History, Law & Philosophy

[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 - LEGAL]. [Four Dutch legal manuscripts on parchment].
1638-1724. All various sizes. The fourth document with contemporary paper wrappers, sewn through one hole, all but the third document are folded, and all are housed together in a white paper folder. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - EAST ASIA - LAGRENÉ MISSION]. [Ship's log of the "Archimède"].
At sea between Macao and Calcutta, 1846. 2 volumes. Folio (ca. 32 x 22 cm). With two pencil sketches on pp. 58 and 59. Contemporary blue cloth, blue sprinkled edges, pink paste paper endpapers. 65, [40 blank]; 76-106 [=30], [100 blank], [1], [2 blank], [2], [10 blank] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - FRENCH EAST INDIA COMPANY]. Death certificate of a former employee of the French East India Company.
Puducherry (Pondichéry), 2 November 1786. Folio. [2] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - Lucas WALKIER (subject)]. [The official graduation diploma awarded to Lucas Walkier on the occasion of obtaining the doctorate in medicine at the University of Padua on 22 February 1662]
Padua, 22 February 1662. Ad 1: ca. 24.5 x 19 cm.; ad 2: 12.6 x 20 cm.; ad 3: 47 x 45.5 cm.; ad 4: 46 x 29.3 cm. Ad 1: with the beautifully hand-coloured painted oval portrait of Lucas Walkier in a laurel wreath, facing his coat of arms, both within a hand-coloured and heightened with gold floral border. This is followed by the neatly calligraphed text in dark brown ink and highlighted in gold, written within frames of double gold lines. All written and drawn on vellum. Ad 2: a hand-coloured and hand-drawn coat of arms, captioned below in manuscript: Walkier. Ad 3: a broadsheet (folded, printed text within ornamental woodcut border: 30 x 45.5 cm) with the blind-stamped seal of the "Natio Germanica" in Padua, and 4 engraved coats of arms (ca. 7 x 6.5 cm) printed in the four corners. Ad 4: printed on blue silk, within a floral border of 4 blocks, and crowned. With:
(2) [Leaf with the hand-coloured and -drawn coat of arms of Walkier].
(3) [Application form for the "Natio Germanica" at the University of Padua, and admission to the doctoral degree, under the auspices of the Collegium Venetum, (drop-title:) Ex voluntate, et decreto Serenissimi Principis excelsique Senatus Veneti ...].
(4) BÉRIGARDUS, Nicolaus. Augurium Apollinis in auspicatissimam Phil. & Med. Laur. Nobilissimi, & Excellentissimi Domini Lucae Walckier Nob. Lugdunensis Batavi.
Padua, Giovanni Battista Pasquati, 1662.
In a magnificent contemporary gold-tooled vellum over boards, in a so-called Italian fan design, remnants of ties (the silk ties are kept loose in behind the final leaf of ad 1). [4]; [1]; [1]; [1] ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - GERMAN - SWEDISH POLICIES]. Relation. Von dem gegenwartigen Zustande des Konigreichs Schweden.
With: [MANUSCRIPT - FRENCH]. Journal de LAmbassade envoyée de la part de S. M.té le Roy de Suède vers le Grand Duc de Moscovie lan 1684, dressé par un des Gentils-hommes de la Suite.
1684-1688. Folio (ca. 30 x 20 cm). The German part is neatly written in a Kurrent script, and the French part in a cursive hand. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, sewn on 7 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the initials "M.F.K" in the centre of the front board, red and black sprinkled edges, green closing ties. 167 ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT LETTER - VOC - CEYLON]. [Mattheus SCHENKENBERG]. [Contemporary copy of a letter dated 3 January 1699 from Mattheus Schenkenberg to his uncle Harmen van Soelen].
[Jaffanapatnam, Ceylon, 3 January 1699]. Folio (33 x 21 cm). The Dutch letter is written in a neat late 17th-century cursive hand in brown ink. Folded and kept together by an orange, white and blue piece of string in the left margin (1.5 cm from the edge of the leaves, in the middle). [5], [3 blank] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - PHARMACOLOGY]. [Medicinal recipes for sexual ailments].
[Germany?, ca. 1857]. Small 8vo (17 x 11 cm). Manuscript in Latin and German. Contemporary half tan cloth. 33, [35], [32 blank] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - PRIVATE DEVOTION - MÖHLMAN, Geertruy]. Möchte meiner Seuftzer schallen, möchte das Vergnügte wallen...
[Germany], 1746. 8vo (ca. 16.7 x 9.4 cm). With a colourful hand-drawn title page. Contemporary gold-tooled brown calf. [33] ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - SIGNATURES - THE NETHERLANDS]. Handteekeningen van I. Gecommiteerde Raden van de Staten van Holland... II. Vorsten, staatsmannen, krijgsbevelhebbers, geleerden enz. ...
[The Netherlands, early 19th century]. Large 4to. With 162 signatures on 160 vellum or paper cuttings (mostly vellum, including 2 cuttings with 2 signatures each), mostly from the 17th century, some from the 18th century and a few from the early 19th century. Further with one large printed coat of arms (of the Wassenaer family) on the verso of the title page, an engraving (ca. 9.5 x 7 cm) showing the house of Jacob Cats on the verso of leaf 34, and with 19 printed coats of arms on the versos of several leaves (16 depicting a coat of arms with the name of the family below and 3 blank shields). The title-page, headings, and captions all in a very neat late-18th-century or early 19th-century cursive script, written in Dutch using brown ink. Splendid late 18th-century (ca. 1790) gold-tooled red morocco, sewn on 4 supports with a smooth spine, bound by the so-called Second Dissertation Bindery (Leiden ca. 1780-ca. 1794; Storm van Leeuwen IIA, pp. 350-358), with 4 closing loops on the front board (1 top edge, 2 fore-edge, 1 bottom edge) connecting to 4 closing knotted buttons on the back board. Both boards show 3 gold-tooled floral frames built up from 2 different rolls with small corner pieces in between, the inner frame with 4 larger floral corner pieces and a large lozenge shaped centrepiece built up from multiple impressions of 5 different floral and animal stamps. Further with a gold-tooled spine and board edges, gilt edges, and marbled endpapers. [1], 40 ll. Full description