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ABRANSON, E. Beroemde schepen. Helmond, Hasselt, (1978). 8vo. Boards, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations (several in colours, 20 after paintings by Edward Mortelmans). 124 pp. [Boeknr.: 32065 ]

€ 25,00

ADELS, Wiert. Wiert Adels. Stuurman op het Hollandsch kofschip De Bloeijende Blom, die zig van dezen bodem, na dat dezelve door de Franschen genomen, met veel bravoure meester gemaakt en den 5 Augustus te Hellevoet opgebracht heeft. (Middelburg), W.A. Keel, (1796).Half-length mezzotint portrait by Charles Howard Hodges after Jacobus Perkois. Ca. 43 x 32 cm (including wide margins). Wiert Adels was steersman for the ship De Bloeyende Blom which was bringing grain from the Baltic port of Libau. A Duinkerk privateer seized his ship but after a few days he managed to recapture his ship and to seize the chief of the privateers and to throw him overboard. Thus he succeeded to bring his ship into Hellevoetsluis in 1794. This fine engraved portrait of a brave sailor was done by the mezzotint master Hodges (1764-1837) after a drawing by Perkois (1756-1804). - Fine state.Cf. Van Someren 227; Muller 17; Van der Feltz 626. [Boeknr.: 21293 ]

€ 375,00

AKTIESELSKABET DET OSTASIATISKE KOMPAGNI. The East Asiatic Company Ltd. Copenhagen, 1957. 4to. Boards. With many illustrations. 75 pp. [Boeknr.: 29333 ]

€ 20,00

AKVELD, L.M., e.a. In het kielzog. Maritiem-historische studies aangeboden aan Jaap R. Bruijn bij zijn vertrek als hoogleraar zeegeschiedenis aan de Universiteit Leiden. Amsterdam, 2003. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations. 560 pp. [Boeknr.: 28427 ]

€ 30,00

ALEXANDER, M. Omai 'noble savage'. London, Collins & Harvill Press, 1977. Boards. With plates. 223 pp. - Omai was brought to England from Tahiti in 1773 by captain Furneaux during Cook's second expedition. [Boeknr.: 18353 ]

€ 30,00

ALPHEN, M. van, A.M.C. van DISSEL, e.a. (Red.). Kroniek der zeemacht. Gedenkwaardige gebeurtenissen uit vijf eeuwen marinegeschiedenis Amsterdam, 2004. 4to. Boards, with dust-jacket. 464 pp. - (Bijdr. Nederlandse Marinegeschiedenis). [Boeknr.: 28426 ]

€ 80,00

ANGRA, A TERCEIRA E OS AÇORES nas totas da India e das Américas. A propósito dos 500 anos da passagem de Vasco da Gama por Angra em 1499. Angra do Heroìsmo, 1999. Wrappers. With illustrations (several in colours). 308 pp. [Boeknr.: 31832 ]

€ 45,00

APIANUS,Petrus & Gemma Frisius. Cosmographia .. apud lovanienses medicum & mathematicu insignemiam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis, ac non-nullis quoq, locis aucta. Additis eiusem argumenti libellis ipsius Gemmae Frisii. Antwerpen, Aegidius Coppenius Diesthensis for Gregorius de Bonte, 1545.4to. Contemporary limp vellum, in modern cloth box. With large woodcut on title-page depicting a geographical globe, folding worl map, woodcut initials and ca. 50 woodcut maps, diagrams, etc. in the text including 5 with volvettes and 1 with original lead plumb line. (2), 66 lvs. First published in 1524 by Apianus, the augmented edition was first published in 1529 and republished many times throughout the 16th century; with contemporary annotations on endpapers. - A fundamental work on cosmography, augmented by the Flemish mathematician Gemma Frisius. The world map is one of the earliest maps to contain the name of America. An attractive copy of one of the most significant and influential books for navigators and travellers. Extensively illustrated Shirley 82; European Americana 545/3; Sabin 1748 [Boeknr.: 32512 ]

€ 13500,00

ARCHIBALD, E.H.H. The wooden fighting ship in the Royal Navy AD 897-1860. London, Blanford Press, (1968). 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations by Ray Woodward (several in colours). 174 pp. [Boeknr.: 32054 ]

