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AALBERS, J. Rijcklof van Goens, commissaris en veldoverste der Oost-Indische Compagnie, en zijn arbeidsveld, 1653/54 (Ceylon) en 1657/58 (India). Groningen, J.B. Wolters, 1916. Cloth. With 3 folding facsimile maps and several plates. (16),221 pp. -(Stamp on title-page). [Boeknr.: 6254 ]

€ 25,00

ABEYASINGHE, Tikiri. Portuguese regiments on Sri Lanka. Colombo, Department of Nacional Archives, (ca. 1970). Wrappers. [Boeknr.: 34314 ]

€ 35,00

ANTHONISZ, R.G. Report on the Dutch records in the Government Archives at Colombo. With appendices. Colombo, H.C. Cottle, 1907. Original printed wrappers with decorative border. With folding plate, folding plan of fort of Colombo in 1751 and 6 facsimiles. (6),138 pp. - Rare. [Boeknr.: 33455 ]

€ 95,00

BALDAEUS, Philippus. Afgoderye der Oost-Indische heydenen. Opnieuw uitgegeven en van inleiding en aanteekeningen voorzien door A.J. de Jong. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff,1917. Wrappers (spine dam.; name cut from title-page). With 13 plates. LXXXV,236 pp. Philippus Baldaeus (1632-1672) was a Dutch Reformed missionary to Ceylon. [Boeknr.: 147 ]

€ 45,00

BALDAEUS, Philippus. Afgoderye der Oost-Indische heydenen. Opnieuw uitgegeven en van inleiding en aanteekeningen voorzien door A.J. de Jong. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff,1917. Cloth. With 13 plates. LXXXV,236 pp. Philippus Baldaeus (1632-1672) was a Dutch Reformed missionary to Ceylon. [Boeknr.: 32758 ]

€ 65,00

BALEN, Johan Hendrik van. Diamanten en paarlen. Avonturen van vier ontsnapte krijgsgevangen Boeren op Ceylon. Haarlem, A. van der Heide, 1902.Original decorated cloth with gilt lettering. With 4 plates by P. van Looy. IV,176 pp. Children's book on the adventures of four escaped prisoners of war Boers from South Africa on Ceylon.SAB I, p.118. [Boeknr.: 37561 ]

€ 45,00

BELT, Albert van den. Het VOC-bedrijf op Ceylon. Een voorname vestiging van de Oost-Indische Compagnie in de 18de eeuw. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2008. Boards. 304 pp. [Boeknr.: 30631 ]

€ 35,00

BES, L., J. GOMMANS, J., G. KRUIJTER. Dutch sources on South Asia c. 1600-1825. Volume I: Bibliography and archival guide to the National Archives at the Hague (The Netherlands). Manohar, 2001. Boards, with dust-jacket. With maps. 424 pp. Dutch sources on South Asia. - This volume deals with the holdings of the National Archives, It comprehensively covers a large array of sources in the Netherlands relating to more than two centuries of close Dutch contacts with the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka. [Boeknr.: 25247 ]

€ 40,00

BES, Lennart. Dutch sources on South Asia c. 1600-1825. Volume II: Archival guide to the Repositories in the Netherlands other than the National Archives (at the Hague, the Netherlands). Manohar, 2007. Boards, with dust-jacket. 508 pp. Dutch sources on South Asia. - 'It comprehensively covers a large array of sources in the Netherlands relating to more than two centuries of close Dutch contacts with the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka'. [Boeknr.: 29715 ]

€ 40,00

BONKE, Hans, Robert PARTHESIUS, Christine van der PIJL-KETEL. (Ed.). Artefacts catalogue Avondster site 1998-2004. The Anglo-Dutch East-Indiaman that was wrecked twice in Ceylon. Contributions by Ranjith & Nayana Bandara, Menno Leenstra, Darshani Samanthilaka. (Leiden), Centre for International Heritage Activities, 2007. 8vo. Wrappers. With many coloured illustrations. 273 pp. The Avondster was a 17th century British East Indiaman captured by the Dutch and used by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in its Asian trade until it was wrecked in Galle harbour in 1659. [Boeknr.: 35644 ]

