Low Countries / Maritime & Military History

[LIST of MEDICAL SUPPLIES - VOC - BROADSIDE]. Lijst van de medicamenten.
Middelburg, Pieter Gillissen, [in or after 1771]. Ca. 57.5 x 46 cm. The work is housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [1] l. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH]. Resolutien van den Raad van Staaten nopens Sterckten van Staats Vlaenderen en de Schelde.
[Low Countries], 1747. 4to. Manuscript on paper, written in two neat hands, partly in French.Mid-19th-century half red sheepskin, marbled paper sides. 46, 121, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH - VOC - HEALTH]. Ziekten aan boord der uitvarende schepen naar Indië 1774-1783.
1774-1783. Folio. Loosely inserted in contemporary wrappers with the manuscript title on the front. The work is kept in a brown cloth folder, with a red morocco title label on the front, lettered in gold. [5] ll. Full description

[MAP - MILITARY - LOW COUNTRIES - KORBEEK]. Plan du campement de l'armée des alliees campée a Corbay depuis le 19 Juin au 7 Juliet l'an 1696.
[Belgium?, ca. 1696]. Manuscript plan on paper (38 x 48 cm) in ink and bright watercolour. With the title in a wreath at the head, a large panel at the foot with keys identifying the camps of the various troops, and two smaller panels at the head, with keys to the villages and other locations, and a general overview map. Full description

[MARITIME HISTORY - PIRACY - BATTLE OF TEXEL]. Sententien van den hoogen scheeps-krijghs-raede, jegens de capiteynen Govert vander Weppelen, Simon Holthuysen, Anthony vander Lith en Cornelis vander Hoeven. Gepronuncieert den vierden Mey, 1695.
The Hague, Paulus Scheltus, 1695. 4to. With woodcut vignette and woodcut initials. Modern grey and purple marbled paper wrappers. 14, [2 blank] pp. Full description

MAROLOIS, Samuel. Geometrie, contenant la theorie, et practicque dicelle necessaire a la fortification.
The Hague and Arnhem, Henricus Hondius and Jan Janz., 1616. Oblong 1mo (ca. 30 x 39 cm). With an engraved title-page and 47 numbered full-page engraved plates, with a few decorated initials and ornamental head-pieces, and with geometric formulas in the text. Late 17th- or early 18th-century(?) gold-tooled vellum, remnants of closing ties, gilt edges. [1], [1 blank], [92] pp. and 47 engraved plates. Full description

[MARTIME LAW]. Boek der zee-rechten.
Amsterdam, Gerrit van Goedesbergh, 1665 [with the index of the 1663 edition].
With:
(2) Extract uyt het register van de willekeuren der stadt Amsterdamme ....Amsterdam, Gerrit van Goedesberg, 1662.(3) Quintyn WEYTSEN. Een tractaet van Avarien ... The Hague, Jasper Doll, 1651 (colophon: Leyden, Philips de Croy, 1651).(4) Taco van GLINS. Aenmerckingen ende bedenckingen over de Zee-rechten, uyt het Placcaet van Koninck Philips uytgegeven den letsten Octobris 1563 ...
Amsterdam, Joost Pluymer, 1665.
4to. All titles with woodcut title-vignettes and some with woodcut head- and tailpieces or woodcut initials. All titles are interleaved. Contemporary vellum over boards. [8]; 144; [8]; 23; [12], 139 pp. with some blank leaves between the different ordinances. Full description

[MELON, Steven]. Attestatie, hoe sich den vice-admirael Isaac Sweers gequeten heeft in de Zee-slag op den 14. Juny, 1673.
Amsterdam, Hieronymus Sweerts, 1673. 4to. 19th-century wrappers. [8] pp. Full description

MENDOÇA, Bernardino de. Comentarios de lo sucedido en las guerras de los Payses Baxos, desde el año de 1567 hasta el de 1577.
Madrid, Pedro Madrigal, 1592. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, 5 half-page engraved plates in the text including a map of East Friesland with Emden, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary black-tooled mottled calf. [8], 336, [12] ll. Full description

METEREN, Emanuel van. Historia Belgica nostri potissimum temporis Belgii sub quatuor Burgundis & totidem Austriacis principibus coniunctionem & gubernationem breviter. Turbas autem, bella et mutationes tempore regis Philippi, Carli V. Caesaris filii, ad annum usque 1598. plenius complectens, conscripta.
[Cologne, A. Mylius, 1598]. Folio. With letterpress title-page in engraved border with scenes of trade and war (Verduyn, pl. XIV), additional engraved medallion portrait of the author mounted on blank back of title-page, by Hendrik Hondius the Elder, double-page engraved map of the Netherlands, by Frans Hogenberg and 22 engraved portraits on 19 plates. Contemporary vellum. [8], "623" [= 643], [1] pp. Full description