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MORELET, Arthur. Voyage dans l' Amémerique centrale, l'ile de Cuba et le Yucatan. Paris, Gide & J. Baudry, 1857.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half calf (1 hinge restored). With folding lithographed map of Yucatan, Guatemala and Cuba, coloured in outline, (some repairs), 2 leaves with musical notation, and 22 wood-engraved illustrations, after drawings by the author, heading each chapter. 337; 323 pp. First edition. - An important account of a voyage to Central America and Cuba by the French naturalist and traveller Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet (1809-1892). He was sponsored by the Académie des Sciences, he went on an expedition from 1847 to 1848 to Southern Mexico and Central America, including Cuba, to collect specimens for the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. After two months in Cuba he went to Yucatan. In 1847 also arrived in the Petén district in Guatemala and travelled to Antigua (Troelstra, p.311). Morelet visited isolated regions of Guatemala and Yucatán which had not been described for many years (Howgego). - (Foxed).Sabin 50591; Chadenat 2706: Ouvrage recherché et devenu rare; Howgego II, p. 418. [Boeknr.: 36615 ]

€ 2450,00

NEDERLOF, Marjo. Eerlijckman 1680-1713. In dienst van het Staatse leger en de West-Indische Compagnie. Curaçao, De Curaçaosche Courant, 2008. Boards. With coloured illustrations. 312 pp. Biography of Pieter de Senilh including a description of the administrative situation in Curaçao in the years 1700-1713, with the conflict between captain-lieutenant Pieter de Senilh and director Van Collen as the point of view. [Boeknr.: 36938 ]

€ 65,00

NEWTON, Michael A. Architectuur en bouwwijze van het Curaçaose landhuis. Delft, Delftse Universitaire Pers, 1990. Folio. Wrappers. With 177 photographic illustrations. 309 pp. [Boeknr.: 10571 ]

€ 75,00

NICOLL, M.J. Three voyages of a naturalist being an account of many little-known islands in three oceans visited by the 'Valhalla' R.Y.S. With an introduction by the Earl of Crawford. 2nd edition. London, Witherby & Co., 1909.Brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 4 maps and many photographic plates. XXX,246 pp. First published in 1908. - Contains: A voyage round Africa, A voyage to the West Indies, A voyage round the world. [Boeknr.: 36753 ]

€ 95,00

NORDLOHNE, Edgar. De economisch-geografische structuur der Nederlandse Benedenwindse eilanden. Haarlem, Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, 1951. Wrappers. With 2 maps and 7 illustrations. 125 pp. - (Thesis). [Boeknr.: 6783 ]

€ 30,00

NOUHUYS, Jan Willem van. De eerste Nederlandsche transatlantische stoomvaart in 1827 van Zr.Ms Stoompakket Curaçao. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1927-51. 2 volumes. Cloth and half cloth. With 2 folding maps and 16 plates. XXVII,186; XLIV,224 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging XXIX, LIII. - Integral journal of the first crossing of the S.S. Curaçao sailing from Hellevoetsluis to Paramaribo, along the coast of French and Dutch Guiana to Curaçao. [Boeknr.: 7715 ]

€ 45,00

NUTTING, C.C. Barbados-Antigua Expedition. Narrative and preliminary report of a zoological expedition from the university of Iowa to the Lesser Antilles under auspices of the graduate college. Iowa City, University of Iowa, (1919).Original blue cloth. With 50 photographic plates. 274 pp. University of Iowa Studies in Natural History. - Account of a zoological expedition by the American invertebrate zoologist Charles Cleveland Nutting (1858-1927) to Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Barbados, and other islands in the Caribbean. [Boeknr.: 36745 ]