€ 65,00

BOUDENS, Robrecht. The catholic church in Ceylon under Dutch rule. Romae, Officium Libri Catholici, 1957. Wrappers. With 2 folding maps. 266 pp. - (Bibl. Missionalis). [Boeknr.: 34367 ]

€ 125,00

CEYLON. Instructions from the governor-general and council of India to the governor of Ceylon, 1656-1665 to which is appended the memoir left by Anthony Paviljoen, commandeur of Jaffnapatam, to his successor, in 1665. Translated by Sophia Pieters. Colombo, 1908. Reprint. (No pl.), Franklin Classics Trade Press, (2018). Wrappers. V,126 pp. [Boeknr.: 37013 ]

€ 25,00

CEYLON. Provisioneel ende particulier tractaet gemaeckt .. in 's Gravenhage den 27. Martii 1645 tusschen de heer Francisco de Zousa Continho, Raedt ende Ambassadeur van den .. koningh van Portugael .. ende de heeren Gedeputeerden van de .. Staten Generael van de Vereenighde Nederlandtsche Provincien etc. aengaende de controversie over de jurisdictie ende territorie van 't fort Galle. 's Gravenhage, weduwe en erfgenamen van wylen Hillebrandt Jobobsz van Wouw, 1645.4to.With woodcut coat of arms of the States General, lion with sword and 7 arrows, in an elaborately decorated cartouche with military attributes on title-page and woodcut initial on first page. (8) pp. With heading: Translaet uyt het Latyn in de Nederlandtsche tale. - Treaty on the jurisdiction and territory of the fortress at Galle, Sri Lanka, to settle the dispute between the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and Portugal on Fort Galle, a major trading post of the Company. The fort was captured from Portugal in 1640. The Portuguese were finally driven out of the rest of Ceylon in 1658, with the help of the king of Kandy and from that time on the Company acquired the monopoly on the cinnamon trade.Knuttel 5202; Landwehr, VOC, 242. [Boeknr.: 33422 ]

€ 295,00

CEYLON. Publicatie. Het staats-bewind der Bataafsche Republiek doet te weten .. dat, van nu af aan, algemeen wordt vrygesteld de invoer van Ceilonsche caneel in deze Republiek, tegen betaling, echter, van één percent der waarde van de alzoo intevoeren caneel. Den Haag, Staats-drukkery, 1803.Broadsheet with coat of arms with device Concordia res parvae crescunt. Ca. 42 x 33,5 cm. Ordinance concerning the exemption from payment for the importation of cinnamon from Ceylon into the Bataafsche Republiek. [Boeknr.: 37453 ]

€ 225,00

DALGADO, Sebastiao Rodolpho. Dialecto Indo-Portuguès de Ceylao. Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional, 1900.Modern half cloth, original pictorial frontwrapper preserved, uncut. XXIX,259 pp. Scarce original edition. - Luso-Asian dialect of Sri-Lanka.Goonetileke 8188. [Boeknr.: 31613 ]

€ 350,00

DULM, Frits van. 'Zonder eigen gewinne en glorie'. Mr. Iman Wilhelm Falck (1736-1785), gouverneur en directeur van Ceylon en onderhorigheden. Hilversum, Verloren, 2012. Boards. With illustrations. 453 pp. Interesting biography of the gentleman-lawyer Falck, depicting his period in office as Governor of Ceylon from the age of 28 and his surroundings. The historian Stapel described him as the last great figure in the Company. [Boeknr.: 32767 ]

