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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

POEY Y ALAY, Felipe. Memorias sobre la historia natural de la isla de Cuba, acompanadas de sumarions latinos y extractos en Frances. Habana, imprenta de Barcina, 1851 - 1858 (= 1861).2 volumes. Contemporary half black morocco, spines gilt. With 53 lithographed plates, 17 printed in colour and finished by hand. 463; 442 pp. First edition. - Extremely rare work on the zoology of Cuba by Felipe Poey y Aloy (1799-1891), a famous naturalist. The drawings were made by Poey and some of the lithographing was done by Mialhe, a well-known Cuban lithographer. One of the classic accounts of animal life in Cuba, by a well-known Spanish naturalist (Wood). - A fine set.Nissen, ZBI, 3210; Palau 22998, Sabin 63673; Wood p.522. [Boeknr.: 36616 ]

€ 3500,00

PORTLOCK, Nathaniel & George DIXON. Reis naar de noord-west kust van Amerika gedaan in de jaren 1785, 1786, 1787 en 1788. Uit derzelver oorspronklijke reisverhalen zamengesteld en vertaald. Amsterdam, Matthijs Schalekamp, 1795.4to. Later half calf, with red morocco title label to spine. With folding engraved map and 9 folding engraved plates, views and portraits (including the Indian music score). XII,(4),265,(1) pp. First Dutch edition; first published in London in 1789 A voyage round the world, but more particularly to the North-West coast of America. - Two ships, the King George and Queen Charlotte, under the commands of Portlock and Dixon were sent out by the King George's Sound Company in 1785 for the purpose of pursuing the fur trade in America and China. Both men had accompanied Captain Cook on his last voyage. After visiting the Falkland Islands, the two ships made a long stay at the Hawaiian Islands, then proceeded to America, they sailed home by way of Macao and St.Helena in 1789. They surveyed the north-west coast of America, which was the most important result of the voyage. This is the principal account of the first commercial voyage to the Northwest Coast and the first English voyage to visit Hawaii after that of Captain James Cook. - (Small library stamp on verso of plates). - Important and rare book.Tiele 878; Cat. NHSM I, p.270; Muller, America, p.147; Sabin 64395; Howes 494; Lada-Mocarski 42/43; Hill 1376; Forbes 253. [Boeknr.: 1188 ]

€ 1250,00

PORTLOCK, Nathaniel & George DIXON. A voyage round the world; but more particularly to the North-West coast of America: performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and in 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte. London, John Stockdale & George Goulding, 1789.4to. Contemporary tree-calf (top of spine sl. dam.; hinges restored). With engraved frontispiece portrait of Portlock, 5 handcoloured engravings depicting birds, 6 folding engraved charts and 8 engraved plates. XII,384,XL pp. First edition; copy on large and thick paper; with armorial bookplate of Samuael Beckwith. - Two ships, the King George and Queen Charlotte, under the commands of Portlock and Dixon were sent out by the King George's Sound Company in 1785 for the purpose of pursuing the fur trade in America and China. Both men had accompanied Captain Cook on his last voyage. After visiting the Falkland Islands, the two ships made a long stay at the Hawaiian Islands. Portlock and Dixon separated, with Portlock exploring northward up the Alaskan coast and Dixon proceeding southward to Nootka Sound. Both captains published accounts of the voyage, but Portlock is of greater value for his particularly vivid descriptions of the Native Americans and Russians in the region. They sailed home by way of Macao and St.Helena in 1789. They surveyed the north-west coast of America, which was the most important result of the voyage. This is the principal account of the first commercial voyage to the Northwest Coast and the first English voyage to visit Hawaii after that of Captain James Cook. - Tear in one leaf; dampstain in lower corner of first leaves otherwise fine. - A classic narrative of the early exploration on the Northwest Coast of North America; one of the very few copies of deluxe issues with coloured plates.Sabin 64389; Howes 494; Lada-Mocarski 42; Hill 1376; Forbes 177. [Boeknr.: 32946 ]

€ 9250,00

POWELL, J.W. (Ed.). Sixth annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1884-1885. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1888. 8vo. Original green cloth, with gilt portarit of an Indian on cover (stained). With 2 folding maps and many illustrations. LVIII, 675 pp. From the contents: W.H. HOLMES. Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui; IDEM. A study of the textile art in its relation to the development of form and ornament; C. THOMAS. Aids to the study of the Maya codices; J. OWEN DORSEY. Osage traditions; Fr. BOAS. The central Eskimo. [Boeknr.: 25019 ]

€ 125,00

POYER, John. The history of Barbadoes, from the first discovery of the island, in the year 1605, till the accession of Lord Seaforth, 1801. London, J. Mawman, 1808.4to. Contemporary tree-calf, rebacked with the original spine laid down. XXIX,(7),668 pp. First edition; with subscribers' list and errata page; with bookplates of Edward Booth and Cornelis Walford. - The work of a well-informed native of the island, written from the point of view of a West Indian, the welfare of whose colony home seemed indissolubly bound up with the institution of slavery. Very useful for the detailed account of the course of events during the latter part of the eighteenth century (Ragatz p.183). - (Some foxing). - Very scarce.The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection 621; Sabin 64853; Afro-Americana 8354. [Boeknr.: 36766 ]

€ 3250,00

PRESCOTT, William Hickling. History of the conquest of Mexico, with a preliminary view of the ancient Mexican civilization, and the life of the conqueror, Hernando Cortés. New edition. London, George Routledge & Sons, 1867.2 volumes. Sm.8vo. Original embossed cloth, spines lettered in gilt. XIX,395; XI,424 First published in 1843. - A cornerstone work for any collection on American literature or the historiography of Mexico. - A fine set.Sabin 65263; Hill 1383. [Boeknr.: 1043 ]

€ 95,00

PRESCOTT, William Hickling. History of the conquest of Peru, with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas. Paris, A. and W. Galignani and Co., 1847.2 volumes. Contemporary half calf. With folding map and facsimile. XXIV,315; XVI,335 pp. 'Classic narrative history, a landmark when it first appeared in 1847, and a source of profit and pleasure to this day' (Griffin). A famous popularisation of one of the great adventure stories, and a celebrated work of literature. William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859) was an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian.Sabin 65272 (ed. N.Y., 1847; this ed. unknown to Sabin). [Boeknr.: 1191 ]

€ 125,00

PRESCOTT, William Hickling. History of the conquest of Peru; with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas. New and revised edition, with the author's latest corrections and additions. Edited by John Foster Kirk. London, George Routledge and Sons, (ca. 1874).2 volumes. Original brown cloth, with gilt coat of arms on front, spines lettered in gilt. With map, facsimile and 2 portraits. XXIX,469; XIII,473 pp. 'Classic narrative history, a landmark when it first appeared in 1847, and a source of profit and pleasure to this day' (Griffin). It is a famous popularisation of one of the great adventure stories, and a celebrated work of literature of the Spanish conquest of the Incan empire.Sabin 65272. [Boeknr.: 28526 ]

