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Against stock jobbing, stock manipulating and other abuses
relating to the trade in shares (actiën) of the Dutch West and East India Companies

[VOC - WIC - SHARES FRAUD]. Relaes en contradictie op de motiven, om het koopen en verkoopen van Oost- en West-Indische actien, die niet getransporteert werden, ende optie partyen te beswaeren met eeen impost by de Heer Nicolaes Muys van Holy, advocaet tot Amsterdam, onwetende voorgestelt, en daer en boven getoont waer in waerlyyk Hollants intrest en welvaren bestaende is.
[Amsterdam or Rotterdam?, 1687]. 4to. Later decorated paper wrappers. 16 pp. Full description
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1621 charter granted to the Dutch West India Company (WIC) by the States General
second edition with important additions of 1622 and 1623

[WIC - CHARTER]. Octroy, by de Hooghe Mogende Heeren Staten Generael, verleent aende West-Indische Compagnie in date den derden Junii 1621. Mette ampliatien van dien, ende het accoort tusschen de bewint-hebberen ende hooft-participanten ...
The Hague, widow (Machteld Aelbrechtsdr. van Leuningen) and heirs of Hillebrant Jacobsz. van Wouw, printers to the States General, 1623. 4to. With a woodcut on the title-pagel. Half parchment (late 19th-century?). [32] pp. Full description
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The Stuart Restoration: Charles II's journey through the Netherlands to regain his Crown

[WICQUEFORT, Abraham de]. Verhael in forme van journael, van de reys ende 't vertoeven van den seer doorluchtige ende machtige prins Carel de II, Koning van Groot Britannien, &c. Welcke hy in Hollandt gedaen heeft, zedert den 25 Mey, tot den 2 Junij 1660.
The Hague, Adrian Vlack, 1660. Folio. With the engraved coat-of-arms of Charles II on the title page, an engraved folding portrait of Charles II, 6 double-page engraved plates, an engraved headpiece, and two decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 5 supports laced through the joints, modern green closing ties. [4], "124" [=126], [6] pp. Full description
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Model for the new mirror of Youth or the French tyranny

[WICQUEFORT, Abraham de]. Advis fidelle aux veritables Hollandois. Touchant ce qui s'est passé dans les villages de Bodegrave & Swammerdam, & les cruautés inoüies, que les François y ont exercées. Avec un memoire de la derniere marche de l'armée du Roy de France en Brabant & en Flandre.
[The Hague, Jan and Daniel Steucker], 1673. 4to. With 10 scenes on the horrors of war on 8 folding engraved plates (ca. 31 x 20 cm) by Romeyn de Hooghe. Contemporary vellum, with the gold-stamped and crowned initials "E.F.V.D" on the front board. [1, 1 blank], 202 pp. Full description
€ 6,500
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