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NORTON, Edward Felix, J.G. BRUCE, a.o. De strijd om den top. De jongste beklimming van den Mount-Everest. Voor Nederland bewerkt door Arthur Tervooren. Amsterdam, Scheltens & Giltay, (1926). Original cloth, gilt lettering. With folding map and plates (several in colours). 327 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in London in 1925: The fight for Everest: 1924. - The official account of the 3rd expedition to Mount Everest in 1924. Norton and Odell write the two attemps on the summit and the final tragedy, namely the first attempt by Norton and Somervell to 8,534 m., then the second by Mallory and Irvine who passed away eternally. - Nice copy.Yakushi N64d; Neate N31 (English ed.). [Boeknr.: 22234 ]

€ 45,00

OEHLENSCHLÄGER, Adam Gottlieb. Brieven naar huis geschreven op eene reis door Duitschland en Frankrijk, in de jaren 1816 en 1817. Uit het Deensch naar de Hoogduitsche vertaling. Haarlem, Wed. A. Loosjes Pz., 1822.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half calf (rubbed). With 2 nice engraved title-vignettes by D. Veelwaard. IV,282; 271 pp. First Dutch edition; the German edition Briefe in die Heimath, auf einer Reise durch Deutschland und Frankreich was published in Altona in 1820. - Letters written home by Adam Gottlieb Oehlenschläger (1779-1850) during a journey through Germany and France in 1816-1817. - (Some foxing).Not in Tiele. [Boeknr.: 1180 ]

€ 150,00

OLEARIUS, Adam. Persiansche reyse/ uyt Holsteyn, door Lijflandt, Moscovien, Tartarien in Persien, door Philippus Crusius, en Otto Brughman, gesanten (van) Frederick, Erf-heer in Noorwegen .. aen de koninck van Persien en van daer te landt naer Oost-Indien. Waer in veel vreemde ontmoetingen en gheleghentheden der voor-noemde landen en volckeren beschreven zijn. In't Hooghduyts beschreven .. en nu in't Neder-Duyts over-geset. Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1651.2 volumes in 1. 4to. Old half vellum, marbled boards. With engraved frontispiece and 10 engravings in the text. 134; 120 pp. First Dutch edition published in the same year, first issued in Schleswig in 1647: Offt begehrte Beschreibung der newen Orientalischen Reyse. - Olearius travelled in the train of the embassy of the Duke of Holstein to Russia and Persia. This was the first German expedition to Persia. The embassy travelled from Riga to Moscow and Astrakhan. Olearius became a Persian scholar. During his travels Oearius collected many valuable information on Russian customs and tradition, his account greatly influenced European opinion of Russia in the 17th and 18th centuries. - Atabey Collection 884 (French ed.); not in Blackmer; Muller, Neerlando-Russe, 255; Adelung II, pp.299-306; Howgego M38;Tiele 814; Cat. NHSM I, p.255. [Boeknr.: 31945 ]

€ 2450,00

OS, P. van. Reizen der Engelschen ter ontdekking eener Noordwestelijke doorvaart door de Noordelijke IJszee naar den Stillen Oceaan. Voor de jeugd bewerkt. Sneek, Van Druten & Bleeker, 1852.2 volumes. Sm.8vo. Original embossed blue cloth, with central gilt illustration on frontcovers. With 8 lithographed plates. 263; 256 pp. First edition. - Adaption for children of W.E. Parry's third voyage to the North Pole in an attempt to discover a thoroughfare to the Pacific. Written by a private tutor at Sneek in Friesland. - A fine set.Chavanne 251. [Boeknr.: 36332 ]

€ 295,00

OVERMEER FISSCHER, Johannes Frederik van. Bijdrage tot de kennis van het Japansche Rijk. Amsterdam, J. Müller & Comp., 1833.Large 4to. Contemporary calf; a presentation binding with gilt medallions in the corners enclosing a central panel decorated in gilt and blind, original printed wrappers preserved, spine richly gilt, a.e.g. (spine sl. discoloured; one joint sl.splitting but firmly holding). With 15 finely hand-coloured plates, heigthened with gum arabic, depicting Japanese costumes and scenes from daily life. VII,(3),320 pp. Firts edition; binder's ticket of J.H. Peters of Amsterdam on rear pastedown. - Johannes van Overmeer Fisscher (1800-1848), a Dutch civil servant, stayed nine years in Deshima since his arrival in Japan in 1822. He made one court journey to the shogun of Japan at Edo.His charmingly illustrated 'Contribution to knowledge of the Japanese empire' features observations and commentaries rooted in his own experience of the country when Japan was still closed to the outside world. He describes the various aspects of Japanese culture. - A handsome copy with brightly coloured plates in Japanese style.Landwehr, Coloured Plates 385; Alt-Japan-Katalog 1099; Cordier, BJ, col. 489-490. [Boeknr.: 33568 ]

€ 7500,00

(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

PALESTINE. - Drie weken in Palestina en op den Libanon. Naar den 4e druk, uit het Engelsch vertaald. Schiedam, de Munnik en Wijnands, 1835.Original boards. With lithographed frontispiece depicting Jerusalem. XVI,182 pp. First Dutch edition. - Translation of Three weeks in Palestine and Lebanon. London 1833; many times reprinted (13th edition in English in 1853). - (Some waterstaining).Tobler p.152 (English and German ed. only). [Boeknr.: 8634 ]

€ 150,00

PAREAU, A.H. Onze West. Reisschetsen. 's Gravenhage, W.P. van Stockum, 1898.Original cloth. With 2 folding maps and photographic plates. 205 pp. Our West. Travel sketches. [Boeknr.: 6627 ]

€ 45,00

PARRY, William Edward. Reis ter ontdekking van eene noordwestelijke doorvaart, uit de Atlantische in de Stille Zee, gedaan in de jaaren 1819 en 1820 door de schepen The Hecla en The Griper. Uit het Engelsch. Amsterdam, Johannes van der Hey, 1822.Later half sprinkled calf, spine lettered in gilt. With engraved title-page with oval view of the ships The Hecla and The Griper (sl.soiled), folding aquatint depicting the Hecla and The Griper, folding plan of the harbour on Melville Island, and large folding map (ca. 34 x 64 cm) with hand-coloured routes. XII,333, (2) pp. First Dutch edition; first English edition of Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. London, 1821). - By August 1, 1819, Sir William Edward Parry (1790-1855) had managed to sail westward completely through Lancaster Sound, establishing that it was actually a strait. He then made the European discovery of Barrow Street, which he named after Sir John Barrow. Continuing westward, he reached the south coast of a large island he named Melville Island after Lord Melville. Parry and his men had sailed west of the 110th meridian of longitude, half the distance of the Northwest Passage, and thereby won a prize of £ 5.000, which Parliament had offered as an incentive for the discovery of the Northwest Passage. After being frozen in for ten months, the ships were released on August 10, 1820, but the ice prevented further progress westward, and Parry returned to England. Parry's famous first journal gives a full account of the voyage and discoveries. - A fine copy of the rare Dutch edition.Cat. NHSM I, p.304-305; Arctic Bibl. 13145; Hill I, p.225-26); Sabin 58863; Howgego II, pp. 464-465; Hill 1311; Staton & Tremaine, 1206; Not in Tiele. [Boeknr.: 25663 ]

€ 1450,00

PERELAER, (Michel Théophile Hubert). De Bonische expeditien. Krijgsgebeurtenissen op Celebes in 1859 en 1860. Volgens officiëele bronnen bewerkt. Leiden, Gualth. Kolf, 1872.2 volumes in 1. Later cloth. With lithographed portrait frontispiece, 5 plates (4 folding, 3 in colours) and 10 maps and plans (9 folding). XVI,359; VIII,376 pp. First edition. - Account of the military expedition by general Van Swieten against the queen of Bone (South Sulawesi) Basse Kadjoeara in 1859 and 1860. 'Hij was een moedig militair die zich op expedities en als civiel gezaghebber onderscheidde. Hij kreeg dan ook de Militaire Willemsorde en nog een paar eretekenen. Ondanks zijn verbondenheid met het leger is zijn kijk op het militaire leven genuanceerder en onafhankelijker dan die van Van Rees en er waren tijden dat hij op het punt stond 'uit te treden', bekent deze militair die eigenlijk pastoor had willen worden' (R. Nieuwenhuys, Oost-Indische spiegel, p.197). Including many ethnographical data on the local population. Cat. KITLV p.45; Tiele 855 (note). [Boeknr.: 23360 ]

€ 425,00

PIJNAPPEL, Jan. Geographie van Nederlandsch-Indië. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1865.Modern wrappers (original printed frontwrapper preserved). X,184,(1) pp. First edition. - A general description of the Dutch East Indies followed by a description of each of the islands.Cat. KITLV p.50. [Boeknr.: 29463 ]

€ 60,00

POL, Bauke van der. Holland aan de Ganges. Prins Willem Frederik Hendrik in India (1837-1838). Zutphen, Walburg, 2016. Wrappers. With many coloured illustrations. 174 pp. [Boeknr.: 34109 ]

€ 20,00

PONTING, Herbert George. Het eeuwige ijs. De Zuidpool-expeditie van Kapitein Scott. Een verhaal van den laatsten tocht naar de Zuidpool door kapitein Scott en diens tragische einde, benevens een beschrijving van het natuurleven in het eeuwige ijs. Vertaald door M.P.C. de Gruyter. Amsterdam, J.M. Meulenhoff, (1924). 8vo. Original decorated cloth. With ca. 150 photographic illustrations by H.G. Ponting. 441 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in London in 1921: The great white South: being an account of experiences with Captain Scott's South Pole Expedition and the nature life of the Antarctic. - Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935) was the first professional photographer to accompany an Antarctic expedition. He is best known as the expedition photographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole (1910-1913. - A fine copy.Rosove 251; Spence 925; Conrad p.183; Headland p.249. [Boeknr.: 3857 ]

€ 45,00

PORTLOCK, Nathaniel & George DIXON. Reis naar de noord-west kust van Amerika gedaan in de jaren 1785, 1786, 1787 en 1788. Uit derzelver oorspronklijke reisverhalen zamengesteld en vertaald. Amsterdam, Matthijs Schalekamp, 1795.4to. Later half calf, with red morocco title label to spine. With folding engraved map and 9 folding engraved plates, views and portraits (including the Indian music score). XII,(4),265,(1) pp. First Dutch edition; first published in London in 1789 A voyage round the world, but more particularly to the North-West coast of America. - Two ships, the King George and Queen Charlotte, under the commands of Portlock and Dixon were sent out by the King George's Sound Company in 1785 for the purpose of pursuing the fur trade in America and China. Both men had accompanied Captain Cook on his last voyage. After visiting the Falkland Islands, the two ships made a long stay at the Hawaiian Islands, then proceeded to America, they sailed home by way of Macao and St.Helena in 1789. They surveyed the north-west coast of America, which was the most important result of the voyage. This is the principal account of the first commercial voyage to the Northwest Coast and the first English voyage to visit Hawaii after that of Captain James Cook. - (Small library stamp on verso of plates). - Important and rare book.Tiele 878; Cat. NHSM I, p.270; Muller, America, p.147; Sabin 64395; Howes 494; Lada-Mocarski 42/43; Hill 1376; Forbes 253. [Boeknr.: 1188 ]