€ 125,00

PREVOST, Antoine François. Historische beschryving der reizen of nieuwe en volkoome verzameling van de aller-waardigste en zeldsaamste zee- en landtogten .. Naauwkeurig in't Nederduitsch overgebragt .. 's Gravenhage, Pieter de Hondt, Amsterdam, Wed. S. Schouten, a.o., 1747-1767.21 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt with floral motifs and red and green labels. With 21 title-pages printed in red and black, engraved portrait of the author, 20 engraved headpieces (vol. I-XX), 27 text-engravings depicting the Governors General of the Dutch East Indies, 195 engraved maps and plans (134 folding) and 365 engraved plates (90 folding) by Jacob van der Schley a.o. First Dutch edition edited by J.P.J. du Bois. This is an enlarged translation of the first 17 books of the French edition, Histoire generale des voyages, Amsterdam 1746-1761; largely based on John Green's series A new general collection of voyages and travels, London 1745-1747. Vast collection of travel accounts including most of the early American and Australian voyages and travels. Full accounts are given of the Portuguese, English, Dutch (VOC) and French voyages to the East Indies, Africa, China, Tartary & Tibet, Arabia, etc. - A very attractive set of this famous compilation of voyages.Tiele 103; Cat. NHSM I, p.108; Landwehr, VOC, 267; Sabin 65405; Hill 1391 (French ed.). [Boeknr.: 33291 ]

€ 14500,00

PROULX, Jean-Baptiste. En route pour la Baie d'Hudson. Tours, Alfred mame et Fils, 1893.Original decorated boards, gilt (spine ends sl. dam.), a.e.g. With woodengraved portrait and 19 fine woodengraved plates. 157,(1) pp. Fine illustrated account of a trip on the Abitibi river to Hudson's Bay, with details on the Eskimos. - (Some foxing). [Boeknr.: 28758 ]

€ 75,00

PRUDHOMME, Louis-Marie. Reise nach Guiana und Cayenne, nebst einer Uebersicht der ältern dahin gemachten reisen und neuern Nachrichten von diesem Lande, dessen Bewohnern und den vorigen europäischen Colonien, besonders den französischeen. Aus dem Französischen. Frankfurt, Anton Pichler, 1799.Sm.8vo. Contemporary half vellum, with orange morocco title-label to spine. With folding map of French Guiana, with inset map of the island of Cayenne and plan of the city, and engraved plate. VI,(2),296 pp. First German edition,first published in French in Paris in 1798 Voyage à la Guiane et à Cayenne, fait en 1789 et années suivantes; with illustrated bookplate of Gunnar Degelius. - The work gives a short historical introduction, a description of the plants and animals of Guiana, the customs of the Indians, the European colonies of France, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands and annotations on the languages of the Indians in the neighbourhood of Cayenne. - With fine map. - (Lacks first free endpaper). - A nice copy.Cf. Cat. Suriname-Catalogus UB Amsterdam 5381; Sabin 66412; The James Ford Bell Library P545; Leclerc 1210; Chadenet 671. [Boeknr.: 28533 ]

€ 575,00

QUARLES VAN UFFORD, Jacob Karel Willem. De vi rationum externarum in domesticam Patriae nostrae conditionem, inde a controversia M. Britanniae cum coloniis suis Americae-Septentrionalis, usque ad Foedus nostrum cum Francia d. 10 Nov. A. 1785. Lugduni - Batavorum, apud J.H. Gebhard et Socios, 1844.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt (top of spine dam.). (8),162,(1) pp. Thesis. - Quarles van Ufford (1818 - 1902), legal secretary at the Department of Colonies, obtained an honorable discharge from the national service at his request in 1871. He wrote many articles in which he discussed important events and writings relating to the colonies in East and West.Sabin 66947; Muller, America, p.347. [Boeknr.: 22191 ]

€ 125,00

QUARLES, Benjamin. The negro in the civil war. (Reprint with a) new introduction by William S. McFeely. (New York, Da Capo, 1989). Wrappers. XVIII,(1),379 pp. [Boeknr.: 20430 ]

€ 18,00

QUINN, David B. & Alison M. (Ed.). The English New England voyages 1602-1608. London, 1983. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 36 maps and illustrations. XXIV,580 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 161. - Contains the first documents of the exploration of Norumbega, the later New England. [Boeknr.: 16519 ]

€ 40,00

QUINN, David Beers. (Ed.). The Roanoke voyages 1584-1590. Documents to illustrate the English voyages to North America under the patent granted to Walter Raleigh in 1584. London, 1952-1955. 2 volumes. Cloth. With folding map and 11 plates. XXXV,VI,1004 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 104. - The Roanoke Voyages were attempts by Sir Walter Raleigh, under his 1584 patent from Queen Elizabeth I, to establish an English colony in the New World on the coast of present-day North Carolina between 1584 and 1590. Although Raleigh was unable to establish successful English colonies in America under his 1584 charter, the Roanoke voyages and colonies were valuable precursors to the eventual formation of a permanent English colony at Jamestown in 1607. [Boeknr.: 34627 ]

€ 75,00

RADERS, R.F. van. Vervolg der Bijlagen, behoorende tot de Memorie aan den koning, ingediend den 3 julij 1852, door den generaal-majoor R.F. Baron van Raders, rakende zijn bekomen ontslag als gouverneur der kolonie Suriname. 's Gravenhage., Erven Doorman, 1853. Original printed wrappers.VI,165 pp. [Boeknr.: 1192 ]

€ 65,00

RADERS, Reinier Frederik van. Memorie aan den koning, ingediend den 3 julij 1852, door den generaal-majoor R.F. Baron van Raders, rakende zijn bekomen ontslag als gouverneur der kolonie Suriname, benevens de daartoe behoorende Bijlagen. 2e druk. (Met:) Vervolg der Bijlagen. 's Gravenhage, Erven Doorman, 1852-53.2 volumes in 1. Original printed green wrappers with decorative border (spine dam). 40,III,52; VI,185 pp. Original edition. - With autograph presentation inscription by the author. - Memorandum by Reinier Frederik baron van Raders (1794 - 1868), with supplement, to the king, submitted on July 3rd 1852 concerning his dismissal with honour as governor from Suriname. Caused by the complications between the Austrian and the Dutch government about the public sale in Suriname of the Austrian vessel Venezia. The captain and some sailors died by the cause of yellow fever and the remaining crew had abandoned the ship. This was the motive of his unasked dismissel.Sabin 67412; Suriname-catalogus UB Amsterdam 5442. [Boeknr.: 14679 ]

€ 175,00

RALEIGH, Walter. - RALEGH, Walter. The discoverie of the large and bewtiful empire of Guiana by Walter Ralegh. Edited from the original text, with introduction, notes and appendixes of hitherto unplublished documents by V.T. Harlow. London, 1928. reprint. Amsterdam, Nico Israel, 1971. 4to. Imitation leather. With portrait and 2 maps. CVI,182 pp. Argonaut Press 5. - Critical edition of the classic account of El Dorado. [Boeknr.: 34525 ]

€ 45,00

RAVENEAU DE LUSSAN. Journal du voyage fait a la Mer de Sud, avec les flibustiers de l'Amerique en 1684. & années suivantes. 2e edition (= 3e edition). Paris, la veuve de Jean Bapt. Coignard et Jean Baptiste Coignard fils, 1693.Sm.8vo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt with red morocco title-label to spine (spine ends dam., lower part of hinges splitting but firmly holding). With woodcut printer's mark on title-page. (16),448,(1) pp. Third edition, first published in Paris in 1689. - 'A rare and charming book. Raveneau de Lussan, a young Frenchman who whished to see the world, sailed from France for San Domingue in 1679. His indebtedness led him to join the buccaneers in search of his fortune. .. Raveneau spent several months raiding in the West Indies, and several years raiding the Pacific coast between Guatemala and Chile. He details both the romantic and the bleak sides of the buccaneering profession, interwoven with colorful descriptions of the natives of the regions and a clear picture of the Spanish colonies on the Pacific' (Hill 1423). - An interesting account of buccaneering in the West Indies and the Pacific coast of South America, including details on the manners of the natives of the countries he visited. It gave Defoe inspiration for his Robinson Crusoe. - Final leaves waterstained in outer margin, otherwise fine.Sabin 67985; European Americana 693/142; Leclerc 487; Cox II, p.270: A very famous and entertaining work. [Boeknr.: 28511 ]

