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KILLION, Ronald & Charles WALLER. (Ed.). Interviews with Georgia slaves. Slavery time when I was Chillun down on master's plantation. Savannah, The Beehive Press, 1973. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With photographic plates. XVIII,167 pp. [Boeknr.: 37155 ]

€ 45,00

KNAPPERT, L. Geschiedenis van de Nederlandsche Bovenwindsche eilanden in de 18e eeuw. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1932. Original printed wrappers. With 2 maps and 4 plates. 308 pp. [Boeknr.: 6775 ]

€ 65,00

KNIPSCHILD, Harry. De bekering van de wereld. Brieven, verhalen en ervaringen uit de geschiedenis van de missie. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2013. Wrappers. With illustrations. 224 pp. [Boeknr.: 33200 ]

€ 25,00

KNOX, John P. A historical account of St. Thomas, W.I., with its rise and progress in commerce; missions and churches, climate and its adaptation to invalids; geological structure; natural history and botany; and incidental notices of St. Croix and St. Johns; slave instructions in these islands; emancipation and present condition of laboring classes. New York, Charles Scriber, 1852.Original embossed cloth (top of spine sl. dam.). With folding lithographed map (browned). 271 pp. First edition; with book stamp of G.A.F. Molengraaff and H.P. Paulsen, St, Thoimas. - The author was a pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church in St. Thomas. He provides an interesting history of the Virgin Islands, the Danish West Indies. - (Missing view of St. Thomas).Sabin 38170; Afro-Americana 5598. [Boeknr.: 36808 ]

€ 175,00

KNOX, John P. A historical account of St. Thomas, W.I., with its rise and progress in commerce; missions and churches, climate and its adaptation to invalids; geological structure; natural history and botany; and incidental notices of St. Croix and St. Johns; slave instructions in these islands; emancipation and present condition of laboring classes. New York, Charles Scriber, 1852.Original embossed cloth (hinges rep.). With tinted lithographed view of St. Thomas and folding lithographed map (browned). 271 pp. First edition; with bookplate of Bibliotheca Missionum Societatis Verbi Divini. - The author was a pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church in St. Thomas. He provides an interesting history of the Virgin Islands, the Danish West Indies.Sabin 38170; Afro-Americana 5598. [Boeknr.: 36742 ]

€ 375,00

KOL, Hendrikus Hubertus van. Naar de Antillen en Venezuela. Leiden, A.W. Sijhoff, 1904.8vo. Original decorated cloth (sl. soiled). With folding maps and photographic plates. 552 pp. Illustrated travelogue of a visit to the Dutch Antilles, the Dutch, British and French Guyanas and Venezuela. [Boeknr.: 6777 ]

€ 65,00

KOTZEBUE, Otto van. Ontdekkingsreis in de Zuid-Zee en naar de Berings-Straat in de jaren 1815, 1816, 1817 en 1818. Uit het Hoogduitsch. Amsterdam, Johannes van der Hey, 1822.3 volumes. Later half blue morocco, spines gilt, with title labels to spines. With 3 different engraved title-pages by D. Veelwaard (1 handcoloured), 3 folding plates, 4 handcoloured plates and 6 folding engraved maps. VIII,428; IV,413; VIII,492 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in Weimar in 1821 Entdeckungs-Reise in die Süd-See und nach der Berings-Strasse. - A celebrated narrative of the second Russian expedition into the Pacific for scientific exploration. Leaving Kronstadt in 1815, the Rurik rounded Cape Horn and visited Chili, Easter Island and the Marshall Islands. Kotzebue explored the North American coast and Hawaii and searched unsuccessfully for a passage to the Arctic Ocean. The description of the northwest coast of America is a most important contribution (Hill p.333). Kotzebue descripion of the missions in California is considered one of the most important early accounts of that state, also important is its descriptions of Alaska. The Hawaiian portion is extensive and contains important observations on life and customs - (Some waterstains at end of volume 1). - A beautiful copy of the very rare Dutch edition of one of the great Pacific exploratory voyages. Cat. NHSM I, p.144; not in Tiele; Landwehr, Coloured Plates, 336; Forbes 551, Cf. Hill 943 (English and German ed. only); Lada-Mocarski 80. [Boeknr.: 32817 ]

€ 2950,00

KRAFFT, A.J.C. Historie en oude families van de Nederlandse Antillen. Het Antilliaanse patriciaat. Met een historische inleiding, zestig uitgewerkte genealogiëen, genealogische aantekeningen, fragmenten van genealogieën, ongepubliceerde documenten en een overzicht van bronnen zowel gedrukte als in handschrift. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1951. Folio. Cloth, with dust-jacket.. With 10 maps and ca. 100 illustrations and portraits. 448 pp. [Boeknr.: 741 ]

€ 350,00

KRAIJENHOFF, Cornelis Carte de la Hollande par provinces. Dressée d'après la carte de Mr. le Lieut. Gal. Bon. Kraijenhoff par Lorrain Ainé. Paris, Binet, 1838.Oblong 8vo. Contemporary half calf (verso front board strengthend), spine richly gilt (top of spine sl. dam.). With steelengraved title-page and 11 steelengraved maps (1 folding), +1 extra map depicting Java, all handcoloured in outline. Bound with: C.V. MONIN & A.R. FRÉMIN. Atlas universel de géographie ancienne et moderne. Paris, Binet, (1835). Steelengraved title-page, folding plate tableau cosmographique, 12 maps of the ancient world and 37 maps of the modern world (including worldmap), all steelengraved and handcoloured in outline by Bénard. - (Some foxing and age-browning). [Boeknr.: 37084 ]

€ 375,00

KREEKEL, Willem & Q.M.R. VERHUELL. De reis van Z.M. De Vlieg, commandant Willem Kreekel, naar Brazilië, 1807-1808. Uitgegeven door H.J. de Graaf. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1975-76. 2 volumes. Cloth. With folding map and 10 coloured plates. Linschoten-Vereeniging LXXVI-LXXVII. - Volume I. Het journaal van W. Kreekel en de herinneringen aan deze reis door J. Chrétien Baud; Volume II. Q.M.R. Verhuell. Mijn eerste zeereis. [Boeknr.: 3742 ]

€ 45,00

KREEKEL, Willem. De reis van Z.M. De Vlieg, commandant Willem Kreekel, naar Brazilië, 1807-1808. Uitgegeven door H.J. de Graaf. Deel I: Het journaal van de kapitein-luitenant Willem Kreekel en de herinneringen aan deze reis door Jean Chrétien Baud. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1975. Cloth. With folding map and 5 coloured plates. IX,214 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging LXXVI. [Boeknr.: 32784 ]

€ 20,00

KREIDER, H.J. The beginnings of Lutheranism in New York (under Dutch rules). Written for the United Lutheran Synod of New York in connection with its celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the oldest Lutheran Church in America. Foreword by Fr.R. Knubel. New York, 1949. Wrappers. With plates. IX,76 pp. [Boeknr.: 16373 ]

€ 20,00

KRELL, Peter. Clarkstown, Rockland County. Clarkstown Bicentennial Commission, 1989. 8vo. Wrappers. With illustrations. 436 pp. So that all may be remembered volume I. - List of all burials in the cemetries of Clarkstown: Reformed Church Cemetries (contains some of the area's earliest settlers), Upper Nyack Cemetry, Nanuet Truf Reformed Church Cemetry, etc. [Boeknr.: 25522 ]