€ 50,00

GEER, Willem van. De opkomst van het Nederlandsch gezag over Ceilon. Leiden, A.W. Sijthoff, 1895. Original red cloth with gilt lettering (spine discoloured), a.e.g. XV,153; 100 pp. Thesis on the rise of Dutch power in Ceylon/Sri Lanka. Although the Dutch East India Company (VOC) managed to capture most of the coastal areas in Ceylon they were never able to control the Kandyan Kingdom located in the interior of the island. Dutch Ceylon existed from 1640 until 1796. [Boeknr.: 6284 ]

€ 125,00

GEVERS DEYNOOT, Willem Theodore. Herinneringen eener reis naar Nederlandsch Indië in 1862. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1864.Original decorated gilt embossed cloth. With tinted lithographed title. (8),234 pp. First edition. - The author, a member of parliament, visited Java, Sumatra, Celebes, the Moluccas and Timor. Singapore, Calcutta, Madras and Ceylon were also visited. - A fine copy.Cat. KITLV p.57; Buur, Persoonlijke documenten, 100; Tiele 381; Cat. NHSM I, p.181. [Boeknr.: 4618 ]

€ 245,00

GOENS, Rijkloff Volkertsz. van. Memoirs of Ryckloff van Goens .. delivered to his successors Jacob Hustaart on December 26, 1663 and Ryckloff van Goens the Younger on April12, 1675. Translated from the original by E. Reimers Colombo, Ceylon Government Press, 1932. 8vo. Later half cloth. XII,112 pp. Selections from the Dutch Records of the Ceylon government. - Dutch and English text. [Boeknr.: 31596 ]

€ 150,00

GOOR, J. van. (Ed.). Trading companies in Asia 1600-1830. Utrecht, HES, 1986. Wrappers. With illustrations. 167 pp. Om PRAKASH. European trade and the economy of Bengal in the 17th and early 18th century; G.J. KNAAP. Coffee for cash. The Dutch East India Company and the expansion of coffee cultivation in Java, Ambon and Ceylon 1700-1730; etc. [Boeknr.: 207 ]

€ 18,00

GOOR, Jurrien van. Dutch 'calvinists' on the Coromandel coast and in Sri Lanka. (Melbourne, 1996). Wrappers. (10) pp. - (Offprint Journal of South Asian Studies). [Boeknr.: 32722 ]

€ 15,00

GOOR, Jurrien van. Jan Kompenie as schoolmaster. Dutch education in Ceylon 1690-1795. Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1978. Wrappers. With 5 illustrations. 205 pp. [Boeknr.: 6289 ]

€ 20,00

HAAFNER, Jacob. Lotgevallen op eene reize van Madras over Tranquebaar naar het eiland Ceilon. 2e druk. Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1826.Sm 8vo. Original printed boards (rebacked), uncut. With engraved title depicting Haafner's arrival on the island Caradival and folding plate depicting his meeting with the Jammedaar at Alamparvé after Jacob Haafner by Reinier Vinkeles. VIII,268 pp. Second edition; first published in Amsterdam in 1806. - Travel from Madras to Ceylon in 1806. Jacob Gotfried Haafner (1754 - 1809) was a German-Dutch travel writer who lived in and wrote extensively on India and Sri Lanka. His travelogues were noted for their Romantic undertones, lively descriptions of Indian cultures and peoples, as well as criticisms of European colonialism, slavery, and cultural domination. 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). Haafner witnessed the Company's death agony and demise, and wrote about it. He has a lively and compelling manner (Nieuwenhuys, Mirror of the Indies, p.21). - (Margin of 1 leaf damaged with some loss of letters).Tiele 433; Cat. NHSM I, p.243; Landwehr, VOC, 347; Goonetileke 2192. [Boeknr.: 13094 ]