€ 950,00

REDPATH, James. The public life of Capt. John Brown, with an auto-biography of his childhood and youth. Boston, Thayer and Eldridge, 1860.Original cloth. With steel-engraved portrait and 2 wood-engraved plates. 407,(1) pp. John Brown was committed to jail and hanged 'for feloniously conspiring with each other, and other persons unknown, to make an abolition insurrection and open war against the Commonwealth of Virginia' and for the additional crimes of murder and 'conspiring with slaves to rebel and to make insurrection'. John Brown was the most passionate and violent American abolitionist of his time. This book reflects the author's commitment to the abolitionist cause and his deep admiration of Brown's insurrectionary efforts on behalf of Southern slaves. - (Waterstained throughout).Sabin 68528; Finkelman p.188-196. [Boeknr.: 20175 ]

€ 65,00

REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH OF NEW YORK. The constitution of the Reformed Dutch Church of North America with an appendix, containing formularies for the use of the churches together with the rules and orders for the government of the General Synod. The catechism, arcticles of faith, canons of the synod of Dordrecht, and lithurgy. Philadelphia, G.W. Mentz & Son, 1840. Sm.8vo. Contemporary calf (hinges weak). 131 pp. The confession of faith, liturgy, and canons, including rules of the church government and articles explaining the discipline and government of the Reformed Dutch Church of North America. [Boeknr.: 25399 ]

€ 95,00

REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH OF NEW YORK. YEAR BOOK OF THE (COLLEGIATE) REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Vol. XI, 58th number. New York, 1937. Original printed wrappers. With 4 plates. [Boeknr.: 20590 ]

€ 40,00

REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH OF NEW YORK. YEAR BOOK OF THE (COLLEGIATE) REFORMED PROTESTANT DUTCH CHURCH OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Vol. XIV, 68th number. New York, 1947. Original printed wrappers. With 1 plate. [Boeknr.: 20591 ]

€ 40,00

RENKEMA, Wim. Kaarten van de Nederlandse Antillen: Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, Saba, Sint Eustatius en Sint Maarten tot 1900. Leiden, Brill, HES & De Graaf, 2016. 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 670 coloured illustrations. 664 pp. With an English summary. - This publication systematically categorizes and provides a nearly complete overview of the great variety of maps, both manuscript and printed, that have been made of the Dutch Antilles. The map descriptions are clarified with information on the creators of the maps and the historical background of the map image. The author has extensively studied how and for which reasons these maps were created. The cartobibliography is preceded by an extensive introduction in which the history of the islands and their inhabitants are described. [Boeknr.: 34178 ]

€ 225,00

RENNIE, Neil. Pocahontas, Little Wanton: myth, life and after life. London, Quaritch, 2007. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 12 plates. XII,209 pp. Pocahontas (1596 - 1617) was a Native American woman, belonging to the Powhatan People, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. [Boeknr.: 36127 ]

€ 35,00

RÉVILLE, Albert. Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by the native religions of Mexico and Peru. London, Williams and Norgate, 1884.Original cloth. X,256 pp. The Hibbert Lectures. [Boeknr.: 8442 ]

€ 45,00

REVOIL, M. Benedict. In the bush and on the trail. Adventures in the forests of North America. A book for boys. London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1890.Original pictorial red cloth. With 70 woodengraved illustrations. 393 pp. The volume now submitted to the reader is a translation from the French of M. Benedict Revoil, who some years ago traversed many parts of the United states, intent upon the pursuit of game. He has recorded his experiences and adventures in an unpretending but animated and entertaining narrative, which is enitrely free from exaggeration, and is commendably characterized by exceeding modesty in its references to the writer's own achievements (Preface). [Boeknr.: 37249 ]

€ 65,00

RICE, C. Duncan. The rise and fall of black slavery. London, The Macmillan Press, 1975. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 16 plates. XIII,427 pp. Covers the history of black slavery, the slave trade and the abolition. [Boeknr.: 31885 ]

€ 25,00

RIEBEECK, Jan Anthonisz. van. Journal, 1651 - 1662. Edited and with an introduction and footnotes by H.B. Thom. Cape town, A.A. Balkema, 1952-58. 3 volumes. Original cloth (spines vol. II-III stained). With plates. XLVI,395; XVIII,406; XVIII,531 pp. Van Riebeeck Society. - Jan van Riebeeck (1618-1677) was founder and first commander for the VOC of the Cape of Good Hope. [Boeknr.: 6500 ]

€ 225,00

RIETSTAP, (Johannes Baptista). Amerika. De jongste zee- en landreizen in dat werelddeel aan het volk verhaald. Leiden, van den Heuvel & van Santen, (ca. 1880).Original decorated cloth. With chromo-lithographed plate of Mexico and New York by Emrik & Binger. (4),312,(3) pp. Contains E.K. Kane to the North Pole, Voyages to the United States, Canada, Middle and South America.Cf. Landwehr, Coloured plates., 474. [Boeknr.: 13038 ]

€ 75,00

RITCHIE, George Thomas. A list of Lincolniana in the Library of Congress. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1903. 8vo. Original cloth. 75 pp. Part I: Writings of Abraham Lincoln; Part II: Writings relating to Abraham Lincoln. [Boeknr.: 8224 ]

€ 40,00

RIVET, Paul & Georges de CRÉQUI-MONTFORT. Bibliographie des langues Aymará et Kicua (1540-1955). Paris, Institut d'Ethnologie, 1951-56. 4 volumes. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, uncut. With maps and illustrations. XLII,499; 655; 782; 955 pp. Aymara and Quechua are native American languages spoken by the people of the Andes. [Boeknr.: 24306 ]

€ 225,00

ROBERTSON, Parish. A visit to Mexico, by the West India islands, Yucatan and United States, with observations and adventures on the way. London, Published for the author, 1853.2 volumes. Original embossed cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With folding lithographed frontispiece and folding map. XX,II,331; (6),478 pp. First edition; subscriber's copy with list of subscribers. -- William Parish Robertson went to Mexico, with his daughter, in 1848 as a special commissioner to negotiate a settlement for Mexican securities held by British investors. On his return in a party of prominent Mexicans in October 1849, he traveled through the United States via Mobile, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Sprinfield, Niagara Falls, Washington and New York . He was pleased with what he had observed, except for slavery. Robertson was a discriminating observer (Clark III, 398).Sabin 72016; Palau 271033. [Boeknr.: 36743 ]

€ 475,00

ROBERTSON, William. Geschiedenis van America. Uit het Engelsch vertaald. Amsterdam, Yntema en Tieboel, 1778.4 volumes. Contemporary half roan (rubbed). With folding engraved plate and 3 (of 4) folding engraved maps. First Dutch edition, first published in London in 1777: The history of America. - 'A popular work which was reprinted several times and translated into many languages. .. Its vivid descriptions and philosophical disquisitions on aboriginal society captivated the literary world, while the outbreak of the American War lent the book pertinent public interest..' (Cox II, p.150). William Robertson (1721-1793) was a highly respected Scottish historian, clergyman and writer. His History of America is often regarded as his most interesting work but it also shows the Eurocentric limits of his stadial thinking, because it presents an unsympathetic account of Native Americans and glosses over Spanish atrocities. Robertson wrote the first history of the discovery and Spanish conquest of America to be based on ample bibliographical information and documents in the Simancas archives. The bibliography (a catalogue of Spanish books and manuscripts) at the end of the last volume, pp. 303-322, is remarkable for the time (Borba de Moraes II, p.740 ). - A fifth volume was published in 1801 containing a translation of Books IX and X (the history of Virginia and New England).Cat. NHSM I, p.552 (English ed.); not in Tiele; Muller, America, 1369; Sabin 71999. [Boeknr.: 12372 ]

