Low Countries / History, Economics, Law & Politics

[BRANDT, Gerard]. Historie der vermaerde zee- en koop-stadt Enkhuisen, vervaetende haere herkomste, en voortgangh. Mitsgaders verscheide gedenkwaerdige geschiedenissen, aldaer voorgevallen.
Enkhuizen, Egbert van den Hoof, 1666. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of Enkhuizen on the title page, an engraved allegorical frontispiece by H. Bary, 5 full-page engraved portraits by H. Bary, a large folding plan of Enkhuizen after design by O. Suermondt, and a large folding plate with 31 coats of arms of the members of the city council. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [12], 207, [1], 167, [1 blank], [16] pp. Full description

[CASANOVA, Giacomo]. Esposizione ragionata della contestazione, che sussiste tra le due Repubbliche di Venezia, e di Olanda.
[Vienna or Venice?], 1785. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Ads 1 and 2: with a woodcut decoration on the title page, rococo-decorated titling capitals used for one word in the title and one initial, thick-and-thin rules, ad 3: with the same decorated initials as ad 1 and 2, and with woodcut headpieces throughout. (2) [IDEM]. Supplimento alla esposizione ragionata della controversia, che suffifte tra la repubblica di Venezia, e quella dOlanda.
1785.
(3) [IDEM] Signed at end: L.A.S.D.V. Lettera ai signori Giovanni e Stefano Luzac contenente alcune offervazioni sopra la Narrazione dellaffare che ha prodotto la differenza vertente fra la repubblica di Venezia e quella di Olanda, pubblicata nei numeri xxi. C xxii. della loro gazetta.
1785. Contemporary half vellum with marbled boards. LXX, [4 blank]; LXIX, [5 blank]; 48 pp. Full description

[CEYLON]. Provisioneel ende particulier tractaet, gemaeckt, gearresteert ende besloten in 's Graven-Hage, den 27. Martii, 1645. tusschen de heer Francisco de Zousa Continho, raedt ende ambassadeur van den doorluchtighsten grootmachtigen Koningh van Portugael, Algarves, &c. ...; ende de ... Staten Generael van de Vereenighde Nederlandtsche Provincien, &c. aengaende de controversie over de jurisdictie ende territorie van 't Fort Galle [in Ceylon], &c.
The Hague widow and heirs of Hillebrandt Jacobsz. van Wouw, 1645 [= The Hague, Paulus Scheltus, ca. 1697?]. 4to. Modern plain-paper wrapper. [8] pp. Full description

[CHARLES THE BOLD]. Justitie van Carel den Stouten, Hert[og]: van Bourg[ondië]: etc. Grave van Holl[and]: Zel[and]: etc. over seker gouv[erneur]: in Zelant.
[Amsterdam?], Joachim Bormeester, [ca. 1690]. Oblong 1mo (full sheet) broadside (41 x 50.5 cm). An engraved print with extensive engraved texts in Dutch, the central scene (33.5 x 31 cm) flanked by 6 smaller scenes, with the title above the central scene (in roman capitals with I and V for UJ and U), 5 lines of verse (a couplet in 1 line followed by a 4-line verse) below each smaller scene and the story in prose in the foot of the engraving. Hand-coloured and highlighted in gold. Full description

[CHARLES V, Emperor]. Les ordonnances[,] statutes, & edictz, que lEmpereur Charles cinquies. de ce nom, tousjours auguste, a faict publier en la ville de Bruxelles ...
Brussels, Marck Martens; Antwerp, "en l[]escu dArtoys, sur le Pont de Chambre" [= the printing office of Jacob van Liesvelt], [privilege dated from Brussels, 7 October 1540]. 4° (20.5 × 15 cm). Title-page with an elaborate large woodcut showing the Imperial coat-of-arms. 20th-century half sheepskin parchment, boards covered with 2 leaves from Froben & Petris 2° Latin Bible, Basel, 1498, red edges. [20] pp. Full description

CHRISTYN, Johannes-Baptista. Senatus populique Antverpiensis. Nobilitas sive septem tribus patriciae Antverpienses.
Leiden, Petrus Heghius [printed in Brussels by Philippe Vleugart], 1672. 8vo. With an allegorical frontispiece showing a personification of time accompanying the crests of the seven houses above personifications of the Scheldt and the city of Antwerp and 7 engraved coatsofarms in text. Modern half parchment, red paste paper sides. [10], 55 pp. Full description

[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

[CORNELIUS, Andreas]. Croniicke, ende warachtige beschryvinghe van Vrieslant. Beginnende nae des werelts scheppinghe drie duysent ende tseventich jaer: ende deurende voorts tot na de gheboorte Christi, duysent, vijf-hondert, vijf en tsestich ...
Leeuwarden, Jacob Jansen, sold by Cornelis Claesz in Amsterdam, 1597. (colophon: printed in Amsterdam, Nicolaes Biestkens, 1596). Folio. With a half-page engraved map of old-Friesland, "Veterum Frisiorum Habitus" with the coat of arms of Friesland at the top, the map is flanked by 8 full-length portraits of inhabitants of old-Friesland; a double-page engraved map of Friesland and Groningen, "Frisiae Occidentalis Typus" by Cornelis Claesz (= first state, first appearance); a double-page plan of Leeuwarden, "Lewardum Occidentalis Frisiae Opp.", and full page plan of Franeker, "Franicher" with text on its verso. Further with woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. With nine extra drawings (made after 1622) after the well-known series of etched illustrations of Frisian rulers by Simon Frisius in the first edition of Pierius Winsemius, Chronique ofte Historische Geschiedenisse van Vrieslant ...
Original dark brown polished calf over beveled wooden boards. [2 with drawings], [8], "124" [= 122], [2] ll. Full description

COUTINHO, Francisco de Sousa. Propositie ghedaen ter vergaderinghe van hare hoogh-mog: d'heeren Staten Generael der Vereenichde Nederlanden, in 's Gravenhage den XVIen. Augusti 1647.
[Netherlands], 1647. 4to. With a woodcut decoration built up from arabesque typographic ornaments on title-page and a woodcut decorated initial. Modern half calf, marbled sides. 16 pp. Full description

[COYETT, Balthasar and Coenraad van KLENCK]. Historisch verhael, of beschryving van de voyagie, gedaen onder de suite van den heere Koenraad van Klenk ... en sijn hoogheyt den heere Prince van Oranje
Amsterdam, Jan Claesz. ten Hoorn, 1677. 4to. With an etched frontispiece and 6 double-page etched plates. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title at the head of the spine. [8], "214" [= 220], [2] pp. Full description