HUYGENS. Beschryvinge van 's Gravenhage, behelsende desselfs eerste opkomste, stichtinge en vermakelyke situatie, het Graven-hof aldaar gebouwt ... Mitsgaders de oude coustumen ... Waar achter bygevoegt is de Zeestraat op Scheveninge door de Heer van Zuylichem [= Constantijn Huygens].
Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1711. 3 part in 1 volume. 4to. With 2 engraved frontispieces (by Jan Luyken and Jan van Lamsvelt] and 9 engraved plates (4 folding). Contemporary vellum. [16], 140, [8], 104, [8]; 56 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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Beautiful atlas of the Land van Voorne, in full contemporary colour

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
€ 25,000
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Beautiful hand-coloured wall map of Rijnland

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
€ 6,000
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First and only edition of a detailed and accurate atlas of Friesland

EEKHOFF, Wopke. Nieuwe atlas van de provincie Friesland, bevattende kaarten van de dertig grietenijen of gemeenten, met de daarin gelegene elf steden en haar grondgebied, alsmede van de eilanden Ameland en Schiermonnikoog.
Leeuwarden, W. Eekhoff, 1849-1859. Large folio (68 x 41 cm). With 32 large double-page maps, of which 2 folding, engraved by D. & H. Veelwaard after J.W. Witteveen. Further with the engraved coat of arms of the Province of Friesland on the title page. Contemporary half brown morocco and pebble-grained brown cloth sides. [4] pp. + 32 maps. Full description
€ 2,500
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Pocket atlas of the Low Countries with the world & the continents

ELWE, Jan Barend. Compleete zak-atlas, van de zeventien Nederlandsche Provinciën.
Amsterdam, J.B. Elwe & D.M. Langeveld, 1786. 8vo. With a double-page engraved title, 29 numbered folding engraved maps (the first 5 signed by A. van Krevelt) and 2 folding engraved tables, all coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. 239, [1] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
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Pocket atlas of the Low Countries with the world and the continents,
coloured by a contemporary hand

ELWE, Jan Barend. Compleete zak-atlas, van de zeventien Nederlandsche provinciën, begreepen in XXXI ... in 't koper gebragte kaarten.
Amsterdam, Jan Barend Elwe and Dirk Meland Langeveld, 1786. 8vo. With double-page engraved title-page, 29 folding engraved maps and 2 folding engraved tables, all coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary half calf, rebacked with the original gold-tooled backstrip. 243, [1] pp. text Full description
€ 2,950
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French edition of Forster’s acclaimed and influential Ansichten vom Niederrhein

FORSTER, Georg. Voyage philosophique et pittoresque, sur les rives du Rhin, a Liège, dans la Flandre, le Brabant, la Hollande, l'Angleterre, la France, etc. fait en 1790, ...
Paris, F. Buisson and Charles Pougens, l'an VIII [= 1800]. 3 volumes. 8vo. With a folding engraved map of Great Britain and 9 folding engraved views of famous English buildings. Contemporary mottled, tanned sheepskin (tree pattern), gold-tooled spines. [4], XVI, 408; [4], 446; 8, 407 pp. Full description
€ 2,650
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Manuscript atlas and ownership records of parcels in the Prins Willem polder,
northeast of Oostburg, in the southwest corner of the Netherlands

GERSOM, Gerrit van. Caerte en omlooper van Prins Willem Polder. Bedijkt anno 1650 en 1651. ...
[Oostburg?], 1723. Royal folio (41 x 27.5 cm). With a hand-coloured title page, a large folding map of the dikes along the border of the polder, a large folding general map of the polder showing the numbered parcels at a scale of about 1:18,000, and 17 folding detail maps showing the individual plots within the parcels at a larger scale, all executed in brown ink and watercolours and tipped onto the fore-edges of 19 of the 144 numbered text leaves. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. 151 ll. (ll. 1 & 145-151 blank). Full description
€ 9,500
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12 original photographs of the Leiden Hortus Botanicus in the 1860s

GOEDELJEE, Jan. [Title on front cover:] Photographische gezichten in s Rijks Akademietuin te Leiden. 1866.
Leiden, 1866. Oblong folio. 12 original photographic albumen prints (ca. 19.5 x 25 cm) with rounded corners, mounted on paperboard leaves (30.5 x 37 cm), with tissue guard leaves. Contemporary blind-tooled green cloth with title in gold on the front board, silk endpapers. [12] ll. Full description
€ 4,250
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