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

€ 6000,00

SALMON, Thomas. Tegenwoordige staat van de koninkryken Pegu, Ava, Arrakan, Acham. Als mede van het eigentlyke India, of het ryk van den Groten Mogol, en van Malabar, Kormandel, en het eiland Ceilon. Nu vertaald en merkelyk vermeerderd door M. van Goch. 2e druk. Amsterdam, Isaac Tirion, 1741.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With engraved title-page, 2 folding maps (India and Ceylon), and 10 engraved plates (7 folding). (8),680,(8) pp. Original issued as Modern history: or present state of all nations. London 1725-1739. Translated into Dutch: Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat alle volkeren. Volume III covers an ample description of India, Bangladesh, Birma and Ceylon. Tiele 1033; Cordier, B.I., col. 731; Goonetileke 2049. [Boeknr.: 5378 ]

€ 425,00

SCHOUTEN, Wouter. Reys-togten, naar en door Oost-Indien, in welke, de voornaamste landen, koningryken, steden, eilanden, bergen en rivieren, met haare eigenschappen, beneffens de wetten, godsdienst, zeden en dragten der inwoonders, en wat verder zoo van dieren, vrugten, en planten, aanmerkelyks in die gewesten is; naauwkeurig word beschreven .3e druk. Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg & Jan 't Lam, 1740.2 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary half calf (modern boards), spine gilt. With titlepage printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, 4 illustrations and 27 (of 42) engraved plates by C. Decker and J. Kip. (8),328; 253, (22) pp. First published in 1676; large paper copy. - Wouter Schouten (1638-1704) spent 7 years as a physician in the service of the VOC in the East 1658-1665. He was an observant traveller who explored inland into environs of nearly everey port-of-call. His travel-account stayed very popular for a long time because of his ample and vivid descriptions of the countries, the different peoples and anything of note concerning the animals, plants, etc. of Java, Amboyna, Ternate, Celebes, Cape of Good Hope, coast of Coromandel, Malabar, Persia, Arabia, Ceylon, etc. Because of the bad weather the fleet arrived on the return voyage in Bergen (Norway), where Schouten eyewitnessed the attack by the English in 1665. - (Missing pp.291/292; portrait and 15 plates; last pp. stained).Tiele 991; Cat. NHSM I, p.174; Landwehr, VOC, 284; Mendelssohn II, p.279-80; Howgego p.947. [Boeknr.: 36245 ]

€ 395,00

SCHOUTEN, Wouter. Reys-togten, naar en door Oost-Indien, in welke, de voornaamste landen, koningryken, steden, eilanden, bergen en rivieren, met haare eigenschappen, beneffens de wetten, godsdienst, zeden en dragten der inwoonders, en wat verder zoo van dieren, vrugten, en planten, aanmerkelyks in die gewesten is; naauwkeurig word beschreven. 3e druk. Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg & Jan 't Lam, 1740.2 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt (spine rep., hinges cracked but firmly holding). With titlepage printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait, 4 illustrations and 43 engraved plates (several folding) by C. Decker and J. Kip. (8),328; 253, (22) pp. First published in 1676 with the title Oost-indische voyagie; large paper copy with additional folding map: Nieuwe en nette zeekaart van de geheele waereldt. - Wouter Schouten (1638-1704) spent 7 years as a physician in the service of the VOC in the East 1658-1665. He was an observant traveller who explored inland into environs of nearly everey port-of-call. His travel-account stayed very popular for a long time because of his ample and vivid descriptions of the countries, the different peoples and anything of note concerning the animals, plants, etc. of Java, Amboyna, Ternate, Celebes, Cape of Good Hope, coast of Coromandel, Malabar, Persia, Arabia, Ceylon, etc. Because of the bad weather the fleet arrived on the return voyage in Bergen (Norway), where Schouten eyewitnessed the attack by the English in 1665. 'His book was extremely popular in northern Europe and was translated into German (1676) and French (1707 and 1725)' (Lach & Van Kley, Asia in the making of Europe, III,2, p. 955). - Belongs to the best travel stories written at the time. - Some light marginal waterstaining in the first leaves, otherwise fine. Tiele 991; Cat. NHSM I, p.174; Landwehr, VOC, 284; Mendelssohn II, p.279-80; Howgego p.947. [Boeknr.: 37617 ]

€ 2250,00

SCHOUTEN, Wouter. Mr. Wouter Schouten van Haerlem. (No pl., ca. 1680).Engraved portrait of Wouter Schouten by Christiaan Hagen. Ca. 19,5 x 15 cm. Fine portrait with six line poem and a sailing ship in rough sea at the background. Wouter Schouten (1638-1704) spent 7 years as a physician in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the East 1658-1665. His travel-account, Oost-Indische voyagie, stayed very popular for a long time because of his ample and vivid descriptions of the countries. Landwehr, VOC, 283; Muller, Portretten, 4836. [Boeknr.: 33444 ]

€ 75,00

SCHREUDER, Jan. Memoir.. delivered to his successor Lubbert Jan Baron van Eck on March 17, 1762. Translated from the original by E. Reimers. Colombo, 1946. Cloth. XII,202 pp. Selections from the Dutch Records of the Ceylon Government. - Dutch and English texts. [Boeknr.: 6315 ]

