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TOURISM IN THE CARIBBEAN. Essays on problems in connection with its promotion. Assen, Van Gorcum, 1964. Cloth, with dust-jacket. 141 pp. Anjerpublications. - Contributions by Lillian Gamble, Hector Lennox Crombis, Michael H. Buckmaster, Carmen L. McCornack and Edwin Chapman. [Boeknr.: 36952 ]

€ 25,00

ABBRING, H(ermanus) J(ohannes). Fragmenten uit mijne aanteekeningen. Deel I. Groningen, J.H. Bolt, 1836.Original boards. With lithographed title (stamp on title). (4),258 pp. First edition. - Volume I only: letters to a friend dealing with Curaçao. - Very rare.Not in Tiele, Cat. NHSM, Muller America or Sabin. [Boeknr.: 17625 ]

€ 375,00

ALEXANDER, James Edward. Transatlantic sketches, comprising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies. With notes on negro slavery and Canadian emigration. London, Richard Bentley, 1833.2 volumes. Contemporary half calf, with green and red morocco labels to spines. With two etched frontispieces, etched map and 8 etched plates by W. Heath. XXIII,384; XIII,320 pp. First edition. - 'The author, a well-to-do unattached military officer, went to the new world in 1831. He visited the Guiana coast, the West India islands (Barbados, Tobago, Trinidad, Grenada, St. Vincent, Jamaica, Cuba), the Mississippi valley and that of the St. Lawrence and the eastern part of the United States. His account .. consists of brief descriptions and keen observations on local life and society. .. The author opposes sudden emancipation and holds that the planters had not been given fair hearings. Supports them as against the abolitionists in a temperate, reasonable manner, an entire chapter being devoted to their defence' (Ragatz p.215). An interesting account of the West Indies with fascinating digressions of the slave trade, and an extensive tour of North America - (Names cut from printed title-pages).Sabin 735; Hough, The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, 801; Clark III,3; Afro-Americana, 215. [Boeknr.: 26418 ]

€ 875,00

ALLEN, Casey (Ed.). Landscapes and landforms of the Lesser Antilles. Cham, Springer, 2017. 8vo. Boards. With many coloured illustrations. XX,321 pp. [Boeknr.: 36936 ]

€ 145,00

ALOFS, Luc, Wim RUTGERS, Henny E. COOMANS. (Red.). Arubaans akkoord. Opstellen over Aruba van vóór de komst van de olieindustrie. Ter nagedachtenis aan dr. Johan Hartog 1912-1997. Met medewerking van Alice van Romondt. (Bloemendaal, Stichting Libri Antilliani, 1997). 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many photographic illustrations. 272 pp. [Boeknr.: 19471 ]

€ 35,00

AMELUNXEN, C.P. De geschiedenis van Curaçao. Opnieuw verteld. Curaçao, 1929. Cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original printed frontwrapper preserved. With 3 maps. 227 pp. First edition, privately printed. [Boeknr.: 36833 ]

€ 75,00

ARISTY, Ramón Marrero. La República Dominicana. Origen y destino del pueblo cristiano más antiquo de América. Ciudad Trujillo, Editoria del Caribe, C. por A., 1957 -1958.2 volumes. Folio. Original cloth. With numerous photographic plates and portraits. 491; 445 pp. The Dominican Republic is located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with Haiti,making Hispaniola one of only two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, that is shared by two sovereign states. [Boeknr.: 22857 ]

€ 175,00

ARUBA. ARUBA PICTORIAL. Miami Beach, (1980). Wrappers. With 50 coloured photographic illustrations by R. Blakeley, J. Coumans, H.W. Hannau, a.o. 36 pp. [Boeknr.: 31015 ]

€ 18,00

ASPINALL, Algernon. The pocket guide to the West Indies. British Guiana, British Honduras, Bermuda, the Spanish Main, Surinam & the Panama Canal. New and revised edition. London, Methuen & Co., 1939.Sm.8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many photographic plates and coloured maps. XV,525; XXXIX (advertisements) pp. A fine copy of this compendious work.. [Boeknr.: 36809 ]

€ 65,00

ATTEMA, Ypie. St.Eustatius. A short history of the island and its monuments. Zutphen, De Walburg Pers, 1976. Wrappers. With 26 illustrations. 87 pp. [Boeknr.: 726 ]

€ 20,00

ATWOOD, Thomas. The history of the island of Dominica. Containing a description of its situation, extent, climate, mountains, rivers, natural history, &c. London, J. Johnson, 1791.Modern half cloth, uncut. VIII,285 pp. First edition. - Containing also an account of the civil government, trade laws, customs and manners of the different inhabitants of the island of Dominica. Its conquest by the Frencht and by Britain in 1759. Captured by the French again during the war of American Independence, it was restored to Britain in 1783. Thomas Atwood published the first history of the island and still provides the most uniquely vivid, if not unbiased picture of Dominica in the late 18th century. He expressed his opinion that the island could be turned around with additional cattle and an increase of enslaved Africans for the sugar plantations. - (Some foxing and some blank margins restored). - Scarce.Ragatz p.185; Sabin 2343; Afro-Americana 721. [Boeknr.: 36733 ]

