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SPENCE, J.D. God's Chinese son. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan. New York, London, W.W. Norton & Company, (1996). Cloth, with dust-jacket. XXVII,400 pp. The Taiping uprising, led by Hong Xiuquan, was a massive millennial movement that, in its violent rise and fall between 1845 and 1864, cost at least twenty million Chinese their lives. [Boeknr.: 31322 ]

€ 25,00

SPILBERGEN, Joris van & Jacob LE MAIRE. Oost ende West-Indische spiegel der 2 leste navigatien, ghedaen inden jaeren 1614.15.16.17 ende 18. daer in vertoont woort in wat gestalt Joris van Speilbergen door de Magellanes de werelt rontom geseylt heeft, met eenighe battalien so te water als te lant, ende 2 historien de een van Oost ende de ander van West-Indien, het ghetal der forten, soldaten, schepen. ende gheschut. Met de Australische navigatien, van Jacob le Maire, die int suyden door een nieuwe Streat ghepasseert is, met veel wonders so landen, volcken, ende natien, haer ontmoet zijn ... Leyden, Nicolaes van Geelkercken, 1619.Oblong 8vo. Modern vellum. With fine engraving on title-page and 25 engraved maps and plates. 192 pp. First edition. - Joris van Spilbergen (Antwerp 1568 - Bergen op Zoom 1620) was appointed in 1614 to head an expedition to the East Indies for the East India Company (VOC) by way of the Strait of Magellan to reassert Dutch claims to access into the Pacific from the east. The first attack on the Spanish was made on Santa Maria in Chili. He went on north to Valparaiso, Acapulco, further along the Mexican coast. In 1616 he reached Guam and Manila and thence to Ternate and Java. Joris van Spilbergen was the second Dutchman to circumnavigate the world. He discovered land along what is now the coast of California. 'Spilbergen had succeeded in establishing the power and reputation of the Dutch East India Company. In Java he took on board the crew of Le Maire and Schouten whose vessels had been confiscated. Le Maire and Schouten had discovered several small islands, Staten Landt, and the Straits of Le Maire, and had been the first to round Cape Horn' (Hill 1619). 'Spilbergen's voyage was the most succesful Dutch circumnavigation to date. The fleet had kept together, there had been little loss of Dutch life, and the expedition had metted a considerable profit for its sponsors' (Howgego S159). A short survey of another of the most important early voyages around the world, by Schouten and Le Maire in the years 1615 to 1617, is added at the end (Australische navigatien). It reports Le Maire's proof that Tierra del Fuego is an island and his discovery of what is still called the Strait of Le Maire, an alternative route to the Pacific. 'The Mirror is an extremely important book for the history of Dutch navigation' ( Borba de Moraes p.827). Including a folding world map, a folding map of South East Asia, a double-page map of the Pacific and South America, and views of islands and ports (4 double-page).- A very fine copy of the two famous Dutch circumnavigations.Tiele 1025; Tiele, Memoire, 65; Cat. NHSM I, p.115 (second ed. only); Landwehr, VOC,359; Muller, America, 1968; European-Americana II, p.177; Sabin 89445. [Boeknr.: 34252 ]

€ 35000,00

SPROSTON, John Glendy. A private journal of John Glendy Sproston U.S.N. Edited by Shio Sakanishi. With a new foreword by G.A. Lensen. Tokyo, Sophia University, (1968). Half cloth, with dust-jacket. With 21 plates (1 folding and coloured). XVII,128 pp. John Glendy Sproston served as officer aboard the U.S.S. Macedonian, frigate in the fleet of the first Perry expedition to Japan. [Boeknr.: 31491 ]

€ 75,00

STAVORINUS, J(ohan) S(plinter). 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 on 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, travelled for the Admiralty and for the Dutch East India Company to the Indies. His accounts were published by his son. '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. - 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). Original decorated cloth, gilt lettering. With portrait. XVIII,(16),772 pp. With bookplate of J.P. van der Linden. - Fine. [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

