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Large paper copy on the history of Rotterdam in the late 15th-century,
beautifully bound by the Crescent Moon Bindery

ALKEMADE, Kornelis van. Rotterdamse heldendaden onder de stadvoogdy van den jongen heer Frans van Brederode, genaamt Jonker Fransen oorlog ...
Rotterdam, Philippus Losel, 1724. Large 8vo (ca. 20 x 11.5 cm). With a frontispiece (depicting Jonker Frans standing in armour on a pedestal) engraved by François van Bleyswijck, a woodcut vignette on the title page, a folding engraved plan of Rotterdam in 1488 (ca. 16 x 22 cm), and a few woodcut tail pieces. Contemporary richly gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a brown morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, a centrepiece and cornerpieces on both boards composed of several stamps including four running stags (Storm van Leeuwen, IIA, p. 450, stamps I, 1, 5-6), surrounded by an ornamental border with birds along the edges between double rules, gilt and gauffered edges. [36], 387 pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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One of the first Dutch humanists on the history of his country, with beautiful woodcuts by Jost Amman

BARLANDUS, Hadrianus. Hollandiae comitum historia et icones: Cum selectis scholijs ad lectoris lucem. Eiusdem Barlandi Caroli Burgundiae ducis vita. Item Ultraiectensium episcoporum catalogus & res gestae. Eiusdem argumenti libellus Gerardo Noviomago auctore.
Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wechel for Sigmund Feyerabend, 1585. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut portrait of Gertrude of Saxony (repeated on p. 25) on the title page, a woodcut printer's device of Feyerabend ('Fama') on the divisional title page of part 2, a variant of his printer's device on the verso of the last page, 37 half-page woodcut portraits (all except the first three with their coats-of-arms and small ornamental woodcuts underneath), several decorated woodcut initials, and head- and tail pieces.
With: IDEM. Traiectensium episcoporum catalogus et eorum res gestae. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum. [16], "393" [=391], [1 blank]; 109, [1], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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