History, Law & Philosophy / Law & Politics

HOBBES, Thomas and Abraham van BERKEL (translator). Leviathan: of van de stoffe, gedaente, ende magt van de kerkelycke ende wereltlycke regeeringe.
Amsterdam, Jacobus Wagenaar, "1667" [= 1672 (engraved title page)]. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a woodcut vignette on the title page, an engraved portrait of Thomas Hobbes, and a folding table on the classification of sciences. 18th-century sprinkled paper over contemporary gold-tooled calf. [16], 744, [64] pp. Full description

HOGENDORP, Dirk van. [Autograph letter by Dirk van Hogendorp to the Amsterdam solicitor J. de Vries jr.].
[Amsterdam], 12 July 1833. 8vo (ca. 19,5 x 22,7 cm). Text within a black border, which does not continue along the lower edge of the sheet. [4] pp. Full description

HONDIUS, Hendrick (I). [Tweede basuyne. en t boosdoens heylige wraeck-spiegel ...].
[Netherlands, Hendrick Hondius (I), 1623]. Broadside (51 x 26.5 cm). Two separate leaves, one with the engraving (plate size 14 x 17.5 cm) and the other with letterpress verses (37 x 26.5 cm), originally assembled to form a single broadside. The leaf with the engraving lacking the letterpress heading with the title and the letterpress psalm in 2 columns that flanked the engraving. Mounted on a paper support. With a second copy of the text leaf loosely inserted. Full description

HÖNN, Georg Paul. Betrugslexicon, worinnen die meisten Betrügereyen in allen Ständen, nebst denen darwider guten Theils dienenden Mitteln, ...
Coburg, Johann Carl Findeisen, 1761. 8vo. With a woodcut title-vignette and woodcut headpieces. Contemporary brown sprinkled paper over boards, red edges. [16], 524, [4] pp. Full description

HOPPERS, Joachim. De juris arte libri tres. Eiusdem, juris civilis, sive ad pandectas libri sex priores.
Louvain, Petrus Colinaeus, 1555. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page (repeated on the last page), and many woodcut initials. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [12], 505, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[HOSMANN, Sigismund, Magister] "M.S.H.". Omstandig en waaragtig verhaal van veele gepleegde en nooit gehoorde diefstallen: als vooornamentlyk [sic] aan de zeer beruchte goude tafel, nevens veele hoog-gewaardeerde oudheden en dierbaare sieraaden, van aloude tyden af in 't hooge autaar van St. Michiels Kerke te Lunenburg geplaatst en bewaart..., allerwegen in Duitsland gepleegd.
Amsterdam, Hendrik Schelte, 1710. 4to. With Schelte's woodcut device on the title-page, 18 engraved plates, including 1 frontispiece and 3 large folding plates. Contemporary vellum. [1 blank], [2], [1 blank], [4], 377, [17], [2 blank] pp., including the integral frontispiece. Full description

[HOUSE OF COMMONS]. Fourth report from the Committee on the Public Expenditure, &c. of the United Kingdom. Commissioners for Dutch prizes; &c.
[London], for the House of Commons, 24 March 1809. Folio. Original blue printed publisher's wrappers. pp. 313-386. Full description

[HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT - ASSAB - ERITREA]. Egypt. No. 15 (1882). Correspondence respecting Assab Bay.
London, Harrison and sons, 1882. Folio. Modern blue paper wrappers. X, 195, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT - ETHIOPIA]. No. 2531 annual series. Diplomatic and consular reports. Abyssinia. Reports for the year 1899-1900 on the trade of Adis Abbaba and Harrar.
London, Harrison and sons, 1900. Folio. With a folding lithographed map with some coloured details. Bound as sewn. 25, [1] pp. Full description

[HULLE, Anselmus]. [Celeberrimi legati ad pacificandum Christiani nominis orbem, legati ad Monasterium et Osnabrugas ex omni pene gentium nationumque genera missi. Ad vivum Anselmi v. Hulle penicillo expressi eiusque cura et aere per ingeniores huius aevi sculptores caelo representati].
[Antwerp, Daniel Middeler, ca. 1649]. Folio. With 76 full-page engraved portraits mounted onto the leaves of an album, engraved by Petrus de Jode (25), Cornelis Galle Jr. (23), Paulus Pontius (10), Matthias Borrekens (7), Conrad Waumans (5), Antonius van der Does (2), Petrus de Baillieu (2), and 2 unsigned, after the original paintings by Anselmus Hulle. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf. [76] ll. Full description