€ 75,00

KROON, Pieter. (red.). Atlas of Cape Horn. The cartography of South America 1500-1725. Bussum, Thoth, 2016. Folio. Boards. With many coloured illustrations and maps. 175 pp. Published by Stichting 400 jaar Kaap Hoorn. With contributions by Maarten Klein, Henk den Heijer, Omar Ortiz Troncoso, Diederick Wildeman, Hans Kok, Sjoerd de Meer. [Boeknr.: 34422 ]

€ 75,00

KROON, Pieter. (red.). Atlas van Kaap Hoorn. Kaartbeeld van zuidelijk Zuid-Amerika 1500-1725. Bussum, Thoth, 2016. Folio. Boards. With many coloured illustrations and maps. 175 pp. Published by Stichting 400 jaar Kaap Hoorn. With contributions by Maarten Klein, Henk den Heijer, Omar Ortiz Troncoso, Diederick Wildeman, Hans Kok, Sjoerd de Meer. [Boeknr.: 34261 ]

€ 65,00

KUYPER, Henriette Sophia Suzanna. Een half jaar in Amerika. Rotterdam, D.A. Daamen, (1907). Original cloth. (6),450 pp. First edition. - Dutch travelogue on America by Jetta Kuyper (1870 - 1932) daughter of the politician Abraham Kuyper. She visited Russia and in 1905 America, this visit opened her eyes to the role of women in society. There she gave lectures and spoke at meetings. For her time she was an emancipated woman and a proto-feminist. [Boeknr.: 34325 ]

€ 45,00

€ 695,00

L'HERMITE, Jacques. Journael van de Nassausche vloot/ ofte beschrijvingh van de voyagie om den gantschen aerd-kloot, gedaen met elf schepen onder 't beleydt van den admirael Jaques 'LHeremite, ende vice-admirael Gheen Huygen Schapenham, inde jaren 1623, 1624, 1625 en 1626. Noch is hier by gevoegt een beschrijvinge vande regeeringe van Peru, door Pedro de Madriga gekozen tot Luna, als mede een verhael van Pedro Fernandez de Quir, aengaende de ontdeckinge van't onbekent Australia, sijn grooten rijckdom ende vruchtbaerheyt. Amsterdam, Joost Hartgertsz, 1648.4to. Old half vellum over marbled boards. With large woodcut with 2 ships on title-page and folding engraved plate depicting 6 views of the fleet in various bays and harbours. (2),76 pp. The first official account of the circumnavigation was published in 1626. - Jacques Le Hermite (1582-1624) commanded a punitive fleet of eleven ships and 1637 men to the coasts of South America with the objective of clearing the westward route to the Pacific of Spanish and Portuguese shipping. The fleet was outfitted under the auspices of the Dutch gouvernment, the two major companies, the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company, having little interest in the Pacific route. With the flagship Amsterdam along with the Delft under vice-admiral Geen Huyghen Schapenham and with Adolph Decker, captain of marines, Le Hermite's fleet left Texel on 29-4-1623, raided the coast of Guinea, then sailed south of to the coast of Patagonia. It then passed through the Strait of Le Maire and sighted Cape Horn on 14-2-1624. While in the region the expedition discovered and anchored in the Bay of Nassau, charting the surrounding islands (including the Hermite group). In addition, it was shown for the first time that it was possible to sail northward through the Le Maire strait. After coasting South America and plundering a few Spanish settlements, the fleet continued across the Pacific and was eventually disbanded at Batavia. Le Hermite, already a sick man at the time of the outward voyage, died at Callao in Peru and was buried on San Lorenzo Island near Lima. Command passed to Schapenham, whose article contains details of the latter section of the voyage (Howgego p.615). This account is combined with a description of Peru by Pedro de Madriga, an account of an English expedition to Guyana in 1596 (Kort-journael, gedaen naer het gout-rijck coninckrijck Guiana) and a discourse on VOC trade, none of which appeared in previous printings. - A very nice copy with the bookplate of The Cruising Association.Tiele 667; Tiele, Mémoire, p.78; Landwehr, VOC, 250; European Americana II, p.491; Lach, Asia in the making of Europe, III,1 p.449. [Boeknr.: 35231 ]

€ 3950,00

LABAT, Jean-Baptiste. Nieuwe reizen naar de Franse eilanden van America. Behelzende de natuurlyke historie van die landen, derzelver oorspronk, zeden, godsdienst, regering der oude en tegenwoordige inwoonders; als ook die der zwarte slaaven .. Als ook een naauwkeurige verhandeling van het maken der suiker, indigo, cochenille, cacao, en andere nuttigheden, tot den koophandel dienende. In't Nederduitsch in't ligt gebragt door W.C. Dyks. Amsterdam, Balthasar Lakeman, 1725.4 volumes in 2. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf (sl. rubbed), with red and green labels on spines, spines ribbed and richly gilt. With 4 title-pages printed in red and black, 2 engraved frontispieces (mounted), 13 engraved maps and plans (12 folding) and 81 engraved plates. 18,350; 404; 254; 200,167,(32) pp. First Dutch edition; first published in Paris in 1722 Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amerique. - Labat (1663/64-1738) went to the West Indies as a Dominican missionary, and gives in this, his most famous work, details of all the islands he visited, and notably of Martinique and Guadeloupe' (Cox II, p.235). 'His highly perceptive and scientific description of these islands and some of the smaller surrounding islands provides some of the only information available from this period. .. His book contains his scientific observations, as well as descriptions of the soil, trees, plants, fruits, and herbs of the islands. He also deals with the natural resources of the island and suggets means for the development of trade' (Howgego p.598). Also dealing with slavery, flora and fauna. 'The most copious (work) that we possess on the Antilles (Sabin). Richly illustrated with maps and plates of the vegetation and animals, and the various products of the islands. - A fine copy of an interesting and significant work.Tiele 623; not in Cat. NHSM; Sabin 38415; European Americana 725/121. [Boeknr.: 22856 ]

€ 4950,00

LAET, Johannes de. Iaerlyck verhael van de verrichtinghen der geoctroyeerde West-Indische Compagnie in derthien boecken (1624-1636). Uitgegeven door S.P. l'Honoré Naber en J.C.M. Warnsinck. Deel III Boek VIII-X (1631-1633). 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1934- Cloth. With portrait, 2 maps and 3 plates. XX,234 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging XXXVII. - Yearly record of the proceedings of the WIC from 1631 to 1633, [Boeknr.: 37057 ]

€ 20,00

LANS, W.H. Bijdrage tot de kennis der kolonie Suriname. 's Gravenhage, Nederlandsche Maatschappij van Schoone Kunsten, 1842.Original printed green wrappers with woodengraved coat of arms on front cover and a sailing vessel on back cover. (spine rep.). With several nice wood-engravings in the text. IV,195,(10) pp. Original edition. - Contributions to the knowledge of Suriname; several chapters dealing with slavery. 'In 1842 gaf Lans in een kleine en decoratief bedoelde illustratie in zijn boek Bijdragen tot de kennis der kolonie Suriname het zware werk tussen het manshoge suikerriet weer als een middagje schoffelen in de moestuin' (Kolfin, Van de slavenzweep en de muze, p.70). - Los van de verwerpelijke ideeën van Lans over de gekleurde bevolking van Suriname doet hij een serieuze poging de economische problemen van de kolonie vanuit Surinaams perspectief te bespreken. In veel 19e eeuwse literatuur over Suriname is het dominante perspectief Nederlands (Carl Haarnack, BukuBooks). - (Some foxing).Tiele 642; Sabin, 38932; Muller, America, 3058; Suriname-Catalogus UB Amsterdam 3878; Work p.268. [Boeknr.: 17697 ]