€ 95,00

OLDENDORP, Christian Georg Andreas. Geschichte der Mission der evangelischen Brüder auf den caraibischen Inseln S. Thomas, S. Croix und S. Jan. Herausgegeben durch Johann Jacob Bossaert. Barby, Christian Friedrich Laux & Leipzig, Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1777.2 volumes in 1. Sm.8vo. Old boards. With 3 folding engraved maps and 4 folding engraved views. (16),1068, (46) pp. First edition. - The Moravian missionary Christian Georg Andreas Oldendorp wrote a passionate publication on the political, geographic, and social conditions of the West Indies, including the origin and living conditions of the enslaved laborers. His opus is one of the first ethnological descriptions of the history of Africa and the Caribbean. An important part of the report is the description of the geography, flora, fauna, and political, economic, and social conditions and living conditions of the population of the islands. In particular, he described the enslaved laborers, including their African origin, language, customs, and religion and especially their fate in the West Indies - housing, work, punishments, and the relationships with their owners and the Europeans - A very important account of the Moravian Church�s missions in the Virgin Islands based on interviews with blacks of various African nations. - A fine copy.Sabin 17367; Afro-Americana 7287. [Boeknr.: 36606 ]

€ 1750,00

OLIVER, Vere Langford. The history of the island of Antigua, one of the Leeward Caribbees in the West Indies, from the first settlement in 1635 to the present time. London, Mitchell & Hughes, 1894 - 1899.3 volumes. Large folio. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. With 27 maps and plates. CIX,316; 406; 497 pp. First edition; limited edition of 150 copies, of which this is N� 71. - Standard history of Antigua which was discovered in 1493 by Christopher Columbus, who named the island after Santa Maria la Antigua. The island remained largely uninhabited until it was taken over by English settlers in 1632. The English were chased out by the Caribbean but returned in 1663. In 1666 the island was sacked by the French. In the peace of Breda, the island was formally assigned to the English. Antigua became independent in 1981. - A very fine scarce set. [Boeknr.: 36700 ]

€ 2250,00

OOSTINDIE, G. (Ed.). Fifty years later. Antislavery, capitalism and modernity in the Dutch orbit. Leiden, KITLV, 1995. Wrappers. VIII,272 pp. The Dutch were late in abolishing the slave trade (1814) and slavery (1863). [Boeknr.: 20284 ]

€ 25,00

OUDSCHANS DENTZ, Fred. & Herm.J. JACOBS. Onze West in beeld en woord. 2e vermeerderde en verbeterde druk. Amsterdam, J.H. de Bussy, 1929. Folio. Half cloth. With 220 photographic illustrations. 138 pp. [Boeknr.: 714 ]

€ 45,00

OZINGA, M.D. De monumenten van Curaçao in woord en beeld. Curaçao, 1959. Folio. Half morocco. With 5 folding maps, 294 views and maps on 163 plates and many photographic illustrations and drawings by H. van der Wal. XIX,278 pp. With English summaries. - Fine illustrated work on the historical buildings of Curaçao. [Boeknr.: 748 ]

€ 65,00

(PADDENBURG, G.G. van). Beschrijving van het eiland Curaçao en onderhoorige eilanden. Uit onderscheidene stukken, bijdragen en opmerkingen opgemaakt, door een bewoner van dat eiland. Haarlem, erven Fr. Bohn, 1819.Sm.8vo. Wrappers. (4),90 pp. First edition. - Gerrit Gijsbert van Paddenburgh (1783-1824) was the first Dutch teacher who permanently settled on the island in 1816. After being fired as a teacher due to a drinking problem, he worked as a writer and journalist on the island. Much of the information is of practical use and seems to aim at new visitors or settlers. After a description of the geography and climate of the island, the author describes the various settlements forming Willemstad. - Rare description of Curaçao and the adjacent islands. - (pp 81-90 damaged with loss of text).Tiele 841; Cat. NHSM I, p.271; Sabin 58127. [Boeknr.: 17421 ]