€ 65,00

SCHROEDER, Leopold von. Indiens Literatur und Cultur in historischer Entwicklung. Ein Cyklus von fünfzig Vorlesungen zugleich als Handbuch der Indischen Literaturgeschichte, nebst zahlreichen, in Deutscher Uebersetzung mitgetheilten Proben aus Indischen Schriftwerken. Leipzig, H. Haessel, 1887.Contemporary half brown morocco, spine gilt. VII,785 pp. [Boeknr.: 30518 ]

€ 65,00

SEIPEL, Wilfried. (Hrsg.). Die Entdeckung der Welt. Die Welt der Entdeckungen. Österreichische Forscher, Sammler, Abenteuer. Wien, Künstlerhaus, 2002. 4to. Pictorial boards. With numerous illustrations (mostly in colours). 437 pp. 'Eine Ausstellung des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien mit Museum für Völkerkunde und des Bundesministeriums für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Naturhistorischen Museum und dem Heeresgeschichtlichen Mueum'. Focus on Ferdinand Lukas Bauer, Ferdinand Max, Karel Alexander Anselm, Ferdinand Stoliczka, Johann Natterer, Theodor Kotschy, Ida Pfeiffer, Oscar Baumann, Emil Holub, Emin Pascha, Richard Payer, Philipp Franz von Siebold, etc. - Fine. [Boeknr.: 35176 ]

€ 45,00

SHAW, Glenn. Osaka sketches. Kanda, The Hokuseido Press, (1929). Original pictorial cloth (extremities of spine sl.dam.), top edge gilt. With coloured frontispiece and illustrations. XXVII,276 pp. [Boeknr.: 31475 ]

€ 45,00

(SHERER, Joseph Moyle). Indische tafereelen voor reizigers aan den haard. Rotterdam, weduwe J. Allart, 1830.Modern marbled boards. With fine engraved title. XX,287 pp. First Dutch edition, first published in English in 1821 Sketches of India: written by an officer for fire-side travellers at-home. - Popular narrative dealing with the inhabitants, manners and customs, government, cities, etc. of India. It went through several editions.Not in Tiele or Cat. NHSM. [Boeknr.: 1906 ]

€ 95,00

SIEBOLD, Philipp Franz von. Philipp Franz von Siebold. A contribution to the study of the historical relations between Japan and the Netherlands. (Leiden), 1978. Wrappers. With illustrations. 95 pp. - (The Netherlands Association for Japanese Studies). [Boeknr.: 16244 ]

€ 18,00

SIEBOLD, Philipp Franz von. 200 YEARS SIEBOLD FAMILY. An exhibition. (1996). 8vo. Wrappers. With 160 coloured illustrations. 128 pp. - Japanese text, preface in German. [Boeknr.: 19534 ]

€ 45,00

SILVA, R.K. de & W.G.M. BEUMER. Illustrations and views of Dutch Ceylon 1602-1796. A comprehensive work of pictorial reference with selected eye-witness accounts. London, Serendib Publications, 1988. 4to. Boards, with dust-jacket. With 390 illustrations (150 in colours). VIII,495 pp. This work offers ready access to a rich range of pictures and a wealth of material of the shared past of Sri Lanka and the Netherlands. [Boeknr.: 241 ]

€ 95,00

SLADEN, Douglas. Queer things about Japan. Third edition. London, Anthony Treherne & Co, 1904.Original red cloth, with gilt lettering. With coloured frontispiece and 30 plates after Hokusai. XXXV,443 pp. First edition published in 1903. - A fascinating and comprehensive ethnographical and travel work on Japan. [Boeknr.: 37146 ]

€ 125,00

SLEEN, W.G.N. van der. Zwerftochten door tropisch Britsch-Indië. Amsterdam, Em. Querido, 1929. Decorated cloth. With 50 photographic illustrations. 236 pp. Wanderings through tropical British India with i.a. descriptions of Bombay, Nasik, Agra, Delhi, Travancore, Madura and Madras. [Boeknr.: 4575 ]

€ 25,00

STAVORINUS, Johan Splinter. Reize van Zeeland over de Kaap de Goede Hoop naar Batavia, Bantam, Bengalen, enz. gedaan in de jaaren 1768 tot 1771. Gevolgd van eenige belangrijke aanmerkingen over den aart, gewoonten, levenswijze, godsdienstplegtigheden en koophandel der volken in die gewesten. Leyden, A. en J. Honkoop, 1793.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half calf, with red morocco title-label to spine. With folding map of the Ganges and the Cape of Good Hope by C. van Baarsel. XXIV,294; 146,(2) pp. First edition; with bookplate of Percival J.G. Bishop. - Stavorinus (1739-1788), captain and rear admiral of the Admiralty of Zeeland, commanded the ship Goes, which was part of the relief fleet under Commander Jacob Pieter van Braam, which succeeded in relieving the besieged Malacca in the battles from 29 May to 21 June 1784. In battles from 2 to 12 August and 29 October to 27 November 1784, Selangore and Riouw were successively liberated when the VOC got into serious difficulties there. 'This work affords an accurate and valuable account of the Cape in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, with an interesting description of Cape Town and its inhabitants' (Mendelssohn). Including also large accounts of Batavia and Bengal. His accounts were published by his son. - A key work on the Dutch in Africa and in the East. - Last 3 leaves sl. waterstained otherwise a fine copy. - Very rare. Mendelssohn II, p.426; S.A.B.IV, p.385; Landwehr, VOC, 296; Cat. NHSM I, p.178; Tiele 1044. [Boeknr.: 27409 ]