€ 1250,00

PRESSENSÉ, Edmond de. Het land van 't evangelie. Aanteekeningen eener reis in't Oosten. Uit het Fransch, met een woord aan den lezer van J.J.L. ten Kate. Amsterdam, D.B. Centen, 1865.Modern wrappers. With lithographed map by Tresling & Co. XII,248 pp. First published in Paris in 1864: Le pays de l'évangile. Notes d'un voyage en Orient. - (Library stamp on title-page).Rohricht p.516; Tobler p.204. [Boeknr.: 33426 ]

€ 65,00

PREVOST, Antoine François. Historische beschryving der reizen of nieuwe en volkoome verzameling van de aller-waardigste en zeldsaamste zee- en landtogten .. Naauwkeurig in't Nederduitsch overgebragt .. 's Gravenhage, Pieter de Hondt, Amsterdam, Wed. S. Schouten, a.o., 1747-1767.21 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt with floral motifs and red and green labels. With 21 title-pages printed in red and black, engraved portrait of the author, 20 engraved headpieces (vol. I-XX), 27 text-engravings depicting the Governors General of the Dutch East Indies, 195 engraved maps and plans (134 folding) and 365 engraved plates (90 folding) by Jacob van der Schley a.o. First Dutch edition edited by J.P.J. du Bois. This is an enlarged translation of the first 17 books of the French edition, Histoire generale des voyages, Amsterdam 1746-1761; largely based on John Green's series A new general collection of voyages and travels, London 1745-1747. Vast collection of travel accounts including most of the early American and Australian voyages and travels. Full accounts are given of the Portuguese, English, Dutch (VOC) and French voyages to the East Indies, Africa, China, Tartary & Tibet, Arabia, etc. - A very attractive set of this famous compilation of voyages.Tiele 103; Cat. NHSM I, p.108; Landwehr, VOC, 267; Sabin 65405; Hill 1391 (French ed.). [Boeknr.: 33291 ]

€ 14500,00

PREVOST, Antoine François. Reizen langs de westkust van Afrika, van Kaap Blanko tot Sierra Leona: vervattende de Engelse bezittingen, en koophandel, op de riviere Gambra, met de aardrykskundige- en natuurkundige historie der nabuurige landen. - Reizen naar Guinee en Benin, vervattende de kust van Sierra-Leona, tot aan Kaap Gonsalvo. 's Gravenhage, Pieter de Hondt, 1748.2 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt in compartments (top of spines rep.). With title-pages printed in red and black, 12 engraved maps (6 folding) and 43 engraved plates (13 folding) by J. van Schley. 435,(5); (4),532,(6) pp. Historische beschryving der reizen, volume IV-V, enlarged and improved Dutch edition of the French series started by Antoine François Prévost d' Exiles (1697 - 1763), usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost. This volume covers a detailed description of West-Africa with accounts of the English and Dutch possessions on the coasts and their slave trade. With fine engravings. - (Some minor foxing).Tiele 103; Cat. NHSM I, p.108. [Boeknr.: 7817 ]

€ 950,00

PRIMS, Floris Hubert Lodewijk. De reis van den St.Carolus, Kap. Cayphas 1724. Uit den tijd der Oostendsche Compagnie op de oorspronkelijke stukken bewerkt. Antwerpen, Leeslust, (1926). Illustrated wrappers, uncut. With illustrations by M. Pauwaert. 189 pp. The ship Sint-Carolus, of the Oostendse Compagnie, wrecked in the mouth of the Ganges in August 1724 (See Jan Parmentier, Oostende & Co, p.85). [Boeknr.: 3478 ]

€ 25,00

PUCKLER-MUSKAU, Hermann Ludwig Heinrich. Mehemed Ali en deszelfs gebied. Door den schrijver der brieven eens afgestorvenen (prins Puckler Muskau). Nubië en Sudan. Amersfoort, W.J. van Bommel, Van Vloten, 1847. Contemporary half cloth. VI,305 pp. Dutch translation of the second part of Aus Mehmed Ali's Reich, Stuttgart 1844, dealing with Nubia and Sudan. The Dutch edition of the first part on Egypt was published in 1846. 'Pückler Muskau is one of the most interesting travellers of his period; he journeyed extensively in Europe and Africa. He was a keen observer and a witty and sensitive writer, ready to note all sorts of facts and impressions of men and manners, although his great interest was landscape and landscape gardening' (Blackmer 1362). 'A boastful, exuberant, miles gloriosus-like tale by this 'Prince'. A great friend and defender of Mohammed Ali' (Kalfatovic, Nile notes, 0343).Gay 2198 (French ed.); Ibrahim-Hilmy II, p.145; Kainbacher p.326; not in Tiele or Cat. NHSM. [Boeknr.: 31756 ]

€ 275,00

(QUARLES VAN UFFORD, Hendrik). Aanteekeningen betreffende eene reis door de Molukken van zijne excellentie den goeverneur-generaal A.J. Duymaer van Twist, in de maanden September en October 1855. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1856.Modern cloth. VIII,157 pp. First edition. - Jonkheer H. Quarles van Ufford accompanied the moderate liberal Governor-General A.J. Duymaer van Twist (with whom Douwes Dekker, Multatuli, came into conflict) during his voyage through the Moluccas in 1855. Aim of the tour was to discuss the socio-economic conditions with the regional authorities and to implement measures for improvement. They visited Ternate, Tidore, Makian, Bacan, Amboina, Saparua and Banda. Information is given on political and judicial administration, population, the cultivation of clover and nutmeg, trade and transport, etc.. A description of several villages which were visited is included. - (Small libr. stamp on title-page).Tiele 888; Cat. NHSM I, p.247; Cat. KITLV I, p.32; Ruinen A 46; Polman, The Central (and) North Moluccas, 534 & 383. [Boeknr.: 2245 ]

€ 225,00

RADERS, Reinier Frederik van. Een opmerkelijk wapenfeit, ontleend aan de geschiedenis van het West-Indische eiland St. Martin. ('s Gravenhage, Erven Doorman, 1863).Sm.8vo. Later half cloth. With folding plan. 12 pp. Attack on the French Fort Marigot on St. Martin by the English on July 4, 1808. - Scarce. [Boeknr.: 36741 ]

€ 275,00

RADERS, Reinier Frederik van. Memorie aan den koning, ingediend den 3 julij 1852, door den generaal-majoor R.F. Baron van Raders, rakende zijn bekomen ontslag als gouverneur der kolonie Suriname, benevens de daartoe behoorende Bijlagen. 2e druk. (Met:) Vervolg der Bijlagen. 's Gravenhage, Erven Doorman, 1852-53.2 volumes in 1. Original printed green wrappers with decorative border (spine dam). 40,III,52; VI,185 pp. Original edition. - With autograph presentation inscription by the author. - Memorandum by Reinier Frederik baron van Raders (1794 - 1868), with supplement, to the king, submitted on July 3rd 1852 concerning his dismissal with honour as governor from Suriname. Caused by the complications between the Austrian and the Dutch government about the public sale in Suriname of the Austrian vessel Venezia. The captain and some sailors died by the cause of yellow fever and the remaining crew had abandoned the ship. This was the motive of his unasked dismissel.Sabin 67412; Suriname-catalogus UB Amsterdam 5442. [Boeknr.: 14679 ]

€ 175,00

RAFFLES, Thomas Stamford. Geschiedenis van Java. Vertaald, wat betreft de onderwerpen, welke voor Nederland en Indië wetenswaardig zijn, en voorzien van aanteekeningen, tot verbetering, beoordeling en vervolg van het oorspronkelijke werk, door J.E. de Sturler. 's Gravenhage, Amsterdam, Gebroeders van Cleef, 1836.Modern wrappers. With folding table. LIV,244,(1) pp. First Dutch revised translation of Raffles' monumental History of Java, London 1817. - Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was lieutenant Governor-General of the Indonesian Archipelago during the British interregnum from 1811-1816. He was interested in every aspect of the Javanese people and culture, it seems he had a deep admiration. With additional notes by the translator Jacques Eduard de Sturler. - Fine. Tiele 896; Cat. NHSM I, p.244; Cat. KITLV p.10. [Boeknr.: 71 ]

€ 475,00

RAUMER, Karl von. Palestina. Naar den vierden, vermeerderden en verbeterden, druk uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald door D. Koorders. Utrecht, Kemink en Zoon, 1867.Contemporary half morocco, spine lettered in gilt (extremities of spine sl. dam.). With folding table and large folding coloured map (small tear). XX,770,(3) pp. First Dutch edition; first published in Leipzig in 1835.Rohricht 376; Engelmann I, p.151; Tobler p. 218: Ein vortreffliches Handbuch. [Boeknr.: 33376 ]

€ 125,00

RECLUS, Élie. De mensch van den Australischen bodem of de Neen-Neen's en de Ja-Ja's. Een studie van vergelijkende volkenkunde. Naar het Fransch bewerkt door B.P. van der Voo. Amsterdam, J. Sterringa, 1898. Original cloth, lettered in gilt (sl. soiled). 445 pp. First published in French: Le primitif d'Australie; ou, les Non-Non et les Qui-Qui. Paris 1894. [Boeknr.: 19298 ]

€ 35,00

REES, W(illem) A(driaan) van. De Bandjermasinsche krijg van 1859-1863. & De Bandjermasinsche Krijg van 1859-1863 nader toegelicht. Arnhem, D.A. Thieme, 1865-1867.3 volumes in 1. Original half cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 2 tinted lithographed frontispiece portraits, large folding map, and 14 plates (10 chromolithographed plates of which 3 double page, 2 tinted and 2 folding), after C.C.A. Last by H.L. Smits. XII,346; VIII,417; 139 pp. First edition, complete set with the rare additional volume; with the bookplate of the Dutch diplomat and bookcollector Jean Charles Pabst (1873-1942). - In 1700 the Dutch East India Company established a factory in Banjermasin, but the place was found to be unhealthy. The Company's servants were finally attacked by the natives and the settlement was abandoned. The English seized Banjermasin in 1811, but restored it in 1817. The district was incorporated by the Dutch in consequence of the war of 1860. Banjermasin became the chief town in the Dutch part of the island of Borneo. A near contemporary account of the destruction of the Banjarmasin empire and imposition of Dutch colonial rule in Southern Borneo, now Kalimantan. - A fine copy with coloured plates.Tiele 902; Cat. NHSM I, p.515; Cat. KITLV p.44; Bastin-Brommer N 610; Landwehr, Coloured plates., 399. [Boeknr.: 1922 ]

