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BENGAL. LA MISSION BELGE DU BENGALE OCCIDENTAL. Bruxelles, Société Belge de Librairie, 1890. Old half cloth, printed title-label on frontcover. With folding coloured map (fold rep.). 84 pp. Belgian mission in West Bengal, India. [Boeknr.: 25311 ]

€ 35,00

BOLTS, Willem. État civil, politique et commerçant, du Bengale; ou histoire des conquêtes & de l'administration de la Compagnie Angloise dans ce pays. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois. La Haye, Gosse, 1775.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked, original gilt spine mounted). With 2 engraved frontispieces and large folding engraved map. XL,222; 240 pp. First French edition; first published in English Civil, political, and commercial state of Bengal. London, 1773. - Willem Bolts (ca. 1740-1808) was a Dutch adventurer who entered the English East India Company in Bengal, and got into trouble for private trading in the name of the East India Company. The government of Benares sent him off to England as a prisoner. He sought legal action against them, but ruined himself in the proces. This vigorous exchange of views developed into a bitter controversy and played an important part in fuelling the extensive public debate that was taking place on the subject of the East India Company's operations in India. The French translation was made by Jean Nicolas Demeunier. - Pasted in is a letter in French, dated 1776, dealing with the ceding of Benares by the Rajah to the English East India Company.Cox I, p.299; Chadenat 2791. [Boeknr.: 20858 ]

€ 375,00

BONNERJEA, Biren. L'ethnologie du Bengale. Paris, Paul Geuthner, 1927. Wrappers. XX,169 pp. [Boeknr.: 25030 ]

€ 25,00

BOXER, Charles Ralph. The mandarin at Chinsura; Isaac Titsingh in Bengal, 1785-1792. A paper read to the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal India and Pakistan Society, London 10 February 1949. Amsterdam, Indisch Instituut, 1949. Wrappers. With 4 plates. 28 pp. [Boeknr.: 10658 ]

€ 45,00

(HEYDEN, Frans Jansz. van der). Relation du naufrage d'un vaisseau hollandois, nommé Ter Schelling, vers la côte de Bengale; ou l'on voit des effets extraordinaire de la faim, & plusieurs autres choses remarquables, arrivées à ceux qui montoient ce bâtiment. Amsterdam, veuve de Jacob van Meurs, 1681.4to. Later half morocco, spine lettered in gilt. With engraved frontispiece and 8 large engravings by D. Bosboom. (6),80 pp. First French edition, first published in Dutch in 1675. - Shipwreck on a desert island, hunger, and cannibalism are the themes in this journal kept by Franz Janszoon van der Heiden, a member of the crew. The ship left Batavia (Jakarta) under captain Jacob Jansz. Stroom in 1661 and wrecked on a sandbank off the shore of Bengal and finally reached mainland Bengal where they were conscripted into the Mogul army to fight against the kingdom of Assam. The gruesome massacre of captives by the Nabob is described and followed by accounts of the kingdoms of Arrakan, Martabab, Tanassery, Bengala and Patan along the coast of the Bay of Bengal from modern Bangladesh to Burma. One of the most well-known Dutch books of a disastrous voyage by the Dutch East India Company (VOC). - Few leaves browned otherwise fine.Landwehr, VOC, 422; Tiele 462; Cat. NHSM I, p.188; Huntress 23 C; Lach, Asia in the making of Europe III, p.496. [Boeknr.: 877 ]

€ 550,00

JOSSON, H. La mission du Bengale occidental ou archidiocèse de Calcutta. Province Belge de la Compagnie de Jésus. Bruges, imprimerie Sainte-Catherine, 1921.2 volumes. Printed wrappers (stained). With 5 folding maps and 281 photographic illustrations. XVI,496; XII,479 pp. History of the Belgian mission in Bengal 1517-1920. [Boeknr.: 10898 ]

€ 45,00

KÜHNE-VAN DIGGELEN, Wiet. Jan Albert Sichterman, VOC-dienaar en 'koning' van Groningen. Groningen, 1995. Wrappers. With many illustrations (some in colours). 128 pp. [Boeknr.: 9424 ]

€ 25,00

PANCKRIDGE, H.R. A short history of the Bengal Club (1827-1927). Calcutta, (M. Mukherjee), 1927.Original blue cloth with gilt decoration and lettering (sl. soiled). With 4 plates. 64 pp. The Bengal Club is a social club in Kolkata, West Bengal. It was opened in 1827 as the Calcutta United Service Club. The club's first President was Lt. Col. The Hon. J. Finch. The club-house was in a building in Esplanade West, erected in 1813 and has been catering elites since 1827. This Club is one of the most prestigious clubs in Calcutta. Includes the history of the Bengal Club in Calcutta, with biographical notes of original members, list of presidents, resolution passed February 22, 1827, and original rules of the Club. [Boeknr.: 21736 ]

€ 65,00

PARMENTIER, Jan. De holle Compagnie. Smokkel en legale handel onder Zuidnederlandse vlag in Bengalen, ca. 1720-1744. Hilversum, Verloren, 1992. 4to. Wrappers. With many illustrations. 96 pp. [Boeknr.: 10786 ]

€ 18,00

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