€ 1250,00

STEAD, Alfred. Japan door Japanners. Een overzicht door zijn hoogste autoriteiten. Vertaald onder toezicht en met een inleiding van H. Kern. Leiden, A.W. Sijthoff, (1904). Contemporary half mprocco. With portrait. XVIII,(16),772 pp. [Boeknr.: 11923 ]

€ 35,00

STELLINGWERFF, J. De diepe wateren van Nagasaki. Nederlands-Japanse betrekkingen sedert de stichting van Deshima. - J. VRIEZE. (Red.). Komo-jin, roodharige vreemdelingen op Deshima. Nagasaki prenten en schilderingen uit de 18e en 19e eeuw. (Catalogus van de tentoonstelling). Franeker, T. Wever, 1983. 2 volumes in 1. Boards. With many plates. 160,39 pp. [Boeknr.: 6344 ]

€ 20,00

STENZ, Georg Maria. Beiträge zur Volkskunde Süd-Schantungs. Herausgegeben und eingeleitet von A.Conrady. Leipzig, R. Voigtländer, 1907. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. With 19 plates and illustrations (some in colours). 116 pp. First edition. - Veröffentlichungen der Städtischen Museums für Völkerkunde. - Georg Maria Stenz (1869 - 1928) was a Catholic missionary of the Society of the Divine Word in Shandong during the period from 1893 to 1927. - A fine copy. [Boeknr.: 31375 ]

€ 65,00

STONE, Albert Hendrix & J.Hammond REED. Historic Lushan. The Kuling Mountains. Hankow, Arthington Press Religious Tract Society, 1921. Original black cloth. With folding map (small tear) and many photographic plates. II,106 pp. First edition. - Mount Lu or Lushan is situated in the northern part of Jiangxi province in Central Asia, it is one of the renowned mountains in the country. Lushan was a summer resort for western missionaries in China. [Boeknr.: 31284 ]

€ 150,00

SUMMERS, James. The rudiments of the Chinese language, with dialogues, exercises, and a vocabulary. London, Bernard Quaritch, 1864.Sm.8vo. Original blind-tooled cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With folding plate depicting Chinese characters. II,159 pp. Cordier, B.S., col.1674. [Boeknr.: 31133 ]

€ 195,00

SUTTON, Jean. Lords of the East. The East India Company and its ships (1600-1874). (London, Conway, 2000). Boards, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations (several in colours). 160 pp. [Boeknr.: 29318 ]

€ 35,00

TAYLOR, Bayard. A visit to India, China, and Japan, in the year 1853. New York, G.P. Putman & Co., 1855.Original embossed blue cloth (foot of spine dam.). With engraved title with oval view of the Tash Mahal and steelengraving depicting The valley of Unna in Loo-Choo. 539 pp. First edition. - Cordier, B.S., col. 2122; Cordier, B.J., col. 521; Löwendahl 1549. [Boeknr.: 31612 ]

€ 95,00

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

€ 15,00

TERPSTRA, H. De opkomst der westerkwartieren van de Oost-Indische Compagnie (Suratte, Arabië, Perzië). 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1918. Original printed wrappers. With folding map. XII,308 pp. [Boeknr.: 6321 ]

€ 45,00

TERRY, Edward. Scheeps-togt na Oost-Indien, met een vloot van 5 scheepen. Gedaan in het jaar 1615. Verhalende een zee-slag tussen de Engelsse en een Portugysse kraak, omtrent het eyland Gazidia, ook de gelegenheyd deses eylands met den gods-dienst, aart, zeeden en kleeding deser volkeren. Mitsgaders een nette en naauw-keurige beschrijving van de staten van den Mogol .. Als mede de gods-dienst en zeeden der Mahometanen en heydenen, 't verbranden hunner wijven met de mannen .. en andere zeldsaamheeden. Nu alder-eerst uyt het Engels vertaalt. Leyden, Pieter van der Aa, (ca. 1706).Folio. Modern boards. With engraved title-vignette, engraved folding map and 2 engravings in text. (22) pp. Issued in Pieter van der Aa's collection of voyages; first published in Hakluytus Posthumusas: A Relation of a Voyage to the Eastern India - Amongst the preachers sent to India by the Company in the early years of its commercial transactions in the East, none is perhaps more widely known to day than Edward Terry (1590-1660), who was installed in the Chaplaincy of the English Embassy to the Great Mughal after the death of the reverend John Hill (Prasad, Early English travellers in India, p.277). In India Edward Terry became the chaplain to Thomas Roe, England's ambassador to the Moghul Court. He set off to join the ambassador for the next eighteen months. They followed the progression of the Mughal�s through parts of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, as the ambassador tried fruitlessly to negotiate some sort of commercial treaty that might shore up English interests in the region. Roe�s efforts ultimately came to nought and, after an horrendous, disease-stricken summer in Ahmadabad in 1618, Terry and the ambassador travelled back to Surat for the voyage home. - A comprehensive picture of India that is credible and authoritative. - (Age-browned).Tiele 8; Cat. NHSM I, p.107. [Boeknr.: 12250 ]

