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ADELS, Wiert. Wiert Adels. Stuurman op het Hollandsch kofschip De Bloeijende Blom, die zig van dezen bodem, na dat dezelve door de Franschen genomen, met veel bravoure meester gemaakt en den 5 Augustus te Hellevoet opgebracht heeft. (Middelburg), W.A. Keel, (1796).Half-length mezzotint portrait by Charles Howard Hodges after Jacobus Perkois. Ca. 26,5 x 21,5 cm. (Margins trimmed). Wiert Adels was steersman for the ship De Bloeyende Blom which was bringing grain from the Baltic port of Libau. A Duinkerk privateer seized his ship but after a few days he managed to recapture his ship and to seize the chief of the privateers and to throw him overboard. Thus he succeeded to bring his ship into Hellevoetsluis in 1794. This fine engraved portrait of a brave sailor was done by the English mezzotint master Hodges (1764-1837) after a drawing by Perkois (1756-1804). Hodges worked in Amsterdam and was a famous portret painter around 1800. His mezzotint engraving is of very high quality. Cf. Van Someren 227; Muller, Portetten, 17; Van der Feltz 626. [Boeknr.: 21293 ]

€ 275,00

ANSON, George. Reize rondsom de werreld, gedaan in de jaaren 1740 tot 1744.. op een expeditie naar de Zuidzee; opgesteld uit de journaalen en andere papieren van.. Anson zelven, en onder zyn opzicht uitgegeven door Richard Walter. Uit het Engelsch vertaald. 3e druk .. merkelyk verbeterd. (And:) Reize naer de Zuidzee, met het schip De Wager, onder het opzicht van George Anson, ondernomen in den jaere 1740. Zynde een vervolg op de reize van .. Anson. In't Nederduitsch vertaeld. (1e druk). Leiden, Amsterdam, Johannes Le Mair, Stephanus Jacobus Baalde, Cornelis van Hoogeveen, 1765-1766.2 volumes. 4to. 19th century half cloth, spines gilt. With title-page printed in red and black with fine engraved title-vignette, 15 folding maps and plans (2 small tears rep.) and 20 folding plates; title-page printed in red and black with fine engraved title-vignette and 8 engraved plates (4 folding). (32), 384,(1); (36),212,(16) pp. First published in Dutch in 1749. - Official account of Anson's (1697-1762) famous privateering expedition (1740-1744) of seven vessels against Spanish commerce in the Pacific, edited from Anson's papers by Richard Walter, chaplain of the expedition. Although Anson lost most of his crew (an estimated 1000 lost to scurvy, 300 to typhus and dysentery, four in action and the remainder to shipwreck), and all but one of his ships, he did return with a vast bounty. Anson's voyage appears to have been the most popular book of maritime adventure of the 18th century. His exploits brought back new knowledge about the little-known regions around the southern tip of South America. The second volume contains the account of John Byron (1723-1786), midshipsman to the Wager, separated from Anson's fleet in fog off Patagonia, he rounded Cape Horn and ran aground in the Guayaneco Archipelago, to the south of the Golfo de Penas on the southern Chilean coast. The fate of the survivors, who then divided into two return parties, is one of the most gripping yarns of maritime history. - A classic account of circumnavigation. - Two small library stamps on title-page otherwise a good copy.Tiele 42-43; Cat. NHSM I, p.136; Sabin 1641-1642a; Hill 1785; Borba de Moraes, p.39; European Americana 748/224 (first ed.); Cf. Huntress 50C and 57C; Howgego A100. [Boeknr.: 2191 ]

€ 1850,00

BACOT, Willem - Willem CREDO. Zeeusche spectator over de boedel en het testament van capitein Willem Credo, onder toezicht van Gerard Bacot, predikant te Koudekerk, en syn vrou Paulina Credo, nevens een journaal of dag-lyst van een bedroefde reis naa het vermakelyk Alphen. Tot waarschouwing van jonge predikanten om niet ligt voogdyen aan te nemen. Den 30 April 1734 (No pl.), 1734.Modern cloth with gilt lettering. Title-page printed in red and black. (4),416 pp. First edition. - About the lagacy of Willem Credo (1663-1733) arose in 1734 an enormous quarrel according to this book. The privateer captain Willem Credo, a seaman, warrior and merchant from Middelburg in Zeeland was active between 1689 and 1713 in many areas: West-European Seas, the Mediterranean sea, African Waters and the West Indies. According to several sources in archives he appears to have been very succesful. He brought in nearly two hundred prizes and undertook one, and probably more illegal enslavement voyages from Angola to Sint Eustatius. Credo became a celebrity in those years. He owned a country house in Alphen aan de Rijn. - Very rare.Not in Sabin or European Americana. [Boeknr.: 35545 ]

