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The Schenckenschans fortress captured by Spanish mercenaries, illustrated,
and described from the Spanish perspective

[SCHENCKENSCHANS FORTRESS]. Breve y verdadera, descripcion, del ynexpugnable fuerte Schencken como por yndustria de la gente de su magestad catolica se gano en 28 de julio anno 1635 annos ...
Madrid, printed for the widow of Juan Gonçalez, 1635. Broadsheet (ca. 40 x 26 cm). With a large engraving in the top half of the sheet (20 x 22.1 cm). Full description
€ 4,500
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Beautifully illustrated early German account of Schoutens discovery of the Cape Hoorn route to the Pacific with 3 nautical charts and 7 views, all in South America

SCHOUTEN, Willem Cornelisz. Historische Beschreibung, der wunderbarlichen Reyse, welche von einem Holländer, Willhelm Schouten genandt, neulicher Zeit ist verrichtet worden: ...
Frankfurt am Main, Paul Jacobi for Johann Theodor de Bry in Oppenheim, 1619. Folio. With 2 title-pages, the main one with an engraving showing Magellan and Schouten sitting across from each other with an armillary sphere between them. Loose quires and leaves. [1], 35, [20] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
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Important contemporary account of the Second Anglo-Dutch War,
with additional plates and an early mention of New York

[SECOND ANGLO-DUTCH WAR]. Kort en bondigh verhael, van t geene in den oorlogh, tusschen den Koningh van Engelant &c. de h: m: heeren staten der vrye Vereenigde Nederlanden, en den Bisschop van Munster is voorgevallen. Beginnende in den jare 1664 en eyndigende met het sluyten van de Vrede tot Breda, in t jaer 1667 ...
Amsterdam, printed for Marcus Willemsz. Doornick, 1667.
With: [DUTCH REPUBLIC - STATES GENERAL]. Articulen van vrede ende verbondt, tusschen den ... heere Karel, de tweede ... Koningh van Groot Britannien ... ende de hoogh mogende heeren Staten Generael der Vereenighde Nederlantsche Provintien ...
The Hague, Hillebrant van Wouw, 1667. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a half-page engraving on the title page, a folding engraved map, a folding engraved plate, 9 half-page engravings in the text, and 2 additional large folding engraved plates in ad 1; ad 2 with a woodcut vignette on the title page. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine. 255, [1]; [24] pp. Full description
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The battle on VOC millions, retrieved by the Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter

[SECOND ANGLO-DUTCH WAR - BATTLE OF VÅGEN - VOC]. Zee-Journael, ofte autentijcq verhael, uyt d'annotatien vande heeren haer hooghmogende volmachtighde inde vloot, der doorluchtighste Geunieerde Republijcque, en andere schriften, aengaende al het gepasseerde, 't zedert 't vertreck vande vloot uyt Spanjaerts-Gat naer de Noort, tot het weder-keeren voor Goeree, met alle voorvallen in zee, ontmoetingen, gevecht in Noorwegen, tempeesten, en wat in 't generael, ende wat in 't particulier voorgevallen, en geschiet is van den 13. Juni tot den 6. Octob. 1665.
Amsterdam, Jacob Venckel, 1665. 4to. Modern marbled boards. [2], 69 pp. Full description
€ 2,950
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Rare German translation of Speelman's expedition against the Kingdom of Makassar

[SPEELMAN, Cornelis Janszoon]. Journal, oder kurtze Erzehlung des Anfangs, Fort- und Aussgangs des Krieges, welcher zwischen dem König und mehrerer Regierunge des Reichs Macassar und der Oost-Indischen Compagnie der Vereinigten Niederlanden in den Jahren 1666, 1668 und 1669 geführet worden.
Hamburg, Gottfried Schulken, 1670. 4to. Disbound, preserving the original endpapers. [18] ll. Full description
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A prosecutors enquiry into the traumatic 1796 Dutch capitulation
at Saldanha Bay near the Cape of Good Hope

SPOORS, Jakob. Rapport van Jakob Spoors, als fiscaal van den Hoogen Zee-krygsraad, omtrend het gedrag van den capitein Engelbertus Lucas en verdere commandanten der schepen behoord hebbende tot het esquader in den jaare 1796. Naar de Oost-Indien gedestineerd; benevens de resolutie en sententie ten deze door den Hoogen Zee Krygsraad genomen en geslagen.
The Hague, 's Lands-Drukkery, 1798. 8vo. With the woodcut great seal of the Batavian Republic - the French-dominated republican government of the Netherlands from 1795 to 1806 - on the title-page (an allegorical female figure representing Freedom, with spear and freedom hat and with her hand on a book on a stand, next to the Dutch lion holding a Dutch flag). Modern blue cloth, title in gold on spine, new endpapers. [2], 151, [1] pp. Full description
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Rare eye-witness account of the siege of Haarlem in 1573

[STERLINCX, Pierre]. Een corte waerachtighe beschrijvinghe, van alle gheschiedenissen, aenslaghen, stormen, schermutsingen, ende schieten voor de vrome stadt Haerlem in Hollandt gheschiet. Midtsgaders hoe, ende met wat conditien de selve den al ghemeynen Viant Ducque dAlbe overghelevert is, oock hoe hy met den soldaten, ende burgheren ghehandelt heeft, ende dat tot den 12 Septembris anno 1573.
Delft, [printed by Aelbrecht Hendricksz and the widow of Herman Schinkel (the Schinkel-Hendricksz press)], 1574. 4to. With the oval woodcut printers device on the title page. Later (18th-century) half vellum. [51], [1 blank] pp. Full description
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First French editions on Dutch military hydraulic engineering and the layout of army camps

STEVIN, Simon. La castrametation, ...
Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberge, 1618.
With: (2) STEVIN, Simon. Nouvelle maniere de fortification par escluses. ...
Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberge, 1618. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. With more than 50 woodcut illustrations in the text (many full-page or nearly full-page). Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [4 of 8], 54, [2 blank]; [4], 61, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,250
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A richly illustrated account of the Dutch War of Independence

STRADA, Famiano. De bello Belgico decas prima.
(Colophon:) Rome, Francisci Corboletti, 1632)
With: STRADA, Famiano. De bello Belgico decas secunda.
(Colophon:) Rome, Francisci Corboletti, 1647. 2 volumes. Folio. With an engraved title page with the Leo Belgicus in both volumes and 30 engraved plates showing battles and sieges (28 double-page, 2 full-page). 19th-century gold-tooled sheepskin parchment with tan morocco title and volume labels on the spine, lettered in gold, red edges. [12], 374, [88], [2 blank]; [12], 480, [56] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
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