€ 275,00

THEVENOT, Jean. Gedenkwaardige en zeer naauwkeurige reizen. Darde en laatste deel. Uit het Fransch in't Nederduitsch gebracht door G. van Broekhuizen. Amsterdam, Timotheus ten Hoorn, 1688.2 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary vellum (soiled). With engraved title-page and 6 engraved pates. (12),235,(6) pp. First Dutch edition; first published in Paris in 1684: Voyages .. contenant la relation de l'Indostan, des nouveaux Mogols & et des autres peuples & pays des Indes. - On the last part of his travels in the Levant the French traveller Jean Thevenot (1633-1667) made excursions into Gujarat, to the Mogul court, and into the Deccan. After exploring India for about a year he returned to Esfahan, where he spent another four months. On his way from Esfahan to Tabriz he became ill and died at Miana in 1667 (Howgego p.1021-1022). Thevenot's travels mark the beginning of the grand epoch of travel and exploration in the Levant (Blackmer 1650). - Interesting description of India.Tiele 1090; Cat. NHSM I, p.257. [Boeknr.: 37180 ]

€ 450,00

THOMSON, John. China the land and its people. Early photographs. Hong Kong, John Warner Publications, (1979). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 141 photographic illustrations. 160 pp. Original published in 1873. - John Thomson (1837-1919) was a traveller, writer and pioneer photographer. [Boeknr.: 31192 ]

€ 35,00

TITSINGH, Isaac. The private correspondence of Isaac Titsingh. (1785-1811) - (1779-1812). Introduced and edited by Frank Lequin. Amsterdam, J.C. Gieben, 1990-92. 2 volumes. Cloth. With 41 plates. XLIX,XXVII,931 pp. Isaac Titsingh (1745-1812) was Director of the VOC in Japan, where he was detached to the island of Deshima. [Boeknr.: 8347 ]

€ 95,00

TORÉN, Olof & Gustav EKEBERG. Reise des Herrn Olof Toree nach Surate und China, nebst einer kurzen Beschreibung von der chinesischen Feldökonomiae und einer Nachricht von dem gegenwärtigen Zustande der engländischen Colonien in dem nördlichen Amerika. Herausgegeben von Linnáus. Leipzig, Christian Gottlob Hilscher, 1772.Sm.8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine lettered in gilt (foot of spine sl. dam.). 238 pp. First German edition. - Olof Torén was a Swedish botanist and priest (1718-1753). The first part contains a German translation of Torén's East India Company voyage to China in 1750-1752, in the form of letters to Linnaeus, originally published as an appendix to Osbeck's narrative (1757). Followed by a translation of Carl Gustaf Ekeberg's Kort berättelse om den chinesiske landt--hushållningen, (A brief account of Chinese husbandry), first published in Stockholm in 1757. The appendix contains a German translation of Dominique de Blackford's Précis de l' état actuel des colonies angloises dans l' Amérique septentrionale (Milan 1771). - (Two small library stamps on title-page). - Scarce.Cordier, BS, col. 2097-98; Walravens 197; Löwendahl 566; Sabin 5691 & 96191 (not seen); Eutiner Landesbibliothek 1395. [Boeknr.: 36787 ]

€ 1250,00

TOWNSEND, William John. Robert Morrison. The pioneer of Chinese missions. New York & Chicago, Fleming H. Revell, (ca. 1880).Original pictorial gilt cloth. With many woodengraved plates and illustrations. 160 pp. Robert Morrison (1782 - 1834), was an Anglo-Scottish Protestant missionary to Portuguese Macao, Qing-era Guangdong, and Dutch Malacca, who was also a pioneering sinologist, lexicographer, and translator considered the "Father of Anglo-Chinese Literature". [Boeknr.: 37307 ]

