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WOLFF, Julius. Der fliegende Holländer. Eine Seemannssage. Berlin, G. Grothe, 1892.Sm.8vo. Original pictorial cloth. 191 pp. The Flying Dutchman (Dutch: De Vliegende Hollander) is a legendary ghost ship, allegedly never able to make port, but doomed to sail the seven seas forever. The myths and ghost stories are likely to have originated from the 17th-century Golden Age of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The oldest known extant version of the legend dates from the late 18th century. - A nice copy. [Boeknr.: 37205 ]

€ 45,00

YK, Cornelis van. De Nederlandsche scheepsbouw-konst open gestelt. Vertoonende naar wat regel; of evenredenheyd, in Nederland meest alle scheepen werden gebouwd; mitsgaders masten, zeylen, ankers, en touwen, enz. daar aan gepast. Delft, Andries Voorstad, 1697. Facsimile edition. Rotterdam, Langerveld, (1970). Folio. Cloth. With With frontispiece and 21 plates (13 double-page) by and after Jan and Caspar Luyken. (14),354,(8) pp. The first book in Dutch on practical shipbuilding, a very important source for the history of the construction and equipment of Dutch ships in the seventeenth century. A great 17th century Dutch book on ship-building, written by a man of practice. [Boeknr.: 26566 ]

€ 95,00

ZOUTMAN, Johan Arnold. Plan van den zeeslag, tusschen de Engelsche scheepsmagt, onder den Adm. Parker, en het Hollandsch eskader, onder den Schout bij Nacht Zoutman, op den 5den augustus 1781, tusschen 9 en 10 uuren, wanneer de linie van gevegt nog niet gebroken was. (No pl., 1781).Broadsheet depicting a plan of the seabattle between the English and Dutch off the Danish coast. With decorative border. Ca. 19,5 x 25 cm. After the outbreak of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, in 1781 Zoutman was charged with escorting a convoy to the Baltic Sea. On August 5, he encountered a British squadron under Vice Admiral Hyde Parker. The subsequent Battle of Dogger Bank in the North Sea was a bloody encounter and ended in fact undecided. [Boeknr.: 35812 ]

€ 45,00

ZUIDHOEK, Arne. De mooiste schepen van De Holland West-Afrika Lijn. Zaltbommel, Aprilis, 2006. Boards. With 150 photographic plates. 124 pp. [Boeknr.: 29065 ]