History, Law & Philosophy

GRAPHEUS, Cornelius Scribonius, and Gilles COPPENS VAN DIEST (translator). De triumphe van Antwerpen. De seer wonderlijcke, schoone, triumphelijcke incompst, van den hooghmogenden prince Philips, prince van Spaignen ...
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Gillis Coppens van Diest for Pieter Coecke van Aelst, 1550. Folio. With 24 mainly full-page woodcut illustrations, 4 double-page woodcut illustrations, and 1 folding plate, a half-title within a woodcut ornamental frame, and a frame on the colophon leaf. With several woodcut initials throughout, including 1 coloured in red. 17th-century gold-tooled vellum, bound by Albert Magnus for the Dutch book collector Paulo van Uchelen, each board showing a gold-tooled double fillet frame with small floral cornerpieces surrounding a gold-tooled frame built up from 2 double fillets with crown cornerpieces on the outside corners of the inner frame. The title lettered in black on the spine, and with the number "315" written in brown ink at the head. Sewn on six supports, with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, red sprinkled edges. [56] ll. Full description

GREEVEN, Hendrik (artist) and Justin Vallou VALLON DE VILLENEUVE (lithographer). Collection des costumes des provinces septentrionales du Royaume des Pays-Bas | Verzameling der kleederdragten in de nordelijke provincien van het Koningrijk der Nederlanden.
Amsterdam, Frans Buffa and sons; Paris, Engelmann et cie. (printed by Thierry brothers). 1828[-1829]. With lithographed title-page, lithographed index and 20 numbered lithographed plates, all captioned in French and Dutch below and all richly and beautifully coloured by hand.
With: (2) [GREEVEN, Hendrik, Luigi CALAMATTA and others]. Souvenirs de la Hollande.
Amsterdam, Buffa brothers and co., 1838. With a hand-coloured engraving mounted on the title-page and 14 hand-coloured lithographed plates (7 of Dutch views and 7 of women's folk costumes). 2 works in 1 volume. Large 4to (32 x 24 cm). Contemporary boards with marbled sides. [24] ll. text in French and English. Full description

[AUTOGRAPH]. GROOT (GROTIUS), Hugo de. [Autograph letter, signed, to the President and councillors of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands].
[Netherlands], 1609. Letter on 2 half-sheets (31 x 20.5 cm). In Dutch. Full description

GROOT, Hugo de. Nederlandtsche jaerboeken en historien, sedert het jaer 1555 tot het jaer 1609; ...
Amsterdam, the widow of Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgangk and Hendrik & Dirk Boom, 1681. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 20 full-page engraved portraits, and 27 double-page plates, views, and plans, a title page printed in red and black, decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces.
Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with the manuscript author and title on the spine. [44], 591, [1 blank], [76]; 19, [1 blank]; [6], 74 pp. Full description

GUEVARA, Antonio de. T'gulden boeck, van het leven ende seynd brieven van den welsprekenden orateur ende keyser Marcus Aurelius.
Franeker, Rombertus Doyema, 1615. 8vo. With woodcut imperial coat of arms on title-page. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. 223, [2] ll. Full description

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania inferiore. Con tutte le carte di geographia del paese, & col ritratto al naturale di molte terre principali; rineduta di nuovo , & ampliata per tutto la terz a volta dal medesimo autore. Al gran're Cattolico don Filippo d'Austria. Con amplissimo indice di tutte le cose piu memorabili.
Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1588. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece of the Low Countries (Belgia), an engraved architectural title in its first state with printed text, an engraved plate with a border of the coat of arms of the 16 Provinces and that of Brabant together with the coat of arms of Philip II in the centre pasted in, an engraved plate with an allegorical depiction of the Arts and Sciences and an architectural border with the portrait of Philip II in the centre, a large woodcut coat of arms of Guicciardini, 64 double-page engraved maps and views, 6 full-page engraved maps and views, 4 single pages with on each 2 engraved maps, woodcut headpieces and initials.
Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, with an oval centrepiece on both boards within a decorative frame, gilt edges, remnants of ties. [24], 432, [18] pp. Full description

GUIOT. Catalogo de flores.
[Barcelona, Francisco Suria y Burgada, ca. 1775]. Small 8vo (14 x 9.5 cm). Later(?) decorated-paper wrappers. XX pp. Full description

GYSELAAR (GIJSELAAR), Johanna Maria Nicoletta de. Album amicorum.
Gorkum, Leiden, Warmond, Delft, Amsterdam, The Hague, Laarwoude, Zuidlaren and Assen, 1800-1805. 8vo (14.5 x 10 cm). Manuscript album amicorum on paper, with entries in Dutch, French and German. With 3 watercolours of flowers, a small watercolour of roses, and a fine washed pen drawing of a view on a lake with fishermen at work by the owner's niece, J.M. de Gyselaar. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spine and turn-ins, yellow silk endpapers. 192 pp. Full description

HANSWYK, Nicolaas Johannes van. Dissertatio juridica inauguralis de substitutione vulgari.
Leiden, Gerard Corts, 1764. 4to. With the title printed in red and black within an attractive engraved ornamental border by Noach van der Meer. Contemporary red velvet binding, blue silk endpapers. 35, [13], [2 blank] pp. Full description

[AUTOGRAPH]. HARLOFF, Anton Johan Wouter. [Autograph letter, signed ("A. Harloff"), to Horace Hugo Alexander van Gybland Oosterhoff].
The Hague, 6 May, 1933. Folded double leaf (21.6 x 14). In Dutch. 3 pp text. Full description