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SCHAAP, Dick. Onrust. Het Nederlandse duivelseiland. Utrecht, A.W. Bruna, (2002). Wrappers. With plates. 250 pp. On the island Onrust off the coast of Jakarta the VOC established a naval base to maintain her ships. [Boeknr.: 29654 ]

€ 18,00

SCHOUTEN, Wouter. Reys-togten, naar en door Oost-Indien, in welke, de voornaamste landen, koningryken, steden, eilanden, bergen en rivieren, met haare eigenschappen, beneffens de wetten, godsdienst, zeden en dragten der inwoonders, en wat verder zoo van dieren, vrugten, en planten, aanmerkelyks in die gewesten is; naauwkeurig word beschreven. 3e druk. Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg & Jan 't Lam, 1740.2 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt (spine rep., hinges cracked but firmly holding). With titlepage printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait, 4 illustrations and 43 engraved plates (several folding) by C. Decker and J. Kip. (8),328; 253, (22) pp. First published in 1676 with the title Oost-indische voyagie; large paper copy with additional folding map: Nieuwe en nette zeekaart van de geheele waereldt. - Wouter Schouten (1638-1704) spent 7 years as a physician in the service of the VOC in the East 1658-1665. He was an observant traveller who explored inland into environs of nearly everey port-of-call. His travel-account stayed very popular for a long time because of his ample and vivid descriptions of the countries, the different peoples and anything of note concerning the animals, plants, etc. of Java, Amboyna, Ternate, Celebes, Cape of Good Hope, coast of Coromandel, Malabar, Persia, Arabia, Ceylon, etc. Because of the bad weather the fleet arrived on the return voyage in Bergen (Norway), where Schouten eyewitnessed the attack by the English in 1665. 'His book was extremely popular in northern Europe and was translated into German (1676) and French (1707 and 1725)' (Lach & Van Kley, Asia in the making of Europe, III,2, p. 955). - Belongs to the best travel stories written at the time. - Some light marginal waterstaining in the first leaves, otherwise fine. Tiele 991; Cat. NHSM I, p.174; Landwehr, VOC, 284; Mendelssohn II, p.279-80; Howgego p.947. [Boeknr.: 37617 ]

€ 2250,00

SCHOUTEN, Wouter. Reys-togten, naar en door Oost-Indien, in welke, de voornaamste landen, koningryken, steden, eilanden, bergen en rivieren, met haare eigenschappen, beneffens de wetten, godsdienst, zeden en dragten der inwoonders, en wat verder zoo van dieren, vrugten, en planten, aanmerkelyks in die gewesten is; naauwkeurig word beschreven .3e druk. Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg & Jan 't Lam, 1740.2 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary half calf (modern boards), spine gilt. With titlepage printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, 4 illustrations and 27 (of 42) engraved plates by C. Decker and J. Kip. (8),328; 253, (22) pp. First published in 1676; large paper copy. - Wouter Schouten (1638-1704) spent 7 years as a physician in the service of the VOC in the East 1658-1665. He was an observant traveller who explored inland into environs of nearly everey port-of-call. His travel-account stayed very popular for a long time because of his ample and vivid descriptions of the countries, the different peoples and anything of note concerning the animals, plants, etc. of Java, Amboyna, Ternate, Celebes, Cape of Good Hope, coast of Coromandel, Malabar, Persia, Arabia, Ceylon, etc. Because of the bad weather the fleet arrived on the return voyage in Bergen (Norway), where Schouten eyewitnessed the attack by the English in 1665. - (Missing pp.291/292; portrait and 15 plates; last pp. stained).Tiele 991; Cat. NHSM I, p.174; Landwehr, VOC, 284; Mendelssohn II, p.279-80; Howgego p.947. [Boeknr.: 36245 ]

€ 395,00

SCHUURMAN, Johz (Jan Albert). Een woord van ernst en liefde ter gelegenheid van het 250jarig bestaan van Batavia. 's Gravenhage, M.J. Visser, 1869.Original printed wrappers. 19 pp. Issued on the occasion of the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of Batavia.Cat. KITLV p.112; Ebing & De Jager, Batavia-Jakarta, 0159. [Boeknr.: 34770 ]

€ 45,00

SELBERG, E(duard). Reis naar Java en bezoek op het eiland Madura; vrij vertaald, naar het Hoogduitsch door W.L. de Sturler. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, 1846.Original blue boards (extremities of spine sl. dam.). With folding map. (6),378 pp. First Dutch edition; after the German edition Reise nach Java und Ausflüge nach den Inseln Madura und St. Helena. Oldenburg 1846. - The author travelled to Java and Madura as a ship's doctor in order to undertake anthropological and medical research. Including large descriptions of Batavia and Surabaya. - Rare Cat. KITLV, p.10; Tiele 1069 (note); Cat. NHSM I, p.179; Müller 1582. [Boeknr.: 32539 ]