€ 225,00

LAVEILLE, E. Le P. de Smet. Apotre des Peaux-rouges (1801-1873). Introduction par Godefroid Kurth. 4me édition. Louvain, Éditions du Museum Lessianum, 1928. Wrappers. With folding map. XIV,480 pp. Pieter Jan de Smet (1801-1873) was a Belgian Jesuit missionary to North America. [Boeknr.: 24988 ]

€ 30,00

LEFEBVRE, René (Eduard René Lefèbvre de Laboulage). Paris en Amérique. 8me édition. Paris, Charpentier, 1863.Sm.8vo. Contemporary half calf. 450 pp. First edition published the same year, this satirical romance went through at least eight editions in 1863 . - Through the wonderful adventures of a Parisian doctor of the conventional type, who with his whole family is spirited away to America by a sorcerer, Laboulaye sets forth an amusing contrast between many customs and institutions of the New World and those of his own. Written by Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye (1811 - 1883), a French jurist, poet, author and anti-slavery activist. Sabin 38439. [Boeknr.: 8317 ]

€ 45,00

LENNEP COSTER, G. van. Aanteekeningen gehouden gedurende mijn verblijf in de West-Indiën, in de jaren 1837-1840. Amsterdam, J.F. Schleijer, 1842.Later half calf. With 3 lithographed views by H.J. Backer. VII,359 pp. First edition. - Journal kept by the captain on board of the brig De Valk during his voyage to West Africa (Elmina), Suriname, Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, Venezuela, St. Eustatius, Saba, St. Maarten, Haiti and St. Domingo (Dominican Republic). Including detailed history of the rise of the Black Republic (Haiti) and Toussaint L'Ouverture. The fine views depict Fort Zeelandia Paramaribo, harbour of Porto Cabello and Port au Prince. - A fine copy. - Scarce.Tiele 272; Cat. NHSM I, p.263; Suriname-catalogus Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam 3968; Muller, America, p.95; Sabin 40031; Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection 866. [Boeknr.: 7457 ]

€ 875,00

LEWIS, Matthew Gregory. Journal of a residence among the negroes in the West Indies. London, John Murray, 1845.Later half cloth. VIII,184; 16 pp. First edition. - Although opportunely printed in the year of emancipation, this work really comprises the journals of two earlier residences in Jamaica, in 1815-1816 and in 1817, respectively. It is, therefore, an interesting document dealing with the state of the island after the abolition of the slave trade and before the freeing of the blacks. ... Lewis fell heir to two Jamacan estates and visited them twice, as above stated, but died of yellow fever at sea on returning home in 1818. The author's viewpoint is that of a cultured English gentleman who has a sincere if somewhat misguided interest in the welfare of negroes who have suddenly become his property. The work shows the crying evils of absentee landlordism even when the owner was the best type, as Lewis unquestionably was (Ragatz p.227). Sabin 40821; Afro-Americana 5836. [Boeknr.: 8568 ]

€ 275,00

LOON, L.G. van. Crumbs from an old Dutch closet. The Dutch dialect of old New York. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1938. Wrappers, uncut. 47 pp. [Boeknr.: 29114 ]

€ 65,00

LORIMER, Joyce (Ed.). English and Irish settlement on the river Amazon 1550-1646. London, 1989. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 10 maps. XXVI,499 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 171. - The ventures in the Amazon are probably the earliest example of independent Irish colonial projects in the New World. [Boeknr.: 21028 ]

€ 35,00

LOTSY, Johannes Paulus. Van den Atlantischen Oceaan naar de Stille Zuidzee in 1922. Dagboek van een botanicus, die niet alleen naar planten keek. 2e onveranderde duizendtal. 's Gravenhage, G. Naeff, 1930.Original cloth, with dust-jacket (dam.). With maps and 181 photographic illustrations. XIII,491 pp. First published in 1923. - Trip from the Atlantic to the South Pacific by the Dutch botanist Johannes Paulus Lotsy (1867-1931). Profusely illustated. [Boeknr.: 28047 ]

€ 45,00

LOWE, Percy R. A naturalist on desert islands. London, Witherby & Co., 1911.Original blue cloth, spine decorated and gilt. With 3 maps and many photographic plates. XII,300 pp. First edition. - The English surgeon and ornithologist Percy Roycroft Lowe (1870-1948) served as a private physician to Sir Frederick Johnstone (1841-1913) in the West Indies from 1902 to 1912. Visiting a.o. Swan Islands (Honduras), Blanquilla and Hermanos islands (Venezuela). [Boeknr.: 36783 ]

€ 65,00

LYDECKER, William John Fisher. Archive of William John Fisher Lydecker, a member of the Holland Society of New York. This part of his research-library is focused on the genealogies and baptisms of many Dutch families in America. Mostly cyclostyled or in reprint. 28 folders. Contains: Genealogy of his own family Lydecker and the Bertholf (Bartholf) family; the Bogart family; Alyea family; the Bergen family; the Sabin family; the Voorhees family; Clarkstown Reformed Dutch Church Records. Baptisms from 1795 to 1922, together with some marriage records; New York Cemetery (Maple Grove); Records of the Tappan Reformed Church; W. Nelson. History of the city of Paterson and the County of Passaic New Jersey; etc. [Boeknr.: 26699 ]

€ 275,00

LYDECKER. Ch.E. Jean Roemer, LL.D. (Amst., 1812- New York 1892, professor at the college of the city of New York over 43 years). New York, The Peck Press, (1902). Original wrappers (dam.). With photograph of the tombstone. 10 pp. [Boeknr.: 25392 ]

€ 18,00

MACEDO, Joaquim Manuel de. Notions on the chorography of Brazil. Translated by H. Le Sage. Leipzig., F.A. Brockhaus, 1873.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt (original printed wrappers preserved). With 7 folding tables. 576 pp. First edition. - This topographical account of Brazil was written at the request of the Brazilian government for publicity purpose on the occasion of the International Fair in Vienna in 1873. Joaquim Manuel de Macedo (1820 - 1882) was a Brazilian novelist, doctor, teacher, poet, playwright and journalist. Borba de Moraes II, p.504. [Boeknr.: 8135 ]

€ 125,00

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

MARGADANT, W.F. Met de adelborsten aan boord van de 'Aldebaran'. 's Gravenhage, W. Cremer, 1887. Original decorated cloth (extremities of spine sl. dam.). 423 pp. First edition; with autograph dedication by the author. - From London to Brazil, South-Africa and Suriname. Cat. NHSM I, p.126. [Boeknr.: 31778 ]

€ 65,00

MARTIN, Karl. Bericht über eine Reise nach Niederländisch West-Indien und darauf gegründete Studien. Herausgegeben mit Unterstützung von 'Het Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap te Amsterdam'. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1887-1888.2 volumes. Original printed wrappers (spines sl. dam.). With maps of Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire and Suriname, 25 plates (14 tinted lithographs), and several illustrations. VII,186; VII,238 pp. Volume I Land und Leute; Volume II Geologische Studien. - Results of the expedition into Suriname, Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao and Venezuela, with fine plates and maps. Martin 'drang im April 1885 von Paramaribo aus ins Gebiet des oberen Surinam vor, begleitet von dem Geometer W.L. Loth; er kam in eine Gegend die bis dahin nur von J.F.A. Cateau van Rosevelt ca. 20 Jahre früher, betreten worden war' (Henze III, p.383). - Good copy of the 'Seperatausgabe'.Cat. NHSM I, p.264 (the first volume only); Suriname-Cat. UB Amsterdam 4295. [Boeknr.: 1688 ]