STEVENSON, Elizabeth. Lafcadio Hearn. New York, Macmillan Company, 1961. Cloth, with dust-jacket. XVI,362 pp. - 'During the decade he spent in Japan, Hearn established his reputation as a writer'. [Boeknr.: 31440 ]

€ 30,00

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

SWANN GOODRICH, Anne. The Peking temple of the Eastern Peak. The Tung-yüeh Miao in Peking and its lore. Appendix: Description of the Tung-yüeh Miao of Peking in 1927 by Janet R. ten Broeck. Nagoya, Monumenta Serica, 1964. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With folding plan and 19 photographic plates. IV,331 pp. [Boeknr.: 31177 ]

€ 95,00

TAN, Sumiko. Streets of old Chinatown Singapore. Singapore, Page Media, 1990. 4to. Wrappers. With coloured photographic illustrations by Michael Liew. 120 pp. [Boeknr.: 34583 ]

€ 20,00

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 ]

€ 65,00

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. - 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, 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 (1590-1660) became the chaplain to Thomas Roe, England's ambassador to the Moghul Court.Tiele 8; Cat. NHSM I, p.107. [Boeknr.: 12250 ]

€ 150,00

THIEMANN, W. China. Photographische Aufzeichnungen aus dem Jahren 1929-1936. München, Simon & Magiera, (1982). 4to. Wrappers. With 178 photographic illustrations. [Boeknr.: 31364 ]

€ 20,00

TIEFENSEE, Franz. Wegweiser durch die chinesischen Höflichkeits-Formen. 3. Auflage. Tokyo, Berlin, 1924. Original cloth, lettered in gilt. 224 pp. [Boeknr.: 31341 ]

€ 75,00

TIPU SULTAN OF MYSORE. Tippoo Saibs two sons delivered up to Lord Cornwallis, as hostages after he had so gloriously conquered that proud sultan at Seringapatam, the capital of the Mysore county in the East Indies in 1792. London, Robert Sayer & Co, 1792.Mezzotint, coloured by hand. Ca. 36,5 x 26 cm. Ex collection Christopher Lennox-Boyd. - Tipu Sultan, Tiger of Mysore, his humiliating defeats of the English East India Company and his harsh treatment of prisoners caused widespread hysteria in Britain. Lord Cornwallis's capture of Tipu's capital, Seringapatam, was greeted with acclaim. Tipu was forced to pay the Company an indemnity of more than 33 million rupees and hand over half his territories along with all his prisoners. He was also forced to give his sons, the princes Abdul Khaliq and Muiz-ud-din into Cornwallis's hands as hostages by the Treaty of Seringapatam (1792). The two boys were held for over two years in Madras. - Fine historical scene. - (Stain in lower margin not affecting the image).Cf. The Raj, India and the British 1600-1947, 157. [Boeknr.: 30975 ]

€ 875,00

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

TUCHMAN, B.W. Stilwell and the American experience in China, 1911-45. (Third printing). New York, The Macmillan Company, (1971). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many photographic plates. XV,621 pp. [Boeknr.: 31404 ]

€ 20,00

TUN LI-CH'EN. Annual customs and festivals in Peking as recorded in the Yen-ching Sui-shi-chi. Translated and annotated by Derk Bodde. 2nd edition (revised). Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 1965. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations and plates. XXVIII,147 pp. [Boeknr.: 31190 ]

