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AUTOUR DE CLAUDE-JOSEPH VERNET. La marine à voile de 1650 à 1890. Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1999. 4to. Wrappers. With many illustrations and plates (mostly coloured). 220 pp. [Boeknr.: 35475 ]

€ 35,00

ABBOTT, John Stevens Cabot. Columbus, de ontdekker van Amerika. Vertaald naar het Engelsch door J.H. Geraets. Amsterdam, W. Versluys, 1887.Original decorated cloth (foot of spine sl. dam.). With 11 illustrations. 176 pp. Bibliotheek voor de jeugd.- First Dutch edition, a translation of Life and achievements of Christopher Columbus. 1879 [Boeknr.: 37335 ]

€ 35,00

AIMARD, Gustave. De boekaniers. - De zeeschuimers. - De goudzoekers. Naar de zesde Fransche uitgave. Volksuitgave. 's Gravenhage, Erven J.L. Nierstrasz, (ca. 1890).Original pictorial red cloth. With 3 woodengraved plates. 127; 128; 127 pp. Gustave Aimard (1818 - 1883) was the French author of numerous books about Latin America and the American frontier. [Boeknr.: 37337 ]

€ 35,00

ARMITAGE, Christopher M. Sir Walter Ralegh, an annotated bibliography. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, (1987). Cloth, with dust-jacket. XIII,236 pp. - Raleigh (1552?-1618), the colorful English military and naval commander and author, was also well known as an explorer of the New World. [Boeknr.: 20557 ]

€ 18,00

BACKER DIRKS, J.J. De Nederlandsche zeemagt, in hare verschillende tijdperken geschetst. Tweede, vermeerderde en verbeterde druk. 's Gravenhage, Gebroeders van Cleef, 1890.2 volumes. Original printed boards. With 5 plates. (4),832; 752 pp. First published in 1871-76. - The Dutch naval power, sketched in its various eras. - A fine copy.Cat. NHSM I, p.491. [Boeknr.: 37461 ]

€ 225,00

BARR, William & Glyndwr Williams. (Ed.). Voyages to Hudson Bay in search of a Northwest passage 1741-1747. London, 1994-95. 2 volumes. Cloth, with dust-jackets. With 11 maps and 20 plates. XII,333; XV,393 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 177-181. - Volume I: The voyage of Christopher Middleton 1741-1742. Volume II: The voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith 1746-1747. [Boeknr.: 20217 ]

€ 45,00

BATTLE AT LA HOGUE. The battle at La Hogue. De zeeslag bij Kaap La Hogue, 1692. Neuhaus,1837.Steelengraving after Woollett by G. Döbler. Ca 42,5 x 59 cm. Magnificent engraving of the sea battle of the combined Anglo-Dutch fleets under Russel and Almonde on the French under Tourville. The action at La Hogue in May 1692 formed a crucial scene in the wider context of the Battle of Barfleur. This was a naval battle of the War of the League of Augsburg, 1689-97, fought between an Anglo-Dutch and a French fleet. It was not finally brought to a conclusion until 24 May in the Bay of La Hogue, in the course of which the French flagship �Soleil Royal� as well as the �Triomphant� and the �Admirable� were burned by the English. Depicted is the moment Tourville steps from one boat into another and is seized by an Englishman whose hand he will cut off with his sword. With at the right and central French ships. It is after a painting by Benjamin West who became known for his large scale history paintings. Without caption. - Fine.Muller, Historieplaten, 2858; Atlas van Stolk 2883. [Boeknr.: 13936 ]

€ 450,00

BATTLE OF SENEFFE. Relation des zwischen der Kayserl. Spanischen und Holländischen, und der Frantzösischen Armee unterm Printzen von Conde, den II. Augusti bey Mariemont gehaltenen bluttigem Treffen, so ausz einem Schreiben, welches ein hoher Officier, so selbst mit und darbey gewest genommen worden. (No pl., 1674).Broadsheet. Ca. 43 x 33 cm. The Battle of Seneffe took place on 11 August 1674 during the Franco-Dutch War, near Seneffe in Belgium, then part of the Spanish Netherlands. A French army commanded by Condé and a combined Dutch, Imperial, and Spanish force under William of Orange. One of the bloodiest battles of the war, over 20% of those engaged on both sides became casualties, and the result is disputed. The report includes lists of fallen and wounded officers on both sides. - (Without the engraving of the battle).Atlas van Stolk 2600; Cf. Muller, Historieplaten, 2554 for the Dutch ed. [Boeknr.: 38128 ]

€ 395,00

BLAKE, George. Lloyd's register of shipping 1760-1960. (No pl., ca. 1960). Cloth. With plates. 194 pp. [Boeknr.: 35488 ]

€ 30,00

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