Low Countries / Drawings, Prints & Watercolours

[UTRECHT]. PRONK, Cornelis. Gezigt op de Leidschevaart & Catrijnepoort te Utrecht.
[Utrecht, ca. 1730]. 23 x 29 cm. Washed pen and ink drawing on paper. Full description

PRONK, Cornelis & Jan de BEYER. Een en twintig gezigten in de provintie Utrecht, bevattende afbeeldingen van de voornaamste gebouwen, steden, markten, sloten &c. Naar het leven getekend.
[Amsterdam], 1779. Large folio. With an engraved title page, and 21 engraved views of the city and province of Utrecht, 6 double-page. Contemporary boards. Full description

[AMSTERDAM]. [RADEMAKER, Abraham?]. 't Huis Kostverlooren.
[Netherlands, ca. 1700]. A view in brown ink with light and dark grey watercolour washes on laid paper (16.5 x 21.5 cm), with a manuscript caption at the head. Mounted in passepartout. Full description

[GENEALOGY & HERALDRY - ROORDA FAMILY]. RODA, Dirk Daniels, and others. [Manuscript family chronicle of members of the Roda, Werdolen and Bos families].
[The Netherlands, mostly written between ca. 1747 and 1798 but incorporating several pages written in the second half of the 17th century and some writing from 1829]. Oblong 8vo (ca. 10.5 x 16 cm). Manuscript on paper, written in brown and black ink in several -, 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century hands. With a full-page unidentified coat-of-arms in brown ink and a page containing 6 smaller crests of branches of the Roorda family in black ink. 18th-century gold-tooled calf, gilt edges, green cloth ties. [1 blank], [5], [3 blank], [20], [1 blank], [1], [78 blank] ll. Full description

RUE, Louis Félix de la. Etat armorial de noblesse, chevalerie, & dignités accordés par S.M.I.R.A. depuis son avenement au Thrône jusqu' aujourd'hui dédié a monsieur de Wavrans ...
Brussels, 1775.
With: [Collection of hand-painted coats of arms of European noble families in the Southern Netherlands].
8vo. With an engraved title page and 16 engraved plates containing a total of 342 coats of arms (6 blank; mostly 20 or 24 to a page), together with a collection of 415 hand-drawn and painted coats of arms (6 to a page), vividly coloured and highlighted with gold and silver paint, with the names of the noble families captioned below in a neat 18th-century hand in brown ink. Later half calf, marbled paper sides, title in gold on spine, marbled endpapers, red edges. 45, [2], [1 blank]; [102] ll. including some blanks. Full description

SCHAEPKENS, Alexandre. Monuments de Maestricht, aquarelles lithochromes.
[Brussels, Simoneau & Toovey, 1857].
With: (2) SCHAEPKENS, Alexandre. Ancienne enceinte militaire de Maestricht démolie en 1867-1869.
[Maastricht? 1872].
(3) SCHAEPKENS, Alexandre. Oud Maestricht en buurt. 1ste serie. 2de serie.
[Brussels, 1887]. 3 works in 1 volume. Oblong folio. Ad 1 with 30 coloured lithographed plates; ad 2 with 12 coloured lithographed plates; ad 3 with 52 etched plates, all mounted to the leaves of the album. Contemporary half beige cloth, marbled paper sides. Full description

[VIEW - NETHERLANDS - LEIDEN]. SCHENK, Leonardus [and Abraham RADEMAKER]. Gesigt van de stadt Leyden beroemt door syn hooge schoole geleege in Holland op den verstopten Ryn. | Vue de la ville de Leide fameuse par son academie située en Hollande sur le Rhin bouché.
[Amsterdam], Leonardus Schenk, [ca. 1728/36]. Large engraved wall print on 2 sheets (together 57.5 x 97 cm) showing the Leiden city wall between the Koepoort and Zijlpoort, with various windmills and prominent buildings in the background identified by name. The title appears in a banderole at the head, with putti on either side holding the arms of Leiden and Holland. Leonardus Schenk's name appears as engraver and publisher at the right end of the banderole. Framed (82.5 x 121 cm). Full description

[VIEW - NETHERLANDS - LEIDEN]. SCHENK, Leonardus [and Abraham RADEMAKER]. Gesigt van de Visbrug, de Waag en Vismarkt, te sien naar de Hooglandsche kerk en Stadhuys tooren, tot Lyden. | Vüe du Visbrug, du Pois et Poissonerie, vers l'eglise de Hooglande et la tour de la Maison de Ville a Leide.
[Amsterdam], Leonardus Schenk, [ca. 1728/35]. Large engraved wall print on 2 sheets, (together 58 x 97 cm) the sheets overlapping each other slightly, showing the traditional business centre of the city of Leiden. The title, both in Dutch and French, is printed in a banderole at the head, with putti on each side supporting the arms of Leiden and Holland. Leonardus Schenk's name appears as engraver and publisher at the right tip of the banderole. In black passepartout and gilt frame (82 x 121 cm). Full description

SNOECK, Adriaan. Kaart van het kamp bij Zeist aanduidende de daar op bestaan hebbende kampementen.
[Netherlands, ca. 1828]. Manuscript plan in ink (56.5 x 67.5 cm) on paper. With the title in the upper left corner and the scale in ells, ca. 1:6000. Full description

SPECHT, Caspar. De Ridder-matige huysen en hofsteden in de Provincie van Utrecht. Geteekent en in 't licht gebracht door -
[Amsterdam, Joachim Ottens, between 1715 and 1730?]. Oblong 4to (ca. 21 x 31 cm). With the title page supplied in manuscript and 39 engraved views of towns and country houses in the Province of Utrecht. The plates are engraved by Joachim Ottens, J. van Vianen, and Caspar Specht, after designs by Caspar Specht, Roeland Roghman, J. van Vianen, and Broedelet. On most of the plates, however, Caspar Specht's name has been erased from the engraving. Contemporary marbled paper. Full description