€ 1500,00

BALEN, W.J. van. Ons gebiedsdeel Curaçao. Met een voorrede door Ch.J.I.M. Welter. Haarlem, 1938. Cloth. With map and many illustrations. XII,148,67 pp. [Boeknr.: 6578 ]

€ 18,00

BECKLES, H. & V. SHEPHERD. (Ed.). Caribbean slave society and economy. A student reader. Kingston, 1991. Wrappers. X,480 pp. [Boeknr.: 33088 ]

€ 20,00

BELGRAVE, V. Ti Marie. (Oxford, 1988). Wrappers. VIII,278 pp. 'A compelling tale of passion and adventure: a Caribbean Gone with the wind'. [Boeknr.: 28801 ]

€ 15,00

BENJAMINS, H.D. & J.F. SNELLEMAN. Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch West-Indië. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff & Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1914-1917. Original cloth with gilt coat of arms on front board (spine discoloured and sl. dam.). With 3 coloured maps of the Dutch Antilles and Suriname. X,782 pp. First edition. - Encyclopaedia of the Dutch West-Indian territories: Antilles and Suriname. [Boeknr.: 6691 ]

€ 125,00

BENTHEM VAN DEN BERGH, G. van, L.O. BRAUN, a.o. Aruba en onafhankelijkheid. Achtergronden, modaliteiten en mogelijkheden; een rapport in eerste aanleg. Den Haag, Institute of Social Studies, 1978. Wrappers. X,127 pp. [Boeknr.: 31021 ]

€ 25,00

BEYLEVELT, Karel. Natuurgids Nederlandse Antillen & Aruba. Haarlem, GMB Uitgeverij, 1995. 4to. Pictorial boards. With many coloured photographic plates. 112 pp. [Boeknr.: 36974 ]

€ 18,00

BLACKBURN, Robin. The making of New World slavery. From the Baroque to the modern 1492-1800. London, Verso, (1997). Boards, with dust-jacket. V,602 pp. 'An incisive synthesis of developments in North America, the Caribbean and Latin America'. [Boeknr.: 32557 ]

€ 35,00

BLINK, M.J. van den. Olie op de golven. De betrekking tussen Nederland/Curaçao en Venezuela gedurende de eerste helft van de twintigste eeuw. Amsterdam, De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1989. Wrappers. 119 pp. [Boeknr.: 36907 ]

€ 25,00

BLOM, Theodorus A. Scheepsjournaal .. zijnde een naukeurig verslag van zijn menigvuldige omzwervingen in de Caraïbische wateren, behelzende vele merkwaardige gegevens omtrent zijn bevindingen en ontdekkingen, inhoudende avonturen ter zee alsmede gegevens betreffende onbekende gebieden, zijn omgang met wilden en getemden .. Amsterdam, Willem Bontekoe, 1950. 4to. Half cloth. With illustrations by Felix Haedus. 102 pp. [Boeknr.: 15547 ]

€ 25,00

BOLDINGH, I. Flora voor de Nederlandsch West-Indische eilanden. Amsterdam, J.H. de Bussy, 1913. Wrappers. XX,450 pp. - (Koloniaal Instituut Amsterdam). [Boeknr.: 17447 ]

€ 35,00

BOLDINGH, I. The flora of the Dutch West Indian Islands. I.The flora of St. Eustatius, Saba and St. Martin. Leyden, E.J. Brill, 1909. Wrappers. With 3 folding maps. XII,321 pp. [Boeknr.: 36832 ]

€ 45,00

BOSCH, G.B. Reizen in West-Indië, en door een gedeelte van Zuid- en Noord-Amerika. Utrecht, N. van der Monde, 1829-1843.3 volumes. Half cloth, rebacked with the original spines laid down. With 3 engraved titles with nice oval views of 'De haven van Curaçao' (waterstained) by W.H. Hoogkamer, 'St. Thomas' and 'Gouvernements huis te Suriname' (browned) after J.M. Engelberts by J.B. Tétar van Elven. VIII,377; 430; X,424 pp. First edition. - Gerardus Balthazar Bosch (1794 - 1837), reverend and school-inspector on Curaçao (1825-1836), gives a very interesting account of his travels to St. Eustatius, St. Martin, Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, St. Thomas and Suriname. With an emphasis on the Dutch properties in the West Indies. The author also discusses the Jews in Suriname and the Jodensavanne and he writes extensively about the slave population. - Very rare set.Tiele 171; Cat. NSHM I, p. 263; Sabin 6448; not in Suriname-Catalogus UB Amsterdam. [Boeknr.: 11442 ]

€ 950,00


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