€ 175,00

MARTIN, Karl. Bericht über eine Reise nach Niederländisch West-Indien und darauf gegründete Studien. Herausgegeben mit Unterstützung von 'Het Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap te Amsterdam'. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1887-1888.2 volumes. Modern half calf (original printed frontwrappers preserved). With maps of Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire and Suriname, 25 plates (14 tinted lithographs), and several illustrations. VII,186; VII,238 pp. Volume I Land und Leute; Volume II Geologische Studien. - Results of the expedition into Suriname, Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao and Venezuela, with fine plates and maps. Martin 'drang im April 1885 von Paramaribo aus ins Gebiet des oberen Surinam vor, begleitet von dem Geometer W.L. Loth; er kam in eine Gegend die bis dahin nur von J.F.A. Cateau van Rosevelt ca. 20 Jahre früher, betreten worden war' (Henze III, p.383). - A very fine copy of the 'Seperatausgabe'.Cat. NHSM I, p.264 (the first volume only); Suriname-Cat. UB Amsterdam 4295. [Boeknr.: 36596 ]

€ 225,00

MATHISON, Gilbert Farquhar. Narrative of a visit to Brazil, Chile, Peru, and the Sandwich islands, during the years 1821 and 1822. With miscellaneous remarks on the past and present state, and political prospects of those countries. London, Charles Knight, 1825.Later half calf, spine gilt with red morocco title label. With folding chart of the Sandwich Islands (foxed) and 4 hand-coloured aquatint plates. XII,478,(1) pp. First edition; with bookplate of Robert Herries. - More than a third of the book relates to Brazil. Mathison gives an account of Rio de Janeiro and its environs and an overview of Brazililian history. The rest of the book concerns Chile, Peru, and the Hawaian Islands. Much information is given on the cultural life of the various places visited, including Hawaii. Among the Hawaiian material are accounts of the natives, the missioanries, the government and the royal family, shipping, and the speculation of the King in the Canton trade (Hill 1105). This is the main source for an account of the famous 'Cannibal Stone' located at Helemano, Oahu (Forbes 610). On Brazil the best passage is the description of the attempted Swiss colonization at that time in full decay (Borba de Moraes II, p.537).(3 leaves with small holes). - A fine copy.Sabin 46838; Abbey, Travel, 700. [Boeknr.: 36904 ]

€ 975,00

MAX O'RELL. (BLOUET, Leon Paul). John Bull & Co. The great colonial branches of the firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. 20th thousand. London, Frederick Warne & Co., 1894.Original pictorial cloth (top of spine sl. dam.). With many illustrations. XX,322 pp. First edition published in the same year. - 'A witty and humerous, but caustically written account of the principal British colonies' (Mendelssohn I, p.141). Ferguson 7154; NZNB B1050. [Boeknr.: 2111 ]

€ 40,00

McCONNELL, S.D. History of the American episcopal church from the planting of the colonies to the end of the civil war. London, Sampson, 1891. Original cloth. XIV,392 pp. [Boeknr.: 16456 ]

€ 25,00

McINTOSH, Burr. The little I saw of Cuba. London, New York, F. Tennyson Neely, (1899).Oblong 8vo. Original pictorial cloth. With numerous photographic illustrations taken by the author. 173 pp. Account of the U.S. invasion of Cuba in 1898 by Burr William McIntosh, representing Leslie's Weekly. - Rare. [Boeknr.: 16359 ]

€ 75,00

MEETEREN, N. van. Volkskunde van Curaçao. (1947). Reprint. Amsterdam, S. Emmering, 1977. Wrappers. With plates. 248 pp. [Boeknr.: 6705 ]

€ 18,00

MEETEREN, N. van. Volkskunde van Curaçao. Willemstad, Drukkerij Scherpenheuvel, 1947. Wrappers. With plates. 248 pp. [Boeknr.: 30628 ]

€ 35,00

MELLO, Evaldo Cabral de. De Braziliaanse affaire. Portugal, de Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden en Noord-Oost-Brazilië, 1641-1669. Vertaling van de derde herziene en vermeerderde druk C. Barel. (Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2005). Wrappers. 222 pp. Dutch translation of O Négocio do Brasil, Portugal, os Paises Baixos e o Nordeste, 1641-1669. [Boeknr.: 28899 ]

€ 25,00

MEPPEL, Jan Cornelisz. Jan Cornelisz Meppel, L. Admirael van Hollandt en Westvrieslandt onder't Collegie van't Noorderquartier. (No place), 1668.Engraved half length portrait with on top palm-branches and coat of arms, in front a globe and ships in the background, after Chr. Pierson by R. à Perzijn. With eight line poem by Chr. Pierson. Ca. 42,5 x 29,5 cm. Jan Corneliszoon Meppel (1609-1669 was a Dutch admiral who fought under Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruyter in the Mediterranean against African Barbarians on the ship Noorderkwartier in 1661. He played a role in the naval battles of the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 17th century. - (With three small restorations on verso).Muller, Portetten 3565.a: Zeldzaam. [Boeknr.: 33800 ]

€ 450,00

MERCATOR, Gerard & Jodocus HONDIUS. Beschryvinghe des Noorder Pools. Septentrio nalium terrarum descript. Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1630. Engraved map of the Northern hemisphere by Gerard Mercator, with Dutch text on verso. Ca. 14 x 20 cm From the Atlas minor by Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius. - Fine detailed map of the North Pole.Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, IIIB p. 530-536. [Boeknr.: 34192 ]

€ 275,00

MEXICO. Mexico. (Leiden, (ca. 1880). Chromo-lithographed view of Mexico- city by Emrik & Binger. Ca. 11 x 16 cm. From: Rietstap. Amerika. De jongste zee- en landreizen in dat werelddeel aan het volk verhaald. [Boeknr.: 36374 ]

€ 45,00

MEYER, Joseph. Meyer's Universum, oder Abbildung und Beschreibung des sehenswerthesten und merkwürdigsten der Natur und Kunst auf der gantzen Erde. Redaction & Text von Friedrich Hofmannn. Band 19. Hildburghausen und New York, Bibliographischen Institut, 1857.Oblong 8vo. Contemporary half calf. With steelengraved title-page and 46 (of 48) steel-engraved views. Fine views of Paris, München, Dresden, Mount Jefferson, Mississippi, Missouri, Hudson, New York, Boston, Washington, Cuba, Jerusalem, etc. - (Few blank margins sl. waterstained).Andres p.169. [Boeknr.: 33011 ]

€ 125,00

MICHAELIUS, Jonas. Manhattan in 1628 as described in the recently discovered autograph letter of Jonas Michaëlius written from the settlement on the 8th of August of that year and now first published. With a review of the letter and an historical sketch of New Netherland to 1628 by Dingman Versteeg. New York, Dodd Mead & Company,1904. 4to. Original boards (spine half cloth). With facsimiles. XII,203 pp. Number 30 of 50 copies printed on imperial Japan paper. - Jonas Michaëlius (1577 - after 1638) was the first clergyman to lead a congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in America. Contains the first printing in separate form of a letter of 1628 giving the first description of New York City (Howes M577). [Boeknr.: 17367 ]

€ 125,00

(MIDDELGEEST, Simon van). Tweede noot-wendiger discours ofte vertooch aan alle lant-lievende/ van de participanten der Oost-Indische Compagnie/ tegens bewinthebbers. In't jaar een-en-twintich, der onghedane rekeninge. (No pl., 1622).4to. Later half calf. (96) pp. Vehement pamphlet, signed Ymant Adams, against the directors of the Dutch East India Company (VOC); also relating to the Dutch West India Company (WIC). - Fine.Landwehr, VOC, 887; Knuttel 3350; Asher 78; Muller, America, 444; European Americana II, p.211. [Boeknr.: 28490 ]