€ 795,00

REES, Willem Adriaan van. Nederlandsch-Indië. Volume I: Batavia. Leiden, A.W. Sijthoff, 1881.Folio. Original half red morocco, decorated cloth boards. With lithographed title and 28 chromo-lithographed plates mounted on heavy paper after drawings by J.C. Rappard. Volume I in a series of 4 published on the Dutch East-Indies: Buitenzorg (II), Java (III) and De Buitenbezittingen (IV) written by M.T.H. Perelaer. An attractive copy of the first volume with fine coloured plates by Josia Cornelis Rappard (1824-1898) representing topographical views and European social life in Batavia.Bastin-Brommer N 687; Tiele 904; Haks & Maris, Lexicon of foreign artists who visualized Indonesia, p.219.. [Boeknr.: 35163 ]

€ 1450,00

RETCLIFFE, John. Sebastopol. Geschiedkundige roman uit den tegenwoordigen tijd. Groningen, H.R. Roelfsema, 1856.2 volumes in 1. Modern half cloth. With 2 tinted lithographed title-pages (foxed). 387; 412 pp. Dutch translation of: Sebastopol: Historisch-politischer Roman aus der Gegenwart. Berlin 1856. Volume two of the Dutch edition was published in 1857. Hermann Ottomar Friedrich Goedsche is the real name of the author. Catalogue Russica R 1038. [Boeknr.: 22755 ]

€ 65,00

RIJCKEVORSEL, (Elie) van. Brieven uit Insulinde. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1878.Original printed wrappers. VIII,426 pp. Original edition. - Letters by Elie van Rijckevorsel (1845-1928), a gentleman explorer from a prominent Rotterdam merchant family, written to his mother during his stay in Indonesia (1876-1877), with ample descriptions of Ternate, Benkoelen and Palembang, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Borneo, Batavia and Semarang, Celebes and Amboina. - Fine.Tiele 949; Cat. NHSM I, p.249; Cat. KITLV p.257; Buur, Persoonlijke Documenten, 185. [Boeknr.: 4818 ]

€ 125,00

RIOU, Edward. Dagverhaal van eene reis van de Kaap de Goede Hoop in de binnenlanden van Afrika, ondernomen in de jaaren 1790 en 1791 door Jakob van Reenen en andere, naar het wrak van het Engelsch Oost-Indisch compagnie schip de Grosvernor, om te ontdekken of er nog enige schipbreukelingen in leven waren. Uit het Engelsch vertaald. Leyden, A. & J. Honkoop, 1793.Old wrappers, uncut. XII,58 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in London in 1792: A journal of a journey from the Cape of Good Hope .. etc. - Captain Riou, did not join the expedition himself, but obtained a copy from Van Reenen's journal. The East India Company vessel wrecked on the coast of South Africa in 1782. This journal is an account of the second Dutch expedition to search for survivors of the Grosvenor wreck travelling through Kaffirland to about the mouth of the Umzimkulu. They found three old women, apparently British, living in a mixed community near the Mngazi River (to the south of Port St. Johns) who might have been from the Grosvenor ( Howgego p.460). - Scarce.Cat. NHSM I, p.139; not in Tiele; Huntress117C; Mendelssohn I p.652. [Boeknr.: 37143 ]

€ 475,00

ROBERTSON, William. Geschiedenis van America. Uit het Engelsch vertaald. Amsterdam, Yntema en Tieboel, 1778.4 volumes. Contemporary half roan (rubbed). With folding engraved plate and 3 (of 4) folding engraved maps. First Dutch edition, first published in London in 1777: The history of America. - 'A popular work which was reprinted several times and translated into many languages. .. Its vivid descriptions and philosophical disquisitions on aboriginal society captivated the literary world, while the outbreak of the American War lent the book pertinent public interest..' (Cox II, p.150). William Robertson (1721-1793) was a highly respected Scottish historian, clergyman and writer. His History of America is often regarded as his most interesting work but it also shows the Eurocentric limits of his stadial thinking, because it presents an unsympathetic account of Native Americans and glosses over Spanish atrocities. Robertson wrote the first history of the discovery and Spanish conquest of America to be based on ample bibliographical information and documents in the Simancas archives. The bibliography (a catalogue of Spanish books and manuscripts) at the end of the last volume, pp. 303-322, is remarkable for the time (Borba de Moraes II, p.740 ). - A fifth volume was published in 1801 containing a translation of Books IX and X (the history of Virginia and New England).Cat. NHSM I, p.552 (English ed.); not in Tiele; Muller, America, 1369; Sabin 71999. [Boeknr.: 12372 ]

€ 225,00

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

ROELFSEMA, H.R. Een jaar in de Molukken. Persoonlijke ervaringen bij het vestigen eener cultuuronderneming. Haarlem, H.D. Tjeenk Willink, 1917. Original red cloth, with dust-jacket. 210 pp. Detailed report by a Dutch businessman, who resided in Tobelo in 1912-1913, to set up a coconut plantation. Information is given on his travels in Halmahera, the technological aspects of the enterprise, the use of Minahassan and Sangirese contract-labourers, contacts with the protestant mission and with Dutch government officials, and on the difficulty of finding a suitable manager (Polman, the North-Moluccas, 418). - Fine. [Boeknr.: 5530 ]

€ 35,00

ROEPER, V.D. & G.J.D. WILDEMAN. Reizen op papier. Journalen en reisverslagen van Nederlandse ontdekkingsreizigers, kooplieden en avonturiers. Amsterdam, Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum, 1996. 4to. Wrappers. With many illustratations (several in colours). 160 pp. [Boeknr.: 14567 ]

€ 25,00

ROGERIUS, Abraham. La porte ouverte, pour parvenir à la connoissance du paganisme caché. Ou la vraye representation de la vie, des moeurs, de la religion, & du service divin des Bramines, qui demeurent sur les costes de Chormandel, & aux pays circonvoisins. .. Traduite en François par .. Thomas La Grue. Amsterdam, Jean Schipper, 1670.4to. Contemporary speckled vellum, spine ribbed. With engraved title page, folding engraved plate showing different incarnations and 5 engraved illustrations (3 fullpage). (16),371,(4) pp. First French edition. - First published in Dutch De open-deure, tot het verborgen heydendom, Leyden 1651. 'This is the earliest European account of Hinduism in Southern India. Rogerius left in 1630 and worked in Palicatta (Coromandel) for ten years. He then went to Batavia where he served the Portuguese Church for five years. He repatriated in 1647 and settled in Gouda where he died in 1649' (Landwehr, VOC). This is the first work in Europe to publish the translation of a piece of Sanscrit literature (the Sayings of Bhartrhari, on pp. 291-339). The curious plates depict processions, ceremonies and self-chastisement. This copy belonged to François Pétis de la Croix (1653-1713) with his owner's entry and purchase date August 28, 1697, and his notes and comments in the margins. Pétis de la Croix, son of the king's interpreter for oriental languages was educated to succeed his father. He was an eminent orientalist, spoke arab, turkish and the languages of Persia, Tartar and Ethiopia. He was an attaché to the navy, the Foreign Office and interpretor to the King (Howgego p.812). Roger prepared probably the most thorough description of south-Indian Hinduism to be published before the end of the 19th century (Howgego p.903). - A fine association copy.Landwehr, VOC, 652; Tiele 928; Cat. NHSM I, p.251. [Boeknr.: 12548 ]

€ 975,00

ROOS, P(aul) F(rançois). Surinaamsche mengelpoëzy. Amsterdam, H. Gartman en P.J. Uylenbroek, 1804.4to. Contemporary scored calf, with black morocco title-label on spine. With engraved title with nice vignette by R. Vinkeles. VIII,318 pp. First edition. - One of the very few poetical descriptions of life in Dutch Guiana. The poems are about slavery, plantations, the land and the people. Including a poem on the death of George Washington. Paul François Roos (1751-1805), the first poet of Suriname, was director of the plantation De jonge Byekorf near the Commewijneriver. - Some blank margins waterstained, otherwise a very good copy on thick paper with wide margins.Muller, America, p.171; Sabin 73101; Van Kempen p.286-289; Suriname- Catalogus U.B. Amsterdam 5786. [Boeknr.: 15463 ]

€ 950,00

ROSENBERG, Carl Benjamin Hermann von. Reis naar de Zuidoostereilanden, gedaan in 1865 op last der regering van Nederlandsch-Indië. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1867.Original printed boards. With 7 lithographed plates ( 3 handcolured and 4 tinted). XXXVII,125 pp. First edition; published by the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch Indië. - The German zoologist and geographer Carl Benjamin Hermann Baron von Rosenberg (1817-1888) visited the hardly known islands in the Moluccas: the Kei, the Aru, the Watubela, and the Gorong Islands in 1865. The author travelled with a commission to make a zoological collection, but data on topography and population have also been collected. In the introduction, the editor P.J.B.C. Robidé van der AA, reviews the existing literature on the area. - Fine.Bastin-Brommer N 615; Landwehr, Coloured Plates, 418; Tiele 938; Cat. NHSM I, p.248; Ruinen A 56; Polman 162. [Boeknr.: 29736 ]

€ 450,00

ROSENBERG, Carl Benjamin Hermann von. Reistochten naar de Geelvinkbaai op Nieuw-Guinea in de jaren 1869 en 1870. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1875.4to. Original printed boards (spine rep.). With frontispiece portrait of the author, 3 lithographed maps and charts (1 folding), 4 hand-coloured plates of birds and 13 tinted lithographed plates by P.W.M. Trap. XXIV,153 pp. First edition published under the auspices of the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. - The German zoologist and geographer Von Rosenberg (1817-1888) arrived in the Dutch East Indies in 1840, and was immediately sent to Padang on Sumatra, in order to assist Franz Junghuhn. He travelled widely to places that were then little known between 1840-1870, exploring areas in Sumatra, the Moluccas, and certain regions of Teluk Cendrawasih (Geelvink Bay) of West Irian. He concentrates mainly on the natural environment of each region he visited, but also includes special sections on the people and their customs. This book on New Guinea is one of his best known publications, containing beautiful plates. - A fine copy.Tiele 939; Cat. NHSM I, p.181; Bastin-Brommer N 616; Landwehr, Coloured Plates, 419; Cat. KITLV p.34. [Boeknr.: 13894 ]

