Low Countries

SCRIBANI, Charles. Antverpia.
Including: [SCHONDONCK, Gilles]. Hê prôtogeneia kai epistrephomonê tychê tês Anbersês.
Antwerp, Jan Moretus I, 1610. With an engraved printer's device on title-page and a woodcut printer's device on the otherwise blank page following the main part.
With: (2) SCRIBANI, Charles. Origines Antverpiensium.
Antwerp, Jan Moretus I, 1610. With an engraved printer's device on title-page, woodcut printer's device on the otherwise blank last page, folding engraved map of Antwerp and 6 double-page engraved plates. 2 works in 1 volume; 1st work in 2 parts. 4to. Contemporary vellum. [8], 146, [1], [1 blank]; 1-24; 1-172, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

SCRIVERIUS, Petrus. Batavia illustrata, seu de Batavorum insula, Hollandia, Zelandia, Frisia, territorio Traiectensi et Gelria, scriptores varii notae melioris, nunc primùm collecti, simulqùe editi.
Leiden, Lodewijk Elzevier [printed by Jan Paets Jacobszoon], 1609. 4to (19.5 x 14 cm). With many woodcut illustrations in text. Early 18th-century calf, richly gold-tooled spine with a red title-label and the crowned monogram of the Duke de La Force and the Dukes coat of arms in gold on the sides (probably of a later date). [8], 232, 56 184, 40 pp. Full description

SECUNDUS, Janus (Joannes or Jan EVERAERTS). Opera. Nunc primum in lucem edita.
Utrecht, Herman van Borculo, 1541. With Van Borculos winged stag and book device on the title-page and another on the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf. Small 8vo (16 x 10.5 cm). Contemporary vellum wrapper. [324], [3 blank], [1] pp. Full description

[SERVASANCTUS DE FAENZA and others] (spuriously attributed to Saint BONAVENTURA). [Sermones de tempore et de sanctis].
(Colophon: Zwolle, [Johannes de Vollenhoe], 1479). Small (Chancery) folio (27.5 x 20.5 cm). With one 5-line and hundreds of 2- and 3-line spaces left for initials, filled in with manuscript "Lombardic" capitals in red; manuscript paragraph marks in red; and capitals rubricated throughout. Set entirely in a single textura gothic type (103 mm/20 lines) in 2 columns of 39 lines to the page. Early 18th-century tanned sheepskin. [1 blank], [340] ll. Full description

[SMOUT, Adriaan Joriszoon (reply to)]. Voorlooper. Over Adriani Smoutii schriftuerlyck jae, dienende tot openinge ende recht verstandt van synen toe-eyghen-brief aen de E.M. Heeren Staten, aengaende de questie: of de vyf verschillighe poincten de salicheyt raecken of niet. Ghestelt door eenen lief-hebber der waerheyt, tot dienste van alle ghetrouwe ondersaten ende vreed-lievende menschen hier te lande.
Rotterdam, Matijs Bastiaensz., [1613]. 4to. Disbound. [32] pp. Full description

[SOESTDIJK]. KRUYFF, Cornelis de & Frederik Christiaan BIERWEILER. Maison de plaisir de Soestdijk, vue du coté du jardin.
Amsterdam, F. Buffa et fils, [1830-1850]. Framed (61,5 x 75,5 cm). Full description

[SONGBOOK - DUTCH]. Eerste [-Tweede] deel van 't nieu geusen liet boeck, waerinne begrepen is den gantschen handel der Nederlanden, beginnende anno 1564. uit alle oude geusen liet-boecken by een versamelt. Verciert met schoone oude refereynen en[de] liedekens, te voren noyt in eenige liet-boecken ghedruct. Met de figuren der gouverneurs.
Amsterdam, Gerrit van Breugel, 1616. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Title-page printed in red and black with borders built up from typographic ornaments, woodcut on title-page, and 10 small woodcut portraits in text of the two parts together. Later limp sheepskin parchment, with remnants of ties. [1], 93, [1]; 86, [1] ll. Full description

[SOPHIE, Jacques]. Noodighe op-rechtinghe van 't collegie de medecyne, opentlyck bewesen aen d'inwoonders der stadt van Brussel, met 't verhael van alle swarigheden daer-overgeresen, ende weder legginge van d'op-sprake, daer-tegen onglanghs voor ghewendt.
Brussels, Guilliam Scheybels, 1660. 4to. With an emblematic woodcut on the last page. [6], 101, [1] pp. Full description

[SPANISH TYRANNY]. Warachtighe beschrijvinghe ende levendighe afbeeldinghe vande meer dan onmenschelijcke ende barbarische tyrannije bedreven by de Spaengiaerden inde Nederlandes: onder de regieringen van den Keyser Carel V. Philips II. en Philips III. Coningen van Spaengien. [Half-title:] De onmenschelicke, barbarische, en grouwelijcke tyerannije der Spangniaerden in Nederlandt.
[Northern Netherlands (Amsterdam?)], [printed by Barent Otsz.?], 1621. Oblong 4to (18 x 22 cm). With an integral engraved frontispiece (15.5 x 20 cm, with 1 large and 3 small views of Spanish atrocities), letterpress title-page with a small bear as ornament (a mounted casting made from a woodcut), 36 full-page engraved city views on integral leaves showing Spanish atrocities (plate size about 13.5 x 16.5 cm, irregularly numbered 3 to 236 and not quite in numerical order), each with a 4-line Latin caption engraved in 2 columns, and 3 engraved portraits on integral leaves (plate size 14 x 12.5 cm). Early 18th-century vellum, sewn on 3 vellum tapes laced through the joints. [8], 278 pp. Full description

SPEED, John [and Pieter van der KEERE?]. A new mape of ye XVII provinces of Low Germanie.
[London], George Humble, 1626. 41 x 53 cm. Engraved map with hand coloured borders, probably by Pieter van den Keere (1571-after 1646). Incorporating a fine compass-rose with 32 rhumb lines and names of the wind-directions, a coat of arms of France, a title-cartouche, a legend ("A catalogue of the cities et [!] villages in everie Province") and an indication of scale (ca. 1:1.120.000). The map is topped by 8 hand coloured miniature profiles of major cities and bordered by hand coloured figures in local costume at the left (5 male figures) and right (5 female figures). Framed. Full description