History, Law & Philosophy / History

DANCKAERT, Jan. Beschryvinge van Moscovien ofte Ruslant: gestelt in twee deelen.
Amsterdam, Broer Jansz., 1615. Small 4to (17.5 x 13.5 cm). With the title in a border built up from 4 woodcuts, 2 woodcut initials and a wood-cut head- and tailpiece. 19th-century half sheepskin. 75, [1 blank] pp. Full description

DAPPER, Olfert. Historische beschryving der stadt Amsterdam: waer in de voornaemste geschiedenissen … die … hier ter stede voor-gevallen zijn, verhandelt, en al de … gebouwen, in meer als tzeventigh kopere platen … vertoont worden ...
Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1663. Folio (ca. 30.5 x 20 cm). With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, a full-page engraved coat-of-arms of the Witsen family and a loosely inserted extra engraving of the same coat-of-arms, 72 double-page (of which 4 somewhat larger and folded, including the well-known profile view of Amsterdam seen from the IJ, and 3 bird's-eye plans from 1482, 1613, and the plan published by Dapper for this 1663 edition) maps, plans and views of Amsterdam buildings and churches after the drawings of Jan Veenhuysen, and 1 half-page engraving in the text. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [12], 48, [8], 49-152, 145-152, 145-456, 449-456, 449-456, 449-552, [84] pp. Full description

DECKER, Jeremias de. Lof der geldsucht, ofte vervolg der rijm-oeffeningen. Verdeelt in twee boecken. Behelsende gedichten van verscheydene stoffe.
Amsterdam, Widow of Marten Jansz. Brandt, Abraham vanden Burgh (colophon: Pieter Dirksz Boeteman), 1667. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With 51 decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum. [16], 128, [4], 108 pp. Full description

DEFRÉMERY, Charles and others. [Collection of 11 French offprints and extracts on the Islamic world].
[Paris (1 Leipzig), 1831-1859]. 11 items in 1 volume. 8vo. With many passages in Arabic. Contemporary half vellum. Full description

DIGEON, J.M. Nouveau contes Turcs et Arabes. Précédés d'un abrégé chronologique de l'histoire de la maison Ottomane & du gouvernement de l'Egypte, & suivis de plusieurs morceaux de poésie & de prose, traduits de l'Arabe & du Turc.
Paris, Dupuis, 1781. 2 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled spines, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins. VIII, 347 [1 blank]; [2], 278, [4] pp. Full description

DISDÉRI, André. [Collection of 12 photographs of Paris and surroundings just after the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)].
[Paris], André Disdéri, 1871. Seven albumen prints by Disdéri (measuring 10/20 x 29 cm), mounted on blue stiff paper leaves, with a caption in pencil in the lower left corner; three albumen prints, each mounted on a white stiff paper leaf, including one by A. Serrault with printed text underneath; and two small portraits of carte de visite format (89 x 54 mm), probably by Disdéri, mounted together on one stiff paper leaf. Full description

DJURDJEVIC, Bartol (Bartholomeus GEORGIEVITZ) Voiage de la saincte cite de Hierusalem. Jointe la description des citez, villes, ports, lieux, & autres passages. Ensemble les ceremonies des Turcs ...
Liège, printed by Leonard Streel for Lambert de la Coste, 1600. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. 18th-century calf, gold-tooled spine. [32], [32] lvs. Full description

DOZY, Reinhart. Het Islamisme. Tweede, herziene druk.
Haarlem, H.D. Tjeenk Willink, 1880. With 13 lithographed plates. Original publisher's gold- and blind-blocked cloth. viii, 357, [3 blank] pp. Full description

DU BOIS, Johann Peter Isaak. Vies des gouverneurs généraux, avec l'abrégé de l'histoire des etablissements hollandois aux Indes Orientales; ...
Including: IMHOFF, G.W. van. Considerations sur l'etat present de la compagnie hollandoise des Indes Orientales.
The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1763. Royal 4to (27.5 x 22.5 cm). With 34 engraved plates, 1 engraved allegorical headpiece and 28 numbered headpieces with portraits of the Gouvernors-General of the Dutch East Indies. All plates were drawn and presumably engraved by the artist and engraver Jacob van Schley (1715-1729). 19th-century half cloth. VI, 351, [1], 48 pp. Full description

[DU BOIS, Nicolas (attributed)]. Jansenismus omnem destruens religionem.
Cologne, Johann Wilhelm Friessem junior, 1693.
With: (2) [DU BOIS, Nicolas (attributed)]. Jansenismus plurimas haereses et errores damnatos pertinaciter defendens.
Cologne, Johann Wilhelm Friessem junior, 1693.
(3) [DU BOIS, Nicolas (attributed)]. Jansenismus in multis exotice rigidus.
Cologne, Johann Wilhelm Friessem junior, 1693. 3 broadsides. Ad 1: ca. 96 x 75 cm; ad 2 and 3: ca. 136 x 76.5 cm. Each broadside is printed on 2 sheets, divided in 8 (ad 1) or 12 (ads 2 and 3) columns, and includes 2 decorated woodcut initials, and an ornamental border between the columns. Full description