€ 1250,00

ROSS, John. De reizen en lotgevallen van Kapitein John Ross op zijne ontdekkings togten naar de Noordpoolse gewesten. Voor jonge lieden. Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald. Amsterdam, Ten Brink & de Vries, 1837.Sm.8vo. Original half cloth, with paper title-label to spine. With lithographed title-page and frontispiece, folding map, and 5 lithographed plates after J. Steyn (foxed). VIII,247 pp. With manuscript schoolprize tipped onto first free endpaper. - A rare Dutch children's version of Ross' famous second voyage in search of a North-West passage with the Victory. Translated from the German language, adapting Ross' diary and William Light's report of the same voyage into one narrative and incorporating various other accounts of polar voyages. Sabin 73388 (German ed.). [Boeknr.: 28542 ]

€ 275,00

ROSS, John. Reizen naar Ysland en de Baffinsbaai, de laatste gedaan ter ontdekking van een doorvaart ten noord-westen van Groenland in den jare 1818. Naar de Hoogduitsche uitgave van W. Harnisch. 's Gravenhage, W.K. Mandemaker, 1821.19th century cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With folding map and 2 engraved plates by D. Veelwaard. XII,289 pp. First Dutch edition after the German translation of the the English edition A voyage of discovery made .. in his majesty's ships Isabella and Alexander, for the purpose of exploring Baffin's Bay, and inquiring into the probability of a north-west passage. London, 1819; warranted by the publisher on half-title in manuscript. - A famous, even notorious, voyage, led by Captain John Ross. As his lieutenants, Ross had aboard his nephew James Clark Ross, William Parry, and Edwin Sabone, all of future fame as explorers. Ross attempted to proceed westward through Lancaster Sound, but presumably deceived by a mirage, he described the passage as barred by a range of mountains, which he named the Croker Mountains, despite the disbelief of his colleagues (Hill 1488). The controversy had discredited Ross in the eyes of the Admiralty and for the next ten years he received no further commissions for exploratory voyages (Howgego II, R28). Ross began a new era in Arctic research (Stam, Books on ice, p.21). - (Age-browned). - Very rare.Cat. NHSM I, p.304; not in Tiele; Sabin 73380; Arctic Bibl. 14873. [Boeknr.: 36194 ]

€ 575,00

ROSS, John. Verhaal van eenen tweeden zeetogt, en van verscheidene landreizen in de Noordpool-gewesten. Ondernomen tot opsporing eener noordwestelijke doorvaart. Uit het Engelsch vertaald door J. Olivier. Zutphen, W.J. Thieme, 1836-1837.3 volumes. Modern half cloth. With folding map. XXXX,296; 327; 284 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in London in 1835 Narrative of a second voyage in search of a north-west passage. - Sir John Ross (1777-1856) set out in 1826 with the small paddle-steamer the Victory, after the failure of his voyage in 1821. He spent the years 1829-1833 in the far northwest. He successfully waethered repeated Arctic winters and systematically accumulated a wealth of scientific data and reached the North Magnetic Pole in 1831.The Victory was crushed in the ice and Ross and his men were rescued by a whaler, the Isabella, in August 1833 at Lancaster Sound, after a terrible trek South. The introduction contains a chronological summary of previous explorations in search of a Northwest Passage. - (Some foxing; written number on title-pages). - Very rare.Not in Tiele or Cat. NHSM; Sabin 73382 (English ed.); Arctic Bibl. 14866; Stam, Books on ice, p.22; Hill 1490; Howgego II, R29. [Boeknr.: 36193 ]

€ 875,00

ROUX, C.C.F.M. le. De bergpapoea's van Nieuw Guinea en hun woongebied. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1948-50.2 text volumes + atlas. 8vo and folio. Original blue cloth. With 5 maps, 118 plates (some in colours) and 142 photographic illustrations. XXV,X,1029 pp. First edition. - A monumental work, recording the results of the second expedition to Dutch New Guinea in 1939-40, initiated by the Royal Dutch Geographical Society (K.N.A.G.). Investigating the culture and geography of the Mountain Papuan tribes of the Dutch Territory of New Guinea. - The most prestigious ethnological study ever published on Dutch New Guinea. [Boeknr.: 5797 ]

€ 475,00

ROY, Jacob Jansz de. Hachelijke reys-togt na Borneo en Atchin, in sijn vlugt van Batavia, derwaards ondernoomen in het jaar 1691 en vervolgens. Zijnde een opregt verhaal van zeldsaame ontmoetingen, en deerlijke rampen .. Mitsgaders een seer naauwkeurige beschrijving van het eyland Borneo met des zelfs koningrijken, als Banyer Massing, Succadana, Cottaringen, de woon-plaatsen van de Viadjes en andere, met hare overkostelijke goud- en diamant-mijnen, camphur en andere koopmanschappen .. Insgelijks een aanmerkelijk berigt van het koningrijk Atchin op Sumatra .. Door den reysiger selfs opgesteld .. nu aldereerst na een egt af-schrift in't ligt gegeeven. Leyden, Pieter vander Aa, 1706.Sm.8vo. Contemporaryblind-tooled vellum. With 2 engraved folding maps and 4 folding engraved plates. (4),190,(17) pp. Second Dutch edition. Not included in the collection of Van der Aa, Naaukeurige versameling der gedenk-waardigste zee en land reysen, but separately issued as a supplement. - Jacob Janssen de Roy's book, the largest single description of Borneo printed during the century, which probably appeared in 1698 or 1699 for the first time, is an extended apologia written to the governor-general and council at Batavia by a skipper who had lost his ship on the coast of Borneo in February, 1692, as a result of the mutiny of his largely Chinese and Javanese crew. He and his shipmates barely survived hunger, thirst, exposure, hostile natives, and treachery before receiving good treatment and protection from the king of Banjarmasin in return for military assistance. Despite obtaining trading rights for the VOC, Roy was outlawed for absconding with the ship's money and subsequently sailed as a free trader in the Indies, visiting Borneo, Sumatra and Siam. Having acquired a considerable fortune from his enterprises, he was employed by the king of Siam to dispose of a certain English pirate who was visiting Siamese waters. The Roy's account includes brief descriptions of both Brunei and Sukadana although most of his description concern Banjarmasin. He also provided European readers with their first published description of Borneo's interior and of the people who lived there (Lach, Asia in the making of Europe, III, p.1390-1395). - Including an extensive description of the gold and diamonds mines on Borneo and the pirates of Palembang. - A fine copy.Landwehr, VOC, 291; Tiele 944; Cat. NHSM I, p.176; Wellan-Helfrich D 320-321; Howgego p.911. [Boeknr.: 21105 ]

€ 1250,00

RUMPHIUS, Georgius Everhardus. D'Amboinsche rariteitkamer, behelzende eene beschryvinge van allerhande zoo weeke als harde schaalvisschen, te weeten raare krabben, kreeften, en diergelyke zeedieren, als mede allerhande hoorntjes en schulpen, die men in d'Amboinsche Zee vindt: daar benevens zommige mineraalen, gesteenten, en soorten van aarde die in d'Amboinsche, en zommige omleggende eilanden gevonden worden. Amsterdam, F. Halma, 1705.Folio. Contemporary vellum. With engraved alligorical frontispiece by Jan Goere, title-page printed in red and black and with engraved vignette by J. Punt, engraved portrait of the author, 5 large engraved vignettes and 60 beautifully engraved plates attributed to Maria Sybilla Merian. (28),340,(43) pp. First published in 1705. - Georg Everhard Rumphius (1628-1702) entered the VOC's service in 1652 and arrived in Ambon in 1653, where he was successively appointed to the ranks of ensign, assistant merchant and merchant and where he died in 1702. He became blind in 1670, but worked on, by help of an assistant. Another disaster followed in 1674 when his wife and daughter died during an earthquake and in 1687 his library, including his manuscripts and drawings, were destroyed by fire. But he started again from the outset. 'G.E. Rumphius, also known as the 'Indian Pliny', was one of the great tropical naturalists of the seventeenth century. Born in Germany, he spent most of his life in the employ of the Dutch East India Company, stationed on the island of Ambon in eastern Indonesia. He wrote two major works; this one, the first modern work on tropical fauna, was published posthumously in Dutch in 1705. A classic text of natural history. The descriptions in The Ambonese curiosity cabinet cover the gamut of organisms found in the seas surrounding Ambon - crabs, shrimps, sea urchins, mussels - as well as minerals and plants. A series of exquisite etchings accompanies the descriptions. This is the first great natural history of tropical marine life. Remarkable for its detailed observations of living animals, habitats, and fisheries, as well as the accuracy of its morphological descriptions and classifications, the entire work reflects Rumphius's practical talents as engineer, merchant, and student of local cultures, as well as pioneer naturalist. Rumphius provides an invaluable window on the richness of tropical nature as it used to be' (from the wrappers of the reprint of this book by E.M. Beekman, 1999). Recent research has proved that most of the plates are after drawings by Maria Sybilla Merian, in our copy they are strong and dark impressions. Landwehr, VOC, 591; Nissen ZBI 3518; Ruinen 26; Nieuwenhuys, Mirror of the Indies, p.28-32. [Boeknr.: 37627 ]

€ 6950,00

RUSSEL, M(ichael). Palestina, of Het Heilige Land, van de vroegste tot op den tegenwoordigen tijd. Op geschiedkundige waarheid, volgens de meest geloofwaardige reizigers gegrond; benevens een beknopt overzigt van de aardrijkskunde, land- en plaatsbeschrijving; alsmede van de geschiedenis des Joodschen volks, de kruistogten en van de letterkunde en godsdienst der oude Hebreeën. Naar het Hoogduitsch van A. Diezmann. Amsterdam, G. Portielje, 1838.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half calf (rubbed). With 2 lithographed frontispieces and 2 lithographed plates. VIII,200; 229 pp. First printed in Edinburgh in 1831: Palestine or the Holy Land from the earliest period to the present time. - Michael Russel (1781-1848), became bishop of Glasgow and Galloway. To the Edinburgh Cabinet Library he contributed volumes on Palestine, 1831, Ancient and Modern Egypt, 1831, Nubia and Abyssinia, 1833, The Barbary States, 1835, Polynesia, 1842, and Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Isles, 1850.Röhricht p.366; Tobler 1833; Engelmann I, p.151; Not in Tiele. [Boeknr.: 26965 ]

€ 125,00

RUSSIA. Memorie van den Russischen envoyé tot een gemeensaam concert tusschen de neutraale mogendheeden over de sekerheid en vryheid der weederzydsche commercie en navigatie .. (No pl.), 1780.Folio. 3 pp. Extract uit de Resolutien van de Heere Staaten van Holland en Westvriesland, in haar vergadering genomen op Dinsdag den 4 April 1789. - Treaty between the Russians and the Dutch about commercial relations and navigation.Text in French and Dutch. [Boeknr.: 33329 ]

