Low Countries / Belgium

[COMMERCE]. Le négociant du Pays-Bas, ou le tarif général de tous les comptes du commerce; tant pour calculer les monnoyes, les intérêts, répartitions, &c. Que toutes sortes de marchandises, denrées & négoces tant en gros qu'en détail. Onzième édition. Augmenté avec la réduction de l'argent de change de Brabant, en celui courant en Brabant, & celui de l'argent courant de Brabant en celui de change de Brabant. Et un tarif pour connoitre le prix d'une livre de marchandise par le prix du cent.
Antwerp, Johannes Judocus Gerardus de Marcour, [ca. 1780?]. 12mo. Contemporary mottled, tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. XXIII, [1], 543, [1] pp. Full description

DELATHAUWER, Lievin-Amand. Het Belgische kruidboek, of de Gentsche hovenier.
Gent, H. Hoste; L. Hebbelynck, 1848-1849. 4 volumes. 8vo. With a double-page lithographed plate. Modern half calf, gold-tooled spine. [6], 435, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[DEUX NÈTHES - PHARMACOPOEIA]. VAN DEN ZANDE, J.B.J., et al (ed.). Pharmacopoeia manualis, a concilio medico praefecturae Utriusque Nethae edita.
Antwerpen, Antonius Grangé, 1812. 8vo. 19th-century green half sheepskin, marbled sides. VIII, 208 pp. Full description

[DOUAI - PHARMACOPOEIA]. BRISSEAU, Michel, and others. Pharmacopoeia Duacena galeno-chymica nobilissima et amplissimi senatus authoritate et jussu munita & edita.
Douai, Jacques-François Willerval, 1732. Small folio (25.5 x 17 cm). With a woodcut of the then current Douai coat-of-arms (a shield with an arrow and eight drops of blood) on the title-page. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, richly gold-tooled spine. [1], [1 blank], [2], 180, [7], [1 blank] pp. Full description

FORSTER, Georg. Reisen van George Forster in den jaare MDCCXC. Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald.
Haarlem, Christiaan Plaat, 1792-1793. 8vo. 4 volumes. Original publisher's letterpress printed stiff wrappers. 8 [incl. first 2 blank], 190, [1], [1 blank]; [4], 174, [2]; 4, 3-182; [4], 196 pp. Full description

FORSTER, Georg. Voyage philosophique et pittoresque, sur les rives du Rhin, a Liège, dans la Flandre, le Brabant, la Hollande, l'Angleterre, la France, etc. fait en 1790, ...
Paris, F. Buisson and Charles Pougens, l'an VIII [= 1800]. 3 volumes. 8vo. With a folding engraved map of Great Britain and 9 folding engraved views of famous English buildings. Contemporary mottled, tanned sheepskin (tree pattern), gold-tooled spines. [4], XVI, 408; [4], 446; 8, 407 pp. Full description

[FUNCK, Jakob and Marc Guérard d'ILLENS]. Plans et journaux des sieges de la derniere guerre de Flandres.
Strasbourg, Melchior Pauschinger, 1750. 4to. With 25 folding engraved maps with some hand-coloured details, and several, often repeated, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. [8], 113, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[GHENT - PHARMACOPOEIA - MANUSCRIPT]. Pharmacie de gand de l'année 1787 traduite en françois.
[Ghent, after 1787]. 8vo. Half green morocco, decorated green paper sides. [2], 175 pp. Full description

GREEVEN, Hendrik (artist) and Justin Vallou VALLON DE VILLENEUVE (lithographer). Collection des costumes des provinces septentrionales du Royaume des Pays-Bas | Verzameling der kleederdragten in de nordelijke provincien van het Koningrijk der Nederlanden.
Amsterdam, Frans Buffa and sons; Paris, Engelmann et cie. (printed by Thierry brothers). 1828[-1829]. With lithographed title-page, lithographed index and 20 numbered lithographed plates, all captioned in French and Dutch below and all richly and beautifully coloured by hand.
With: (2) [GREEVEN, Hendrik, Luigi CALAMATTA and others]. Souvenirs de la Hollande.
Amsterdam, Buffa brothers and co., 1838. With a hand-coloured engraving mounted on the title-page and 14 hand-coloured lithographed plates (7 of Dutch views and 7 of women's folk costumes). 2 works in 1 volume. Large 4to (32 x 24 cm). Contemporary boards with marbled sides. [24] ll. text in French and English. Full description

GUICCIARDINI, Ludovico. Descrittione ... di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania Inferiore.
Antwerp, Willem Silvius, 1567. Folio. With the title, the large coat of arms of Philip II, and his portrait set within a woodcut architectural frame with allegorical figures on separate pages, 5 double-page woodcut maps (including 1 folding), 4 double-page woodcut views of cities, 6 double-page woodcut plans of cities, and 2 double-page illustrations of buildings (1 woodcut, 1 engraved). Further with 15 woodcut divisional title-pages for the illustrations and descriptions of the regions and cities set within a woodcut ornamental frame and numerous woodcut decorated initials (at least 4 series) Later overlapping vellum, sewn on 3 parchment tapes laced through the joints. [3], [1 blank], [16], "296"[= 339], [1 blank], [19], [1 blank] pp. Full description