€ 225,00

ROCHEFORT, Charles de. Natuurlyke en zedelyke historie van d'eylanden de voor-eylanden van Amerika. Met eenen Caraïbaanschen woorden-schat. Vertaalt in Nederduytsch door H. Dullaart. Rotterdam, Arnout Leers, 1662.4to. Contemporary overlapping vellum. With allegorical engraved frontispiece, woodcut printer's device on titlepage, 6 engraved plates and 37 engravings in the text (7 nearly full page). (38),475,(11) pp. First Dutch edition, first published in Rotterdam in 1658: Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles. Rochefort,was the pastor of the French Protestant Church in Rotterdam, and a resident for several years in the West Indies. Including a natural history and ethnography of the West Indies: Barbados, Tobago, Sint Eustatius, Saba, Sint Maarten, etc. The first part describes the plants and animals i.a. tobacco, sugar, cotton and indigo. The second part is an account of the various Carib peoples and their customs, language and religion. A Dutch-Carib dictionary is found at the end. With excellent engravings. The work is an important and valuable contribution to our knowledge of the Antilles and their inhabitants (Sabin). - Age-browned, otherwise a good copy.Sabin 72320; Tiele 926; Cat. NHSM I, p.265; European-Americana III, p.162.. [Boeknr.: 15133 ]

€ 2950,00

RODSCHIED, Ernst Karl. Medizinische und chirurgische Bemerkungen über das Klima, die Lebensweise und Krankheiten der Einwohner der hollaendischen Kolonie Rio Essequebo. Frankfurt, Jäger, 1796.Sm.8vo. Original speckled boards. XII,320 pp. First edition. - Rare early work on climate, topography and deseases in the Dutch colony of Essequebo, Guyana. With ample chapters on native's customs. The German physician Ernst Carl Rodschied who practised in Essequibo in the 1790s, found that classical European medicine could not be used in the treatmen of African slaves without making modifications. Rodschied, who apparently had only had limited contact with Africans, thought that slaves had few passions, did not mind being slaves and were really only interested in keeping themselves alive and (if male) in sexual contact with women. According to Rodschied, Africans had brought 'strange' diseases from Africa and their constitution was quite different from that of the Europeans owing to their distinct customs and habits (Snelders, Leprosy and Colonialism: Suriname Under Dutch Rule, 1750-1950). - (Age-browned).Suriname-Catalogus U.B. Amsterdam 5714; Sabin 72571; Muller, America, 567; no copy in Eutiner Landesbibliothek. [Boeknr.: 28042 ]

€ 1495,00

ROGGEVEEN, Arent. The burning fen. With an introduction by C. Koeman. Amsterdam, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971. 2 volumes. Large folio. Cloth, with dust-jackets. With many illustrations and 52 double-page charts. First edition published in Dutch: Het Brandende Veen. Part 1 reprinted from the 1675 Amsterdam edition, published by Pieter Goos. Part 2 reprinted from the 1687 Amsterdam edition, published by Jacob Robijn. Containing charts of the Central American coasts and islands, west coast of Africa and the coast of Brazil. The first printed West Indian Pilot, a prototype of the pilote guides for America. - A fine copy. [Boeknr.: 34985 ]

€ 175,00

(ROMANET DU CAILLAUD, Joseph). Voyage a la Martinique. Vues et observations politiques sur cette isle, avec un aperçu de ses productions végétales et animales. Paris, L. Pelletier, an XII - 1804.Contemporary half red morocco, spine gilt (foot of spine rep.). VIII,194,(1) pp. First edition; with pictorial bookplate 'L'etude des humanités console humains'. - Discusses the history of the island, political events, colonial government, commerce, agriculture, and includes chapters treating slavery on the island, the plagues to which Martinique is subject, and the Carib Indians. - (Minor foxing, errata leaf silked). - An attractive copy.Sabin 72987; Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection 581. [Boeknr.: 36653 ]

€ 395,00

ROOS, P(aul) F(rançois). Surinaamsche mengelpoëzy. Amsterdam, H. Gartman en P.J. Uylenbroek, 1804.4to. Contemporary scored calf, with black morocco title-label on spine. With engraved title with nice vignette by R. Vinkeles. VIII,318 pp. First edition. - One of the very few poetical descriptions of life in Dutch Guiana. The poems are about slavery, plantations, the land and the people. Including a poem on the death of George Washington. Paul François Roos (1751-1805), the first poet of Suriname, was director of the plantation De jonge Byekorf near the Commewijneriver. - Some blank margins waterstained, otherwise a very good copy on thick paper with wide margins.Muller, America, p.171; Sabin 73101; Van Kempen p.286-289; Suriname- Catalogus U.B. Amsterdam 5786. [Boeknr.: 15463 ]

€ 950,00

ROSS, John. Verhaal van eenen tweeden zeetogt, en van verscheidene landreizen in de Noordpool-gewesten. Ondernomen tot opsporing eener noordwestelijke doorvaart. Uit het Engelsch vertaald door J. Olivier. Zutphen, W.J. Thieme, 1836-1837.3 volumes. Modern half cloth. With folding map. XXXX,296; 327; 284 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in London in 1835 Narrative of a second voyage in search of a north-west passage. - Sir John Ross (1777-1856) set out in 1826 with the small paddle-steamer the Victory, after the failure of his voyage in 1821. He spent the years 1829-1833 in the far northwest. He successfully waethered repeated Arctic winters and systematically accumulated a wealth of scientific data and reached the North Magnetic Pole in 1831.The Victory was crushed in the ice and Ross and his men were rescued by a whaler, the Isabella, in August 1833 at Lancaster Sound, after a terrible trek South. The introduction contains a chronological summary of previous explorations in search of a Northwest Passage. - (Some foxing; written number on title-pages). - Very rare.Not in Tiele or Cat. NHSM; Sabin 73382 (English ed.); Arctic Bibl. 14866; Stam, Books on ice, p.22; Hill 1490; Howgego II, R29. [Boeknr.: 36193 ]

€ 875,00

ROUX DE ROCHELLE, (Jean Baptiste Gaspard). Etats-Unis d'Amérique. Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1837.Contemporary half calf (rubbed). With folding map and 96 steel-engravings. 400 pp. L'Univers pittoresque. - Views of Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Washington, etc. The author was the French Minister to America, 1829-1831. - (Foxed). Howes R473; Sabin 73516. [Boeknr.: 11181 ]

€ 95,00

ROY, Pierre Georges. Les monuments commémoratifs de la province de Québec. Québec, Ls-A. Proulx, 1923. 2 volumes. Wrappers, uncut. With numerous plates. 357; 360 pp. Publié par la Commission des Monuments Historiques de la Province de Québec. [Boeknr.: 8359 ]

€ 95,00

SACHSE, Julius Friedrich. Justus Falckner mystic and scholar. Devout pietist in Germany, hermit on the Wissahickon, missionary on the Hudson. A bi-centennial memorial. Philadelphia, 1903. Original cloth, top edge gilt, uncut. With plates and illustrations. 141 pp. 500 numbered copies printed for the author. - Justus Falckner (1672-1723), born in Germany, served as pastor of the Dutch Lutheran congregations in Manhattan and Albany County, New York and Hackensack, New Jersey. He learned the Dutch language and also preached in English and later in German. [Boeknr.: 22062 ]