€ 225,00

HAAFNER, Jacob. Travels on foot through the island of Ceylon. London, Richard Phillips and Co.,1821.Original wrappers, uncut. With 3 aquatint plates (2 folding) after Reinier Vinkeles by W. Read. 118 pp. First English edition; first published in Dutch Reize te voet door het eiland Ceilon. Amsterdam, 1810. - Jacob Haafner was captured by the English in Madras but escaped to Ceylon. His eyewitness account of his journey on foot through Ceylon in 1810 from Jaffnapatnam to Colombo, was finished by his son Christiaan Mattghias and posthumously published in Amsterdam in 1810. 'Haafner was an anticolonialist, a man before his time, for his ideas were not to be topical until more than a century had elapsed' (De Silva & Beumer, Dutch Ceylon, p.462). Jacob Gotfried Haafner (1754 - 1809) was a German-Dutch travel writer who lived in and wrote extensively on India and Sri Lanka. His travelogues were noted for their Romantic undertones, lively descriptions of Indian cultures and peoples, as well as criticisms of European colonialism, slavery, and cultural domination. 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). Haafner witnessed the Company's death agony and demise, and wrote about it. He has a lively and compelling manner (Nieuwenhuys, Mirror of the Indies, p.21).Goonetileke 2190; Cf. Tiele 435; Cat. NHSM I, p.243 and Landwehr, VOC, 350. [Boeknr.: 36180 ]

€ 375,00

HAAFNER, Jacob. UIT MENSCHLIEVENDHEID ZOUDE IK BARBAAR KUNNEN WORDEN. Reizen in Azie van G. Haafner, Q.M.R. VerHuell, J. Olivier en P.P. Roorda van Eysinga tussen 1770 en 1830. Amsterdam, L.J. Veen, 1992. 4to. Wrappers. With many illustrations. 167 pp. [Boeknr.: 10325 ]

€ 18,00

HAAFNER, Jacob. De werken. Deel I. Bezorgd door J.A. de Moor en P.G.E.I.J. van der Velde. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 1997. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 10 plates. 367 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging XCI. - Contains Lotgevallen en vroegere zeereizen (1820) & Lotgevallen op eene reize van Madras over Tranquebaar naar het eiland Ceilon (1806). [Boeknr.: 10259 ]

€ 40,00

HEBER, Reginald. Narrative of a journey through the upper provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825, (with notes upon Ceylon), an account of a journey to Madras and the southern provinces, 1826, and letters written in India. Third edition. London, John Murray, 1828.3 volumes. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt. With 27 wood-engravings. LXVII,450; VI,564; VI,525,(2),VIII pp. First edition published the same year. - Posthumously published by the widow of the author Amelia Heber. Reginald Heber (1783-1826) described in his daily journal his travels as bishop of Calcutta through Northern India from October 1823 to April 1824. This tour encompassed a journey through Bihar, Rohilkhand, Rajputana, and Gujarat with visits to such key cities as Benares, Allahabad, Agra and Lucknow. The main interest in Heber's journal is in his description of the people and their culture and in his observation of the great natural beauty of India's rivers and mountains (Riddick 123). He later visited Ceylon, and sailed to Madras and the south, where he died in April 1826. A highly valuable, interesting, and most delightful work (Lowndes 1030-1031). - A fine copy.Goonetileke I, 2202. [Boeknr.: 10964 ]

€ 1225,00

HEERDT, Jacob Carel Frederik van. Mijne reis met de landmail van Batavia over Singapore, Ceilon, Aden en Suez tot Alexandrië in Egypte. 's Gravenhage, K. Fuhri, 1851.Original half cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With folding lithographed map, and 5 lithographed plates by P. Blommers (1 large folding, showing panoramic views of Ceylon and Aden). VIII,(2),106 pp. First edition; with bookplate of Bibl. Doctrina & Amicitia. - Baron van Heerdt (1819-1878) travelled in 1846 from Indonesia to the Netherlands, as route he chose the little known 'landmail' or 'overlandweg'. via Egypt. Fragments of his travel experiences were first published in i.a. De Gids, Warnaserie and Indisch Jaarboekje, after recasting these fragments, this book was published. Heerdt can be considered as one of the predecessors of the just rising Dutch Indonesian literature. - (Age-browned). - Scarce.Cat. NHSM I, p.179; Cat. KITLV p.57; Not in Tiele. [Boeknr.: 1650 ]

