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BRYAN, C.D.B. The National Geographic Society. 100 years of adventure and discovery. New York, Harry N. Abrams, (1994). 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 406 photographic illustrations (290 in colours). 484 pp. Brings to life the flamboyant explorers and innovative photographers, starting in 1888. - A fine copy. [Boeknr.: 9384 ]

€ 45,00

DOMIS, Hendrik Jacob. De residentie Pasoeroeang op het eiland Java. 's Gravenhage, H.S.J. de Groot, 1836.Contemporary blind-tooled calf, spine gilt with green morocco title-label, inner dentelles, a.e.g. With lithographed title-page, map and 2 lithographed plates by J.D. Steuerwald. VI,178,(2) pp. Original edition; printed on heavy paper. - Description of Pasuruan, East-Java, by the civil servant J.H. Domis (1782-1842). The Dutch established a fort at Pasuruan in 1707. It was the capital of a residency from 1811 to 1934. With attention to the coffee and sugar cultures. - Copy from the library of Dutch parliament. - Rare.Tiele 323; Cat. KITLV I, p.10; not in Bastin-Brommer and Von Hünersdorff, Coffee. [Boeknr.: 3215 ]

€ 595,00

HOFFMEISTER, Eduard von. Durch Armenien. Eine Wanderung und der Zug Xenophons bis zum Schwarzen Meere. Eine militär-geographische Studie. Leipzig, Berlin, B.G. Teubner, 1911.8vo. Cloth (spine sl. faded). With 4 maps (2 folding), 5 plates and 96 photographic illustrations by the author. VIII,252 pp. [Boeknr.: 24721 ]

€ 95,00

MANGIN, Arthur. The desert world. From the French. Edited and enlarged. London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1869.Contemporary morocco, richly gilt, a.e.g.. With 160 fine wood-engravings by W. Freeman, Foulquier and Dargent. 624 pp. Frist English edition, first published in Tours in 1866 Le désert et le monde sauvage; with the bookplate of William B. Rice. - Desert-life in Africa, Australia, America, Asia and the polar regions. Dealing with the scenery, animal and vegetable life, and physical character of the wildernesses and waste places of the earth. - A very fine copy. [Boeknr.: 37161 ]

€ 150,00

PIGAFETTA, Antonio. Magellan's voyage. A narrative account of the first circumnavigation. New Haven, London, 1969. 2 volumes. Folio. Original cloth, in slipcase. With maps and facsimiles in colours. Vol.I: translation of the manuscript., edited by R.A. Skelton. Vol.II: coloured facsimile of the manuscript of Yale university. - 'One of the most important geographical manuscripts known, and one of the handsomest. The report of man's first voyage around his world' (Foreword). For the geography and history of the pre-Spanish Philippines, Pigafetta's account is a primary source, objective and sympathetic. For the history of Borneo, 'the European sources .. have importance .. because there are almost no native annals or monuments of so early a date to tell of the island's past' (Introduction). He sighted the Cape of Good Hope and the Cape Verde Islands. [Boeknr.: 939 ]

€ 175,00

WALLACH, Janet. Koningin van de woestijn. Gertrude Bell, raadgever van koningen, avonturier, bondgenoot van Lawrence of Arabia. Amsterdam, Anthos, 1997. Wrappers. With photographic plates. 527 pp. Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (1868 - 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist who explored, mapped, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making due to her knowledge and contacts, built up through extensive travels in Syria-Palestine, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Arabia. [Boeknr.: 21688 ]

€ 20,00

WESSELING, H.L. Verdeel en heers. De deling van Afrika 1880-1914. Amsterdam, Bert Bakker, 1991. Boards. With illustrations. 521 pp. [Boeknr.: 25993 ]

€ 25,00


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