€ 125,00

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. Hedendaagsche historie of tegenwoordige staat van Spanje en Portugal. Behelzende eene beschryving van de gelegenheid dier ryken .. vaart op de Oost- en Westindien; de natuurlyke historie, enz. Amsterdam, IsaakTirion, 1759.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt (top of spine restored). With engraved frontispiece, folding map of Spain and Portugal, folding map of the Strait of Gibraltar and folding plate of Gibraltar, 2 folding plates of Lissabon after the Earthquake and 1 other folding plate depicting an auto da fé (inquisition). (4),662,(18) pp. Part of the series Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren. An historical, geographical and ethnological description of the world of encyclopaedical proportions. This volume, published without a number, contains an ample description of Spain and Portugal with a special chapter on their colonies. - (Age-browned).Tiele 1033. [Boeknr.: 21574 ]

€ 375,00

SALMON, Thomas. Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat van Amerika. Behelzende de historie der ontdekkinge van dit wereldsdeel en der verovering van een gedeelte van't zelve door de Spanjaarden: de algemeene beschryving van de lands- and lugtsgesteldheid, de ingezetenen en het gene tot de natuurlyke historie behoort .... Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion, 1766-1769.3 volumes. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt. With 3 engraved frontispieces and 25 folding engraved maps and plates. Continuation of the series started by Thomas Salmon, Contemporary history, or the present state of all the nations. The Dutch edition contains many new and original material i.a. description of the Dutch settlements in America. The numerous maps and plates are well executed (Sabin). Among the maps are a map of the Western hemisphere, maps of California, Mexico, South-America, Brazil, Canada, etc.Tiele 1033; Cat. NHSM I, p.7; Sabin 31212. [Boeknr.: 1345 ]

€ 2100,00

SALMON, Thomas. Tegenwoordige staat der Oostenryksche, Fransche en Pruissische Nederlanden. Amsterdam, Isaac Tirion, 1738.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait, folding view of Scherpenheuvel, folding plan of Brussels, Antwerp, Gent, Brugge, Doornik, Oostende, Yperen and Rijssel, and 4 folding maps. (12),548,(12) pp. Original issued as Modern history: or present state of all nations. London 1725-1739. Translated into Dutch:Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren. - Volume XI contains a description of Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg with fine engravings.Tiele 1033. [Boeknr.: 21677 ]

€ 375,00

SALMON, Thomas. Tegenwoordige staat van't Duitsche keizerryk in't algemeen; als mede van de Opper-Saxische, Neder-Saxische, Westphaalsche, en Nederrynsche Kreitsen in't byzonder. Nu vertaald en merkelyk vermeerderd door M. van Goch. Amsterdam, IsaakTirion, 1736.Contemporary vellum. With engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved portraits and 5 folding maps of Germany (browned). 12,(4),670,(10) pp. Original issued as Modern history: or present state of all nations. London 1725-1739. Translated into Dutch:Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren. Volume VIII contains an ample description of Germany. - A fine copy.Tiele 1033. [Boeknr.: 21657 ]

€ 295,00

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

SALMON, Thomas. Tegenwoordige staat van Rusland, Zweden, Denemarken en Noorwegen: als mede van de landen onder de Noord Pool gelegen, en van de Groenlandsche visschery. Nu vertaald en merkelyk vermeerderd door Matthias van Goch. Amsterdam, Isaac Tirion, 1735.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved plates (1 folding), 2 engraved plates depicting whales, 3 engraved portraits and 5 folding maps. (8),317-976,(8) pp. Original issued as Modern history: or present state of all nations. London 1725-1739. Translated into Dutch:Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren. - This volume VII contains a description of Russia, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, including chapters on English and Dutch whaling round Greenland and the Davis Strait. With fine plan of St. Petersburg and maps of Russia, the Arctic and others.Tiele 1033; Muller, Bibl. Neerlando-Russe, 311. [Boeknr.: 21656 ]

€ 475,00

SANDICK, Rudolf Adriaan van. Leed en lief uit Bantam. 2e druk. Zutphen, W.J. Thieme & Co., 1893. Later half cloth. 247 pp. First edition published in 1892. - Critical account of Bantam by a employee of the colonial government. The last chapter is dealing with Multatuli and Bantam. - Scarce. Buur 376. [Boeknr.: 16324 ]

€ 125,00

SANDYS, (George). Voyagien, behelsende een historie van de oorspronckelijcke ende tegenwoordige standt des Turcksen rijcks: hare wetten/ regeeringe/ politie/ krijghs-macht/ hooven van justitie/ ende koophandel. Als mede, van Egypten .. Neffens een beschrijvinge van het H. Landt .. Eyndelyck, Italien beschreven met hare nabuerighe eylanden; als Cyprus/ Creta/ Malta/ Sicilia/ de Aolische eylanden; van Roomen/ Venetien/ Napels/ Syracusa/ Mesena/ Aetna/ Scylla/ ende Charybdis/ etc. Uyt 't Engels vertaelt door J. G(lazemaker). Amsterdam, Jacob Beniamin,1653.4to. Later marbled boards. With engraved title, 3 engraved plates and 26 full or half-page engravings in the text. 292 pp. First Dutch edition, first published in London in 1615: A relation of a journey begun an.Dom. 1610. Foure bookes, containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Egypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and islands adjoyning - George Sandys (1578-1644) was the son of the Archbishop of York and a literary figure of some standing. In 1609 he set sail for the East and he spent the next year travelling in Turkey, Egypt and Palestine and later studied antiquities in Rome. His observations first appeared in English in 1615 and his text was soon regarded as a special authority on the Levant. He has been called the first 'classical tourist' of England. Sandys also was interested in colonial promotion, and was one of the undertakers named in the third charter of the Virginia Company in 1611, and later treasurer and a member of the Council. He visited many islands in the Mediterranean Sea Sicily, Crete, Cyprus, Lesbos, Chios, Kythira, Malta, etc. This book also became popular in the Netherlands and was several times republished.- A fine clean copy of this standard account of the Eastern Mediterranean. Tiele 959; Cat. NHSM I, p.255; Blackmer Collection 1484 (English edition); Atabey Collection 1087 (English edition); Weber 245; Röhricht p.232; Ibrahim-Hilmy p.210; O'Neill, The Ömer Koç Collection, 37 (English ed.); Tobler p.91-92. [Boeknr.: 33658 ]

€ 1950,00

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

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

SCHWANER, C(arl) A(nton) L(udwig) M(aria). Borneo. Beschrijving van het stroomgebied van den Barito en reizen langs eenige voorname rivieren van het Zuid-Oostelijk gedeelte van dat eiland. Op last van het Gouvernement van Nederl. Indie gedaan in de jaren 1843-1847. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, 1853-1854.2 volumes. Original embossed cloth (soiled). With chromo-lithographed views on title pages, folding map, and 24 chromolithographed plates (1 folding) after Von Gaffron by C.W. Mieling. (2),234; XIV,200 pp. First edition. - Carl Anton Ludwig Maria Schwaner (1817 -1851) was a German geologist and naturalist. He studied geology and mineralogy in Heidelberg, afterwards being associated with the museum of natural history in Leiden. In 1842, on a recommendation from Coenraad Jacob Temminck, he became a member of the Natuurkundige Commissie voor Nederlandsch Indië (Scientific commission of the Dutch East Indies). He arrived in Batavia in August 1842, and following certain delays, traveled to Borneo in order to conduct geological investigations. From 1843 to 1848, he performed geological, topographical, zoological and ethnographical research on Borneo. From November 1847 to February 1848, he trekked from the southern town of Bandjermasin, through the interior of the island, to Pontianak on its western coast; thus becoming the first European to accomplish such a feat.During that time he was the first European to cross the island from Banjarmasin to Pontianak. The author was accompanied by the artists Auguste van Pers (1815-1871) and Heinrich von Gaffron (1813-1880). He included much early information on the ethnic groups he encountered. Schwaner is 'der hervorragendste Borneo-Forscher seiner Zeit, bahnbrechend als Erschliesser des Südteils der grossen Insel' (Henze V, p.98). - With beautiful coloured plates. - Rare.Bastin-Brommer N580; Landwehr, Coloured Plates, 430; Tiele 995; Cat. KITLV p.27; Henze V, p.98. [Boeknr.: 32538 ]

€ 1500,00

SELBERG, E(duard). Reis naar Java en bezoek op het eiland Madura; vrij vertaald, naar het Hoogduitsch door W.L. de Sturler. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, 1846.Original blue boards (extremities of spine sl. dam.). With folding map. (6),378 pp. First Dutch edition; after the German edition Reise nach Java und Ausflüge nach den Inseln Madura und St. Helena. Oldenburg 1846. - The author travelled to Java and Madura as a ship's doctor in order to undertake anthropological and medical research. Including large descriptions of Batavia and Surabaya. - Rare Cat. KITLV, p.10; Tiele 1069 (note); Cat. NHSM I, p.179; Müller 1582. [Boeknr.: 32539 ]

€ 375,00

(SHERER, Joseph Moyle). Indische tafereelen voor reizigers aan den haard. Rotterdam, weduwe J. Allart, 1830.Modern marbled boards. With fine engraved title. XX,287 pp. First Dutch edition, first published in English in 1821 Sketches of India: written by an officer for fire-side travellers at-home. - Popular narrative dealing with the inhabitants, manners and customs, government, cities, etc. of India. It went through several editions.Not in Tiele or Cat. NHSM. [Boeknr.: 1906 ]

€ 95,00

SIJPESTEIJN, C(ornelis) A(scanius) van. Beschrijving van Suriname, historisch-, geographisch- en statistisch overzigt, uit officiele bronnen bijeengebracht. 's Gravenhage, Gebroeders van Cleef, 1854.Later half calf, spine lettered in gilt. With folding lithographed plan of Paramaribo and folding lithographed map with coat of arms. XVI,296 pp. Original edition. - Historical, geographical and statistical description of Suriname by Jhr. Cornelis Ascanius van Sypesteyn (1823 - 1892), compiled from official sources. He was a Dutch colonial administrator in the West Indies between 1846 and 1859, worked for the Department of the Colonies, was a member of parliament and from 1873 till 1882 Governor General of Suriname. - A fine copy.Tiele 1075; Cat. NHSM I, p.285; Sabin 80989; Muller, America, p.171; Suriname-catalogus UB Amsterdam 6774; Koeman, Suriname, 54. [Boeknr.: 12896 ]

€ 275,00

SLEEN, W.G.N. van der. Zwerftochten door tropisch Britsch-Indië. Amsterdam, Em. Querido, 1929. Decorated cloth. With 50 photographic illustrations. 236 pp. Wanderings through tropical British India with i.a. descriptions of Bombay, Nasik, Agra, Delhi, Travancore, Madura and Madras. [Boeknr.: 4575 ]

