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Rare illustrated history of the Disastrous Year with the complete series of etchings by Isaac Sorious

[DOMSELAAR, Tobias van]. Het ontroerde Nederlandt, door de wapenen des konings van Vrankryk ...
Amsterdam, Markus Willemsz. Doornik, 1674.
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(2) [DOMSELAAR, Tobias van]. Het tweede deel, van't Ontroerde Nederlandt, door de wapenen des konings van Vrankryk.
Amsterdam, Markus Willemsz. Doornik, 1676.
(3) V. T. V. [= Geeraert BRANDT DE JONGE]. Tweejaerige Geschiedenissen, voorgevallen in de Jaeren 1674 en 1675 ...
Amsterdam, Johannes van Someren, Abraham Wolgangh, and Hendrik and Dirk Boom, 1678. 3 parts in 3 volumes. 4to. Vol. 1 with an engraved frontispiece, 6 engraved folding plates, 1 folding map, 1 full-page coat of arms, and 15 full-page portraits; vol. 2 with an engraved frontispiece, 13 folding etchings, and 7 full-page engraved plates; vol. 3 with an engraved frontispiece, and 8 full-page engraved portraits. Slightly later gold-tooled sprinkled calf. [6], 528, [20]; [6], 822, [10]; [6], 816, [16] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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The universal art of fortification

[DUBREUIL, Jean], Sieur de Bitainvieu. L'art universel des fortifications, Francoises, Holandoises, Espagnoles, Italiennes, et composées. Avec l'art d'attaquer les places fortifiées par les surprises & par la force, & aussi de défendre les places fortifiées contre les surprises & contre la force, par le Sieur de Bitainvieu.
Paris, Jacques Dubrueil, 1674 [=1667]. 6 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With engraved general frontispiece by Jean Le Pautre (1618-1682), 6 engraved frontispieces for the 6 parts, the first 4 by Jean Le Paultre and the last 2 by Noel Cochin (1622-1695) after Ferrand, and many illustrations of military perspective, plans of fortifications, instruments of attack and defence of fortifications, etc. on 125 full-page engraved plates in the text, several plates in part V signed by R. Coquin. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, with title in gold in second compartment, marbled edges. [36], 2; 133 (with the text and the corresponding plate numbered the same); 117, [3] pp. Full description
€ 3,800
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Naval convoys for merchant ships; import and export taxes on 430 goods, under the short-lived British governorship of the Netherlands

DUDLEY, Robert, Earl of Leicester. Placcaet op tstuck vande convoyen (mitsgaders licenten, ...) ghedaen ... by zyne Excellentie, tot Utrecht den laetsten Aprilis, anno. M. D. LXXXVI.
Utrecht, widow of Coenraet Henricksz, 1586.
With: (2) DUDLEY, Robert, Earl of Leicester. [Incipit:] ¶ Robert, Grave van Leycester ..., allen ... die deze ... sullen sien oft hooren lesen saluyt. Alsoo ...: so ist dat wy ... goet ... geacht hebben, alle de ... lysten vanden goedere[n] gaende naer ... vreemde lande[n], ..., te redigeren en[de] dresseren in ee[n] sijste[! = lijste], ....
(Colophon: Utrecht, printed by Hendrick van Borculo, [1586]). 2 works sewn together. 4to. Disbound. [8]; [17], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 750
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A remarkable collection of documents forming a unique and valuable primary source
for the history of the VOC and the Dutch East Indies

[DUTCH EAST INDIES - VOC]. [Collection of 17 sets of manuscript documents and 1 printed memorandum on various subjects relating to the VOC].
Ca. 1653-1833. Mostly in folio (ca. 33 x 21 mm). Kept in a modern red portfolio with black cloth ties. Ca. 120 ll. Full description
€ 5,000
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Extremely rare pamphlet on 1634 preparations for the 1637 siege of Breda

[DUTCH HISTORY - SIEGE OF BREDA]. l'Ordre du siege de la ville de Breda, contre les forces Espagnolles: par monsieur le Prince d'Orange General de l'armee Hollandoise. Suivant l'arrest qui en a esté faict au camp de Son Altesse, le dixiesme de Septembre 1634.
Lyon, Claude de Villiers, [1634?]. Small 8vo. Woodcut ornament on title-page, woodcut headpiece and initial. Disbound. 14 pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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Contemporary Dutch manuscript translation of 1607 letter from the King of Siam to the Prince of Orange

EKATHOTSAROT, King of Ayutthaya (Siam/Thailand). Translaet van eenen brieff geschreven in gout ende bij den Coninck van Syam gesonden aen Sijn Excellentie Mauritio de Nassau.
[The Hague?, ca. 1608]. Folio (34 x 21 cm). Dutch manuscript translation, written in brown ink on paper in a slightly sloped Dutch gothic cursive hand (35 lines with text area 21 x 17.5 cm, plus 2-line drop-title), very neatly written, of a 1607 letter from Ekathatsarot, King of Ayutthaya (Siam/Thailand) to Maurits of Nassau, Prince of Orange (received in 1608), distributed as a manuscript tidings. [1] leaf. Full description
€ 28,000
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Rare text of the defensive alliance between England and the Dutch Republic, just before the official Peace of Nijmegen in August 1678

[ENGLAND & DUTCH REPUBLIC - TREATY]. Traitté dalliance defensive, entre lAngleterre et les Estats Generaux, conclu le 3. Mars 1678.
Cologne [recté: Amsterdam?], "Pierre Marteau", 1680. 4to. With the woodcut English royal arms on the title-page. 19th-century brown paper wrappers. [8] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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From the library of Napoleon and his wife Joséphine at Malmaison

ESPAGNAC, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph de Sahuguet d'Amarzit d'. Relation de la campagne en Brabant et en Flandres, de l'an M.DCC.XLVI.
The Hague, sold by Pieter van Os, 1761. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 4 large folding leaves with the dispositions of the French troops, and 2 folding maps of battle fields, engraved by Kryt. Late 18th- or early 19th-century gold-tooled sprinkled calf. 161, [1] pp. Full description
€ 15,000
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Rare fortification handbook for the common man

EYLEND, Martin. Modus artis fortificatoriae Belgicus, Niederländisch Festung bawen, ..., zum andern mal in Druck gegeben, an vielen Orten corrigirt, vermehrt und verbessert.
Dresden, Wolfgang Seyffert, 1630. 4to. With about 60 woodcut illustrations in the text. 20th-century half parchment, with marbled paper covering most of the spine. [4], 100 pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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Spanish artillery manual for the Low Countries, with 9 folding plates

FERNÁNDEZ DE MEDRANO, Sebastián. El perfecto artificial, bombardero y artillero, que contiene los artificios de fuegos marciales, nuevo uso de bombas, granadas, y practica de la artilleria, y mosquete, &c.
Brussels, Lambert Marcht, 1699. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece and 9 numbered folding engraved plates. Contemporary vellum with a later black spine label lettered in gold, red edges. [1], [1 blank], [1], [2 blank], [13], “66” [= 196], [4] pp. Full description
€ 2,800
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