€ 450,00

HOFFMEISTER, Werner. Travels in Ceylon and continental India; including Nepal and other parts of the Himalayas, to the borders of Thibet, with some notes of the overland route. Translated from the German. Edinburgh, William P. Kennedy, 1848.Original embossed cloth with gilt illustration of front cover (spine ends restored). With 2 folding maps. XII,527 pp. First edition; first published in Braunschweig in 1847 Briefe aus Indien. - Personal letters to friends by the doctor who accompanied Prince Waldemar of Prussia on his vist to Kathmandu during Febr.-March, 1845 and to Shipki in August (Yakushi p.190). Much of the text details the countryside and peoples (Czech 106). With appendices: I. Addressed to Baron von Humboldt, On the geographical distribution of coniferae on the Himalayan mountains. II. On the vegetation of the Himalayan mountains. III. The birds of the Himalayan mountains.Aschoff p.173. [Boeknr.: 37305 ]

€ 395,00

HOVY, Lodewijk. Ceylonees plakkaatboek. Plakkaten en andere wetten uitgevaardigd door het Nederlandse bestuur op Ceylon 1638-1796. Hilversum, Verloren, 1991. 2 volumes. Cloth. CXLVIII,1014 pp. Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, has been an important part of the VOC network because of its production of cinnamon and other spices. The regulations drawn up under the Dutch authority at the time are part of Sri Lanka's heritage and are still in force in parts of business and contract law. The Ceylonese Plakkaatboek brings together the edicts, ordinances and other laws that the Dutch government issued in Ceylon between 1638 and 1796. The edicts are an important source for the history of the island in that period, including dealing with the agricultural and commercial policy of the Dutch government, the registration of real estate, public order and safety, family law matters such as inheritance and marriage and on religious politics. In this edition, the edicts are preceded by a detailed introduction to the history and organization of Ceylonese law in the relevant period. [Boeknr.: 8055 ]

€ 95,00

HOVY,L. & C. STREEFKERK. 'Zoo is't dat wij daarin nader willende voorzien'. Prolegomena voor een Ceylonees plakkaatboek. Met medewerking van E.J.H. Schrage. Amsterdam, VU Uitgeverij, 1985. Wrappers. XIV,191 pp. [Boeknr.: 29730 ]

€ 45,00

IMHOFF, Gustaaf Willem van. Gouverneur Van Imhoff op dienstreis in 1739 naar Cochin, Travancore en Tuticorin, en terug over Jaffna en Mannar naar Colombo (zondag 25 januari tot zaterdag 18 april). Bezorgd door Lodewijk Wagenaar, Anke Galjaard, Marianne Nierop en Marleen Speelman. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2007. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. 352 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging CVI. - Van Imhoff (1705-1750) made, together with Stein van Gollenesse (1691-1755), an official journey for the VOC, to India and Ceylon. An eye-witness account. [Boeknr.: 30592 ]

€ 30,00

JONGENS, E. Het Nederlands-Ceylonese erfgoed. Vierhonderd jaar betrekkingen tussen Nederland en Ceylon/Sri Lanka. (Den Haag, Stichting Nederland-Sri Lanka, 2002). Wrappers. With illustrations (several in colours). 64 pp. [Boeknr.: 25616 ]

€ 15,00

JONGENS, E. De Nederlandse erfenis in Ceylon. Den Haag, Stichting Nederland-Sri Lanka, 1980. Oblong 8vo. Wrappers. With illustrations. 28 pp. [Boeknr.: 28318 ]

