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BAKKER, Johan Cornelis de. Slaves, arms, and Holy War. Moroccan policy vis-à-vis the Dutch Republic during the establishment of the 'Alawi dynasty (1660-1727). (No pl.), 1991. Wrappers. With 3 maps. XXIII,260 pp. - (Thesis). [Boeknr.: 20132 ]

€ 45,00

DATTA, Kalikinkar. The Dutch in Bengal and Bihar 1740-1825 A.D. 2nd revised and enlarged edition. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, (1968). Wrappers. 200 pp. [Boeknr.: 12166 ]

€ 25,00

HAAFNER, Jacob. Travels on foot through the island of Ceylon. London, Richard Phillips and Co.,1821.Original wrappers, uncut. With 3 aquatint plates (2 folding) after Reinier Vinkeles by W. Read. 118 pp. First English edition; first published in Dutch Reize te voet door het eiland Ceilon. Amsterdam, 1810. - Jacob Haafner was captured by the English in Madras but escaped to Ceylon. His eyewitness account of his journey on foot through Ceylon in 1810 from Jaffnapatnam to Colombo, was finished by his son Christiaan Mattghias and posthumously published in Amsterdam in 1810. 'Haafner was an anticolonialist, a man before his time, for his ideas were not to be topical until more than a century had elapsed' (De Silva & Beumer, Dutch Ceylon, p.462). Jacob Gotfried Haafner (1754 - 1809) was a German-Dutch travel writer who lived in and wrote extensively on India and Sri Lanka. His travelogues were noted for their Romantic undertones, lively descriptions of Indian cultures and peoples, as well as criticisms of European colonialism, slavery, and cultural domination. He mixed up facts, romance and strong prejudices in very readable stories which provide insight into typical English Enlightment views on colonial and Indian society' (Coolhaas p.66-67). Haafner witnessed the Company's death agony and demise, and wrote about it. He has a lively and compelling manner (Nieuwenhuys, Mirror of the Indies, p.21).Goonetileke 2190; Cf. Tiele 435; Cat. NHSM I, p.243 and Landwehr, VOC, 350. [Boeknr.: 36180 ]

€ 375,00

HUSSIN, Nordin. Melaka and Penang 1780-1830: A study of two port towns in the Straits of Melaka. (No pl., 2001). Wrappers. With illustrations. XII,508 pp. Thesis. - Trade and society in the Straits Of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English Penang. [Boeknr.: 28648 ]

€ 45,00

LEQUIN, Frank & Albert MEIJER. Samuel van de Putte, een Mandarijn uit Vlissingen (1690-1745). De onbedoelde publicatie van een restant. Middelburg, Stichting VOC Publicaties, 1989. Oblong 8vo. Wrappers. With many facsimiles. 104 pp. Samuel van der Putte was a Dutch adventurer, linguist and scientist who travelled widely through South East Asia, India, China and Tibet. [Boeknr.: 226 ]

€ 35,00

NELSON, W.A. The Dutch forts of Sri Lanka. The military monuments of Ceylon. Edinburgh, Canongate,1984. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 10 maps, 32 plans and 64 illustrations. XIV,152 pp. [Boeknr.: 6303 ]

€ 65,00

OTTOW, W.M. Rijckloff Volckertsz van Goens. Krijgsman, commissaris en regent, dienaar der V.O.C. Archiefstudie over het Europees verlof (1655-57) en de eerste grote Ceylon-periode (1657-62). 2e verbeterde uitgave. (No pl.), 1996. Folio. Wrappers. With maps and illustrations. (3),XV,290 pp. - Privately printed. [Boeknr.: 15425 ]