€ 45,00

TURPIN, François Henri. Histoire civile et naturelle du royaume de Siam, et des révolutions qui ont bouleversé cet empire jusqu'en 1770. Publiée par Turpin, sur des manuscrits qui lui ont été communiqués par l' évêque de Tabraca, vicaire apostolique de Siam, et autres missionnaires de ce royaume. Paris, Costard, 1771.2 volumes. Sm.8vo.Contemporary calf (spines and boards rubbed). (4),XII,450,(2); (2),444,(6) pp. First edition. - Important work on Siam based on manuscripts from the bishop of Tabraca and other missionaries in Siam. A year later the work was suppressed at the request of the bishop, who claimed the author had taken too many liberties with his interpretation of the manuscripts. 'Cet ouvrage, devenu très rare, a été condamné à être détruit par arrêt du Conseil du Roy en date du 5 janvier 1772' (Chadenat 1001) . 'Le plus grand mérite de cet ouvrage, est le tableau qu'il renferme des révolutions survenues à Siam depuis la chutte de Constantin Faulcon jusqu'en 1770. Ce tableau embrasse les événemens qui suivirent cette catastrophe, tels que les démêlés des Français avec l'usurpateur des trône de Siam' (Boucher de la Richarderie V, p.108). - (Some age-browning; small library stamp on titles).Cordier, BI, col. 732; Cox I, p.347; Brébion p.163; Satow 102. [Boeknr.: 33680 ]

€ 675,00

TWEEDIE, Alex Ethel Brilliana. My legacy cruise (The peak year of my life). 2nd impression. London, Hutchinson & Co., (ca. 1936). Red cloth. With 4 coloured plates and 66 photographic illustrations. 319 pp. Ethel Brilliana Tweedie (née Harley) (1862-1940) was a prolific English author, travel writer, biographer, historian, editor, journalist, photographer and illustrator. She writes about Naples, Egypt, Suez Canal and Red Sea, Palestine, Bombay, Delhi, Colombo, Penang, Singapore, Siam, Bali, Zamboanga, Hongkong, Shanghai, Peking, Japan, Hawaii, and the United States.Robinson, Wayward women, p.198-199; Theakstone, Victorian & Edwardian women travellers, p.276. [Boeknr.: 36152 ]

€ 65,00

TWIST, Johan van. Generale beschrijvinghe van Indien, ende in't besonder van't coninckrijck van Guseratten, staende onder de beheersinge van den groot machtighen coninck Chaiahan: anders genaemt den grooten Mogor. (Amsterdam, Joannes Janssonius, 1646).Oblong 8vo. Modern wrappers. 112 pp. (text set in two columns). Extracted from Commelin's collection of voyages. - Johan van Twist, a Dutch merchant and envoy of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). served as director of the Dutch factories in Ahmedabad, Cambay, Baroda, and Broach. In 1638 he returned to Batavia, in Java, where he wrote his General description of India, usually regarded as the first Dutch documents to describe any part of India in detail (Howgego p.1041). 'Van Twist's General description of India is primarily a detailed account of Gujarat. He reports on its government, its relationship to the Mughul empire, and the history of how Gujarat came under Mughul control. He describes Gujarat's geography, fauna, flora, cities, food, commerce, religions, and social customs' (Lach & Van Kley, Asia in the making of Europe, III, p.473). Landwehr, VOC, 250; Tiele 1106. [Boeknr.: 31989 ]

€ 450,00

ULLOA, Alfonso de Historie/ ende het leven van den aldermachtichsten ende victorieusten keyser Caerle de Vijfde van dien name. Inden welcken niet alleen beschreven en zijn de .. daden vanden selven Prince/ maer oock de merckelijckste saken die over alle de werelt/ insonderheyt inde Oost ende West-Indyen geschiet zijn. Eerstmael in Italiaensche tale beschreven. Amsterdam, Jacob Pietersz. Paets, 1610.Folio. Contemporary vellum. With printed title within engraved border and 18 engraved portraits by N. de Clerck in text. (2),221,(8) lvs. Second Dutch edition, first Italian edition was published in Venice in 1560 La vita dell' invitissimo imperator Carlo Quinto, first published in Dutch in Antwerp in 1570. - 'A general history of the time of Charles V, noting European expansion in both eastern and western hemispheres and its impact in Europe' (James Ford Bell Library U8). 'This highly esteemed biography of Charles V, includes an account of all the events, which took place during the years 1500-1560, and especially of all the achievements of the Spaniards in America' (Muller, America, p.365). Dealing at length with the conquests of the Spaniards in Mexico and Peru. - (Margins first 2 lvs sl. dam.; tear in 1 leaf; some wormholes; waterstained). - Rare.Cf. Cat. NHSM I, p.565; Not in Tiele; Sabin 97678; European Americana 610/111. [Boeknr.: 7818 ]

€ 1750,00

VALENTIJN, François. Description of Ceylon. Translated and edited by Sinnappah Arasaratnam. London, 1978. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With folding map and 13 plates. XV,395 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 149. - This edition of Valentijn embraces the part dealing with Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in the fifth volume of his Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien, 1726 (Old and New East Indies). [Boeknr.: 6322 ]

