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DATTA, Kalikinkar. The Dutch in Bengal and Bihar 1740-1825 A.D. 2nd revised and enlarged edition. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, (1968). Wrappers. 200 pp. [Boeknr.: 12166 ]

€ 25,00

HAAFNER, Jacob. Travels on foot through the island of Ceylon. London, Richard Phillips and Co.,1821.Original wrappers. With 3 engraved plates (2 folding) after Reinier Vinkeles by W. Read. 118 pp. First English edition; first published in Dutch Reize te voet door het eiland Ceilon. Amsterdam, 1810. - Jacob Haafner (1754-1809) travelled through India sometimes in the service of the Dutch East India Company and sometimes in private service between 1773 and 1787. He was captured by the English in Madras but escaped to Celon. His eyewitness account of his journey on foot through Ceylon in 1810 from Jaffnapatnam to Colombo, was finished by his son Christiaan Mattghias and posthumously published in Amsterdam in 1810. 'Haafner was an anticolonialist, a man before his time, for his ideas were not to be topical until more than a century had elapsed' (De Silva & Beumer, Dutch Ceylon, p.462).Goonetileke 2190; Cf. Tiele 435; Cat. NHSM I, p.243 and Landwehr, VOC, 350. [Boeknr.: 36180 ]

€ 375,00

HENIGER, Johannes. Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakenstein (1636-1691) and Hortus Malabaricus. A contribution to the history of Dutch colonial botany. Rotterdam, A.A. Balkema, 1986. Folio. Boards, with dust-jacket. With 85 illustrations. XVI,295 pp. The author, commander of Malabar (now Kerala in India) in the service of the VOC, published in 1678-1693 the Hortus Indicus Malabaricus. The life and work of Van Reede form a fascinating chapter in Dutch colonial botany. [Boeknr.: 6292 ]

€ 45,00

HENIGER, Johannes. Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakenstein (1636-1691) and Hortus Malabaricus. A contribution to the history of Dutch colonial botany. Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakenstein (1636-1691) en de Hortus Malabaricus. Een bijdrage tot de geschiedenis van de Nederlanse koloniale botanie. Rotterdam, A.A. Balkema, 1986. Folio. Wrappers. With 85 illustrations. XVI,295 pp. Thesis. - The author, commander of Malabar (now Kerala in India) in the service of the VOC, published in 1678-1693 the Hortus Indicus Malabaricus. The life and work of Van Reede form a fascinating chapter in Dutch colonial botany. [Boeknr.: 27355 ]

€ 45,00

HUSSIN, Nordin. Melaka and Penang 1780-1830: A study of two port towns in the Straits of Melaka. (No pl., 2001). Wrappers. With illustrations. XII,508 pp. Thesis. - Trade and society in the Straits Of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English Penang. [Boeknr.: 28648 ]

€ 45,00

LEQUIN, Frank & Albert MEIJER. Samuel van de Putte, een Mandarijn uit Vlissingen (1690-1745). De onbedoelde publicatie van een restant. Middelburg, Stichting VOC Publicaties, 1989. Oblong 8vo. Wrappers. With many facsimiles. 104 pp. Samuel van der Putte was a Dutch adventurer, linguist and scientist who travelled widely through South East Asia, India, China and Tibet. [Boeknr.: 226 ]

€ 35,00

OTTOW, W.M. Rijckloff Volckertsz van Goens. Krijgsman, commissaris en regent, dienaar der V.O.C. Archiefstudie over het Europees verlof (1655-57) en de eerste grote Ceylon-periode (1657-62). 2e verbeterde uitgave. (No pl.), 1996. Folio. Wrappers. With maps and illustrations. (3),XV,290 pp. - Privately printed. [Boeknr.: 15425 ]

€ 40,00

ROTHERMUND, Dietmar. Asian trade and European expansion in the age of mercantilism. (New Delhi), Manohar, 1981. Cloth, with dust-jacket. XII,170 pp. On the Portuguese, Dutch, British system. [Boeknr.: 22448 ]