€ 55,00

SAHAGUN, Bernardino de. Gliederung des alt-aztekischen Volks in Familie, Stand und Beruf. Aus dem aztekischen Urtext übersetzt und erläutert von L. Schultze Jena. Stuttgart, W. Kohlhammer, 1952. 8vo. Wrappers, uncut. With 4 plates. X,336 pp. Quellenwerke zur alten Geschichte Amerikas. Aufgezeichnet in den Sprachen der Eingeborenen. Herausgegeben von der Lateinamerikanischen Bibliothek, Berlin. - Aztec tex with German translation. [Boeknr.: 23807 ]

€ 65,00

SAHAGUN, Bernardino de. Wahrsagerei, Himmelskunde und Kalender der alten Azteken. Aus dem aztekischen Urtext übersetzt und erläutert von L. Schultze Jena. Stuttgart, W. Kohlhammer, 1950. 8vo. Wrappers, uncut. With 4 plates. XIII,400 pp. Quellenwerke zur alten Geschichte Amerikas. Aufgezeichnet in den Sprachen der Eingeborenen. Herausgegeben von der Lateinamerikanischen Bibliothek, Berlin. - Aztec tex with German translation. [Boeknr.: 23772 ]

€ 65,00

SAINT LUCIA. 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY 1834-1984. Saint Lucia, 1984. Pictorial leaf including 4 postal stamps depicting together a plantation scene in Saint Lucia. - Fine. [Boeknr.: 31065 ]

€ 25,00

SALMON, Thomas. Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat van Amerika. Behelzende de historie der ontdekkinge van dit wereldsdeel en der verovering van een gedeelte van't zelve door de Spanjaarden: de algemeene beschryving van de lands- and lugtsgesteldheid, de ingezetenen en het gene tot de natuurlyke historie behoort .... Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion, 1766-1769.3 volumes. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt. With 3 engraved frontispieces and 25 folding engraved maps and plates. Continuation of the series started by Thomas Salmon, Contemporary history, or the present state of all the nations. The Dutch edition contains many new and original material i.a. description of the Dutch settlements in America. The numerous maps and plates are well executed (Sabin). Among the maps are a map of the Western hemisphere, maps of California, Mexico, South-America, Brazil, Canada, etc.Tiele 1033; Cat. NHSM I, p.7; Sabin 31212. [Boeknr.: 1345 ]

€ 2100,00

SCHMIDT, Hans. Op zoek naar't geluk in Argentinië en Paraguay. Geautoriseerde vertaling van C. van der Tonge-Koster. Laren, A.G. Schoonderbeek, (1921). 8vo. Modern cloth, original decorated frontwrapper mounted. With photographic plates. 194 pp. First published in Leipzig in 1921 Meine Jagd nach dem Glueck in Argentinien und Paraguay : Reise-, Arbeits- und Jagdabenteuer. [Boeknr.: 36738 ]

€ 65,00

SCHMIDT, Julius. Die Steinbildwerke von Copán und Quiriguá. Aufgenommen von Heinrich Meye. Historisch erläutert und beschrieben. Berlin, A. Asher & Co., 1883.Large folio. With plan and 20 lithographed plates, in modern cloth box. With printed title page, preface by Alphons Stübel (3 pp.), introduction (10 pp.) and explanatory text leaf for each plate. Copán is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization in the Copán Department of western Honduras, not far from the border with Guatemala, Quiriguá is an ancient Maya archaeological site in the department of Izabal in south-eastern Guatemala. - (Blank margins text leaves waterstained). - With excellent plates. [Boeknr.: 36699 ]

€ 775,00

SCHOMBURGK, Robert Hermann. The history of Barbados; comprising a geographical and statistical description of the island; a sketch of the historical events since the settlement; and an account of its geology and natural productions. London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848.Original embossed cloth, rebacked (the original spine laid down). With tinted lithographed title page depicting Trafalgar Square in Bridgetown, coloured map, 2 plates printed in green depicting the configuration of Polycystina and 5 tinted lithographed views. XX,722 pp. First edition. - This book is a classic in West Indian history. It is a scholarly study, in many respects still the best in the entire field, based largely on research done in the British Museum Liibrary and that of the Literary Society of Barbados. Much use has been made of official publications, local newspapers, and information gained by personal experiences and inquiry during the author's residence in the island (Ragatz p.183). - A fine copy.Abbey, Travel, 694; Sabin 77785; Hough, The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, 891. [Boeknr.: 36705 ]

€ 675,00

SCHULTEN, C.M. Nederlandse expansie in Latijns Amerika. Brazilië: 1624-1654. Bussum, Fibula-Van Dishoeck, 1968. Boards. With many illustrations. 104 pp. [Boeknr.: 716 ]

€ 15,00

SCOTT, Kenneth & James A. OWRE. Genealogical data from inventories of New York estates 1666-1825. New York, Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1970. Folio. Wrappers. VIII,220 pp. 'It has been attempted to mention in the abstracts all items of genealogical value and special attention has been paid to real estate, paintings, gold and silver, jewelry, Negro slaves, books and weapons'. [Boeknr.: 25571 ]

€ 45,00

SCOTT, Kenneth. (Ed.). Records of the Chancery Court Province and State of New York. Guardianships 1691-1815. New York, The Holland Society of New York, (1971). 8vo. Cloth. With plate. X,297 pp. 'There was wide-spread and continued opposition to the Court of Chancery during the colonial period on the ground that personal liberty and property were not subject to law but to the conscience of the governor'. [Boeknr.: 25520 ]

€ 45,00

SETUBAL, P. Johan Maurits van Nassau (o principe de Nassau). Historische roman uit den tijd der Hollandsche bezetting van Brazilië. Vertaling uit het Portugeesch van R. Schreuder en J. Slauerhoff. Amsterdam, Wereldbibliotheek, 1933. Original cloth. 235 pp. [Boeknr.: 6564 ]

€ 15,00

SHERWOOD, Lorenzo. Remarks on the course of the slaveholders' conspiracy against democratic government. (No pl., 1862).Disbound pamphlet. 8 pp. 'Sherwood opposed slavery and argued that Congress had the right to decide the slavery question in the territories. Maligned by opponents for his views, including support for free-soil doctrines and federal government supremacy, he was driven from the legislature in 1856, labelled anti-southern, threatened with death should he chose to speak, and kept from serving as a delegate to the Secession Convention' (Kleiner, Handbook of Texas Online).Sabin 80448; Afro-Americana 9391. [Boeknr.: 20272 ]

€ 45,00

SHORTO, Russell. Nieuw-Amsterdam. Eiland in het hart van de wereld. Amsterdam, Forum, 2004. Wrappers. With plates. 428 pp. [Boeknr.: 28468 ]

€ 20,00

SIEVERS, W. Reise in der Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Leipzig, Gressner & Schramm, 1887.Original half cloth, spine lettered in gilt (library number in ink on spine). With 8 plates and illustrations by A. Göring. (8),290 pp. First edition; with bookplate of Friedrich Weber. - Located in northern Colombia, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain ranges are geographically an isolated part of the Central Cordilleras of South America. [Boeknr.: 36626 ]