€ 1250,00

BINDER, Franz. Die Zeeländische Kaperfahrt 1654-1662. Middelburg, Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap, 1976. Wrappers. (52) pp. - (Offprint). [Boeknr.: 24219 ]

€ 15,00

BLIGH, William. A voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of his majesty for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in his majesty's ship The Bounty, commanded by lieutenant William Bligh. Including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship's boat, from Tofoa, and the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies. London, George Nicol, 1792.4to. Contemporary polished calf, gilt fillets round sides, skilfully rebacked with the original spine laid down, spine richly gilt with green morocco titlelabel, in modern buckram slipcase. With engraved frontispiece portrait, 3 engraved plates (2 folding) and 4 charts (3 folding). (10),153,IV,88, 247-264 pp. First edition; with armorial bookplate of Wiliam Lloyd of Aston, dated 1806. - Our copy is one of the very few known copies of the composite issue of Bligh's complete official account of the Bounty voyage, specially printed to incorporate the original printing of the Narrative of the mutiny, on board his majesty's ship Bounty, London 1790. Bligh, a man of almost pathological integrity, had a special state of the Voyage prepared which excluded the Mutiny chapters, so that those who wished might bind their copies of the Mutiny in with the chapters that preceded and followed that portion of the work (The Davidson collection 111). - In 1787 Lieutenant Bligh took command of HMS Bounty, hoping to win a premium offered by the Royal Society for anyone who could obtain breadfruit trees, seen as a cheap, high-energy food source which could be given to British slaves. Having obtained the trees in Tahiti, Bligh set course for the Caribbean but the ship never reached its destination because of a mutiny mounted by Bligh's protégé Fletcher Christian on 28 April 1789, during which he and eighteen loyal crewmen were forced into a tiny launch. Despite a brief landing in Tofua, where one crewman was killed by hostile natives, the rest of the crew survived the seemingly impossible 3,618 nautical miles voyage to Timor, the nearest European settlement, after a 47-day voyage. They visited several more islands before being transported back to Britain. Several of the mutineers, who had settled on Pitcairn Island, were eventually captured and three were executed in England. - A fine copy of the extremely rare composite edition.Hill 132 & 135 'an extremely important book'; Wantrup 62b; Du Rietz 93 'not seen'; Ferguson 126; Howgego p. 125. [Boeknr.: 36423 ]

€ 18500,00

BOER, M.G. de. Piet Heyn en de zilveren vloot. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen en Zoon, 1946. Half cloth. With plates and maps. 146 pp. - (Patria). [Boeknr.: 443 ]

€ 15,00

BRUIJN, J.R. & E.S. van EYCK VAN HESLINGA. Muiterij. Oproer en berechting op schepen van de VOC. Haarlem, De Boer Maritiem, (1980). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations. 182 pp. [Boeknr.: 6150 ]

€ 25,00

DAMPIER, William & Lionel WAFER. Nieuwe reystogt rondom de wereld, waarin omstandiglyk beschreeven worden de land-engte van Amerika, verscheidene kusten en eilanden in West-Indiën, de eilanden van Cabo Verde, de doortogt van de Straat Le Maire na de Zuid-zee, de kusten van Chili, Peru, Mexico; 't eiland Guam een van de Ladrones, 't eiland Mindanao een van de Filippines; en de Oost-Indische eilanden omtrent Cambodia, China, Formosa; Luconia, Celebes, enz. Voorts Nieuw Holland, Sumatra, de eilanen van Nicobar, de Kap de Goede Hoop, en 't eiland Sante Helena. In't Engelsch beschreeven .. en daaruyt vertaald door W. Sewel. Nymegen, Isaac van Campen, 1771 - 1772.4 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine richly gilt (foot of spine skilfully rep.). With 2 engraved title-pages and 43 engraved maps and plates (including worldmap) by C. Luyken en J. Lamsvelt. 13,405,(9); 305,(7); 80,(6); (92 pp. Second and third Dutch edition, first published in Dutch in 's Gravenhage 1698-1704; first published in English in 1697 A new voyage round the world.. - Dampier's descriptions of his wide-ranging buccaneering travels (he sailed around the world three times) include the account of the first English visit to Australia in 1688. His voyages marked the beginning of British scientific exploration of the Pacific. Countries visited are in America the West-Indies, Chili, Peru, Mexico, Brazil (including the earliest written description of Bahia), in Africa the Cape of Good Hope, Isles of Cape Verd and in Asia the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines and Formosa, Australia and various islands in the Pacific. 'Generally regarded as the greatest explorer and navigator before Cook, Dampier was also a popular and an exciting storyteller who inspired both Swift and Defoe. His books went through many editions and, in some form, have remained in print untill the present day' (The Davidson Collection 32). William Dampier (1651-1715) combined a swashbuckling life of adventure with pioneering scientific achviements. Parts IV contains Lionel Wafer. Nieuwe reistogt en beschryving van de land-engte van America. - Some waterstaining in blank margin part I, otherwise a very fine large paper copy.Tiele 290; Cat. NHSM I, p.135; European Americana V, p.214; Sabin 18388; Borba de Moraes I, p.242; Mendelssohn I, p.409-10; SAB II, p.10; Van Eeghen-van der Kellen 319; Howgego pp.294-298. [Boeknr.: 12785 ]