€ 25,00

SMET, P(ierre) J(ean). de. Missien van den Orégon en reizen naer de rotsbergen en de bronnen der Colombia, der Athabasca en Sascatshawin in 1845-46. Uit het Fransch. Gent, W. vander Schelden, 1849.Later half red morocco, spine ribbed. With lithographed frontispiece and title-page, 3 folding maps and 14 lithographed plates. 423 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in Gent in 1848 Missions de l'Orégon et voyages aux Montagnes Rocheuses aux sources de la Colombie, de l' Athabasca et du Sascatshawin. - The Belgian Jesuit priest Pierre-Jean De Smet (1801-73) wrote this work, which was published in French, English and Dutch Flemish, to raise funds for his missionary work among the Indians of the Pacific Northwest. Travels through and about the central Columbia River plateau, the Athabasca River, the country of the Assiniboines, and the Missouri River. With accounts of the manners and customs of the North American Indians, together with exquisite descriptions of the scenery. - (Age-browned).Tiele 1009; Sabin 82264; Wagner-Camp 141:4; Howes D286. [Boeknr.: 4081 ]

€ 395,00

SNOUCK HURGRONJE, Christiaan. De Atjèhers. Uitgegeven op last van de regeering. Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1893 -1894.2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. With 2 folding maps and 2 folding plates (some small tears rep.). XX,512; XV,438 pp. First edition. - Fundamental work on Aceh, Indonesia, by the orientalist Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936), published by order of the Dutch government. From July 1891 to February 1892 Snouck Hurgronje stayed in the region of Aceh to carry out research on the influence of Islam on the life and minds of the Acehnese people. It is also relevant for the debate concerning Islamic law versus customary law. - (Browned and without the atlas as usual).Cat. KITLV p.25. [Boeknr.: 21671 ]

€ 175,00

SNOUCK HURGRONJE, Christiaan. Het Gajoland en zijne bewoners. Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, 1903. 8vo. Modern half cloth. With 24 plates (map missing) . XX,452 pp. The Orientalist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronke (1857-1936) never visited the Gayo Land in the highlands of North Sumatra but his work is based on information gathered from conversations with Gayo people living in Aceh and official intelligence from military expeditions. [Boeknr.: 5643 ]

€ 95,00

SPAANDERMAN, Maarten. De wereldreizen van de brik 'Doesborgh' 1869-1872 en van de brik 'Accra' 1873-1875. Met toelichtingen door .. H. Hazelhoff Roelfzema. Hoorn, Stichting Nederlandse Kaap-Hoornvaarders, 1998. Folio. Wrappers. With photographic illustrations and drawings by R. van den Bos. 51 pp. [Boeknr.: 19796 ]

€ 20,00

SPEELMAN, C. Journaal der reis van den gezant der O.I.Compagnie Joan Cunaeus naar Perzië in 1651-52. Uitgegeven door A. Hotz. Amsterdam, Johannes Müller, 1908. Printed wrappers new back wrapper). With folding map, plan and plate. CXV,466 pp. Historisch Genootschap. - Journal of Joan Cunaeus embassy for the Dutch East India Company (VOC), to and in Persia, kept by the secretary, the later Governor-General Speelman. [Boeknr.: 37125 ]

€ 75,00

SPEELMAN, Cornelis. Journael of kort verhael van't begin, voortgangh en eynde des oorloghs tusschen den koningh en verdere regeeringe van Macassar, en de Nederlandtsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagni, in de jaren 1666/1667/1668 en 1669 voor gevallen. Vertoonende de heerlijcke overwinninge der voornoemde Compagnie tegen het Macassers Rijck: onder het manhaft beleyt van .. Cornelis Speelman, oud-gouverneur van de kust Choromandel, etc. Als mede des selfs articulen van vrede. Amsterdam, Marcus Doornick, (1669).4to. Modern boards. With woodcut on title-page. (24) pp. First edition. - South Celebes (Sulawesi) lay on the route that the Dutch took from Batavia to Amboyna. The sultan of Makassar (now Ujung Pandang), the leading representative of Islam in the region, was especially hostile to the Dutch missionary drive. He was also determined to protect Makassar's position as an international harbour for the spice trade, open to all nations. With the support of the English, Danes and Portuguese, he had long resisted the efforts of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to monopolize the spice trade. Alarmed by this development, Batavia in 1666 sent an expedition against Makassar led by Cornelis Speelman (1628-1684). He forced the sultan in 1669 to conclude a treaty which the Dutch, obtained a monopoly of Makassar's trade and succeeded in bringing South Celebes under Dutch supremacy with the help of the Bugis people who were being oppressed by the Macassarese. Rare account of the victory of the Dutch East India Company over the kingdom of Macassar in the years 1666 -1669.Landwehr, VOC, 238; Cat. NHSM I, p.499; Knuttel 9756; Howgego p.987; Lach, Asia in the making III, p.56. [Boeknr.: 10071 ]

€ 2650,00

STAHEL, Gerold. Verslag van een dienstreis naar Centraal-Amerika, 1 februari - 2 april 1923. Paramaribo, J.H. Oliviera, 1924. Original printed wrappers. With 18 photographic plates. 73 pp. Departement Landbouw, Nijverheid en Handel in Suriname. - Report of an official journey to Central America, February 1 - April 2, 1923, with a view to the plans for the resumption of the bacoven culture in Suriname. - (With annotations). [Boeknr.: 25698 ]

€ 25,00

STANLEY, Henry Morton. Mijne zwarte metgezellen en hunne zonderlinge verhalen. Naar het Engelsch door Johs. Dyserinck. Haarlem, De Erven Loosjes, 1894.Original pictorial brown cloth (rubbed). With illustrations by Walter Buckley. (12),367 pp. First published in London in 1893: My dark companions and their strange stories. - Entertaining collection of legends as told to Stanley by Central African tribes-people. [Boeknr.: 31719 ]

€ 65,00

STARK, Elias. Uit Indië, Egypte en het Heilige Land. Brieven aan zijne vrienden. Amersfoort, P.Dz.Veen, 1910. 4to. Original pictorial cloth. With 2 etchings and 12 tipped-in plates by Elias Stark. XII, 298 pp. First edition. - Travelogue of a trip through the Dutch East Indies, Egypt and the Holy Land at the beginning of the 20th century. - Fine.Haks & Maris p. 253. [Boeknr.: 6650 ]

€ 55,00

STAVORINUS, Johan Splinter. Reize van Zeeland over de Kaap de Goede Hoop naar Batavia, Bantam, Bengalen, enz. gedaan in de jaaren 1768 tot 1771. Gevolgd van eenige belangrijke aanmerkingen over den aart, gewoonten, levenswijze, godsdienstplegtigheden en koophandel der volken in die gewesten. Leyden, A. en J. Honkoop, 1793.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half calf, with red morocco title-label to spine. With folding map of the Ganges and the Cape of Good Hope by C. van Baarsel. XXIV,294; 146,(2) pp. First edition; with bookplate of Percival J.G. Bishop. - Stavorinus (1739-1788), captain and rear admiral of the Admiralty of Zeeland, commanded the ship Goes, which was part of the relief fleet under Commander Jacob Pieter van Braam, which succeeded in relieving the besieged Malacca in the battles from 29 May to 21 June 1784. In battles from 2 to 12 August and 29 October to 27 November 1784, Selangore and Riouw were successively liberated when the VOC got into serious difficulties there. 'This work affords an accurate and valuable account of the Cape in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, with an interesting description of Cape Town and its inhabitants' (Mendelssohn). Including also large accounts of Batavia and Bengal. His accounts were published by his son. - A key work on the Dutch in Africa and in the East. - Last 3 leaves sl. waterstained otherwise a fine copy. - Very rare. Mendelssohn II, p.426; S.A.B.IV, p.385; Landwehr, VOC, 296; Cat. NHSM I, p.178; Tiele 1044. [Boeknr.: 27409 ]

€ 1250,00

STOCKUM, A.J. van. Een ontdekkingstocht in de binnenlanden van Suriname. Dagboek van de Saramacca-expeditie. Amsterdam, G.P. Tierie, 1905. Original decorated cloth. With 6 photographic plates and 4 maps (1 large folding). 324 pp. First edition in book form, first published in Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Aardrijkskundig Genootschap in 1904. - Account of the second scientific expedition to the source of the Saramaca-river in Suriname by the Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, The Saramacca-expedition, October 1902 - april 1903, under the leadership of A.J. van Stockum with the assistance of A. Pulle and P.J. de Kock. The expedition reached the source of the Saramacca-river.Suriname-catalogus UB Amsterdam 6502; Wentholt, In kaart gebracht met kapmes en kompas, pp.133-139. [Boeknr.: 36859 ]

€ 145,00

STOKRAM, Andries. Korte beschryvinghe van de ongeluckige wederom-reyse van het schip Aernhem (.. onder het gebiedt van Arnoudt de Vlamingh van Oudtshoorn). Ingeleid en van aantekeningen voorzien door A.J. Schneiders. Den Haag, Servire, 1942. Boards. With illustrated facsimile of the journal (Saeghman edition). 15,(16) pp. The author shipwrecked and lived seven months on the island of Mauritius. [Boeknr.: 6194 ]

€ 20,00

STOKRAM, Andries. Korte beschryvinge van de ongeluckige weer-om-reys van het schip Aernhem. In 1663 door Andries Stokram beschreven. Opnieuw uitgegeven en van commentaar voorzien door Vibeke Roeper en Ludian Schaling. Amsterdam, Terra Incognita, 1991. Wrappers. With illustrations. 72 pp. The author was shipwrecked in the Indian Ocean on his way from Batavia to Holland. He managed to escape with some others in a boat and reached Mauritius and lived seven months on the island. [Boeknr.: 12696 ]

€ 18,00

STUERS, (Hubert Joseph Jean Lambert de). De vestiging en uitbreiding der Nederlanders ter Westkust van Sumatra. Uitgegeven door P.J. Veth. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, 1849-50.2 volumes. Old half cloth, original printed frontwrappers mounted. With 2 folding maps and 14 handcoloured or tinted lithographed plates by C.W. Mieling after the author. CX,240; (2),264 pp. First edition; with bookplate of Drukkerij , Binderij F.B. Smits, Batavia-Noordwijk. - Interesting account based on information and reports collected by De Stuers (1788-1861) when he was military commandant and resident of Padang between 1824 and 1829. He left the colony after a conflict with the governor-general about the expansion of authority in Sumatra. 'Veth published the book because it clarified a little-known episode in colonial history. In Veth's view, it underscored the need for the Netherlands to concern itself more actively with the administration of the Outer Islands. In an annotated introduction running to over a hundred pages Veth reviewed the history of Dutch military action on Sumatra' (Van der Velde, P.J. Veth, p. 119). The fine plates are after drawings by the author. - Age-browned otherwise fine.Tiele 1066; Cat. NHSM I, p.512; Cat. KITLV p.18; Bastin-Brommer N 406; Landwehr, Coloured plates, 449; Von Hünersdorff, Coffee, p.1432. [Boeknr.: 32540 ]