€ 15,00

KAN, J. van. Compagniesbescheiden en aanverwante archivalia in Britsch-Indië en op Ceylon. Verslag van een onderzoek in 1929-1930 op last van Z.E. den Gouverneur-Generaal ingesteld. Batavia, G. Kolff & Co., 1931. 8vo. Wrappers. VI,253 pp. [Boeknr.: 15757 ]

€ 75,00

KOLFF, Dirk Hendrik. Driftig van spraak, levendig van gang. Herinneringen van marineofficier Dirk Hendrik Kolff (1761-1835). Ingeleid en bezorgd door V.A.J. Klooster en D.H.A. Kolff. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2011. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations (some in colours). 222 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging CX. - Narrative of the naval officer Dirk Hendrik Kolff referring to his years in the Dutch East Indies, Malaysia, Ceylon, Smyrna and Suriname. [Boeknr.: 32505 ]

€ 30,00

KROMHOUT, R. (Red.). Het machtige eyland, Ceylon en de VOC. 's Gravenhage, SDU, 1988. Wrappers. With many illustrations. 118 pp. [Boeknr.: 6299 ]

€ 18,00

LUTGERT, W.H. Pieter Macaré, independent-fiscaal van Ceylon, 1702-1711. (Middelburg), 1988. Wrappers. (8) pp. - (Offprint KZG). [Boeknr.: 24225 ]

€ 15,00

MEILINK-ROELOFSZ, M.A.P. (Red.). De VOC in Azië. (Bussum, Fibula-Van Dishoeck, 1976). Boards, with dust-jacket. With maps. 243 pp. Contributions by S. Arasaratnam on Ceylon and Coromandel, A. Das Gupta on Suratte and the Malabar coast, H.K. s'Jacob on the Malabarcoast, L.Y. Andaya on Malay, John E. Wills on Taiwan, China and Batavia, M. Kanai on Japan. [Boeknr.: 9860 ]

€ 18,00

MEILINK-ROELOFSZ, M.A.P. Een tentoonstelling Ceylon-Nederland in het verleden, 1602-1796. (No pl.), 1966. Wrappers. With 13 illustrations. (8) pp. - (Offprint KNOB). [Boeknr.: 28651 ]

€ 15,00

NELSON, W.A. The Dutch forts of Sri Lanka. The military monuments of Ceylon. Edinburgh, Canongate,1984. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 10 maps, 32 plans and 64 illustrations. XIV,152 pp. [Boeknr.: 6303 ]

€ 65,00

NIEVELT, Carel van. (Jan van den Oude). Phantasieën. Leiden, S.C. van Doesburgh, 1874.Original decorated cloth, spine lettered in gilt. (8),257 pp. First edition. - Contains short stories, i.a. De Koningin van't Oosten (Batavia) and De Adamspiek (Ceylon).Buur 143; Nieuwenhuys, Oost-Indische spiegel, pp. 209-212. [Boeknr.: 31861 ]

€ 75,00

NIEVELT, Carel van. (Jan van den Oude). Phantasieën. 2e druk. Leiden, S.C. van Doesburgh, 1879.Original half cloth, spine lettered in gilt. VI,170 pp. Contains short stories, i.a. De Koningin van't Oosten (Batavia) and De Adamspiek (Ceylon).Buur 143; Nieuwenhuys, Oost-Indische spiegel, pp. 209-212. [Boeknr.: 31553 ]

€ 65,00

ODEGARD, Erik. The Company fortress. Military engineering and the Dutch East India Company in Souh Asia, 1638-1795. Leiden, University Press, 2020. Wrappers. With illustrations. XI,292 pp. The system of fortifications built and maintained by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in India and Sri Lanka. [Boeknr.: 35992 ]

€ 60,00

PABBRUWE, H.J. Dr. Robertus Padtbrugge (Parijs 1637 - Amersfoort 1703), dienaar van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, en zijn familie. Kloosterzande, Duerinck, (1994). Wrappers. With 8 plates. 160 pp. Dealing with the VOC in Ceylon, the Moluccas and Batavia. [Boeknr.: 13984 ]