€ 495,00

MILTON, William Fitzwilliam & Walter Butler CHEADLE. The North-West passage by land. Being the narrative of an expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific, undertaken with the view of exploration a route across the continent to British Columbia through British territory, by one of the northern passes in the Rocky Mountains. London, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, (1867).Original green pictorial cloth gilt, spine lettered in gilt. With folding map and 8 engraved plates. XXIV,394 pp. Seventh edition, first published in 1865. - 'A lively narrative of a sporting trip from England across Canada and return from British Columbia by sea, June, 1862 - March, 1864. This work achieved considerable popularity and drew attention to the agricultural, and mining possibilities of the Canadian West' (TPL 4340). - A fine copy of a Western Canadian classic.Sabin 24631; Wagner & Camp 420. [Boeknr.: 26399 ]

€ 175,00

MITCHELL, Donald G. American lands and letters. Vol. II: Leather-stocking to Poe's 'Raven'. New York., Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899.Original decorated cloth, top edge gilt. With numerous illustrations and portraits. XXIV,412 pp. First edition. [Boeknr.: 8305 ]

€ 45,00

MOENS, Petronella. Aardenburg of de onbekende volksplanting in Zuid-Amerika. Roman. Inleiding en bewerking door Ans Veltman-van den Bos en Jan de Vet. Amsterdam, University Press, 2001. Wrappers. 137 pp. First published in 1817. - Petronella Moens (1762-1843), living in Aardenburg, Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, was a blind poet, famous novelist, and feminist. In her work she showed great political and social commitment such as slavery and women suffrage. In her novel Aardenburg, or the unknown colony in South America, she created an utopic plantation society in which she could demonstrate her ideas on slavery. Schenkeveld-van der Dussen, Met en zonder lauwerkrans, p. 742. [Boeknr.: 31777 ]

€ 18,00

MOLENGRAAFF, G.A.F. De geologie van het eiland St. Eustatius. Eene bijdrage tot de kennis der Nederlandsche koloniën. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1886.4to. Modern cloth, original printed wrappers preserved .With photographic frontispiece, map and 2 lithographed plates. 64,4 pp. - (Thesis). (Thesis). - This is the thesis of the important Dutch geologist Gustaaf Adolf Frederik Molengraaff (1860-1942). St. Eustatius is a largely volcanic island in the Caribbean Windward group. - A fine copy.Renkema SE 25. [Boeknr.: 8491 ]

€ 125,00

MONTGOMERY, James. The West Indies, and other poems. 4th edition. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814.Sm.8vo. Contemporary half morocco, spine gilt (corner front board sl. damaged). (6),II,160 pp. First published in Boston in 1810. - Written to commemorate the abolition of the slave trade. The title piece sketches the history of the islands, the misery of the blacks, the work of the missionaries and abolitionists, and the ending of the traffic which was to mark the beginning of an era of general better feeling, understanding and happiness for all (Ragatz p.530). - James Montgomery (1771-1854) was a British editor, hymnwriter and poet. - (Two blank margins cut away).Hogg 4301; Work p.309; Sabin 50146; Afro-Americana 6748. [Boeknr.: 30593 ]

€ 95,00

MOORE, William V. Indian wars of the United States, from the discovery to the present time, with accounts of the origin, manners, superstitions, etc. of the aborigines. Philadelphia, J.B. Smith & Co, (ca. 1850).Original embossed cloth gilt (faded; hinges damaged). With hand-coloured frontispiece and title-page, 6 hand-coloured wood-engravings, 84 wood-engravings and several letter-illuminations. 328 pp. First published in Philadelphia in 1840. - John Frost is the real name of the author. 'This is the first work of its prolific author, if such a term can be applied to a notorious pilferer' (Sabin 26039). - (Foxed; last leaf rep.). [Boeknr.: 11158 ]

€ 175,00

MORELET, Arthur. Voyage dans l' Amémerique centrale, l'ile de Cuba et le Yucatan. Paris, Gide & J. Baudry, 1857.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half calf (1 hinge restored). With folding lithographed map of Yucatan, Guatemala and Cuba, coloured in outline, (some repairs), 2 leaves with musical notation, and 22 wood-engraved illustrations, after drawings by the author, heading each chapter. 337; 323 pp. First edition. - An important account of a voyage to Central America and Cuba by the French naturalist and traveller Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet (1809-1892). He was sponsored by the Académie des Sciences, he went on an expedition from 1847 to 1848 to Southern Mexico and Central America, including Cuba, to collect specimens for the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. After two months in Cuba he went to Yucatan. In 1847 also arrived in the Petén district in Guatemala and travelled to Antigua (Troelstra, p.311). Morelet visited isolated regions of Guatemala and Yucatán which had not been described for many years (Howgego). - (Foxed).Sabin 50591; Chadenat 2706: Ouvrage recherché et devenu rare; Howgego II, p. 418. [Boeknr.: 36615 ]

€ 2450,00

MORGAN, Lewis Henry. Third annual report of the Regents of the University, on the condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History, and the Historical and Antiquarian Collection. Albany, Weed, Parsons & Co., 1850.Later half cloth (original printed frontwrapper mounted). With woodcut illustrations, 5 lithographed plans, 5 lithographed plates (1 folding) and 18 coloured lithographed plates depicting clothing of New York Indians (1 folding; some stained). 175 pp. Includes: L.H. MORGAN. Report upon arcticels furnished the Indian Collection. With 18 coloured plates depicting the Iroquois material culture; Franklin B. HOUGH. Notice of several ancient remains of art in Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties. With 5 plans; etc. [Boeknr.: 28815 ]

€ 195,00

MULLER, Frederik. Catalogue of books, maps, plates on America, and of a remarkable collection of early voyages .. presenting an essay towards a Dutch-American bibliography. (Amsterdam, 1872-75). Reprint. With subject- and personal names index by G.J. Brouwer. Amsterdam, Nico Israel, 1966. 3 volumes in 1. Cloth. With facsimiles. 640 pp. I made an essay in the following pages towards a complete Dutch-American bibliography, interspersed with the various other books on America, especially on New-Netherland, New-Sweden and Brazil, in my possession (Preface). [Boeknr.: 6440 ]

€ 45,00

MUNRO, William Bennett. Crusaders of New France. A chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the wilderness. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1918. Decorated cloth gilt, top edge gilt. With 8 plates. XII,237 pp. The Chronicles of America Series; Abraham Lincoln edition. [Boeknr.: 19938 ]

€ 25,00

MURPHY, H.C. Henry Hudson in Holland. An inquiry into the origin and objects of the voyage which led to the discovery of the Hudson River. With biographical notes. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1909. Original cloth, top edge gilt. XII,150 pp. Pre Linschoten Vereeniging serie. - Henry Hudson sailed under the Dutch flag. While exploring the Hudson river, he had traded with several native groups, mainly obtaining furs. His voyage was used to establish Dutch claims to the region and to the fur trade that prospered there when a trading post was established at Albany in 1614. New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island became the capital of New Netherland in 1625. [Boeknr.: 3507 ]

€ 395,00

MURPHY, Henry Cruse. Anthology of New Netherland or translations from the early Dutch poets of New York with memoirs of their lives. N.Y, 1865. Reprint. Amsterdam, Nico Israel, 1966. Cloth. With frontispiece portrait, view of the residence of Nicasius de Sillé, New Utrecht and 2 lvs of facsimiles. 209 pp. Memoir and poems of Jacob Steendam, Henricus Selyns and Nicasius de Sillè. [Boeknr.: 25596 ]