€ 30,00

VALENTIJN, François. Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën, vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands Mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens eene wydlustige beschryving der Moluccos, Amboina, Banda, Timor, en Solor, Java .. Suratte .. Choromandel, Pegu, Arracan, Bengale, Mocha, Persien, Malacca, Sumatra, Ceylon, Malabar, Celebes of Macassar, China, Japan, Tayouan of Formosa, Tonkin, Cambodia, Siam, Borneo, Bali, Kaap de Goede Hoop en van Mauritius. Dordrecht, Amsterdam, J. van Braam, G. onder de Linden, 1724-1726. Reprint. Franeker, 2002-2004. 5 volumes in 8. Folio. Artificial leather. With 241 portraits, maps, plates and illustrations. One of the most extensive works on the history of the Far East (including Persia), which never can be superseded as many of the documents of which the author made use, do not longer exist. François Valentijn (1666-1727) was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church who lived for many years on Amboyna and Java. During this period he collected an enormous mass of information, especially in the fields of history, geography and ethnology, concerning all parts of the world where the VOC was active: Indonesia, with large parts on Batavia and the Moluccas, Persia, Malacca, Ceylon, India, Cape of Good Hope, Japan, China and Formosa, etc.. The work is profusely illustrated with numerous fine engraved maps, plans, portraits and spectacular views. They are engraved by the best artists of the time like F. Ottens, J.C. Philips, G. Schouten, J. Goeree etc. mostly after designs by M. Balen. Apart from the fine engravings the work is of particular interest for its cartography. It contains interesting maps of Australia, probably drawn after manuscript maps now lost. For his descriptions of the natural history of Amboyna Valentijn used i.a. the unpublished 'Amboinsch Dierboek' by the famous naturalist Rumphius, of which the original manuscript has been lost. [Boeknr.: 24014 ]

€ 375,00

VALENTIJN, François. Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën, vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands Mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens eene wydlustige beschryving der Moluccos, Amboina, Banda, Timor, en Solor, Java .. Suratte .. Choromandel, Pegu, Arracan, Bengale, Mocha, Persien, Malacca, Sumatra, Ceylon, Malabar, Celebes of Macassar, China, Japan, Tayouan of Formosa, Tonkin, Cambodia, Siam, Borneo, Bali, Kaap de Goede Hoop en van Mauritius. Dordrecht, Amsterdam, Joannes van Braam, Gerard onder de Linden, 1724-1726.5 parts in 8 volumes. Folio. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt and with black title-labels (later boards). With engraved allegorical frontispiece, printed title-page in red and black, folding portrait of Valentijn, 19 portraits of the Governors-General, and 326 illustrations, maps, plans, bird's-eye views and plates (most of them double-page or folding; including fragments of Javanese manuscripts). First edition. -The most important early work documenting the history of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the East Indies and the Far East, which never can be superseded as many of the documents of which the author made use, do not longer exist. François Valentijn (1666-1727) was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church who lived for many years on Amboyna and Java. During this period he collected an enormous mass of information, especially in the fields of history, geography and ethnology, concerning all parts of the world where the Dutch East India Company was active: Indonesia, with large parts on Batavia and the Moluccas, Persia, Malacca, Ceylon, India, Cape of Good Hope, Japan, China and Formosa. The work is profusely illustrated with fine engraved maps, plans, portraits and spectacular views. They are engraved by the best artists of the time like F. Ottens, J.C. Philips, G. Schouten, J. Goeree etc. mostly after designs by M. Balen. Apart from the fine engravings the work is of particular interest for its cartography. It contains interesting maps of Australia, probably drawn after manuscript maps now lost. For his descriptions of the natural history of Amboyna Valentijn used i.a. the unpublished 'Amboinsch Dierboek' by the famous naturalist Rumphius, of which the original manuscript has been lost. - (Not inserted and also not mentioned in the plate-index is the portrait of Governor General De Haan). - With bookplates of J.C. Pabst and A.A.H. Stolk. - A truely desirable copy.Tiele 1121; Cat. NHSM p.502; Landwehr, VOC, 467; Ruinen C 44; Alt-Japan-Katalog 1570; Cordier, Bibl. Japonica (and) Indosinica col. 426-428 (and) col. 927-930; Nissen, ZBI, 4213; SAB IV, p. 549. [Boeknr.: 33496 ]

€ 39500,00

VASCO DA GAMA. Calcoen. Récit Flamand du second voyage de Vasco de Gama vers l'Inde, en 1502-1503. Texte original en fac-similé, avec traduction, notes et introduction de J. Denucé. Antwerpen, De Sikkel, 1931. Wrappers. With portrait, map and 12 facsimiles. 26 pp. Calcoen, a Dutch narrative of the second voyage of Vasco da Gama to Calicut, printed at Antwerp circa 1504. [Boeknr.: 3314 ]