€ 30,00

PARANAVITANA, K.D. Land for money. Dutch land registration in Sri Lanka. (Colombo, 2001). Boards. With illustrations. XIV,164 pp. [Boeknr.: 25825 ]

€ 30,00

PAULUSZ, J.H.O. & B.A. LOND. (Ed.). Secret minutes of the Dutch Political Council 1762. Colombo, Gouvernment Press, 1954. 8vo. Half cloth. With 3 maps. 349 pp. Dutch Records. - The minutes of the Political Council 1762 span the period of Dutch rule in Ceylon / Sri Lanka. - English and Dutch text. - Rare. [Boeknr.: 34364 ]

€ 225,00

PUTTEN, L.P. van. Koopman en diplomaat. Gouverneurs en directeuren van Ceylon 1640-1796. (Met bijdragen van) W. van den Eelaart en R.H.J. Egeter van Kuyk. (Rotterdam, Ger Guijs, 2006). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many coloured illustrations. 223 pp. [Boeknr.: 29773 ]

€ 30,00

RAAT, A.J.P. The life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789). A personal history of a Dutch virtuoso. Hilversum, Verloren, 2010. Boards. With many illustrations, several in colours. 830 pp. The Life of Joan Loten, the 'naturalist Governor of Ceylon', details his personal history and his professional career as a servant of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). It contains an inventory of his natural history drawings in the London Natural History Museum and Teylers Museum at Haarlem. [Boeknr.: 31757 ]

€ 85,00

ROSSANDER, Carl J. Rubinö. Reseminnen från Ceylon. Stockholm, Wilhelm Bille, (1894).Oiginal half green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 24 photographic plates. (6),142 pp. First edition. - Chapters on the history of Ceylon, Colombo, Galle, Kandy and Peradenlya, Anuradhapura, the tea districts, Nuwera Eliya and Hereratgoda. - Fine.Goonetileke 2295C. [Boeknr.: 32862 ]

€ 75,00

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

SCHAIK, Ad van. Sri Lanka. Een dictionnaire amoureux. Reisboek. Soesterberg, Aspekt, 2011. Wrappers. With illustrations. 164 pp. [Boeknr.: 32836 ]

€ 15,00

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. 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

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

STEIN VAN GOLLENNESSE, Julius van. Memoir of Julius Stein van Gollennesse, Governor of Ceylon 1743-1751 for his successor Gerrit Joan Vreeland 28th February, 1751. Translated and edited with an introduction and notes by Sinnappah Arasaratnam. Colombo, Government Printing, 1974. Wrappers. (8),154 pp. Selections from the Dutch Records of the Government of Sri Lanka. - Dutch and English texts. [Boeknr.: 34316 ]

€ 95,00

TERPSTRA, H. Compagniesonderwijs op Ceilon. Groningen, P. Noordhoff N.V., (no date). Wrappers. (24) pp. - (Offprint). [Boeknr.: 33700 ]

€ 15,00

TERWEN-DE LOOS, J(eanne). Het Nederlands koloniale meubel. Studie over meubels in de voormalige Nederlandsche koloniën Indonesië en Ceylon. Franeker, T. Wever, (1985). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 96 illustrations. 183 pp. [Boeknr.: 6201 ]

€ 35,00

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

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

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 & Mieke BEUMER. Esaias Boursse's 'Tijkenboeck'': a pictorial catalogue of people working and living in and around Colombo, 1662. Amsterdam, 2019. Wrappers. With ilustrations. (18) pp. - (Rijks Museum Bulletin). [Boeknr.: 36407 ]

€ 15,00

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

ZWIER, Willem. Het verdrag van 1766 tusschen de O.I.Compagnie en den vorst van Kandi (Ceylon). Amsterdam, H.J. Paris, 1927. Wrappers. With maps. 93 pp. - (Thesis). [Boeknr.: 6324 ]

€ 45,00


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