€ 35,00

MURRAY, Thomas Boyles. Pitcairn: the island, the people, and the pastor. To which is added a short notice of the original settlement and present condition of Norfolk Island. 12th edition. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, (1860).Sm.8vo. Original embossed cloth with gilt vignette on front cover, spine gilt (top of spine sl. damaged). With map, folding facsimile, 4 portraits and 12 plates. 414,(4) pp. First published in 1853. - The author recounts the voyage of the Bounty, the mutiny, Captain Bligh's voyage in an open boat, the voyage of the Pandora, and includes material on Peter Heywood, as well as describing Pitcairn and its inhabitants (Hill p.422).Hill 1209; O'Reilly/Reitman 4306. [Boeknr.: 9720 ]

€ 275,00

MURRIN, Mary R. (Ed.). Religion in New Jersey life before the civil war. Papers presented at the 14th Annual New Jersey History Symposium, 1982. Trenton, New Jersey Historical Commission, 1985. Wrappers. 107 pp. [Boeknr.: 25573 ]

€ 25,00

NECK, Jacob Cornelis van & Wybrand van WARWIJCK. Waerachtigh verhael van de schip-vaert op Oost-Indien, ghedaen by de acht schepen, onder .. admirael Jacob van Neck, en de vice-admirael Wybrand van Warwijck, van Amsterdam gezeylt in den jare 1598. Hier achter is aen-ghevoeght de voyagie van Sebald de Weert, naer de Strate Magalanes. Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648.4to. Modern half red morocco, spine ribbed, a.e.g. (binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe). With large woodcut title-vignette depicting two vessels and folding engraved plate depicting 6 views. 92 pp. The journal of Van Neck and Warwijck was first published by Cornelis Claesz in Amsterdam in 1600. - The Dutch navigator Van Neck (1564-1638) was a representative of the Verre Compagny who in 1598 commanded three of the ships of the first successful Dutch trading voyage to the East Indies. The other ships were commanded by Van Warwijck and Jacob van Heemskerk. Van Neck's ships became separated from those of Warwijck and Heemskerk shortly after rounding the Cape of Good Hope. He did see them only some time after his arrival at Bantam. Loaded with cargo, four of the ships under Van Neck returned to Holland in 1599, while Warwijck continued to the Moluccas and Heemskerk to the Banda Islands. Van Neck was accompanied by Willem Jansz, the discoverer of Australia, then on his first voyage as mate of the Hollandia. Van Neck's was the most profitable of the pre-VOC voyages (Howgego p.746). An important account of the second voyage of the Dutch to the East-Indies and first Dutch voyage to the Moluccas, which became the foundation for later Dutch control of the Moluccan spice trade. Also including a vocabulary of Javanese and Malay words. The second part contains the voyage by Sebald de Weert. He sailed with the fleet of Jacques Mahu but was separated from the fleet in the Strait of Magellan and coincidentally encountered the fleet of Olivier van Noort which was sailing on a quite separate expedition which was to result in the first Dutch circumnavigation (Howgego p.1097). - Two important voyages combined in one volume. - A fine and scarce copy.Tiele 787; Tiele, Mémoire, 131; Landwehr, VOC, 251; Lach, Asia in the making of Europe III, p.439-440; Sabin 52214; European Americana II, p.493. [Boeknr.: 34097 ]

€ 4850,00

NEDERLANDSCH-AMERIKAANSCHE RUBBER PLANTAGE MAATSCHAPPIJ. Dutch-American Rubber Plantation Company gevestigd te Amsterdam. Opgericht bij acte d.d. 14 December 1925. Haarlem, Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, 1926.Printed 'oprichtersbewijs no. 139' with 'één talon met 21 dividendbewijzen'. [Boeknr.: 33950 ]

€ 30,00

NEW AMSTERDAM. NEW AMSTERDAM YEAR BOOK. Second number. New York, 1898. 8vo. Original printed wrappers (sl. dam.). With portraits. 16 pp. Includes sketches of the careers of the various prominent persons of the past and present times. [Boeknr.: 25505 ]

€ 45,00

NEW AMSTERDAM. NEW AMSTERDAM YEAR BOOK. Third number. New York, 1899. 8vo. Original printed wrappers (sl. dam.). With portraits. 16 pp. Includes sketches of the careers of the various prominent persons of the past and present times. [Boeknr.: 25506 ]

€ 45,00

NEW YORK. Official report of the Great Union Meeting held at the Academy of Music, in the city of New York, December 19th, 1859. New York, Davies & Kent, 1859.Original printed wrappers with handsome decorative border. 176 pp. First edition. - The largest meeting ever held in New York in favor of the Constitution and the Union. - (Some blank corners dam.). [Boeknr.: 20208 ]

€ 95,00

NICHOLLS, John. Recollections and reflections, personal and political, as connected with public affairs, during the reign of George III. London, James Ridgway, 1820.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. VIII,408 pp. Recollections of a member of the House of Commons: on the slave trade - on the consequences likely to result from the establishment of the United States of America - on the British possessions in India. - etc. A second volume was published in 1822.Sabin 55186. [Boeknr.: 18263 ]

€ 75,00

NIEPER, Lic. Friedrich. Die ersten deutschen Auswanderer von Krefeld nach Pennsylvanien. Ein Bild aus der religiösen Ideengeschichte des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Neukirchen Kreis Moers, (1940). Wrappers. VIII,407 pp. [Boeknr.: 25298 ]

€ 65,00

NIERITZ, Gustave. Les émigrants. Narration pour les enfants et leurs amis. Paris, Belin-Leprieur et Morizot, (1848).Original brown cloth gilt, spine gilt, a.e.g. With 8 hand-coloured plates by Derancourt. XII,260 pp. Juvenile containing the story of a German family emigrating to America. After a while they went back to Germany. Also dealing with the Indians. With fine coloured plates.Not in Sabin; Gumuchian 4270; Brüggemann 589; Sebass 1361 'erste fransösische Ausgabe dieses beliebten Indianengeschichte, schön illustriet'. [Boeknr.: 26094 ]

€ 75,00

NORMAN, B.M. Rambles in Yucatan including a visit to the remarkable ruins of Chi-Chen, Kabah, Zayi, Uxmal, &c. New York, J. & H.G. Langley, 1843.Original embossed cloth with gilt vignette on front cover, spine gilt (sl. faded; lower joint repaired). With pictorial lithographed title page, engraved map, illustrations and 23 lithographed plates (several tinted). 304 pp. + 12 pp. advertisements. First edition. - The author claims to give the first time accounts of Chi-Chen and other important sites. - A fine copy.Palau 193027. Sabin 50570. [Boeknr.: 36687 ]

€ 450,00

NORTH AMERICA. Accurate charte von Nord-America aus dem besten Quellen. (Leipzig, 1776 ?). Engraved map of North America by Georg Friedrich Jonas Frentzel. Ca. 23,5 x 37,5 cm. - (Some faint stains). [Boeknr.: 36499 ]

€ 95,00

NUTTING, C.C. Barbados-Antigua Expedition. Narrative and preliminary report of a zoological expedition from the university of Iowa to the Lesser Antilles under auspices of the graduate college. Iowa City, University of Iowa, (1919).Original blue cloth. With 50 photographic plates. 274 pp. University of Iowa Studies in Natural History. - Account of a zoological expedition by the American invertebrate zoologist Charles Cleveland Nutting (1858-1927) to Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Barbados, and other islands in the Caribbean. [Boeknr.: 36745 ]

€ 95,00

NYACK. OLD NYACK. An illustrated historical sketch of Nyack-on-the-Hudson. Nyack, 1928. Facsimile edition published in commemoration of the centennial of the village of Nyack's incorporation on February 27, 1883. Nyack, 1983. Wrappers. With folding plan, illustrations and advertisements. 56,(42) pp. First published in 1928. Before 1883 Nyack had been governed by Orangetown. [Boeknr.: 25530 ]

