Low Countries / Cartography & Topography

[VIEW - AMSTERDAM]. Amsterdam. (Caption:) Amsterdam, ville du Comté de Hollande et la plus considérable des Provinces Unies.
[Amsterdam, between 1660 and 1668 (ca. 1665)]. Engraving: ca. 38.5 x 50 cm; frame: 66.5 x 76 cm. In a passe partout, framed in a modern wooden frame. Full description

[VIEW - NETHERLANDS - AMSTERDAM]. BAST, Pieter. Amstelredam.
[Antwerp], Pieter Bast, 1599. Large engraved panorama on 2 sheets (ca. 27 x 76 cm as assembled). Framed. Full description

[VIEW - NETHERLANDS - AMSTERDAM]. OTTENS, Reinier and Josua OTTENS. Amsterdam.
[Amsterdam], Reinier and Josua Ottens, [ca. 1730]. Large engraved panorama on 4 sheets (ca. 42 x 218 cm as assembled). With title in banner at top centre, arms of the city at top right, city seal at top left and the primary locations with captions. Mounted and framed. Full description

[VIEWS - NETHERLANDS - ZEELAND]. Speculum Zelandiae dat is: een beschryvinge ofte afbeelding der steden, ambachts-heerlijckheden, dorpen, castelen, ridderlijcke hofsteden, huysen en gebouwen gelegen inde eylanden en de graeflijckheyt van Zeelandt.
Amsterdam, Widow of [Joachim] Ottens and sons, [ca. 1720]. 1mo (32 x 32.5 cm). With an engraved armorial title page and 36 full-page engraved views. Contemporary gold-tooled brown half calf. [37] ll. Full description

[MAP]. [VINGBOONS, Johannes, Justus and David]. 'T hooghe heymraedtschap vanden lande van Woerden.
[Amsterdam, Hendrik de Leth], 1740. Wall map of the water district Woerden (South Holland) in 9 large loose untrimmed sheets (each 48 x 67 cm), with the title in a banderole across the head of three sheets, information about the 14th-century charters in a cartouche, a list of city and town officials in 1739 on a plinth, a compass rose, and a scale of Rijnland rods. Full description

[WILLIAM IV, Prince of Orange]. Haga Comitis illustrata; of het verheelykt en verligt 's Gravenhage: bestaende in eene naeuwkeurige verzameling van ... afbeeldingen, der aldaer te zien en geillumineerd geweest zynde decoratien en zinnebeelden, benevens de verdere vreugde-bedryven en illuminatien, ter geleegenheid der allerheughelykste verkiezinge, proclamatie en installatie van ... Willem Carel Hendrik Friso.
The Hague, Anthoni de Groot and sons, 1751. With title-page printed in red and black with woodcut arms of William IV, first page of the dedication printed in red and black (including a woodcut initial printed in red) with a large engraved armorial headpiece, 2 engravings in text, each showing the front and back of a medallion, and 116 engraved illustrations on 16 leaves. Contemporary half calf. [4], 24 pp. Full description

[WILLIAM IV, Prince of Orange]. Haga Comitis illustrata; of het verheelykt en verligt 's Gravenhage: bestaende in eene naeuwkeurige verzameling van ... afbeeldingen, der aldaer te zien en geillumineerd geweest zynde decoratien en zinnebeelden, benevens de verdere vreugde-bedryven en illuminatien, ter geleegenheid der allerheughelykste verkiezinge, proclamatie en installatie van ... Willem Carel Hendrik Friso.
The Hague, Anthoni de Groot and sons, 1751. With title-page printed in red and black with woodcut arms of William IV, first page of the dedication printed in red and black (including a woodcut initial printed in red) with a large engraved armorial headpiece, 2 engravings in text, each showing the front and back of a medallion, and 116 engraved illustrations on 16 leaves.
With: (2) Nette afbeelding en ampele beschryving der eere-poorten, opgerecht by de blyde te rug komst van .... Willem Karel Hendrik Friso ... uyt Zeeland, en deszelfs intreede in 's Gravenhage, op den 6 juny 1747.
The Hague, heirs of Anthoni de Groot, 1766. Title-page with the woodcut arms of William IV, and 37 numbered illustrations on 10 engraved plates. 2 works in 1 volume. 1mo (49 x 38 cm). Contemporary boards, spine lined with cloth. [4], 24; [8] pp. Full description

WINSEMIUS, Pierius. Chronique ofte historische geschiedenisse van Vrieslant. Beginnende vanden jaere nae des Werelts scheppinghe 3635. ende loopende tot den jaere nae de gheboorte Christi.
Franeker, Jan Lamrinck, 1622. Folio. With an engraved allegorical title page, a large engraved coat of arms of the province of Friesland, a large folding engraved map of Friesland, 3 folding engraved plans. Further with (in the text) 49 half-page, full-length engraved portraits, 2 engraved costume plates, 2 plans of sieges, 1 view 6 seals and coats of arms of Friesland at the end. Also with many woodcut decorated initials and woodcut head- and tailpieces. All engraved and woodcut illustrations are beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [10], 913, [61] pp. Full description