€ 375,00

(SERRURIER-TEN KATE, M.). De Compagnie's kamer van het Museum van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. Batavia, Albrecht & Co., 'Hage, M. Nijhoff, 1907. 4to. Wrappers (soiled). With 3 plates. 14 pp. [Boeknr.: 15050 ]

€ 25,00

SMITH, J.J. Guide to the Botanic Gardens, Buitenzorg. (No pl., Department of Agriculture, ca. 1913). Oblong 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers (discoloured and soiled). With folding plan and numerous photographic illustrations by J.W. Huijsmans. 64 pp. The surrounding gardens of the presidential palace became the hortus botanicus known as 's Lands Plantentuin Buitenzorg, present day Bogor. [Boeknr.: 16930 ]

€ 25,00

STAVORINUS, Johan Splinter. Reize van Zeeland over de Kaap de Goede Hoop naar Batavia, Bantam, Bengalen, enz. gedaan in de jaaren 1768 tot 1771. Gevolgd van eenige belangrijke aanmerkingen over den aart, gewoonten, levenswijze, godsdienstplegtigheden en koophandel der volken in die gewesten. Leyden, A. en J. Honkoop, 1793.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half calf, with red morocco title-label to spine. With folding map of the Ganges and the Cape of Good Hope by C. van Baarsel. XXIV,294; 146,(2) pp. First edition; with bookplate of Percival J.G. Bishop. - Stavorinus (1739-1788), captain and rear admiral of the Admiralty of Zeeland, commanded the ship Goes, which was part of the relief fleet under Commander Jacob Pieter van Braam, which succeeded in relieving the besieged Malacca in the battles from 29 May to 21 June 1784. In battles from 2 to 12 August and 29 October to 27 November 1784, Selangore and Riouw were successively liberated when the VOC got into serious difficulties there. 'This work affords an accurate and valuable account of the Cape in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, with an interesting description of Cape Town and its inhabitants' (Mendelssohn). Including also large accounts of Batavia and Bengal. His accounts were published by his son. - A key work on the Dutch in Africa and in the East. - Last 3 leaves sl. waterstained otherwise a fine copy. - Very rare. Mendelssohn II, p.426; S.A.B.IV, p.385; Landwehr, VOC, 296; Cat. NHSM I, p.178; Tiele 1044. [Boeknr.: 27409 ]

€ 1250,00

TAYLOR, Jean Gelman. Smeltkroes Batavia. Europeanen en Euraziaten in de Nederlandse vestigingen in Azië. (Vertaling Emile Henssen). Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, (1988). Wrappers. With illustrations. 256 pp. The social world of Batavia. European and Eurasian in Dutch Asia. [Boeknr.: 1265 ]

€ 18,00

UILKENS, J(akob) A(lbert). Een bezoek aan't paleis te Buitenzorg, in den jare 1900 en zooveel. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1883.Original printed wrappers. (2),76 pp. An imaginary interview by a journalist of the Times with the Governor-General of Indonesia, discussing the administration of Indonesia and India.Cat. KITLV p.79; Buur, Persoonlijke documenten, 264. [Boeknr.: 18595 ]

€ 95,00

VISSERING, C.M. Batavia. (Amsterdam), 1924. 4to. Wrappers. With 5 illustrations. (12) pp. - (Offprint Nederlandsch-Indië Oud & Nieuw). [Boeknr.: 7375 ]

€ 15,00

VLETTER, M.E. de, R.P.G.A. VOSKUIL, J.R. van DIESSEN. Batavia/Djakarta/Jakarta. Beeld van een metamorfose. (Purmerend, Asia Maior, 1997). 4to. Boards, with dust-jacket. With numerous illustrations (many in colours). 176 pp. [Boeknr.: 17018 ]

€ 35,00

VOSKUIL, R.P.G.A. Batavia. Beeld van een stad. (Houten, Fibula, 1989). 8vo. Boards, with dust-jacket. With many photographic illustrations. 160 pp. [Boeknr.: 23918 ]

€ 40,00

VOSKUIL, Robert & Rob van DIESSEN. Batavia 1937-1941. De fotocollectie Thomassen à Theussink van der Hoop. Gorredijk, Sterck & de Vreese, 2019. 4to. Pictorial boards. With 250 photographic illustrations. 320 pp. Abraham Nicolaas Jan Thomassen à Thuessink van der Hoop (1893-1969) became famous as captain of the Fokker F.VII H-NACC with which he undertook the first flight to the Dutch East Indies in 1924. In the years 1937-1941, Jan van der Hoop, as he called himself briefly, compiled a documentary photo archive of more than 1,250 cityscapes of what was then Batavia for the collection of the Royal Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences.A selection of 250 annotated photos from this unique visual document and the life of Jan van der Hoop form the core of this book. Four hundred years after the foundation of Batavia, the compilers and authors offer a fascinating glimpse into the waning days of colonial Batavia in this magnificent edition. [Boeknr.: 36561 ]

€ 50,00

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