€ 55,00

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). - (Some age-browning; small library stamp on titles).Cordier, BI, col. 732; Boucher de la Richarderie V, p.107; 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, 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. [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. First Italian edition 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. Gouverneurs Generaal van Nederlands Indië. Dordrecht, Amsterdam, J. van Braam, G. onder de Linden, 1726.19 engraved portraits of the Governors-General under passepartout, in cloth box.Ca. 30 x 18 cm. From: Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën, volume IV. - Pieter Both, Gerrit Reynst, Laurens Reaal, Pieter de Carpentier, Jan Pietersz. Coen, Jacques Specks, Hendrik Brouwer, Antonio van Diemen, Cornelis vander Lyn, Carel Ryniersz., Joan Maatsuyker, Rycklof van Goens, Cornelis Speelman, Joannes Camphuys, Willem van Outshoorn, Joan van Hoorn, Abraham van Riebeek, Christoffel van Swol, Hendrik Swaardekroon. - Added: Pieter van den Broecke, eerste directeur van Suratte, Persië en Arabië. - Fine condition.Tiele 1121; Cat. NHSM p.502; Landwehr, VOC, 467. [Boeknr.: 33198 ]

€ 1500,00

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 Hoede 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. - 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 Dutch East India Company (VOC) 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

VAUGHAN, J.D. The manners and customs of the Chinese of the Straits Settlements. With an introduction by W. Blythe. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, 1971. Cloth, with dust-jacket (spine sl. dam.). With illustrations. VII,126 pp. - First published in 1879. [Boeknr.: 31290 ]

€ 35,00

VELDE, Paul van der. Wie onder palmen leeft. De sublieme wereld van Jacob Haafner (1754-1809). Amsterdam, Bert Bakker, 2008. Wrappers. With plates. 223 pp. 'Jacob Haafner (1754-1809) was a proficient writer who produced a whole series of books on his adventures in late 18th century Malabar and Ceylon. He mixed up facts, romance and strong prejudices in very readable stories which provide insight into typical English Enlightment views on colonial and Indian society' (Coolhaas p.66-67) [Boeknr.: 30743 ]

€ 18,00

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 wrappers. With plate depicting the fortress on Banda. 214 pp. (text set in two columns). Extracted from Commelin's collection of voyages. - Pieter Willemszoon Verhoeff 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). 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 negatiations 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). Landwehr, VOC, 250. [Boeknr.: 31991 ]

€ 950,00

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 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). 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). - Missing pp.165-166 but added in photocopy).Landwehr, VOC, 250. [Boeknr.: 35237 ]

€ 450,00

VERKERK PISTORIUS, A.W.P. Ceylon. Indische volksbelangen. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1874.Original printed wrappers. 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. - '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 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

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

WADDELL, Laurence Austine. The Buddhism of Tibet or Lamaism with its mystic cults, symbolism and mythology, and in its relation to Indian Buddishm. Repint. Cambridge, W. Heffer & Sons, 1967. Pictorial cloth, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations. XLVIII,598 pp. First published in 1894. - Dr. Waddell entered the Indian Medical Services in 1880 and was Medical Officer of the Darjeeling District from 1885 to 1895. His visits to Darjeeling and his subsequent official connection with the district drew him to the study Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism. [Boeknr.: 34720 ]

€ 45,00

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. Cinnamon and elephants. Sri Lanka and the Netherlands from 1602. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum & Nijmegen, Vantilt, 2016. 4to. Pictorial boards. With many coloured illustrations. 217 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.: 33970 ]

€ 25,00

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

WALDENSTRÖM, P(eter). Till Kina. Reseskildringar. Stockholm, Normanns Förlag, (1908).Original pictorial cloth. With many illustrations. 356,(2) pp. First edition. - Finely illustrated travelogue of China, in a decorative binding. - A fine copy. [Boeknr.: 32842 ]

€ 65,00

WALKER, Annabel. Aurel Stein. Pioneer of the Silk Road. London, (1995). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With maps and 29 illustrations. XIV,393 pp. 'In all Stein (1862-1943) marched some 25.000 miles across Central Asia, often in appalling conditions, accompanied always by a small fox-terrier' (dust-jacket). [Boeknr.: 31266 ]