€ 125,00

SIJPESTEIJN, C(ornelis) A(scanius) van. Beschrijving van Suriname, historisch-, geographisch- en statistisch overzigt, uit officiele bronnen bijeengebracht. 's Gravenhage, Gebroeders van Cleef, 1854.Later half calf, spine lettered in gilt. With folding lithographed plan of Paramaribo and folding lithographed map with coat of arms. XVI,296 pp. Original edition. - Historical, geographical and statistical description of Suriname by Jhr. Cornelis Ascanius van Sypesteyn (1823 - 1892), compiled from official sources. He was a Dutch colonial administrator in the West Indies between 1846 and 1859, worked for the Department of the Colonies, was a member of parliament and from 1873 till 1882 Governor General of Suriname. - A fine copy.Tiele 1075; Cat. NHSM I, p.285; Sabin 80989; Muller, America, p.171; Suriname-catalogus UB Amsterdam 6774; Koeman, Suriname, 54. [Boeknr.: 12896 ]

€ 275,00

SILVER, Timothy. A new face on the countryside. Indians, colonists, and slaves in South Atlantic forests, 1500-1800. Cambridge, University Press, (1990). Wrappers. With many illustrations. XII,204 pp. [Boeknr.: 20467 ]

€ 18,00

SIMONS, G.J. Beschrijving van het eiland Curaçao, uit verschillende bronnen bijeenverzameld. Oosterwolde, G.S. de Tempe, 1868.Modern boards. With lithographed portrait, map and 2 coloured lithographed plates of Grot van Hato and Willemstad. 156 pp. First edition. - Rare description of the island of Curaçao. - (Corner of 1 leaf repaired with loss of text; some lvs backed with Japanese paper).Tiele 1005; Sabin 81320; Renkema C173.. [Boeknr.: 17434 ]

€ 275,00

(SKINNER, Joseph). The present state of Peru: comprising its geography, topography, natural history, mineralogy, commerce, the customs and manners of its inhabitants, the state of literature, philosophy, and the arts, the modern travels of the missionaries in the heretofore unexplored mountainous territories, etc. The whole drawn from original and authentic documents, chiefly written and compiled in the Peruvian capital. London, Richard Phillips, 1805.4to. Contemporary tree calf (one hinge sl. damaged but firmly holding). With 20 handcoloured stipple-engravings depicting costumes of Peruvian society, natives, bullfighter, llamas, etc. XIV,488 pp. First edition. - Skinner translated portions of El Mercurio Peruano, published between 1791-1795, for this detailed overview of Peru, illustrated with twenty beautifully coloured plates depicting the costume of various segments of Peruvian society, including upper-class ladies, female domestics in Spanish dress, Indian men and women, a bullfighter, etc. The Appendix contains two interesting accounts: History of the missions of Caxamarquilla, with the origin and loss of those of Manoa, intended as an introduction to the recent travels of fathers Sobreviela and Girbal, in the remote parts of Peru. The second account: Interesting notices relative to the entrances made by the monks of the order of St. Francis, into the mountainous territories of Peru, from each of the parts bordering on the Cordillera of the Andes, communicated to the academical society of Lima by father Sobreviela, guardian of the college of Santa Rosa of Ocopa. 'An extensive illustrated reference work on Peru' (Von Hünersdorff II, p.1384). - The earliest and most lavish English colour-plate book relating to Peru and Ecuador. -Some foxing otherwise fine.Abbey, Travel, 723; Lipperheide I, p.389; Colas 2751; Hiler p.802; Sabin 81615; Palau 315564. [Boeknr.: 29408 ]

€ 3250,00

SLEEPY HOLLOW. THE OLD DUTCH BURYING GROUND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW. (Terrytown). History Research Society of the Tappan Zee, 1926. Wrappers. With folding plan and some illustrations. 87 pp. 'One of the earliest, perhaps the first, dwelling set up in this vicnity was that of Wolfert Ecker, or Acker, immortalized by Irving under the facetious title of 'Wolfert's Roost'. [Boeknr.: 20490 ]

€ 45,00

SLETTENAAR, Henk. Boissevain Ruys Tegelberg. Beknopte biografie van drie zusterschepen. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2008. 4to. Wrappers. With many illustrations (several in colours). 155 pp. Three passenger ships of the KPM. They have served for most of their thirty years on the line from the Far East via South Africa to the east coast of South America. [Boeknr.: 36524 ]

€ 18,00

(SLOANE, Hans). Histoire de la Jamaïque, traduite de l'Anglois par (Raulin). Londres, Nourse, 1751.2 volumes. Sm.8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spines richly gilt. With 6 engraved folding plates (o.a. a sugarmill). (2),285; 248 pp. First French edition; first published in Edinburgh in 1739: A new and exact account of Jamaica. - Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) went in 1687 to Jamaica as physician to the Duke of Albemarle, governor of Jamaica. He stayed there 15 months, making many observations of its natural resources, agriculture, production, commerce, etc. He returned with eight hundred species of plants (DNB). 'Le voyage de Sloane .. est une minne feconde pour les naturalistes, sur-tout quant à la partie de la botanique. L'étendue que Sloane a donnée à ses recherches sur les plantes, et l'exactitude des descriptions qu'il en a faites, donnent un grand prix à cet ouvrage' (Boucher de la Richarderie I, p.272). - A very fine copy.Sabin 35585; Chadenat 4668; Leclerc 721; The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, 207. [Boeknr.: 9558 ]

€ 1250,00

SMET, P(ierre) J(ean). de. Missien van den Orégon en reizen naer de rotsbergen en de bronnen der Colombia, der Athabasca en Sascatshawin in 1845-46. Uit het Fransch. Gent, W. vander Schelden, 1849.Later half red morocco, spine ribbed. With lithographed frontispiece and title-page, 3 folding maps and 14 lithographed plates. 423 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in Gent in 1848 Missions de l'Orégon et voyages aux Montagnes Rocheuses aux sources de la Colombie, de l' Athabasca et du Sascatshawin. - The Belgian Jesuit priest Pierre-Jean De Smet (1801-73) wrote this work, which was published in French, English and Dutch Flemish, to raise funds for his missionary work among the Indians of the Pacific Northwest. Travels through and about the central Columbia River plateau, the Athabasca River, the country of the Assiniboines, and the Missouri River. With accounts of the manners and customs of the North American Indians, together with exquisite descriptions of the scenery. - (Age-browned).Tiele 1009; Sabin 82264; Wagner-Camp 141:4; Howes D286. [Boeknr.: 4081 ]

€ 395,00

SMITH, G. Barnett. Canada: its rise and progress. London, S.W. Partridge & Co., 1898.Original decorated cloth. With frontispiece. 320 pp. - (The Romance of Colonization). [Boeknr.: 8139 ]

€ 45,00

SMITH, George L. Religion and trade in New Netherland. Dutch origins and American development. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, (1973). Cloth, with dust-jacket. XIII,266 pp. [Boeknr.: 29111 ]

€ 45,00

SMITH, Matthew Hale. Sunshine and shadow in New York. Hartford, J.B. Burr and Company, 1868.Original cloth (spine faded and sl. damaged). With wood-engraved title-page and 11 wood-engraved plates. 712; (2) pp. First edition. - 'My purpose in this book has been to draw the Great Metropolis with its lights and shades, in a series of graphic papers: to sketch New York as I have seen it'. (Introduction). - A valuable description of mid-19th-century New York.Sabin 83591. [Boeknr.: 31742 ]

€ 75,00

SMITH, William Henry. A political history of slavery. Being an account of the slavery controversy from the earliest agitations in the eighteenth century to the close of the reconstruction period in America. With an introduction by Whitelaw Reid. Volume I. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903. Original cloth, top edge gilt. With portrait. XVI,350 pp. [Boeknr.: 20281 ]

