History, Law & Philosophy

WALDORP, Jan Gerard. [Design for the frontispiece of Betje Wolff's Proeve over de opvoeding].
[Amsterdam, 1779]. Drawing in black ink with grey watercolour washes (14 x 9 cm) on laid paper, tipped onto a larger leaf (30 x 21.5 cm). Full description

[WEDDING ALBUM - THE NETHERLANDS - GERMANY]. Zur Erinnerung an die Hochzeits-feierlichkeiten von Ella de Ridder und August Janssen in Frankfurt a/M im August 1896.
(Colophon:) Amsterdam, Calligrafie und Druck von Johan. K. Koning, [1896]. Large folio (ca. 51 x 33 cm). Wedding album comprising five manuscript texts of occasional plays (4 in German, 1 in Dutch), written in a neat cursive in blank ink on thick laid paper, each illuminated with a 4-line decorated initial in red, blue and white on a gold/bronze field, richly decorated with penwork in black ink (extending down into the inner margin). Each text is preceded by a letterpress title leaf set in neo-Gothic type, also used for the general title, several text leaves, and the colophon. Further with 1 gouache illustration on grey paper (sheet size ca. 32 x 24.5 cm, mounted on the first leaf) showing a bouquet of flowers, 14 printed ephemera relating to the "Polterabend" (wedding-eve party) and the wedding on single or double leaves in various sizes (the wedding announcement/introduction to the wedding-eve party and attached is a photo of the couple in a circular frame of red wax, 5 menu cards, the lyrics to 6 German songs, a musical score by the German composer Wilhelm Aletter (1867-1934), and an announcement of the comic opera Des Teufels Antheil by the French composer Daniel Auber (1782-1871), performed by the Frankfurter Opernhaus on 25 August 1896 in Frankfurt am Main. Also with two manuscript wedding speeches in German, written in black ink on paper, two mounted albumen prints, the first showing two actors dressed as a Frisian farmer and his wife and the other showing a man in Chinese dress, 56 large ornamental vignettes printed in red or blue throughout, 17 ornamental tailpieces printed in black, blue, and red, and some dried flowers mounted on several leaves. Contemporary gold-tooled burgundy leather, the front board with a large gold-stamped monogram as a centrepiece (the intertwined initials of the couple: AJ and EdR) with the date ("24-26 August") above and the year ("1896") below lettered in gold, both boards show a single fillet frame along the outer edges, gold-tooled turn-ins, beige watered silk endleaves. [60] ll. Full description

WELLHAUSEN, Julius (Margaret Graham WEIR, translator). The Arab kingdom and its fall.
Calcutta, University of Calcutta (printed by Bhupendra Lal Banerji), 1927. 8vo. Modern cloth. XV, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 592, [1] pp. Full description

[WIC - BRAZIL - WILLIAM II PRINCE OF ORANGE - POLITICS]. I. [= Eerste] conferentie van eenige Nederlandtsche heeren. Op den tegenwoordigen staet deser landen.
Middelburg, Jan de Laet, 1650. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). 20th-century half vellum. [34] pp. Full description

[WIC - CONSIDERATIEN - SPAIN]. Consideratien ende redenen der e. heeren bewind-hebberen vande geoctrojeerde West-Indische Compagnie ... nopende de teghenwoordighe deliberatie over den treves met den koning van Hispanjen. Mitsgaders conscientieuse bedenckinghen op dese vraghe, of men in goeder consientie magh treves maecken met den coningh van Spangjen. ... Noch de remonstrantie van zijne koninglijke majest. van Bohemen, ...
Haarlem, Adriaen Roman, 1629. 4to. Modern red half leather. 32 pp. Full description

[WIC - COPYE]. Copye. van seker articulen beraemt inde vergaderinghe vande bewindthebberen, ende gecommitteerde der hooft-participanten vande West-Indische Compagnie, binnen Amsterdam.
[Amsterdam?], 1623. Small 4to. Sewn through 2 holes in a modern (ca. 1900?) reddish-brown paper wrapper. [8] pp. Full description

[WIC - DISCOURS]. Kort discours, ofte naardere verklaringe van de onderstaende V. poincten, 1 aengaende de verlichtinghe die desen staat heeft ghenooten door de oprechtinghe en oorloghen van de West-Indische Compagnie. ...
[The Netherlands], 1644. Small 4to (18.5 x 14 cm). Modern wrappers. [18] ll. Full description

[WIC - EXTRACT]. Extract eens briefs uyt Vlissingen, inhoudende een roef-praatje, t'scheep voor-gevallen tusschen Dort en Ter Vere.
The Hague, D.H. van Waalsdorp (= Antwerpen, H. Verdussen), 1650. 4to. Woodcut of printers device on title page
Contemporary brown paper wrappers. [2], 3-24 pp. Full description

WICHERS, Jan Gerhard. Publicatie. Wy Mr. Jan Gerhard Wichers. Generaal Majoor, in dienst van den Staat der Vereenigde Nederlanden, Gouverneur Generaal over de colonie Surinaame, rivieren en districten van dien mitsgaaders Collonel en Cheff der gezaamentlijke militie deezer landen, &c. &c. &c, en de raaden van politie en criminele justitie der voorz. colonie &c. &c.
[Paramaribo, W. H. Poppelmann, 1786]. Broadsheet (50.5 x 36 cm). With the woodcut coat of arms of the Society of Suriname at the head. [1] leaf. Full description

WICKEVOORT CROMMELIN, H.S.M. van. Een herlevend volk: schets van de Japanners en hun land.
Haarlem, H.D. Tjeenk Willink, 1895. 8vo. Original publisher's decorated green cloth. VIII, 206 pp. Full description