€ 40,00

SAAR, Johann Jacob. Ost-Indianische Funfzehen-Jährige Kriegs-Dienste/ und wahrhafftige Beschreibung/ was sich Zeit solcher funfzehen Jahr/ von Anno Christi 1644. bis Anno Christi 1659. zur See/ und zu Land/ on offentlichen Treffen/ in Belägerungen/ in Stürmen/ in Eroberung/ Portugäsen/ und Heydnischer/ Plätze und Städte/ in Marchim, in Quartiern, mit ihm/ und andern seinen Cameraden begeben habe/ am allermeinsten auf der grossen und herrlichen/ Insul Ceilon. Zum andern mahl heraus gegeben/ und mit vielen denckwürdigen Notis oder Anmerckungen/ .. vermehret/ und gezieret. Nürnberg, Johann Daniel Tauber, 1672.Sm. folio. Later overlapping vellum, with red morocco titlelabel, with ties. With titlepage printed in red and black, finely engraved portrait and frontispiece by J.A. Böner, 15 half-page engravings, plus 2 additional ones on seperate leaf, and several woodcut head and tail pieces and initials. (52),168,(16) pp. Second and best edition, first published in 1662. - In this second edition Daniel Wülfer inserted more descriptions in the text and added many voluminous notes, citing as authorities a great many of the published descriptions of Asia available at the time. His account is very useful for its description of the daily life of a VOC soldier, and it is particularly valuable for its detailed portrayal of the Dutch conquest of Colombo and Jaffnapatam from the Portuguese in the 1655-1658 compaigns, in which Saar participated. Saar describes Java, Batavia, Amboina, and Banda, a Dutch defeat in Persia, conquest of some towns in India and Malacca, etc. Most of his years, however were spent in Ceylon (Lach, Asia in the making of Europe, III,1, p.529-530). With fine engravings, including a remarkable view of Cape Town and Table Bay in which the Table Mountain is represented in the shape of a lion. - Small owner's stamp on back of portrait, age-browned (as usual) otherwise in good condition.Tiele 952; Cat. NHSM I, p.174; Landwehr, VOC, 308; Mendelssohn II, p.262; SAB IV, p.108; Ruinen C 27; Cat. KITLV I, p.475; Howgego p.921. [Boeknr.: 11508 ]

€ 6000,00

SANTEN, Hans Walther van. De Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie in Gujarat en Hindostan, 1620-1660. Meppel, 1982. Wrappers. With plan and map. 289 pp. - (Thesis). [Boeknr.: 6313 ]

€ 45,00

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

SPEELMAN, C. Journaal der reis van den gezant der O.I.Compagnie Joan Cunaeus naar Perzië in 1651-52. Uitgegeven door A. Hotz. Amsterdam, Johannes Müller, 1908. Printed wrappers new back wrapper). With folding map, plan and plate. CXV,466 pp. Historisch Genootschap. - Journal of Joan Cunaeus embassy for the Dutch East India Company (VOC), to and in Persia, kept by the secretary, the later Governor-General Speelman. [Boeknr.: 37125 ]

€ 75,00

TERPSTRA, H. De Nederlanders in Voor-Indië. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen & Zoon, 1947. Half cloth. With 5 maps and 15 plates. 205 pp. - (Patria). [Boeknr.: 6319 ]

€ 15,00

THEUNISSEN, H., A. ABELMANN & W. MEULENKAMP. ( Red.). Topkapi & Turkomanie. Turks-Nederlandse ontmoetingen sinds 1600. Amsterdam, De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1989. 8vo. Wrappers. With many illustrations (several in colours). 232 pp. [Boeknr.: 79 ]

€ 35,00

WAGENAAR, L.J. Galle, VOC-vestiging in Ceylon. Beschrijving van een koloniale samenleving aan de vooravond van de Singalese opstand tegen het Nederlandse gezag, 1760. Amsterdam, Bataafsche Leeuw, 1994. 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With numerous illustrations (several in colours). 248 pp. [Boeknr.: 7071 ]

€ 35,00

WINIUS, G.D. & M.P.M. VINK. The merchant-warrior pacified. The VOC (The Dutch East India Company) and its changing political economy in India. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1991. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With map, and 10 illustrations on plates. VIII,(2),201 pp. [Boeknr.: 12164 ]

€ 45,00

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