€ 30,00

VERHOEFF, Pieter Willemsz. Journael ende verhael van alle het gene dat ghesien ende voor-ghevallen is op de reyse, gedaen door .. Pieter Willemsz. Verhoeven, admirael generael over 13 schepen, gaende naer de Oost-Indien, China, Philipines, ende byleggende rijcken, in den jare 1607 ende volgende. (Amsterdam, Joannes Janssonius, 1646).Oblong 8vo. Modern boards. With plate depicting the fortress on Banda. 214 pp. (text set in two columns). Extracted from Commelin's collection of voyages. - Pieter Willemszoon Verhoeff (ca. 1573 - 1609) commanded one of the last voyages of the first phase of Dutch occupation in the East Indies. His instructions, in addition to destroying as much Iberian shipping as possible, were to drive the Spanish and Portuguese out of the Moluccas (Howgego p. 1065-1066). He died during an expedition to the Banda Islands in 1609, where he and many of his crew were ambushed and murdered by locals while negotiating with them for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). This account of Verhoeff's voyages is a composite piece. It starts with the journal by the chief merchant Johan de Moelre and continued, after he was killed, by the fleet's treasurer Jacques Le Febure. Followed by extracts from the journal of Reynier Dirckszoon, the pilot aboard one of the ships which sailed to Japan, and the journal of Jacob Specx and Pieter Segerszoon also on Japan. This piece is followed by a report by Samuel Bloemaert about trade and negotiations on Borneo and Appolonius Schotte's accounts of the Moluccas and Gillis Seys report of 1627 on Amboina. These materials constitute a rich source of information about the expansion of Dutch power in the Moluccas, the negotiations with the inlanders, the war with the Spaniards, the details of trade, and the daily life of the Dutch stationed there. This account of Verhoeff's voyage was never separately reprinted during the 17th century (Lach & Van Kley, III, p.471-472). - (Age-browned; missing pp.165-166 but added in photocopy).Landwehr, VOC, 250. [Boeknr.: 35237 ]

€ 375,00

VERKERK PISTORIUS, A.W.P. Ceylon. Indische volksbelangen. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1874.Original printed wrappers, uncut. 272 pp. Original edition. - Public interest of Ceylon. With appendix in English: Report of the Services Tenure Commissioner, in Ceylon, for 1870; The road ordinance, 1861, and the branch road's ordinance.Goonetileke 5773. [Boeknr.: 1049 ]

€ 95,00

VIANI, Sostegno. Istoria delle cose operate nella China da monsignor Gio. Ambrogio Mezzabarba partriarca d'Alessandria, legato appostolico in quell' imperio. Edizione seconda. Colonia, appresso Enrico Aertssens, 1740.Sm.8vo. Contemporary vellum, with autograph title to spine. Title-page printed in red and black, with woodcut vignette. XV,256 pp. Second edition; the first edition was published in Paris in 1739. - Account of the legation trying to improve the relations between the Jesuits and the Catholic Church with the Chinese Emperor Kang-Hsi. 'In 1720, Clement XI, wishing to alleviate the hardships of the Church in China, despatched to the East a new legate, G.A. Mezzabarba, Patriarch of Alexandria. On October 12, he reached Canton (Guangzhou) and secured with difficulty an audience with the Kangxi emperor, whom he appeased by promising that the constitution would be mildly interpreted. In fact, on November 4 1721, before starting for Europe, he granted eight permissions, whereby he thought, while maintaining fully the decree of Clement XI, to remedy all hardships resulting therefrom for the converts, especially those of the better class. It was permitted to kneel down and make offerings before the amended tablets of Confucius and ancestors, as well as before the coffin of a deceased person, provided they were preceded by the necessary explanations' (Löwendahl, Sino-Western relations, 412). - A fine copy.Cordier, BS, col. 920; Lust 878. [Boeknr.: 30797 ]

€ 850,00

VINGBOONS, Johannes. Verzameling van pas-kaarten, dienende tot de vaart naar Oost- en Westindien; meest alle uitvoerig met de pen getekent: benevens eenige afbeeldingen van voorname eylanden, steden en sterktens, zo wel in de Spaansche Engelsche als Nederlands Indien gelegen: alle zeer net naar't leven met waterverven geschildert. (No pl., ca. 1660). Facsimile with introduction by J. van Bracht. Haarlem, Fibula-Van Dishoeck, 1981.Large folio. Artificial leather with gilt monogram of the V.O.C. and W.I.C. on frontcover. With 107 finely coloured maps, plans and panoramic views (many double page) of the erea covered by the charter of the Dutch East and West India company, with booklet with introduction by J. van Bracht and index in rear pocket. Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies printed. - This splendid facsimile contains handdrawn and painted maps, charts and views, dating from ca. 1660 from the secret map archives of the VOC and WIC. They have never been printed before. Depicting a.o. maps of Madagascar and the Gold Coast, India, Ambon, Achin, Ceylon, Cambodia, Taiwan, Thailand, Macao, Malacca, Japan, the Philippines, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil and the Caribbean. - A very nice copy. [Boeknr.: 5996 ]

€ 450,00

VOS, K. Assignment Japan. Von Siebold pioneer and collector. (The Hague, SDU, 1989). Folio. Wrappers. With many illustrations (partly in colours). 107 pp. [Boeknr.: 6350 ]

€ 18,00

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

€ 35,00

WAGENAAR, Lodewijk. Kaneel en olifanten. Sri Lanka en Nederland sinds 1602. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum & Nijmegen, Vantilt, 2016. 4to. Pictorial boards. With many coloured illustrations. 200 pp. Part of the Rijksmuseum Country Series published by the museum's History Department. Each book in the series uses objects in the Rijksmuseum collection to explore the shared history of the Netherlands and overseas countries. [Boeknr.: 33969 ]