€ 125,00

PAIEWONSKY, Isidor. Eyewitness accounts of slavery in the Danish West Indies also graphic tales of other happenings on ships and plantations. New York, Fordham University Press, 1989. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations. IX,166 pp. Signed by the author. - On the Danish settlement in Guinea, Christiansborg, and the Danish West Indies, St. Thomas and St. Croix. [Boeknr.: 32551 ]

€ 35,00

PALM, Edgar. Muziek en musici van de Nederlandse Antillen. (Curaçao, 1978). Wrappers. With many illustrations. 229 pp. [Boeknr.: 6712 ]

€ 40,00

PALM, Jules de. Kinderen van de fraters. Amsterdam, De Bezige Bij, 1986. Wrappers. 199 pp. [Boeknr.: 30626 ]

€ 18,00

PALM, Pedro D. de. Landhuis Nooit Gedacht Brakkeput Ariba. Stichting Johannes Don Bosco 1947-1969. Curaçao, 2002. 8vo. Boards. With many photograpgic illustrations (sveral in colours). XII,194 pp. [Boeknr.: 36961 ]

€ 45,00

PATON, William Agnew. Down the islands. A voyage to the Caribbees. New York, Charles Scribner's sons, 1887.Original pictorial cloth. With many illustrations and plates after drawings by M.J. Burns. XIII,301 pp. + 10 pp. with advertisements. First edition. - During Paton's voyages in the Caribbean Islands, he visited a.o. Antigua, St. Kitts, St. Dominica, Martinique, Barbados, Trinidad, Grenada, St. Lucia, Montserrat, and Nevis. - A fine copy. [Boeknr.: 36730 ]

€ 175,00

PAULA, A.F. 'Vrije slaven'. Een sociaal-historische studie over de dualistische slavenemancipatie op Nederlands Sint Maarten 1816-1863. (Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 1993). 8vo. Boards, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. 191 pp. [Boeknr.: 17659 ]

€ 30,00

PHILIPPI, Ferdinand. Geschichte des Freistaats von St. Domingo, (Hayti). Dresden, Hischer, 1826-27.3 volumes in 2. Sm.8vo. Original marbled boards, with morocco labels to spines . (6),106; (4),148; (4),208 pp. First edition; with armorial bookplate. - An objective account of the slave insurrection and the early days of Haïti. One of the first German books on the subject. - A fine copy.Sabin 62550. [Boeknr.: 28518 ]

€ 175,00

PILOT, Daniella Jeffry. 1963 a landmark year in St. Martin. A retrospective look. Preface by Leopold James. (No pl.), 2011. 8vo. Boards. With many coloured illustrations. 90,(6) pp. [Boeknr.: 36921 ]

€ 35,00

PINCKARD, George. Notes on the West Indies: written during the expedition under the command of the late general Ralph Abercromby: including observations on the island of Barbadoes, and the settlements captured by the British troops, upon the coast of Guiana; likewise remarks relating to the creoles and slaves of the western colonies, and the Indians of South America; with occasional hints, regarding the seasoning, or yellow fever of hot climates London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806.3 volumes. Later half calf, spines gilt, with red and green morocco title labels to spines. XXIV,448; XX,472; XIX,(1),456 pp. First edition. - 'The author was deputy inspector general of hospitals in the British army. He accompanied General Sir Ralph Abercromby to the West Indies and while not on service became well acquainted with the regions where he was stationed for the time being. He gives us interesting pictures of Plymouth in war time, of the agonizing delay while awaiting embarkation orders, of the break-up of the fleet in a storm, of a visit to slave ships, and intimate and varied accounts of colonial life in Barbados and along the Guiana coast as well as of the vicissitudes of soldier life in the colonies. He received unfavorable impressions of slavery. Urges emancipation, holding that abolition could be regarded as only a step in that direction' (Ragatz pp.231-232). - (Age-browned). - A fine set.The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection 600; Sabin 62893; Hogg 731; Work p.269; Afro-Americana 8226. [Boeknr.: 29000 ]

