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BOUDYCK-BASTIAANSE, Jan Hendrik van. Voyage a la côte de Guinée, dans le golfe de Biafra, a l'ile de Fernando-Po, l'ile de Ste Hélène et autres iles dans le passage, a bord du brick-goelette, Le Lancier par le capitaine de frégate J.H. van Boudyck Bastiaanse. La Haye, Belinfante Frères, 1853.Later marbled boards, uncut. XXVI, 451 pp. From the library of the Groote Club, Doctrina & Amicitia, Amsterdam. - Journal by the Dutch lieutenant-commander Jan Hendrik van Boudyck-Bastiaanse (1793-1861) of a trip to the Gold Coast, West Africa, the islands Fernando-Po, St. Helena and other African Atlantic islands. - Scarce.Cat. NHSM I, p.124; Tiele 76; Cardinall 484. [Boeknr.: 36168 ]

€ 450,00

DOMIS, Hendrik Jacob. Aanteekeningen betreffende het eiland St. Helena. Kampen, K. van Hulst, 1835.Original wrappers. (30) pp. Offprint De Oosterling Nr.4 Tijdschrift .. in het licht gegeven door J. Olivier. [Boeknr.: 35804 ]

€ 35,00

GOEDE, Willem. De onzigtbare, of de goddelijke voorzienigheid werkzaam in de lotgevallen der menschen. Een historisch, zedekundig en godsdienstig leesboek. Amsterdam, Johannes van der Hey, 1812-1814.3 volumes. Contemporary half calf (spines sl. dam.). With 6 engraved plates after J. Smies by J.E. Marcus. XVI,291; XVI,262; XXIV,254 pp. One plate depicts Napoleon on a ship on his way to St. Helena. [Boeknr.: 35222 ]

€ 75,00

HOUTMAN, Cornelis de. De eerste schipvaerd der Hollandsche natie naer Oost-Indien, waer inne verhaelt wordt al wat haer sonderlings onder wegen bejegent is, als oock de conditien, religien, zeden, ende huys houdinghe der volckeren, met den aerd, vruchtbaerheyd, ghewassen, dieren, ende andere eygentschappen der landen, die sy beseylt hebben: ghetrocken uyt verscheyden journalen ofte dagh-registers daer van ghemaeckt, zeer vermaeckelijck ende nut om lesen. (Amsterdam, Joannes Janssonius, 1645).Oblong 8vo. Modern sprinkled boards. With 49 engraved plates. 112 pp. (text set in two columns). Extracted from Commelin's collection of voyages. - A group of Amsterdam merchants was responsible for the venture of the first Dutch voyage to the East in 1595. The four small ships sailed via the Cape of Good Hope to Bantam, a large trading centre on the west coast of Java. Three of the four ships finally returned to Amsterdam. 'Despite the loss of many men and one of the ships, troubles with both Javans and Portuguese, and profits barely large enough to cover expenses, the return of De Houtman's fleet set of a flurry of activity among Dutch entrepreneurs. In 1598, the year after its return, no fewer than twenty-five ships were sent out by merchants of the provinces of Holland and Zeeland alone' (Lach & Van Kley, Asia in the making, III,1, p.439). This voyage provided European readers with the most detailed description of Java to date and with the first description of Bali in any language. At the Cape they landed and encountered a party of Hottentots. - (Part of plate 17 (market scene) missing but added in photocopy); some plates cut slightly short). - Rare early edition of the 'First Fleet'.Landwehr, VOC, 250; Tiele 81; Tiele, Mémoire, 4; Cat. NHSM I, p.105; Mendelssohn I, p.739. [Boeknr.: 35243 ]

€ 875,00

JACKSON, E.L. St. Helena: the historic island from its discovery to the present date. London, Ward Lock & Co., 1903.Original cloth, with gilt St. Helena's seal on cover (spine discoloured). With map and photographic plates. 343 pp. First edition; with the bookplate of Haileybury College. - A detailed historical and geographical account of St. Helena. Dealing i.a. with the South African War prisoners sent there, the captivity of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Navy's antislavery patrols and the island of Tristan Da Cunha.SAB II, p.661. [Boeknr.: 36775 ]

€ 95,00

LATROBE, Christian Ignatius. Journal of a visit to South Africa, in 1815, and 1816, with some account of the missionary settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope. London, L.B. Seeley & R. Ackermann, 1818.4to. Later half calf, spine gilt, with red morocco title-labels. With folding map, 4 engraved plates and 12 handcoloured aquatint plates. (8),406 pp. First edition. - Latrobe was sent out to South Africa in response to the request of Moravian missionaries at Genadendal and Groenekloof for a minister to visit them. The Governor of the Cape had expressed a wish that a third station should be opened, and in order to choose a site the author travelled through a large part of the country right up to the Fish River. There is a full description of the district of Groenekloof, and of the missionary settlements, about thirty miles north of Cape Town also an account of the church and village of Caledon. Some information is afforded regarding the life of the up-country farmers at this period. In 1816 he started for a journey into the interior, the route taken from Genadendal being via Zwellendam, Zeekogat near George, Welgelegen, Uitenhage, to the Witte River, and then to the Little Fish River, returning via Plettenberg and Mossel Bays (Mendelssohn p.866-867). The book is much enhanced by the superbly coloured plates after sketches by the author himself and John Melville, Government Surveyor of the Cape, who accompanied him. Also included is a visit to St. Helena, and 'the first description of the fledgling colony' of Ascension Island (Howgego). - A good specimen of the early literature of missionary effort, giving a sufficiently vivid record of personal experiences, native customs, and objects of natural interest that come under his notice (Prideaux p.240). - A very attractive copy.Abbey, Travel, 325; Howgego, II, p.9; SAB III, p.59; Tooley 292; Gordon-Brown p.187. [Boeknr.: 35000 ]

€ 2450,00


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