€ 25,00

WEALE, B.L. Putnam (Bertram Lenox SIMPSON). Manchu and Moscovite. Being letters from Manchuria written during the autumn of 1903. London, Macmillan and Co., 1904. Original red cloth. With many photographic plates (map missing). XX,552 pp. First edition. - With an historical sketch entitled 'Prologue to the crisis' giving a complete account of the Manchurian frontiers from the earliest days and the growth and final meeting of the Russian and Chinese empires in the Amur Regions'. [Boeknr.: 25154 ]

€ 35,00

WENSINCK, A.J. & J.H. KRAMERS. Handwörterbuch des Islam. Im Auftrag der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam herausgegeben. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1941. Cloth. With plates. VIII,833,6 pp. Detailed glossary to Islamic religion. [Boeknr.: 13605 ]

€ 75,00

WHEELER, J.Talboys. Early records of British India: a history of the English settlements in India. Reprint. Delhi, (1991). Cloth, with dust-jacket. 384 pp. [Boeknr.: 21394 ]

€ 40,00

WICKEVOORT CROMMELIN, Hendrik Samuel Maximilaan. Een herlevend volk. Schets van de Japanners en hun land. Haarlem, H.D. Tjeenk Willink, 1895.Original decorated green cloth. VIII,206 pp. - Original edition. [Boeknr.: 12767 ]

€ 65,00

WIEGER, Léon. Folk-lore Chinois moderne. Sienhsien, Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique, 1908, mounted with book label of Librairie Orientale & Amèricaine, Paris, E. Guilmoto. Original red cloth (some wormholes). With some illustrations. 422 pp. First edition. - With parallel text in Chinese and French. Léon Wieger was a celebrated French Jesuit missionary, medical doctor and sinologist who worked at the Catholic mission in Heijan. - (Some wormholes). [Boeknr.: 31173 ]

€ 175,00

WILD, John James. At anchor. A narrative of experiences afloat and ashore during the voyage of H.M.S. 'Challenger' from 1872 to 1876. London, Marcus Ward and Co., 1878.Folio. Original elaborated pictorial green cloth gilt (partly soiled), a.e.g. With coloured double-page map, 12 tipped-in chromo-lithographs and 169 typo etchings in the text. 198 pp. First edition. - The Challenger expedition, which embarked from Portsmouth, England on 21 December 1872, was a grand tour of the world covering 68,000 nautical miles organized by the Royal Society in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh. British scientist Charles Thomson led a large scientific team which accompanied the crew. Abundantly illustrated with topographical and ethnographical sketches. The fine coloured plates and illustrations are all by the author. They visited Teneriffe, Bermudas, Cape of Good Hope, Sydney, Torres Strait, Hongkong, Yokohama and Valparaiso. - A landmark journey circumnavigating the globe.Ferguson 18556; NZNB 6070; SAB IV, p.779; Spence 1258; Du Rietz 1347; Mendelssohn II, p.609-610. [Boeknr.: 1756 ]

€ 975,00

WILLIAMSON, James A. The voyages of the Cabots and the English discovery of North America under Henry VII and Henry VIII.London, 1929. Reprint. Amsterdam, Nico Israel, 1971. 4to. Imitation leather. With 13 maps and plates. XIII,290 pp. Argonaut Press 7. [Boeknr.: 34524 ]

€ 45,00

WISELIUS, Jakob Adolf Bruno. Het gevangenis- en dwangarbeidstelsel in Nederland- en in Britsch-Indië, gevolgd door een opstel over de jute-aanplant en jute-spinnerijen in Bengalen. Zaltbommel, Joh. Noman en Zoon, 1885.Original printed wrappers. VIII,275 pp. Regulations for prisonsystem and forced labour in the Dutch East Indies and British India and the jute cultivation in Bengalen.Cat. KITLV p.128. [Boeknr.: 31583 ]

€ 95,00

ZIEGENBALG, Bartholomäus & Heinrich PLUTSHAU. Propagation of the gospel in the East: being an account of the success of two Danish missionaries, lately sent to the East Indies, for the conversion of the heatherns in Malabar. In several letters to their correspondents in Europe. Rendered into English from the High-Dutch. Second edition. London, J. Downing, 1711.Sm.8vo. 3 parts in 1 volume. Contemporary polished calf, gilt fillets on sides, spine richly gilt. (16),XXXII,78; VIII,60; 4;(2) pp. First edition published in 1709-1710. - The authors of these letters were missionaries sent by king Frederick IV of Denmark in 1705 to found a mission station in Malabar. The first letter was written from Cape of Good Hope. Contains a narrative of the voyage to the coast of Coromandel, their settlement at Tranquebar, the divinity and philosophy of the Malabarians, their language and manners, a journey from Tranquebar to Madras, the management of the schools and a proposal for printing the New-Testament in Portuguese, in order to be dispers'd among the natives at Malabar, and in other parts in the East-Indies. The two young Pietist preachers pioneered the Lutheran mission in Tranquebar, a small Danish colony on the south-east coast of India. Ziegenbalg brought Lutheranism and a printing-press to Tanjore court. - A very fine copy.SAB IV, p.850; Cox I, p.281; Howgego Z13. [Boeknr.: 36238 ]

€ 1275,00

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