€ 35,00

SMITH, William. A natural history of Nevis, and the rest of the English Leeward Charibee islands in America. With many other observations on nature and art; particularly, an introduction to the art decyphering. Cambridge, J. Bentham, 1745.Contemporary calf with red title label to spine. (6),318,(9) pp + Errata sheet of 10 lines. First edition; with armorial bookplate of John Guitton. - A series of eleven letters from the rev. William Smith, rector of St. John's at Nevis to rev. Charles Mason, Woodwardian professor and fellow of Trinity-College in Cambridge, containing descriptions of shells, insects, plants and other natural objects observed or remarked upon in the writer's researches during five years residence in Nevis. Sabin 84563; European-Americana VI, p.367; The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection 200. [Boeknr.: 36731 ]

€ 1500,00

SOUTH AMERICA. Neue charte von Süd America aus den besten Quellen. (No pl., ca. 1780). Engraved map of South America. Ca. 33 x 23 cm. - (Some faint marginal stains). [Boeknr.: 36498 ]

€ 95,00

SPENCE, James Mudie. The land of Bolivar or war, peace and adventure in the Republic of Venezuela. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878.2 volumes. Original green cloth gilt. With 7 maps (2 folding) and 60 woodengravings. XX,323,(24); X,345 pp. First edition. - The materials for this volume were collected by the writer during 1871 and 1872, when the Republic of Venezuela was gliding into peace, after twenty-five years of continued civil war and trouble. During his residence in the country he was in treaty with the government for several important mining concessions, which naturally brought him into close relations with the ruling powers, and afforder him opportunities of acquiring accurate information from sources not generally accessible (Preface). The fine illustrations are by Ramon Bolet and Anton Goering. - (With blank tooled library stamps on titlepages and booknumber in ink on spines). [Boeknr.: 36614 ]

€ 295,00

SPIER, Jo. West. Met tekst van Piet Bakker. Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1948. 4to. Original cloth, with pictorial dust-jacket (dam.). With drawings by Jo Spier depicting Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. - Fine. [Boeknr.: 30870 ]

€ 45,00

SPINOZA CATELLA JESSURUN, J. Kiliaen van Rensselaer van 1623 tot 1636. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1917. Wrappers. 213,XXII pp. Thesis. - Dealing with his set-up of his estate Rensselaerswyck near Albany. [Boeknr.: 7125 ]

€ 45,00

SQUIER, E(phraim) G(eorge). Nicaragua; its people, scenery, monuments, and the proposed interoceanic canal. New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1852.2 volumes. Original embossed cloth (spines discoloured). With 4 maps (2 folding) and 29 plates (including tinted and coloured plates) and 60 woodengravings. XXII,424; IV,452 pp. First edition. - Squier (1821-1888) was an American journalist, archaeologist, and diplomat. He became an authority on Central America and on the archaeological ruins of native Americans in New York, Ohio, Central America, and Peru. Nicaragua is considered his best book (Hill 1621). Squier's contact with Latin America came initially through several diplomatic posts which he held, and led to his becoming a recognized authority and author, especially on Central American affairs as well as its archaeology and ethnology. - A wealth of information about all aspects of Nicaragua. Sabin 89980; Howgego IV, p.868-869; Palau 321.786; Abbey, Travel, 673. . [Boeknr.: 36622 ]

€ 675,00

St. CLAIR, Thomas Staunton. A residence in the West Indies and America, with a narrative of the expedition to the island of Walcheren. London, Richard Bentley, 1834.2 volumes. Contemporary half calf, with red morocco title-labels to spines. With 5 woodengravings and 6 aquatint plates. XIV,(1),395; XII,382 pp. First edition; with the bookplate of H.M. McCance. - 'The author, of Scotch descent, had been born at Gibraltar while his father, a British officer, had been stationed there. His brothers and he also entered service and, in 1805 he was ordered to Demerara, where he held a command for some three years. Contains interesting accounts of his life and peoples there, but nothing whatever regarding the West Indies proper excepting a few pages on Barbados, to which he was invalided for a short time, and several on St. Kitts, where a brother was stationed, both points of call on his return to Scotland in 1808. Gives a secondhand version of the spectacular British attack on Martinique in 1808, at which time one brother was killed' (Ragatz p.234). Dealing with Indians, slaves, Dutch settlements, etc. in Berbice, Demerara and Essequibo and visit to Walcheren in The Netherlands. With pictures of: a runaway negro, Canoe and Arrawaka Indians, Indian village on the Corantine, view on the Demerara River, etc. - (Some pencil annotations). - Scarce.Sabin 75025; Abbey, Travel, 679; Hough, The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, 814. [Boeknr.: 30912 ]

€ 850,00

St. EUSTATIUS. St. Eustache, eine der Antillischen Insuln in Nord-America welche 1781 von den Engelländern erobert und denen Holländern abgenomen worden. - St. Eustache, une des isles d'Antilles dans l'Amerique du Nord la quelle fut prise aux Hollandois en 1781 par les Anglois. Augsbourg, (ca. 1781).Contemporary handcoloured perspective view (vue d'optique or Guckkastenbild) by Bergmüller. Ca. 31 x 44,5 cm (including margins). Rare and handsome optical view of the bay and town of St. Eustatius also known affectionately to the locals as Statia, part of the Caribbean Netherlands, with numerous sailing boats in the foreground. It shows the island of St. Eustatius taken by the English fleet in February 1781. Admiral Rodney's sailors and troops pillaged the island. The Dutch regained control over the devastated island in 1784.On 16th November 1776, the Dutch commander of St. Eustatius, Johannes de Graaff, ordered a salute to be fired from the Dutch Fort Orange to the flag of the rebellious English colonies in North America. The North Americans regarded this salute as recognition of their independence and first acknowledgment by a foreign power. - A very attractive view. [Boeknr.: 21616 ]

€ 1250,00

St. JOHN, Spenser. Hayti or the Black Republic. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1884.Original decorated green cloth. With folding map. XIV,343 pp. First edition. - St. John wrote this account of Haiti after spending 12l years there as a chargé d'affaires and later, resident minister. Included are chapters on population, voodoo worship and cannibalism, and a general description of the country and its history. 'A savagely hostile account' ( O.D.N.B.).Cundall 507; Afro-Americana 9066. [Boeknr.: 36744 ]

€ 225,00

St. MAARTEN. De stadt St. Martin. (London, 1671).A fine engraved view of the naval battle in the harbour at present-day Philipsburg, St. Maarten, contemporary coloured by hand. Ca. 27 x 36 cm. From: John Ogilby, America, London, 1671. - Magnificent view of St. Maarten from the sea with many sailing ships in the foreground, depicting Admiral Martyn Thytzoon's Dutch West India fleet attacking the Spanish-held Philipsburg, St. Martin in 1629. With legend. - Margins browned otherwise fine. [Boeknr.: 33630 ]

€ 850,00

STEDMAN, John Gabriel. Poste de Magdenberg sur la Tempaty-crique. (Paris, 1798). Engraving by Tardieu l'ainé. C. 7,5 x 13 cm. From: Stedman, Voyage à Surinam. - Sugar plantation Maagdenberg near the Commewijne. [Boeknr.: 17749 ]