€ 55,00

WARD, J.S.M. & W.G. STIRLING. The Hung Society or the Society of Heaven and Earth. London, 1925-26. Reprint. (London, ca. 1960). 3 volumes. Red cloth, in slipcase. With plates, without the suppressed final plate 'An interesting dollar note'. - Comprised of the first issue sheets produced by the Baskerville Press in 1925/26 and bound by Lewis in the 1960's. [Boeknr.: 31204 ]

€ 225,00

WARREN, W.H. & N. BARLOW. St. Marty's Church fort St. George Madras. A brief history with a description of its monuments and other objects of interest. Madras, Diocesan Press, 1953. Wrappers. With folding plan and 6 plates. 48 pp. [Boeknr.: 33758 ]

€ 30,00

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

WEEDE, H.M. van. Indische reisherinneringen. Haarlem, H.D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon, 1908.2 volumes in 1. Original red cloth (discoloured). With folding map and 206 photographic illustrations by the author. (8),526,(2) pp. First edition. - Weede travelled in British India from November 1905 till February 1906 and in the Netherlands East Indies from February till November 1906. He visited Bombay, the Punjab, Birma, Java, New Guinea and was an eye-witness of the military operations in Celebes (the conquest of Boentoe Batoe) and Bali (the disastrous suicide or 'poeputan' of hundreds of Balinese in 1906). Important account illustrated with many photographs taken by the author.Cat. KITLV, 1e suppl., p.198; Lekkerkerker C 143; Van Goor, Indische avonturen, pp.222-228. [Boeknr.: 12647 ]

€ 125,00

WENSINCK, A.J. & J.H. KRAMERS. Handwörterbuch des Islam. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1941. Cloth. With plates. VIII,833,6 pp. [Boeknr.: 13605 ]

€ 55,00

WHITE, Stephen. John Thomson (1837-1921). Life and photographs. The Orient - Street life in London - Through Cyprus with the camera. (London, Thames & Hudson, 1985). 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 173 photographic plates and illustrations. 200 pp. The first monograph on John Thomson, a pioneering Scottish photographer. [Boeknr.: 31255 ]

€ 75,00

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

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

WIRTH, Albrecht. Vorderasien und Ägypten in historischer und politischer, kultureller und wirtschaftlicher Hinsicht geschildert. Stuttgart, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1916. Original decorated cloth (spine discoloured). With folding map and 82 photographic illustrations. VI,396 pp. [Boeknr.: 24749 ]

€ 35,00

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

WISSENSCHAFT UND TECHNIK IM ALTEN CHINA. Herausgegeben vom Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften der Chinesischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Aus dem Chinesischen von Käthe Zhao in Zusammenarbeit mit Hsi-lin Zhao. Basel, Birkhäuser Verlag, 1989. Boards, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. 528 pp. [Boeknr.: 31651 ]

€ 35,00

WORSWICK, Clark. Japan. Photographs 1854-1905. Edited and with a historical tex by Clark Worswickt. With an introduction by Jan Morris. (No pl.), Meulenhoff / Landshoff, 1979. Oblong 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many photographic plates by Felix Beata, A. Le Bas, Baron von Stillfried, Kusakabe Kimbei, a.o. 151 pp. [Boeknr.: 11795 ]

€ 45,00

YANG, M.C. A Chinese village. Taitou, Shantung province. London, Kegan Paul, (1947). Cloth. With illustrations. XVII,275 pp. [Boeknr.: 25156 ]

€ 30,00

ZENG JIZE. Mandarijn in Europa. Dagboek van de jaren 1878-1886. Vertaald en van een inleiding en aantekeningen voorzien door Anke Bal. Amsterdam, De Arbeiderspers, (1980). Wrappers. 215 pp. [Boeknr.: 31184 ]

€ 20,00

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 Englisg 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. - A very fine copy.SAB IV, p.850; Cox I, p.281; Howgego Z13. [Boeknr.: 36238 ]

€ 1275,00


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