Highlights

[BINDING VOC - MANUSCRIPT - FRENCH - VERNET, Jacob]. [Instruction chrétienne, ou catechisme familier; avec quelques prières a l'usage des petits enfans].
[The Netherlands?, ca. 1780?]. 4to (ca. 19 x 15 cm). Manuscript in French, written in black ink on paper, in a neat cursive script by one hand. With chapter divisions (numbered 39-75) and headings. The text is written upside down in relation to the binding. Most leaves show an identical watermark, depicting a lion rampant on a pedestal with "Vryheyt" in a crowned ring with "Pro Patria Eiusque Libertate" and the letters "CR" below, which is very close to Heawood 3149 (date: 1753). Late 18th-century gold-tooled brown mottled calf, sewn on 5 supports, bound by the so-called Acorn-and-Foliage Tool Bindery in Amsterdam (Storm van Leeuwen). Both boards show the large gold-tooled monogram of the Amsterdam chamber of the VOC as a centre piece sandwiched between the gold-tooled date "Anno 1780", all within a gold-tooled floral frame with floral corner pieces in the inside corners, spine gold-tooled in six compartments, red sprinkled edges. [28] ll. Full description

BLANCKE, Burchard. Das Grossgeflügel.
Berlin, Fritz Pfenningstorff. Verlag für Sport und Naturliebhaberei, [1908]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 36 coloured plates (including a movable model of a hatcher), 48 full-page and 2 double-page black and white plates, often in photomontage, and 384 illustrations and figures in text. Contemporary gold-tooled reddish-brown morocco, marbled endpapers. [8], 456; [8], 452 pp. Full description

BLEU, François le. Minnevlam, brandende in 't hert van Thyrsis, om de schoone Amaril.
Amsterdam, Baltes Boekholt, 1659. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved title page, a woodcut vignette on the letterpress title page, a half-page engraved emblem in the text, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [16], 415 pp. Full description

BOECKHOLT, Arnold van. Missive van de heer Arnold van Boeckholt. burgermeester der stadt Deventer. vervattende de naeckte ronde waerheyt van 't overgeven der selver stadt aen die dwinghlandy harer vyanden ...
Amsterdam, Baltus Boeckholt, [1673]. 4to. With 2 woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title lettered in brown ink. [4], 36, [4 blank] pp. Full description

BORMANN, Charles Guillaume. [Drop-title:] To Captain J.A. Dahlgren ... Sur le mémoire: "Nouveau système de shrapnells ... Notes sur le mémoire "Nouveau Système de Shrapnells de l'artillerie Néerlandaise".
[Liège, 1854]. 4to (21.9 x ca. 17.5 cm). Written in a neat 19th-century cursive in brown ink. Previously folded, with the envelope still present. 24 pp. and an envelope. Full description

BOR, Pieter Christiaenszoon. Nederlandsche oorloghen, beroerten, ende borgerlijcke oneenicheyden ...
Leiden, Govert Basson, Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1621-1634. 5 parts in 6 volumes. Folio (33.5 x 22 cm). With 5 engraved allegorical title pages, 39 double-page engraved plates, 41 full-page engraved portraits, a full-page map of the Seventeen Province, 158 half-page illustrations, 13 half-page portraits, 10 smaller portraits, and a woodcut illustration. An additional 19th-century portrait of the author is mounted on the final flyleaf. Uniform 17th-century (ca. 1680) vellum, a blind tooled centre-piece on each side, gold-tooled spines with two black leather title labels lettered in gold, red edges, green closing ties. [6], 350, 193; 126, 230, 48, 48, 60; [12], 73, 91, 120, 102; [6], 103, 118, 63, 63, 1, 33, [59]; [11], 56, 48, [2], 78, 90, [4], 126; [12], 100, 83, 69, 66, 69, [18] ll. Full description

BOR, Pieter Christiaenszoon. Oorsprongk, begin, en vervolgh der Nederlandsche oorlogen, beroerten, en borgerlyke oneenigheden ... in XXXVII boeken, en IV stukken verdeelt … voorts met een byvoeghsel van authentyke stukken en nieuwe registers vermeerdert.
Amsterdam, the widow of Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgangh, Hendrick and Dirck Boom, 1679-1684. 9 parts in 4 volumes (with the index "Algemeene blad-wyser" by Abraham van Poot published in 1684 in volume IV). Folio (ca. 39.5 x 23.5 cm). With 4 identical frontispieces, 5 identical woodcut publisher's marks, the title of volume I is printed in red and black, 4 identical portraits of the author, 36 full-page engraved portraits, and 40 double-page plates. Uniform contemporary blind-tooled vellum, both panelled boards with large blind-stamped ornament in the centre, ribbed spines with manuscript title in black ink, sprinkled edges, remnants of green ties. Volume I: [36], 1006, [2], [188]; volume II: [16], 1-232, 235-242, 241-672, 679-994, [128]; volume III: [16], 1-532, [6], 529-623, 626-627, 626-690, 693-[896], [28]; volume IV: [8], 1-419, 432-[512], 517-[692], [4], 14, 16, [184] pp. Full description

BOUCHENROEDER, Baron Friedrich von. Reize in de binnenlanden van Zuid-Afrika. Gedaan in den jare 1803.
Amsterdam, Mortier Covens en zoon; The Hague, B. Besanger, 1806. 8vo. With a large folding engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, and two folding tables showing (1) the fertility of various regions and (2) the products that could be exported following improvements in the cultivation of various crops. Contemporary marbled boards. [4], 231, [13] pp. Full description

BREDERO, Gerbrand Adriaensz. Alle de wercken. So spelen, gedichten, brieven en kluchten van den gheest-rijcken poëet. Verbetert en daer by ghevoeght eenighe die noyt voor desen ghedruckt zijn gheweest.
Comprising:
(1) Treur-Spel van Roddrick ende Alphonsus.
(2) Griane. Op syn Spreuck het kan verkeeren.
(3) Lucelle.
(4) Moortje.
(5) Spaanschen Brabander Ierolimo.
(6) Stommen ridder.
(7) Angeniet.
(8) Schyn-Heylich.
(9) Spel, op 't oud liedt Het daget uyt den Oosten, op de reghel, Die quaet doet, quaet ontmoet.
(10) Nederduytsche poëmata.
(11) Kluchten als Vande koe.
(12) Klucht, van Symen sonder soetigheydt.
(13) Klucht van den molenaer.
(14) Klucht vanden Hoogduytschen quacksalver.
Amsterdam, Cornelis Lodewijckz. van den Plasse, 1638. 14 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved portrait of the author on the general title page, an engraved allegorical frontispiece by Jan van de Velde, an almost full-page engraved portrait of the author by Hessel Gerrits, a woodcut vignette on the divisional title of each part. Further with decorated woodcut initials and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum [ca. 800 pp.] Full description

BREHMER, Johanna. Calendrier des fleurs. Douze planches en couleurs representant les douze mois de l'année. Aquarelles par Johanna Brehmer. Edition diamant.
Paris, A. Levy, 1882. 8vo. With 12 chromolithographs in passe-partouts. Contemporary gold-tooled half blue morocco and marbled paper sides, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. [14] ll. Full description