€ 25,00

O'CALLAGHAN, E.B. History of New Netherland; or, New York under the Dutch. New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1846 - 1855.2 volumes. Original cloth, rebacked with the original spines laid down. With folding map, 2 folding plates with facsimles, 2 folding maps of Rensselaers Wyck, portrait of Stuyvesant and Rensselaer. 493; 608 pp. Vol. II second edition. - E B. O'Callaghan became keeper of historical manuscripts for the State of New York in 1848. He compiled many volumes of colonial records and translated many of the Dutch-era documents. Born in Ireland ca. 1797 and died in 1880 in New York City. [Boeknr.: 37554 ]

€ 175,00

OLDENDORP, Christian Georg Andreas. Geschichte der Mission der evangelischen Brüder auf den caraibischen Inseln S. Thomas, S. Croix und S. Jan. Herausgegeben durch Johann Jacob Bossaert. Barby, Christian Friedrich Laux & Leipzig, Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1777.2 volumes in 1. Sm.8vo. Old boards. With 3 folding engraved maps and 4 folding engraved views. (16),1068, (46) pp. First edition. - The Moravian missionary Christian Georg Andreas Oldendorp wrote a passionate publication on the political, geographic, and social conditions of the West Indies, including the origin and living conditions of the enslaved laborers. His opus is one of the first ethnological descriptions of the history of Africa and the Caribbean. An important part of the report is the description of the geography, flora, fauna, and political, economic, and social conditions and living conditions of the population of the islands. In particular, he described the enslaved laborers, including their African origin, language, customs, and religion and especially their fate in the West Indies - housing, work, punishments, and the relationships with their owners and the Europeans - A very important account of the Moravian Church�s missions in the Virgin Islands based on interviews with blacks of various African nations. - A fine copy.Sabin 17367; Afro-Americana 7287. [Boeknr.: 36606 ]

€ 1750,00

OLIVEIRA, Euzebio Paulo de. Regioes carboniferas dos Estados do Sul. Rio de Janeiro, 1918. - L.F. Gonzaga de Campos. Relatorio apresentado ao Ministro da Agricultura, Industria e Commercio anno de 1921. Rio de Janeiro, 1923. Half morocco. With folding maps. Other smaller works on Brazil included. [Boeknr.: 8122 ]

€ 40,00

OLIVER, Vere Langford. The history of the island of Antigua, one of the Leeward Caribbees in the West Indies, from the first settlement in 1635 to the present time. London, Mitchell & Hughes, 1894 - 1899.3 volumes. Large folio. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. With 27 maps and plates. CIX,316; 406; 497 pp. First edition; limited edition of 150 copies, of which this is N� 71. - Standard history of Antigua which was discovered in 1493 by Christopher Columbus, who named the island after Santa Maria la Antigua. The island remained largely uninhabited until it was taken over by English settlers in 1632. The English were chased out by the Caribbean but returned in 1663. In 1666 the island was sacked by the French. In the peace of Breda, the island was formally assigned to the English. Antigua became independent in 1981. - A very fine scarce set. [Boeknr.: 36700 ]

€ 2250,00

ONZE AARDE. Maanschrift onder redactie van W. van Bemmelen, J.H.G. Kremer, J.C. Lamster, W.G.N. van der Sleen, A.N.J. Thomassen à Thuessink van der Hoop, Ph.C. Visser. Jaargang I. Amsterdam, Holkema & Warendorf, 1928. 12 issues. 4to. Wrappers. With photographic illustrations and some coloured plates. Contributions by Dutch scholars on international expeditions. [Boeknr.: 34855 ]

€ 45,00

OZINGA, M.D. De monumenten van Curaçao in woord en beeld. Curaçao, 1959. Folio. Half morocco. With 5 folding maps, 294 views and maps on 163 plates and many photographic illustrations and drawings by H. van der Wal. XIX,278 pp. With English summaries. - Fine illustrated work on the historical buildings of Curaçao. [Boeknr.: 748 ]

€ 65,00

(PADDENBURG, G.G. van). Beschrijving van het eiland Curaçao en onderhoorige eilanden. Uit onderscheidene stukken, bijdragen en opmerkingen opgemaakt, door een bewoner van dat eiland. Haarlem, erven Fr. Bohn, 1819.Sm.8vo. Wrappers. (4),90 pp. First edition. - Gerrit Gijsbert van Paddenburgh (1783-1824) was the first Dutch teacher who permanently settled on the island in 1816. After being fired as a teacher due to a drinking problem, he worked as a writer and journalist on the island. Much of the information is of practical use and seems to aim at new visitors or settlers. After a description of the geography and climate of the island, the author describes the various settlements forming Willemstad. - Rare description of Curaçao and the adjacent islands. - (pp 81-90 damaged with loss of text).Tiele 841; Cat. NHSM I, p.271; Sabin 58127. [Boeknr.: 17421 ]

€ 125,00

PAGE, Thomas Nelson. In ole Virginia or Marse Chan and other stories. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891.Original decorated cloth (extremities of spine sl. dam.). (8),230,(8) pp. First published in New York in 1887. - Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) was an American lawyer and author whose fiction usually depicted an idealized vision of the Antebellum South. He was notable for writing much of his dialogue in Negro dialect. This is his first collection of short stories, written in the dialect of the blacks of Eastern Virginia. [Boeknr.: 19538 ]

€ 45,00

PANIAGUA, Manuel Jorreto & Isidoro Martinez SANZ. Guia Colombina, aceptada oficialmente por la junta del centenario. Madrid, Enrique Rubinos, 1892.Half cloth. With portraits and illustrations. 48; 102 pp. Guide on Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) published by the centenary board. [Boeknr.: 8535 ]

€ 40,00

PARAMARIBO. - Het plein te Paramaribo. (No pl., 1843).Fine lithographed view of the Gouvernementsplein (Government Square) from the water. Ca. 10 x 16 cm. From: Het Leeskabinet. - The Gouvernementsplein (now Onafhankelijkheidsplein - Independence Square) is a town square in Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname. It depicts: Paleis van Justitie, Paleis van den gouverneur and Fort Zeelandia. [Boeknr.: 30842 ]

€ 175,00

PARAMARIBO. - Vue de la rade et de la ville de Paramaribo. (Paris, 1798).Engraved panoramic view of Paramaribo with a large Dutch vessel in the foreground, by Tardieu l'ainé. Ca. 16 x 41,5 cm. From the French edition of John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam. - Fine decorative view of Paramaribo with ships in the roadstead. [Boeknr.: 14147 ]

€ 375,00

PARKER, Joel. An address before the citizens of Cambridge, October 1, 1856. Cambridge, James Munroe and Comp., 1856.Original printed wrappers (spine dam.). 92 pp. A speech given by Joel Parker, professor of constitutional law at Harvard and later the Governor of New Jersey, concerning the constitutionality of new states being admitted to the Union and representation. Parker opposes the admission of new slave states on the grounds that they gain disproportionate representation due to their holding slaves. Sabin 58702. [Boeknr.: 20238 ]

€ 45,00

PATON, William Agnew. Down the islands. A voyage to the Caribbees. New York, Charles Scribner's sons, 1887.Original pictorial cloth. With many illustrations and plates after drawings by M.J. Burns. XIII,301 pp. + 10 pp. with advertisements. First edition. - During Paton's voyages in the Caribbean Islands, he visited a.o. Antigua, St. Kitts, St. Dominica, Martinique, Barbados, Trinidad, Grenada, St. Lucia, Montserrat, and Nevis. - A fine copy. [Boeknr.: 36730 ]