€ 35,00

ARMITAGE, Chr.M. Sir Walter Ralegh, an annotated bibliography. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, (1987). Cloth, with dust-jacket. XIII,236 pp. - Raleigh (1552?-1618), the colorful English military and naval commander and author, was also well known as an explorer of the New World. [Boeknr.: 20557 ]

€ 45,00

ASAERT, G. Westeuropese scheepvaart in de middeleeuwen. (Bussum, Unieboek, 1974). 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations (several in colours). 144 pp. [Boeknr.: 32328 ]

€ 25,00

BANCKERT, Adriaen. E. manhafte zee-held Adriaan Bankert, L. Admiraal van Zeeland. (No pl., ca. 1650). Engraved halflength portrait with sea-battle in the background after H. Berckman by Jean du Bois (Johannes van Houten) with 12 line poem by W. Brest. Ca. 44 x 34 cm. Adriaen (ca. 1620-1684) was the oldest son of the famous Joost Banckert (ca. 1597-1647; 'Gesel der Spanjaarden, schrik der Portugezen'). Adriaen played an import role in the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars, but did not receive the recognition he deserved because he was from Zeeland.Cf. Muller, Portretten, 203 a; Hollstein 3; Van Someren 241. [Boeknr.: 30879 ]

€ 295,00

BARTLETT, William Henry. - BEATTIE, William. The ports, harbours, watering-places, and coast scenery of Great Britain. Illustrated by views taken on the spot, by W.H. Bartlett; with descriptions by William Beattie. London, George Virtue, 1842.2 volumes. 4to. Contemporary richly decorated gilt morocco, rebacked with the original gilt spines laid down, a.e.g. With frontispiece portrait of Queen Victoria, woodcut of Blackwall and 125 steelengravings (incl. 2 frontispieces and title-pages). (4),190; (4),155 pp. This is the revised, much enlarged edition of the original work issued by Charles Tilt. - The plates present the harbours and shores of England, Scotland and Wales in the most dramatic, picturesque, or romantic light possible. Depictions of port cities range from stormy scenes of wreckage to calm sunny days. The romantic views by William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854) are among the best produced in the 19th century. The plate of the lighthouse of Berwick in volume one is shown as title-vignette in volume two. William Beattie (1793-1875) wrote the descriptions. - (Some light foxing as usual).Andres 353. [Boeknr.: 29132 ]

€ 475,00

BENSAUDE, J. L'astronomie nautique au Portugal a l'époque des grandes découvertes. (Berne, 1912-17). Réimpression. Amsterdam, Meridian Publishing Co, 1967. Cloth. With illustrations. 301 pp. [Boeknr.: 9494 ]

€ 35,00

BENTINCK, Wolter Jan Gerrit. Wolter Jan Gerrit Baron Bentinck, Schout bij Nacht van Holland en Westvriesland .. overleden aan zyne wonden, bekomen in den roemrugtigen zeeslag, op Doggersbank, den 5den augustus 1781. Amsterdam, Allart, (ca. 1785).Engraved portrait of Jan Gerrit Baron Bentinck (1745-1781), a Dutch sea-officer, after P. Oets by Reinz. Vinkeles. Ca. 33 x 24,5 cm. (not including the wide blank margins). - Muller, Portretten, 337A. [Boeknr.: 25788 ]

€ 185,00

BEZEM, N.D. Het korvet Niptun. Signed and dated N.D. Bezem 1869. Original black ink drawing with brush and gray washes depicting the corvette Niptun in rough weather with on both sides another ship. Ca. 35 x 47 cm. [Boeknr.: 30880 ]

€ 1750,00

BINDER, Fr. Die Zeeländische Kaperfahrt 1654-1662. (Middelburg), 1976. Wrappers. (52) pp. - (Offprint KZG). [Boeknr.: 24219 ]

€ 18,00

THE BINH THUAN SHIPWRECK. Melbourne, Christie's, 2004. 4to. Wrappers. With many coloured illustrations. 92 pp. - The wreck was located some 40 nautical miles of Phan Thiet, Vietnam. [Boeknr.: 31914 ]

€ 75,00

BLISCHKE, R. Kapitän Phillip. Gründung der Strafkolonie Sydney. 2. Auflage. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1925. Half cloth. With illustrations and plates. 159 pp. [Boeknr.: 19019 ]

€ 18,00

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