€ 1500,00

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

€ 3500,00

POLL, Willem van de. De Nederlandse Antillen. Een fotoreportage van land en volk. 's Gravenhage, W. van Hoeve, 1950. 4to. Cloth. With many photographs plates by the author. 64 pp. [Boeknr.: 6787 ]

€ 25,00

POOL, John de. Bolívar en/op Curaçao. Leyenda histórica - Historische novelle. Inleiding door L.W. Statius van Eps rn E. Luckmann-Levy Maduro. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 1988. 8vo. Baords, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. 72 pp. [Boeknr.: 36979 ]

€ 20,00

POWELL, Robert, Robert W. HENDERSON, John S. PARMERLEE. The reptiles and amphibians of the Dutch Caribbean. St. Eustatius, Saba, and St. Maarten. St. Eustatius, Stenapa, 2005. Boards. With 262 coloured photographed illustrations. 192 pp. [Boeknr.: 36908 ]

€ 45,00

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

€ 3250,00

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

€ 950,00

RENKEMA, W.E. Het Curaçaose plantagebedrijf in de 19e eeuw. (Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 1981). Boards. 400 pp. [Boeknr.: 6791 ]

€ 75,00

RENKEMA, W.E. Een leven in de West. Van Raders en zijn werkzaamheden op Curaçao. Leiden, KITLV, 2009. Wrappers. With illustrations. XIII,578 pp. - (Caribbean Series). [Boeknr.: 31109 ]

€ 40,00

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

€ 475,00

ROBINSON, Wirt. A flying trip to the tropics. A record of an ornithological visit to the United States of Colombia, South America and the island of Curaçao West Indies in the year 1892. Cambridge, University Press, 1895.Original pictorial green clothwith picture of flying bird in silver on front cover. With double-page coloured map of Curaçao, folding coloured map of Colombo, 4 coloured lithograped plates after J.G. Keuleman and many ilustrations. X,194 pp. First edition. - The account of a trip to the tropics to collect ornithological specimens in 1892, with many photographs and illustrations and with observations of the people as well. - Fine.Wood 540. [Boeknr.: 36811 ]

€ 275,00

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

€ 2950,00

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

€ 175,00

ROJER, Robert. Vanuit de blauzwarte diepte. Marcus Dahhaus en Martinus Niewindt: een cultuur-historisch essay. Rotterdam, Erasmus Publishing, 1997. Wrappers. With many illustrations. 88 pp. [Boeknr.: 36910 ]

€ 35,00

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

€ 395,00

RÖMER, R.A. (Red.). Cultureel mozaïk van de Nederlandse Antillen. Constanten en varianten. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 1977. Wrappers. With photographic illustrations. 359 pp. [Boeknr.: 23238 ]

€ 18,00

RÖMER, R.A. De Curaçaose samenleving. 3e bijgewerkte druk. Curaçao, Amigoe, 2000. Wrappers. With photographic illustrations. 104 pp. [Boeknr.: 36919 ]

€ 18,00

RÖMER, R.A. Un pueblo na kaminda. Een sociologisch historische studie van de Curaçaose samenleving. (No pl.), 1977. Wrappers. (8),235 pp. - (Thesis). [Boeknr.: 28789 ]

€ 25,00

RÖMER, René A. Een volk op weg. Un pueblo na kaminda. Een sociologisch historische studie van de Curaçaose samenleving. (Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 1979). Wrappers. 144 pp. [Boeknr.: 28637 ]

€ 30,00

RUSTIGE, J. De Curaçaosche Vereeniging van Hoedenvlechtsters 'Arbeid Adelt' alsmede eenige algemeene opmerkingen over de Curaçaosche stroohoeden-vlechtnijverheid. Amsterdam, Duwaer & Zoon, (1934). 4to. Wrappers. With photographic illustrations. 56 pp. - (Sl. waterstained). [Boeknr.: 30989 ]

€ 45,00

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