€ 175,00

PEIXOTO, Eduardo Marques. Ilha da Trindade. Memoria historica. Rio de Janeiro, Officinas graficas de Arquivo Nacional, 1932.Original half morocco (spine ends rep.). With portrait and 12 plates (1 folding). XV,667 pp. Publicaçoes do Arquivo Nacional. - Ilha da Trindade is a Brazilian island in the Atlantic Ocean, 6 kilometers long and 2.3 kilometers wide. It is the largest island of the Trindade and Martim Vaz archipelago. - (Browned). [Boeknr.: 36600 ]

€ 150,00

PEREIRA DA COSTA, F.A. Dicionário biográfico de Pernambucanos célebres. Recife, 1982. Wrappers. VIII,804,VI pp. First published in 1882. [Boeknr.: 30588 ]

€ 45,00

PERIJA. La región de Perijá y sus habitantes. (Caracas), Universidad del Zulia, 1953.Original wrappers, with dust-jacket. With many plates (several in colours) and illustrations. 556 pp. Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle. - Dealing with ethnography, zoology, botany and antropology in the Serranía del Perijá, a mountain range, an extension of the eastern Andean branch (Cordillera Oriental), in northern South America, between Colombia and Venezuela. [Boeknr.: 36715 ]

€ 65,00

PERRET, Robert. La géographie de Terre-Neuve. Préface de Marcel Dubois. Paris, E. Guilmoto, 1913. Original printed wrappers, uncut. With maps and plates. VI,372 pp. Dealing with Newfoundland. - O'Dea 1568: 'A scholarly treatise'. [Boeknr.: 8180 ]

€ 65,00

PHILIPPI, Ferdinand. Geschichte des Freistaats von St. Domingo, (Hayti). Dresden, Hischer, 1826-27.3 volumes in 2. Sm.8vo. Original marbled boards, with morocco labels to spines . (6),106; (4),148; (4),208 pp. First edition; with armorial bookplate. - An objective account of the slave insurrection and the early days of Haïti. One of the first German books on the subject. - A fine copy.Sabin 62550. [Boeknr.: 28518 ]

€ 175,00

PHILIPPI, Rudolph Amandus. Reise durch die Wuste Atacama auf Befehl der chilenischen Regierung im Sommer 1853-54 unternommen. Halle, Eduard Anton, 1860.Folio. Original printed boards (sl. rubbed). With folding map and 27 lithographed plates (including a diagram, 15 natural history plates of which 7 hand-coloured, and 11 tinted views (1 folding, foxed as usual). X,192; 62 pp. First German edition. - First, and still the best, scientific description of Atacama, Chile. R.A. Philippi (1808-1904), a German-Chilean naturalist, visited the Atacama Desert in 1853-1854, travelled extensively in Chili between 1850 and 1883, and occupied the Chair of Natural History at Santiago. His son, Friedrich Philippi, carried on his work in the Atacama in 1885. His book offers a travel account, followed by descriptive sections, including a Flora Atacamensis listing the more than 400 species he had found in the area, many of them not described before. With fine plates depicting views and natural history subjects (fossils, birds, rodents, lizards, shells and plantes). Philippi brought to Santiago the first reliable map of the region and a wealth of scientific information. He is now regarded as one of the founding fathers of scientific research in Chile (Howgego IV, p.723). 'Philippi gehört zu den bedeutendsten Naturforschern, die im 19. Jahrhundert in Chili tätig waren. Verdienstvolle Arbeit leistete er auf den Gebieten von Botanik und Zoologie. Im Verlauf seiner landeskundlichen Expeditionen fertigte er künstlerische Studien von hohem dokumentarischen Wert an' (Deutsche Künstler in Lateinamerika, p.119).- Rare.Sabin 62452; Palau 224736; Henze IV, p.98. [Boeknr.: 10099 ]

€ 1750,00

PHILLIPS, Wendell. Speeches, lectures, and letters. First and Second series. Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., (1891).2 volumes. Original green cloth. With 2 frontispiece portraits. VI,562; VIII,476 pp. First published in Boston in 1863. - Wendell Phillips had sufficient income to abandon his law practice and devote his life to fighting for social justice. His career reached its apogee when he entered full swing into the abolitionist crusade. Red-headed, utterly fearless, Phillips is said to have possessed 'a mind like a Gatling gun' raking his hearers with his sallies. Unquestionable one of the greatest orators of his time, a man with a golden voice. To hear Phillips speak was to hear thunder threatening to darken a bright summer day. A great favorite of abolitionists everywhere. (Blockson, A commented bibliography of one hundred and one influential books by and about people of African descent (1556-1982), 36). Phillips was called 'the voice of the abolitionist movement' [Boeknr.: 20125 ]

€ 95,00

PIELAT, Barthelemy. La vie et les actions memorables de Sr. Michel de Ruyter. Amsterdam, Henry & Theodore Boom, 1677.2 volumes in 1. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. With engraved title-page, portrait and 2 engraved title-vignettes. (18), 480; 250 pp. First edition; with the bookplate of H. de la Fontaine Verwey. - First monograph on the great Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruiter (1607-1676) who fought the English and French and scored several major victories against them, the best known probably being the Raid on the Medway. This monograph was based on the first biography of De Ruyter written by Lambertus van den Bosch in his Leeven en daden der doorluchtighste zeehelden (Amsterdam 1676). The book by Pielat was published after De Ruiter was given an elaborate state funeral, the publishing date of his book must be around 1681 but it was issued before the famous biography of Gerard Brandt. It also contains the account of De Ruiter's expedition to the West Indies.- (Light staining). - Rare.Not in Cat. NHSM; European Americana IV, p.32. [Boeknr.: 34171 ]

€ 450,00

PIERSON, Donald. Negroes in Brazil. A study of race contact at Bahia. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, (1942). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With plates. XXVIII,392 pp. [Boeknr.: 23820 ]

€ 30,00

PIETERSE, Wilhelmina C. Inventory of the archives of the Holland Land Company. Including the related Amsterdam companies and negotiations dealing with the purchase of land and state funds in the United States of America 1789-1869. Amsterdam, Municipal Archives, 1976. Pictorial wrappers. With 10 maps. 75 pp. [Boeknr.: 7551 ]

€ 18,00

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

PINCKARD, George. Notes on the West Indies: written during the expedition under the command of the late general Ralph Abercromby: including observations on the island of Barbadoes, and the settlements captured by the British troops, upon the coast of Guiana; likewise remarks relating to the creoles and slaves of the western colonies, and the Indians of South America; with occasional hints, regarding the seasoning, or yellow fever of hot climates London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806.3 volumes. Later half calf, spines gilt, with red and green morocco title labels to spines. XXIV,448; XX,472; XIX,(1),456 pp. First edition. - 'The author was deputy inspector general of hospitals in the British army. He accompanied General Sir Ralph Abercromby to the West Indies and while not on service became well acquainted with the regions where he was stationed for the time being. He gives us interesting pictures of Plymouth in war time, of the agonizing delay while awaiting embarkation orders, of the break-up of the fleet in a storm, of a visit to slave ships, and intimate and varied accounts of colonial life in Barbados and along the Guiana coast as well as of the vicissitudes of soldier life in the colonies. He received unfavorable impressions of slavery. Urges emancipation, holding that abolition could be regarded as only a step in that direction' (Ragatz pp.231-232). - (Age-browned). - A fine set.The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection 600; Sabin 62893; Hogg 731; Work p.269; Afro-Americana 8226. [Boeknr.: 29000 ]

€ 1500,00

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