€ 850,00

SYDOW, Emil von. Handleiding tot de beoefening der algemene aardrijkskunde. Vertaald en bewerkt door Corstiaan de Jong. Met eene voorrede van D. Grothe. Utrecht, C. van der Post, 1863.Original printed wrappers (spine dam.). With 77 wood-engravings. XII,266 pp. [Boeknr.: 978 ]

€ 30,00

TEENSTRA, M(artin) D(ouwes). De Nederlandsche West-Indische eilanden. Amsterdam, C.G. Sulpke, 1836-1837.2 volumes. Later half calf, original printed wrappers preserved. With handcoloured title vignette depicting St. Eustaqtius, plan of Philipsburg on St. Maarten after S. Fahlberg and 3 folding tables. XII,351; VIII,381 pp. First edition. - Volume I contains an extensive description of the island of Curaçao, its climate, topography, trades, products and statistics; Volume II covers the history of Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, St. Marten, St. Eustachius and Saba. The 3 folding tables give an overview of the populations in 1833: the numbers of the whites, free people (coloured and black) and slaves, living on Curaçao, Bonaire and Aruba. - A fine set.Sabin 94586; Renkema SM31. [Boeknr.: 17414 ]

€ 1650,00

TERRY, Edward. Scheeps-togt na Oost-Indien, met een vloot van 5 scheepen. Gedaan in het jaar 1615. Verhalende een zee-slag tussen de Engelsse en een Portugysse kraak, omtrent het eyland Gazidia, ook de gelegenheyd deses eylands met den gods-dienst, aart, zeeden en kleeding deser volkeren. Mitsgaders een nette en naauw-keurige beschrijving van de staten van den Mogol .. Als mede de gods-dienst en zeeden der Mahometanen en heydenen, 't verbranden hunner wijven met de mannen .. en andere zeldsaamheeden. Nu alder-eerst uyt het Engels vertaalt. Leyden, Pieter van der Aa, (ca. 1706).Folio. Modern boards. With engraved title-vignette, engraved folding map and 2 engravings in text. (22) pp. Issued in Pieter van der Aa's collection of voyages; first published in Hakluytus Posthumusas: A Relation of a Voyage to the Eastern India - Amongst the preachers sent to India by the Company in the early years of its commercial transactions in the East, none is perhaps more widely known to day than Edward Terry (1590-1660), who was installed in the Chaplaincy of the English Embassy to the Great Mughal after the death of the reverend John Hill (Prasad, Early English travellers in India, p.277). In India Edward Terry became the chaplain to Thomas Roe, England's ambassador to the Moghul Court. He set off to join the ambassador for the next eighteen months. They followed the progression of the Mughal’s through parts of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, as the ambassador tried fruitlessly to negotiate some sort of commercial treaty that might shore up English interests in the region. Roe’s efforts ultimately came to nought and, after an horrendous, disease-stricken summer in Ahmadabad in 1618, Terry and the ambassador travelled back to Surat for the voyage home. - A comprehensive picture of India that is credible and authoritative. - (Age-browned).Tiele 8; Cat. NHSM I, p.107. [Boeknr.: 12250 ]

€ 275,00

TERWOGT, Wilhelmus Albertus. Het land van Jan Pieterszoon Coen. Geschiedenis der Nederlanders in Oost-Indië, aan het Nederlandsche volk verhaald. Hoorn, P. Geerts, (1892).8vo. Original red cloth (spine discoloured). With folding coloured map, 3 chromolithographed portraits and 17 chromolithographed plates and views. 633,(3) pp. The coloured plates, lithographed by Tresling & Co, depict Banda, Amboina, Lebak, Ternate, Makasser, Batavia, etc. Cat. KITLV p.47; not in Bastin-Brommer. [Boeknr.: 4894 ]

€ 125,00

THEVENOT, Jean. Gedenkwaardige en zeer naauwkeurige reizen. Darde en laatste deel. Uit het Fransch in't Nederduitsch gebracht door G. van Broekhuizen. Amsterdam, Timotheus ten Hoorn, 1688.2 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary vellum (soiled). With engraved title-page and 6 engraved pates. (12),235,(6) pp. First Dutch edition; first published in Paris in 1684: Voyages .. contenant la relation de l'Indostan, des nouveaux Mogols & et des autres peuples & pays des Indes. - On the last part of his travels in the Levant the French traveller Jean Thevenot (1633-1667) made excursions into Gujarat, to the Mogul court, and into the Deccan. After exploring India for about a year he returned to Esfahan, where he spent another four months. On his way from Esfahan to Tabriz he became ill and died at Miana in 1667 (Howgego p.1021-1022). Thevenot's travels mark the beginning of the grand epoch of travel and exploration in the Levant (Blackmer 1650). - Interesting description of India.Tiele 1090; Cat. NHSM I, p.257. [Boeknr.: 37180 ]

€ 450,00

THOMAS, Marie Simon. Onze IJslandsvaarders in de 17de en 18de eeuw. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis van de Nederlandsche handel en visscherij. Amsterdam, ENUM, 1935. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. With 16 maps and 30 plates. XXXVI,320 pp. Thesis. - History of the Dutch whale and cod-fishing in the 17th and 18th century. [Boeknr.: 1561 ]

€ 175,00

THOMPSON, George. Reizen en ontmoetingen in het zuiden van Afrika, behelzende een overzigt over den tegenwoordigen toestand dier kolonie; benevens eenige aanmerkingen over den aanwas en de vooruitzigten der Britsche landverhuizingen derwaarts. Uit het Engelsch veraald. Groningen, W. van Boekeren, 1828.2 volumes. Original half cloth, with red morocco title-labels on spines. With 2 aquatint frontispieces, folding map of South Africa and folding plan of Cape Town and 7 aquatint plates. XX,(2),439; X,457 pp. First Dutch edition, first published in English in London in 1827 Travels and adventures in Southern Africa. - George Thompson (1796-1889) a merchant and traveller, resided at Cape Town as the representative and shareholder of a large London company. 'In 1821, Mr. Thompson made a six weeks 'excursion to Albany 'to examine into the prospects of the British emigrants' .. he visited Port Elizabeth ('then a hamlet of only three or four houses'), Uitenhage, Graham's Town, Bathurst, George, and many other districts and settlements .. In 1823 and 1824 he proceeded to the Orange River and Bechuanaland, and his account of these regions is recognised as the most important description of this part of the continent published in the early part of the nineteenth century. The third division of the work comprises a review of the condition 'of the Dutch and British inhabitants, of the agricultural, commercial, and financial circumstances of the country and of its adaption of further colonisation. .. This valuable work contains a number of excellent engravings, some of which were contributed by the naturalist Wehdemann, and others by Mr. De Meillon and Dr. Heurtley' (Mendelssohn II, p.494). ' His Travels provides valuable descriptions of the geography, history and natural history' (Howgego II, p.586). 'Both Thompson's 'Travels' and his illustrations stand high in the field of Africana' (Gordon-Brown, Pictorial Africana, p.230). - Some waterstaining otherwise a fine copy.Cat. NHSM I, p.209; SAB IV, p.490; not in Tiele and Mendelssohn. [Boeknr.: 34991 ]

€ 1250,00

TIELE, Pieter Anton. Mémoire bibliographique sur les journaux des navigateurs néerlandais. (Amsterdam, 1867). Reprint. Amsterdam, Nico Israel, 1969. Cloth. With facsimile. 334 pp. Important reference work on Dutch voyages beginning shortly after 1585. [Boeknr.: 6131 ]

€ 45,00

TIELE, Pieter Anton. Nederlandsche bibliographie van land- en volkenkunde. Amsterdam, Frederik Muller en Comp., 1884. 8vo. Wrappers (top of spine dam.). VII,288 pp. First edition. - With brochure of the Frederik Muller collection. - Still the standard bibliography on Dutch travel and voyages. [Boeknr.: 31680 ]

€ 125,00

TOLLENS, (Hendrik). De oerwintering der Hollanders op Nova Sembla, in de ji273rren 1596 en 1597. Forfryske fen H.G. van der Veen. Ljouwerd, G.T.N. Suringar, 1861.Sm.8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. With large woodengraving on title-page. 35 pp. First published in 1822; rare edition in the Frisian language. - Classic account of the search of a northeast passage to China by Willem Barentsz. He and his crew members were iced in and forced to winter over in Novaya Zemlya in a wooden cabin ('Het behouden Huis'). Trapped from August 26, 1596, to June 14, 1597, they were finally able to sail in open boats some 1600 miles during which they battled continuously against marauding polar bears and pack ice. Barendsz had taken ill and died five days after their escape from the arctic wastes. - A celebrated poem on the Dutch wintering in Novoya Zemlya in a wooden cabin.Cat. NHSM I, p.304. [Boeknr.: 36359 ]

€ 95,00

TOLLENS, (Hendrik). De overwintering der Hollanders op Nova Zembla, in de jaren 1596 en 1597. Uitgegeven door de Hollandsche Maatchappij van Fraaije Kunsten en Wetenschappen. 8e druk. Leeuwarden, G.T.N. Suringar, 1863.Sm.8vo. Original wrappers. 32 pp. First published in 1822; interleaved copy with annotations. - Classic account of the search of a northeast passage to China by Willem Barentsz. He and his crew members were iced in and forced to winter over in Novaya Zemlya in a wooden cabin ('Het behouden Huis'). Trapped from August 26, 1596, to June 14, 1597, they were finally able to sail in open boats some 1600 miles during which they battled continuously against marauding polar bears and pack ice. Barendsz had taken ill and died five days after their escape from the arctic wastes. - A celebrated poem on the Dutch wintering in Novoya Zemlya in a wooden cabin.Cat. NHSM I, p.304. [Boeknr.: 36354 ]

€ 45,00

TOLLENS, (Hendrik). De overwintering der Hollanders op Nova Zembla, in de jaren 1596 en 1597. Uitgegeven door de Hollandsche Maatchappij van Fraaije Kunsten en Wetenschappen. 10e druk. Leeuwarden, G.T.N. Suringar, 1873.Sm.8vo. Contemporary half cloth. 32 pp. First published in 1822. - Classic account of the search of a northeast passage to China by Willem Barentsz. He and his crew members were iced in and forced to winter over in Novaya Zemlya in a wooden cabin ('Het behouden Huis'). Trapped from August 26, 1596, to June 14, 1597, they were finally able to sail in open boats some 1600 miles during which they battled continuously against marauding polar bears and pack ice. Barendsz had taken ill and died five days after their escape from the arctic wastes. - A celebrated poem on the Dutch wintering in Novoya Zemlya in a wooden cabin.Cat. NHSM I, p.304. [Boeknr.: 36356 ]

