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One of the earliest Antwerp records of Charles V’s Italian financier

AFFAITATI, Giovan Carlo (Johannes Carolus de AFFAYTADI). Ratificatio facta p[er] m[agnifi]cu[m] d[ominum] Jo[hannes] Carolu[s] de Affaytalis, in favorem m[agnifi]ci et r[everen]di d[omino]. Guidi d[e] Crema et Rafaelis Krumani p[e]r Castro S[anc]ti Laurentii et terris.
Antwerp, 20 January 1546. Manuscript notarial document in Latin, written in a Latin hand on one side of a single piece of sheepskin parchment (31 x 54.5 cm), opening with a large capital and closing with the notary's decorative signature, with the title and "M. Johan Carlo" on the back. Folded and loosely inserted in a paper folder (ca. 1690s?). [1] leaf. Full description
€ 1,250
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Shaping Brabant’s past: a Humanist chronicle

BARLANDUS, Adrianus. Rerum gestarum Brabantiae ducibus historia, nunc primum Latine conscripta ... usque in annum vigesimu[m] sextu[m] supra 1500 restitutae salutis ... Catalogus insignium oppidorum Germaniae inferioris. Emendationes, quibus incuriae typographorum occurritur.
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Hadrianus Tilanus & Johannes Hoochstraten, 1526. 8vo (12.8 x 8.9 cm). With woodcut frame on the title page, and some woodcut decorated initials. 19th-century half vellum. [148] pp. Full description
€ 950
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Fine plate book with 62 steel-engraved plates after Robert Batty depecting the scenery
of the Rhine, Belgium and Holland

BATTY, Robert. Scenery of the Rhine, Belgium and Holland, from drawings by Captn. Batty, of the Grenadier Guards F.R.S. Member of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Anne.
London, Robert Jennings, 1826. Large folio. With 62 steel-engraved plates, frontispiece and tail-piece included. Each plate is present two times, in different states. All plates are after drawings by the author engraved by among others W.R. Smith, E. Finden, R. Wallis, W. Woolnoth, and others. Contemporary half red morocco. [189] ll. Full description
€ 2,750
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Second known copy of the Mons issue of the first edition, the only known Claude Bronchin imprint

BEAUXAMIS, Thomas. In sacro sancta Coenae mysteria, passionem, et resurrectionem domini nostri Jesu, homeliae, & tabulae, annexis quibusdam scholiis, ex primis ecclesiae patribus. Ad amplissimum, & illustrissimum principem carolum cardinalem Lotharingum.
Mons (Belgium), Claude de Bronchin [printed in Paris by Guillaume Chaudière], 1570. 8vo. With Chaudières woodcut device on the title-page (Chronos, with the motto, "hancas iem sol retundit virtus"), a woodcut headpiece, 2 woodcut tailpieces and 2 woodcut initials (from 2 different series). Limp vellum (ca. 1700?). [6], 321, [1] ll. Full description
€ 3,500
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Complete works of Anna Bijns, criticizing Martin Luther and Protestantism

BIJNS, Anna. Konstighe refereynen vol schoone schrifture ende leeringen, begrepen in drye verscheyde boecken ...
Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen the Younger, 1646. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With the same woodcut printer's device on 3 individual title pages. Contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine, traces of ties. [24], 76; 91; 226, [10] pp. Full description
€ 18,000
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International scientific exchange of military "secrets" on the use of fuses
and the employment of explosive shapnell projectiles

BORMANN, Charles Guillaume. [Drop-title:] To Captain J.A. Dahlgren ... Sur le mémoire: "Nouveau système de shrapnells ... Notes sur le mémoire "Nouveau Système de Shrapnells de l'artillerie Néerlandaise".
[Liège, 1854]. 4to (21.9 x ca. 17.5 cm). Written in a neat 19th-century cursive in brown ink. Previously folded, with the envelope still present. 24 pp. and an envelope. Full description
€ 1,400
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Rare and old-fashioned pharmacopoeia of Douai

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, brown title-label. [1], [1 blank], [2], 180, [7], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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The future King Philip II of Spain’s travels from Spain to the Low Countries: eye-witness account by his tutor

CALVETE DE ESTRELLA, Juan Cristóbal. El felicissimo viaje d'el muy alto y muy poderoso Principe Don Phelippe, hijo d'el Emperador Don Carlos Quinto Maximo, desde España à sus tierras dela Baxa Alemaña: con la descripcion de todos los estados de Brabante y Flandes. Escrito en quatro libros, ...
Antwerp, Martinus Nutius I, 1552 (colophon 25 May 1552). Small folio (27 x 19.5 cm). With the woodcut arms of Charles V on title-page, a full-page woodcut triumphal arch erected in Ghent for Philip's entry, Nutius's woodcut device at the end, and dozens of woodcut decorated initials (4 series). Near contemporary limp vellum, with 6 fragments of a 16th-century manuscript reinforcing the spine of the bookblock, blind- and (later) gold-tooled spine. [8], 335, [19] ll. Full description
€ 9,000
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