Low Countries

ROY, Jacob le. Castella et prætoria nobilium Brabantiæ, coenobiaque celebriora, ad vivum delineata, in quatuor partes divisa: complectentes agrum Lovaniensem, Bruxellensem, Antverpiensem, et Sylvæ-Ducensem. Cum brevi eorundem descriptione, & gentilitiis toparcharum insignibus | Chateaux et maisons de campagne des gentilhommes du Brabant ... | Kasteelen en heeren huysen der edelen van Brabant ...
Leiden, Peter van der Aa, 1699.
With: (2) [ROY, Jacob le]. L'erection de toutes les terres, seigneuries, & familles titrees du Brabant.
Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1699. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved frontispiece to part 1, 2 engraved title vignettes, 2 full-page engraved dedicatory plates, 1 engraved headpiece, vol. 1 with 211 engravings (4 folding maps, 1 folding plan, 14 folding plates, and 192 views in the text); vol. 2 with 1 folding map and 7 engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary sprinkled quarter calf, sewn on 8 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a red morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold, sprinkled paper sides, red and blue sprinkled edges. [6], 143, [4], 108 ll. Full description

RUDOLF II, Holy Roman Emperor, and the STATES GENERAL. Brief des Keyserlijcke Majest. van Duytslandt, aende E. Mogende Heeren Staten vande Gheunieerde Provintien gheschreven. Op 't stuck vande Nederlantsche Vredehandeling Midtsgaders d'Antwoort vande voornoemde Heeren Staten ...
[Amsterdam?], 1608. Small 4to. With a woodcut device on the title-page. Disbound. [8] pp. Full description

RUE, Louis Félix de la. Etat armorial de noblesse, chevalerie, & dignités accordés par S.M.I.R.A. depuis son avenement au Thrône jusqu' aujourd'hui dédié a monsieur de Wavrans ...
Brussels, 1775.
With: [Collection of hand-painted coats of arms of European noble families in the Southern Netherlands].
8vo. With an engraved title page and 16 engraved plates containing a total of 342 coats of arms (6 blank; mostly 20 or 24 to a page), together with a collection of 415 hand-drawn and painted coats of arms (6 to a page), vividly coloured and highlighted with gold and silver paint, with the names of the noble families captioned below in a neat 18th-century hand in brown ink. Later half calf, marbled paper sides, title in gold on spine, marbled endpapers, red edges. 45, [2], [1 blank]; [102] ll. including some blanks. Full description

RUSE, Henrick. Versterckte vesting, uytgevonden in velerley voorvallen, en geobserveert in dese laetste oorloogen, soo in de Vereenigde Nederlanden, als in Vranckryck, Duyts-lant, Italien, Dalmatien, Albanien, en die daer aengelegen landen.
Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1654. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved title page and 8 double-page engraved plates in ad 1; ad 2 with Blaeus large woodcut device (armillary sphere with Chronos and Heracles) on the title page and a folding engraved plate.
With: (2) RUSE, Henrick. Aenwysinge der misverstanden van G. Medler, begaen in sijne 'Instructie van de fortificatien', in welck hy de sustenuen van H. Ruse in 't verstercken der hedendaeghse fortificatien, pooght te wederleggen.
Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1658.
Contemporary vellum. [8], 53, [1], [2 blank]; 32 pp. Full description

[SALES CATALOGUE - DE VERHULST COLLECTION]. Catalogue d'une riche et precieuse collection de tableaux des meilleurs & plus célébres maîtres des ecoles d'Italie, des Pays-Bas & de France, qui composent le cabinet de Feu Messire Gabriel-François-Joseph de Verhulst, dont les héritiers proposent l'acquisition en total & en masse.
Brussels, Imprimerie d'Antoine d'Ours, 1779.
With: (2) [SALES CATALOGUE - DE VERHULST COLLECTION]. Catalogue d'une belle collection de desseins, estampes et livres delaissés par Feu Le Chevalier De Verhulst, dont la vente se fera (en argent de change) à sa mortuaire, ... immediatement après celle des tableaux.
Brussels, chez Antoine d'Ours, [1779]. Ad 1: 4to. Ad 2: 12mo. With a full-page engraved portrait of De Verhulst, a woodcut vignette on the title page, a woodcut headpiece, and 2 woodcut tailpieces. Ad 1: Contemporary marbled calf, blue sprinkled edges. Ad 2: Contemporary wrappers, side stitched through two holes. [4], 56, [10]; 31, [1] pp. Full description

SANDERUS, Antoine. Chorographia sacra Brabantiae sive celebrium aliquot in ea provincia ecclesiarum et coenobiorum description, ...
Brussels, Philips Vleugaert, 1658-1660. 24 parts in 1 volume. Folio (43.5 x 28 cm). With 26 double-page engraved plates, 2 engraved portraits (the author's portrait in facsimile), 12 engravings on 6 leaves, a full-page engraving, and 10 engravings in text. Most of these are views of churches, castles and abbeys with their gardens, and many by Lucas Vorsterman the Younger. Further with engraved illustrations on 23 (of the 24) title-pages, mostly portraits of saints or coat of arms. 19th-century blind-tooled, tanned sheepskin. Full description

SCHELLING, Pieter van der. Histori van het notarisschap, behelzende den oorsprong, 't begin, en den voortgang van het notarisschap, kancellierschap, sekretarisschap, griffierschap, klerkschap, enz. byzonder in de Nederlanden, enz. mitsgaders de Engelsche praktyk, ... Als ook ontrent het koopen, aanneemen, en administreeren; en het verkoopen, en transporteeren van Engelsche effecten; onder andere gevolgd in de Nederlanden...
Rotterdam, Philippus en Jakobus Losel, 1745. 8vo. With the title printed in red and black, a folding engraving of notarial seals, and two decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary parchmen. [74], 746, [75], [1 blank] pp. Full description

SCHELTEMA, Jacobus. Peter de Groote, keizer van Rusland in Holland en Zaandam in 1697 en 1717.
Amsterdam, Hendrik Gartman, 1814. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 2 engraved title-pages showing a portrait of Peter the Great, 1 letterpress title-page and 2 half-titles, and 3 engraved plates. Mid-19th-century tree calf, each board with a gold-tooled fillets, gold-tooled spine and board edges, antique spot marbled endpapers, green ribbon markers. XXVI, 339; [2], XXXI, [1 blank], 328 pp. plus engraved titles and plates. Full description

CALL, Jan van; Petrus SCHENCK. [A series of 15 magnificent color-printed plates of the most impressive Dutch palaces of the Stadtholders: Het Loo (Apeldoorn), Huis ten Bosch (The Hague), Honselaarsdijk (near Naaltwijk) and Sorgvliet (The Hague).]
Amsterdam, Petrus Schenck, ca. 1695. 4to (20 x 24.5 cm). 15 (from a series of 25) colour-printed plates (plate size ca. 13 x 17 cm). Loose leaves. Full description

[SCHENCKENSCHANS FORTRESS]. Breve y verdadera, descripcion, del ynexpugnable fuerte Schencken como por yndustria de la gente de su magestad catolica se gano en 28 de julio anno 1635 annos ...
Madrid, printed for the widow of Juan Gonçalez, 1635. Broadsheet (ca. 40 x 26 cm). With a large engraving in the top half of the sheet (20 x 22.1 cm). Full description