€ 45,00

TOLLENS, (Hendrik). De overwintering der Hollanders op Nova Zembla, in de jaren 1596 en 1597. Uitgegeven door de Hollandsche Maatchappij van Fraaije Kunsten en Wetenschappen. 11e druk. Leeuwarden, G.T.N. Suringar, 1878.Sm.8vo. Original printed wrappers. 32 pp. First published in 1822. - Classic account of the search of a northeast passage to China by Willem Barentsz. He and his crew members were iced in and forced to winter over in Novaya Zemlya in a wooden cabin ('Het behouden Huis'). Trapped from August 26, 1596, to June 14, 1597, they were finally able to sail in open boats some 1600 miles during which they battled continuously against marauding polar bears and pack ice. Barendsz had taken ill and died five days after their escape from the arctic wastes. - A celebrated poem on the Dutch wintering in Novoya Zemlya in a wooden cabin.Cat. NHSM I, p.304. [Boeknr.: 36357 ]

€ 45,00

TOLLENS, (Hendrik). De overwintering der Hollanders op Nova Zembla, in de jaren 1596 en 1597. Uitgegeven door de Hollandsche Maatchappij van Fraaije Kunsten en Wetenschappen. 13e druk. Leeuwarden, G.T.N. Suringar, (ca. 1880).Sm.8vo. Original printed wrappers. 32 pp. First published in 1822. - Classic account of the search of a northeast passage to China by Willem Barentsz. He and his crew members were iced in and forced to winter over in Novaya Zemlya in a wooden cabin ('Het behouden Huis'). Trapped from August 26, 1596, to June 14, 1597, they were finally able to sail in open boats some 1600 miles during which they battled continuously against marauding polar bears and pack ice. Barendsz had taken ill and died five days after their escape from the arctic wastes. - A celebrated poem on the Dutch wintering in Novoya Zemlya in a wooden cabin.Cat. NHSM I, p.304. [Boeknr.: 36358 ]

€ 45,00

TOLLENS, (Hendrik). De overwintering der Hollanders op Nova Zembla, in de jaren 1596 en 1597. Uitgegeven door de Hollandsche Maatchappij van Fraaije Kunsten en Wetenschappen. 9e druk. Leeuwarden, G.T.N. Suringar, 1868.Sm.8vo. Original wrappers. 32 pp. First published in 1822. - Classic account of the search of a northeast passage to China by Willem Barentsz. He and his crew members were iced in and forced to winter over in Novaya Zemlya in a wooden cabin ('Het behouden Huis'). Trapped from August 26, 1596, to June 14, 1597, they were finally able to sail in open boats some 1600 miles during which they battled continuously against marauding polar bears and pack ice. Barendsz had taken ill and died five days after their escape from the arctic wastes. - A celebrated poem on the Dutch wintering in Novoya Zemlya in a wooden cabin.Cat. NHSM I, p.304. [Boeknr.: 36355 ]

€ 45,00

TOLLENS, (Hendrik). L' hivernage des Hollandais a la Nouvelle-Zemble, 1596 - 1597. Traduit .. par Auguste Clavareau. 3. édition. Maestricht, F. Bury-Lefebure, 1839.4to. Original printed boards (spine sl. dam.). With lithographed portrait and 8 lithographed plates (blank margins stained). 73 pp. First published in Dutch in 1820: Tafereel van de overwintering der Hollanders op Nova Zembla in de jaren 1596 en 1597. - A celebrated poem on the Dutch wintering on Novaya Zemlya in a wooden cabin by Willem Barentsz and his crew in 1596-97.Cf. Cat. NHSM I, p.304; Arctic Bibl. 17782. [Boeknr.: 7842 ]

€ 150,00

TOLLENS, Hendrik. The Hollanders in Nova Zembla (1596-1597). An Arctic poem. Translated from the Dutch by Daniel van Pelt. With a preface and an historical introduction by S.R. van Campen. Including notes. New York, G.P. Putman's Sons, 1884.Original decorated green cloth gilt, top edge gilt. With frontispiece. XVII,120 pp. First published in Dutch in 1820: Tafereel van de overwintering der Hollanders op Nova Zembla in de jaren 1596 en 1597. - A celebrated poem on the Dutch wintering on Novaya Zemlya in a wooden cabin by Willem Barentsz and his crew in 1596-97.Cat. NHSM I, p.311; Arctic Bibl. 17782. [Boeknr.: 31071 ]

€ 150,00

TOLLENS, Hendrik. De overwintering der Hollanders op Nova Zembla. Gedicht. Leeuwarden, G.T.N. Suringar, 1843.4to. Modern half cloth (old boards). With woodcuts after J.H.J. van den Bergh by Henry Brown. 62 pp. First published in Dutch in 1820: Tafereel van de overwintering der Hollanders op Nova Zembla in de jaren 1596 en 1597. - A celebrated poem on the Dutch wintering on Novaya Zemlya in a wooden cabin by Willem Barentsz and his crew in 1596-97. - (Waterstained).Cat. NHSM I, p.306; Arctic Bibl. 17782 (other ed.). [Boeknr.: 32916 ]

€ 95,00

TRAVEL. Het boek der reizen en ontdekkingen. Tochten, avonturen en reisverhalen uit alle werelddeelen door de beroemdste reizigers. Verzameld en uitgegeven voor het Nederlandsche volk. Arnhem, Nijmegen, Gebrs. E. & M. Cohen, (1888).4 volumes. Original decorated cloth with gilt lettering. With 8 chromolithographed plates. 255; 251; 263; 254 pp. Volume I: Over berg en rots - contains i.a. Charles Murrey. Prarievogel. Een verhaal uit den Noord-Amerikaansche staat Ohio; Frans Engel. Schets van het leven in een Creoolsch huis; Dostoiefsky. Tafereelen uit een strafgevangenis in Siberië; Volume II: Door zee en woud - contains i.a. Speke, Grant en Baker. De ontdekking der bronnen van den Nijl; Murad Effendi. Turksche schetsen; De reizen van David Livingstone; De reizen en avonturen van kapitein Marius Cougourdan.Volume III: In woestijn en wildernis - contains i.a. De mijnwerkers van Rayas. Een herinnering uit Mexico; Een slangenjacht in Guyana; Stanley's tocht dwars door Afrika; De Indische olifant; Russische toestanden, geschetst door een Fransche vrouw; Een Nederlandsche reizigster in Afrika. Alexandrine Tinne.Volume IV: Bij krijg en jacht - contains i.a. Knortz. Tochten van een Duitsch matroos naar de Noordpool; Ivan Tourgenief. Het avontuur van luitenant Jergounoff; Friedrich Gerstäcker. Een gemzenjacht in Tyrol; Een rit over de Andes; Herinneringen uit Spanje. [Boeknr.: 37142 ]

€ 225,00

TWIST, Johan van. Generale beschrijvinghe van Indien, ende in't besonder van't coninckrijck van Guseratten, staende onder de beheersinge van den groot machtighen coninck Chaiahan: anders genaemt den grooten Mogor. (Amsterdam, Joannes Janssonius, 1646).Oblong 8vo. Modern wrappers. 112 pp. (text set in two columns). Extracted from Commelin's collection of voyages. - Johan van Twist, a Dutch merchant and envoy of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). served as director of the Dutch factories in Ahmedabad, Cambay, Baroda, and Broach. In 1638 he returned to Batavia, in Java, where he wrote his General description of India, usually regarded as the first Dutch documents to describe any part of India in detail (Howgego p.1041). 'Van Twist's General description of India is primarily a detailed account of Gujarat. He reports on its government, its relationship to the Mughul empire, and the history of how Gujarat came under Mughul control. He describes Gujarat's geography, fauna, flora, cities, food, commerce, religions, and social customs' (Lach & Van Kley, Asia in the making of Europe, III, p.473). Landwehr, VOC, 250; Tiele 1106. [Boeknr.: 31989 ]

€ 450,00

UDEN MASMAN, H(endrik). Kort verslag van den zwaren brand te Paramaribo, hoofdplaats der kolonie Suriname, op den 21 januarij 1821 voorgevallen. Benevens eene kerkelijke redevoering, uitgesproken den eersten zondag na deze ramp. Amsterdam, G.S. Leeneman van der Kroe, 1821.Original blue wrappers. 40 pp. The fire began in the backyard of the Cornerhouse at Paramaribo and quickly advanced to an old storage building full of flammable material. A hard-blowing northeastern wind intensified the fire, which ignited one house after another. It lasted for about 24 hours. Nearly 400 mansions and about 800 storerooms and dwellings were burned to the ground. Published for the benefit of the unfortunate inhabitants of Paramaribo. - Rare.Knuttel 25069; not in Sabin, Muller, America or Suriname-catalogus UB Amsterdam. [Boeknr.: 7257 ]

€ 650,00

UILKENS, J(akob) A(lbert). Een bezoek aan't paleis te Buitenzorg, in den jare 1900 en zooveel. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1883.Original printed wrappers. (2),76 pp. An imaginary interview by a journalist of the Times with the Governor-General of Indonesia, discussing the administration of Indonesia and India.Cat. KITLV p.79; Buur, Persoonlijke documenten, 264. [Boeknr.: 18595 ]

€ 95,00

ULLOA, Alfonso de Historie/ ende het leven van den aldermachtichsten ende victorieusten keyser Caerle de Vijfde van dien name. Inden welcken niet alleen beschreven en zijn de .. daden vanden selven Prince/ maer oock de merckelijckste saken die over alle de werelt/ insonderheyt inde Oost ende West-Indyen geschiet zijn. Eerstmael in Italiaensche tale beschreven. Amsterdam, Jacob Pietersz. Paets, 1610.Folio. Contemporary vellum. With printed title within engraved border and 18 engraved portraits by N. de Clerck in text. (2),221,(8) lvs. Second Dutch edition, first Italian edition was published in Venice in 1560 La vita dell' invitissimo imperator Carlo Quinto, first published in Dutch in Antwerp in 1570. - 'A general history of the time of Charles V, noting European expansion in both eastern and western hemispheres and its impact in Europe' (James Ford Bell Library U8). 'This highly esteemed biography of Charles V, includes an account of all the events, which took place during the years 1500-1560, and especially of all the achievements of the Spaniards in America' (Muller, America, p.365). Dealing at length with the conquests of the Spaniards in Mexico and Peru. - (Margins first 2 lvs sl. dam.; tear in 1 leaf; some wormholes; waterstained). - Rare.Cf. Cat. NHSM I, p.565; Not in Tiele; Sabin 97678; European Americana 610/111. [Boeknr.: 7818 ]

€ 1750,00

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


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