€ 30,00

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 edition, first published in 1662. - Johann Jacob Saar (1625-1672) travelled from Amsterdam for the VOC on January 8, 1645, and returned on January 4, 1660. He played a part in one of the most fascinating periods of Dutch colonization in Asia. He describes the fight between the English and Dutch for Bantam, the fight between the king of Ceylon and the Dutch, a Dutch defeat in Persia, conquest of some towns in India and Malacca, etc. Accompanied with a detailed account of many towns and islands i.a. Batavia, Banda, Colombo, Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and of the natural history, trade, customs, etc. 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; Lach, Asia in the making of Europe, III,1, p.529. [Boeknr.: 11508 ]

€ 6000,00

SCHOUTEN, Wouter. Oost-Indische voyagie, vervattende veel voorname voorvallen en ongemeene vreemde geschiedenissen/ bloedige zee- en landt-gevechten tegen de Portugeesen en Makassaren, belegering/ bestorming en verovering van veel voorname steden en kasteelen. Mitsgaders een curieuse beschrijving der voornaemste landen, eylanden, koninckrijcken en steden in Oost-Indien; haar wetten, zeden, godsdiensten, costuymen, drachten, dieren, vruchten en planten. Als oock sijn seer gevaerlijcke wederom-reyse naer't vaderlandt/ daer in een bysondere harde ontmoetinge met d'Engelsche oorloghs-vloot/ soo in Bergen Noorwegen/ als in de Noord-Zee. Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs & Johannes van Someren, 1676.2 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary vellum (sl. soiled), with title in manuscript on spine. With engraved allegorical title-page, engraved portrait, 4 half-page illustrations and 43 engraved plates (20 double-page) after the author. (12),328; 253,(23) pp. First edition. - Wouter Schouten (1638-1704) spent 7 years as a physician in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the East 1658-1665. 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. With fine engraved views of Batavia, Ternate, Malacca, Makassar, Colombo, Cape of Good Hope etc. by C. Decker and J. Kip. Most of them are the first accurate topographical views of these towns. 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. 'Schouten was an observant traveller who explored inland into the environs of nearly every port-of-call, sometimes by himself or with a small group of comrades. His narrative, full of anecdotes as well as information gleaned about countries he had not visited, became particularly popular with readers in the eighteenth century, when it was republished in no fewer than seven editions' (Howgego p.947). 'As a physician, Schouten had a more than ordinary interest in flora and fauna and in hygiene and living conditions' (Lach, Asia in the making III, p.955). - Occasionally some minor staining, margins of 1 plate restored with loss of very small part of the image, added a plate index in manuscript. - A good copy of the rare editio princeps.Tiele 990; Cat. NHSM I, p.174; Landwehr, VOC, 283; Mendelssohn II, p.279-80. [Boeknr.: 29029 ]

€ 4750,00

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

TERPSTRA, H. De Nederlanders in Voor-Indië. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen & Zoon, 1947. Half cloth. With 5 maps and 15 plates. 205 pp. - (Patria). [Boeknr.: 6319 ]

€ 15,00

THEUNISSEN, H., A. ABELMANN & W. MEULENKAMP. ( Red.). Topkapi & Turkomanie. Turks-Nederlandse ontmoetingen sinds 1600. Amsterdam, De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1989. 8vo. Wrappers. With many illustrations (several in colours). 232 pp. [Boeknr.: 79 ]

€ 35,00

WAGENAAR, L.J. Galle, VOC-vestiging in Ceylon. Beschrijving van een koloniale samenleving aan de vooravond van de Singalese opstand tegen het Nederlandse gezag, 1760. Amsterdam, Bataafsche Leeuw, 1994. 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With numerous illustrations (several in colours). 248 pp. [Boeknr.: 7071 ]

€ 35,00

WINIUS, G.D. & M.P.M. VINK. The merchant-warrior pacified. The VOC (The Dutch East India Company) and its changing political economy in India. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1991. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With map, and 10 illustrations on plates. VIII,(2),201 pp. [Boeknr.: 12164 ]

€ 45,00

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