€ 35,00

STOCKUM, A.J. van. Een ontdekkingstocht in de binnenlanden van Suriname. Dagboek van de Saramacca-expeditie. Amsterdam, G.P. Tierie, 1905. Original decorated cloth. With 6 photographic plates and 4 maps (1 large folding). 324 pp. First edition in book form, first published in Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Aardrijkskundig Genootschap in 1904. - Account of the second scientific expedition to the source of the Saramaca-river in Suriname by the Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, The Saramacca-expedition, October 1902 - april 1903, under the leadership of A.J. van Stockum with the assistance of A. Pulle and P.J. de Kock. The expedition reached the source of the Saramacca-river.Suriname-catalogus UB Amsterdam 6502; Wentholt, In kaart gebracht met kapmes en kompas, pp.133-139. [Boeknr.: 36859 ]

€ 145,00

STOKES, (Isaac Newton Phelps). The iconography of Manhattan Island 1498-1909. Compiled from original sources. N.Y., 1915-28. Reprint. Union, 1998. 6 volumes. Large 4to. Cloth. With numerous maps, plans and plates (some in colours; many folding). 'The iconography of Manhattan Island represents the result of a two-fold purpose: to collect, to condense, and to arrange systematically and in just proportion, within the confines of a single work, the facts and incidents which are of the greatest consequence and interests in the history of New York, with special reference to its topographical features and the physical development of the island; and to illustrate this material by the best reproductions obtainable of important and interesting contemporary maps, plans, views, and documents; in other words, to produce a book dealing with the physical rather than with the personal side of the city's history, which shall be at the same time useful and interesting to the student of history, the antiquarian, the collector, and the general public' (Preface). [Boeknr.: 21156 ]

€ 550,00

STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Dred, een verhaal door de schrijfster van De Negerhut. Uit het Engelsch door P. van Os. Haarlem & Sneek, A.C. Kruseman & Van Druten & Bleeker, 1857.3 volumes. Half cloth, marbled boards. With 3 lithographed pictorial title pages by C.W. Mieling after J.C. d’Arnaud Gerkens. IX,308,(1); 307,(1); (2),289 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in Boston in 1856 Dred, a tale of the great dismal swamp. - Beecher Stowe's second anti-slavery novel. The main theme is the moral downfall of a society based on slavery. The work was much less successful than Uncle Tom's Cabin. (1852). - Age-browned, with stamp of Leesbibliotheek van Stenfertkroese, Arnhem. - Rare.Sabin 92398. [Boeknr.: 36434 ]

€ 375,00

STOWE, Harriet Beecher. A key to Uncle Tom's cabin; presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work. 2nd edition. London, Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1853.8vo. Original embossed cloth (spine faded). XVI,637 pp. First edition published the same year. - Harriet Beecher Stowe's defense against the attacks and criticism of her work, Uncle Tom's Cabin in which she documented her sources. It is a compilation of facts drawn from laws, court records, newspapers and private letters.Sabin 92412; Work p.467. [Boeknr.: 19847 ]

€ 95,00

STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Onkel Tom’s Hütte oder Negerleben in den Sklavenstaaten von Amerika. Aus dem Englischen neu übersetzt von Margarete Jacobi. Stuttgart & Leipzig, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, (1897). Original pictorial embossed cloth. With chromolithographed frontispiece, and 112 illustrations and plates. 624 pp. First German edition published in 1853, the original edition was published in Boston in 1852. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896), an American author and abolitionist. The novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. - A nice binding. [Boeknr.: 37619 ]

€ 45,00

STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's cabin; or, life among the lowly. London, Ward, Lock & Tyler, (ca. 1880).Original decorated gilt cloth. With wood-engraved illustrations. VI,346,(28) pp. First published in Boston in 1852. - To those engaged in fighting slavery it appeared as an indictment of all the evils inherent in the system they opposed; to the pro-slavery forces it was a slanderous attack on 'the Southern way of life'. The character of Uncle Tom was based in part on the narrative on the life of Josiah Henson, an escaped slave. 'The social impact of Uncle Tom's cabin on the United States was greater than that of any book before or since' (PMM 332). - A nice copy.Cf Sabin 92491 and Work p.304. [Boeknr.: 37232 ]

€ 125,00

STOWEL, William Henry.& D. WILSON. History of the Puritans in England, and the Pilgrim Fathers. London, Thomas Nelson, New York, R. Carter and Brothers, 1849.Original decorative blocked pale green cloth, spine gilt, all edges gilt. With steel engraved frontispiece and title page. 508 pp. History of the Puritans in England under the reighn of the Tudors and Stuarts by Stowel and The history of the Pilgrim Fathers by D. Wilson, complete in one volume. Sabin 92630. [Boeknr.: 36158 ]

€ 125,00

STRAATEN, H.S. van der. Hollandse pioniers in Brazilië. Franeker, Van Wijnen, 1988. 8vo. Boards. With 94 illustrations. 160 pp. [Boeknr.: 6566 ]

€ 25,00

STRAATEN, H.S. van der. Maurits de Braziliaan. Het levensverhaal van Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, stichter van het Mauritshuis, gouverneur-generaal van Nederlands-Brazilië, stadhouder van Kleef 1604-1679. Amsterdam, Van Soeren & Co., 1998. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations (several in colours). 77 pp. [Boeknr.: 13770 ]

€ 18,00

STUART, Moses. Conscience and the constitution with remarks on the recent speech of Daniel Webster in the Senate of the United States on the subject of slavery. Boston, Crocker & Brewster, 1850. 119 pp. Moses Stuart (1780-1852) discusses the problems of ending slavery. After the election of 1848, a new sectional crisis loomed, and Daniel Webster (1782-1852) tried to preserve the nation (Rodriguez, Encycl. of world slavery, p. 687).Sabin 93197. [Boeknr.: 20265 ]

€ 45,00

SURINAME. Geneeskundige Dienst. Extract uit het stamboek der heeren officieren van opgemeld korps. (Refering to) HUBERT ARENT BAERT. Broadside, letterpress printed form filled in in brown ink, signed and dated Paramaribo 1843. Ca. 33,5 x 41,5 cm. Extract from the Regimental roll of the Medical Service: the appointment of Hubert Arent Baert as chemist in Paramaribo in 1843. [Boeknr.: 31797 ]

€ 125,00

(SUTCLIFFE, Thomas). Crusoniana; or, truth versus fiction, elucidated in a history of the islands of Juan Fernandez. By the retired governor of that colony. Manchester, printed by P. Grant, 1843.Original pictorial green cloth, a.e.g. With engraved frontispiece depicting Alexander Selkirk, engraved vignette on title page, lithographed map, 2 lithographed portraits and 3 engraved plates. VI,(2),213,34,VIII pp. First edition; published by the author. - The Juan Fernández Islands are a sparsely inhabited island group in the South Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile. They are composed of three main volcanic islands: Robinson Crusoe, Alejandro Selkirk and Santa Clara. The islands are primarily known for having been the home to the marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk for more than four years from 1704, upon whom Daniel Defoe based his famous novel The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, mariner (1719). It belongs to the literary genre Robinsonade. Sabin 93946; Hill p.589 (note). [Boeknr.: 36781 ]

€ 850,00

SWALUE, E(delhardus) B(ernardus). De daden der Zeeuwen gedurende den opstand tegen Spanje. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, 1846.Later half morocco, spine gilt. XVI,374,(1) pp. Mainly dealing with the Dutch West India Company. 'On the part the Zealanders had in the grand feats of this period, I need only mention the exploits of Banckerts and Evertsch on the Spanish Silverfleet, those of Ita, Banckerts and Callenfels at Olinda, the colonisation at the Wiapoco in Guyana, Tabago, etc. by the chamber of the West Ind. Company at Middelburgh, etc. - to show the interest of this volume for American history' (Muller, America, 3066). - (Age-browned).Cat. NHSM I, p.385. [Boeknr.: 28644 ]

€ 125,00


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