€ 2450,00

DAMPIER, William and Lionel WAFER. Reystogten rondom de waereldt; begrypende, in vier beknopte boekdeelen, een naauwkeurige beschryving van verscheyde nieuwe ontdekte zeeën, kusten, en landen, zo in Amerika, Asia, als Afrika; benevens veele nuttelyke aanmerkingen ontrent de stroomen, winden, havens, diepten, engtens en andere fraye waarnemingen en bysonderheden, zo van bereisde als voor dese, onbereisde gewesten. Alom doormengt met de beschrijving der inwoonders, aardt, zeden en plegtigheden derzer vreemde volkeren; midsgaders derselver landsdouwen, vrugten, gewassen, dieren, en andere seldsaamheden. Uyt het Engelsch in't Nederduyts overgebragt door W. Sewel. Amsterdam, Andries van Damme en Johannes Ratelband, 1717.4 volumes in 1. 4to. Old vellum (new endpapers), with morocco title label on spine, new ties. With title-page printed in red and black, 2 engraved allegorical titles, 16 engraved maps (10 folding) and 24 engraved plates (3 folding; few blank margins restored) by Casper Luiken and Jacob Lamsvelt. 12,394,(10); (8),284; (8),74,(5); 96 pp. Second Dutch edition; first published in Dutch in 's Gravenhage 1698-1704; first published in English in 1697 A new voyage round the world. - William Dampier (1652-1715) was the best known, and probably the most intelligent, of the famous group of buccaneers that tormented the Spaniards in the South Sea from 1680 to 1720. Dampier's descriptions of his wide-ranging buccaneering travels (he sailed around the world three times) include the account of the first English visit to Australia in 1688. His voyages marked the beginning of British scientific exploration of the Pacific and made known the profitable possibilities of the Pacific (Hill p.147). Countries visited are in America the West-Indies, Chili, Peru, Mexico, Brazil (including the earliest written description of Bahia), in Africa the Cape of Good Hope, Isles of Cape Verd and in Asia the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines and Formosa, Australia and various islands in the Pacific. - Age-browned, otherwise a fine copy.Tiele 290; Cat. NHSM I, p.135; European Americana V, p.214; Sabin 18388; Borba de Moraes I, p.242; Mendelssohn I, p.409-10; SAB II, p.10; Van Eeghen-van der Kellen 319; Howgego pp.294-298. [Boeknr.: 15995 ]

€ 1750,00

DRAKE, Francis. Drie voornaame zee-togten van Franciscus Draak, na America, door de Suyd-Zee en vervolgens rond-om den geheelen aard-kloot gedaan, in't jaar 1577 en vervolgens. Behelsende een naauwkeurige beschrijving der kusten van die gewesten, veele bysondere voor-vallen, en aanmerkelijke saaken. Op ordre van den admiraal beschreeven, door een sijner reys-gesellen; nu alder-eerst uyt het Engels vertaald. Leyden, Pieter van der Aa, 1706.Sm.8vo. Later half calf. With engraved title-vignette, folding map and 5 engraved folding plates. 45, (3) pp. Issued in Pieter van der Aa's collection of voyages. - Famous accounts of the three voyages of the English seafarer and pirate Sir Francis Drake (ca. 1540-1596) to America and the West Indies. Including the first circumnavigation of the globe by an Englishman. - (Soiled).Tiele 5; Cat. NHSM I, p.107; Howgego p.322; not in Sabin or European Americana. [Boeknr.: 33370 ]

€ 950,00

DU GUAY-TROUIN, (Réné). Memoires. Augmentés de son éloge, par (Antoine-Léonard) Thomas. Rouen, de l'imprimerie privilégiée, 1785.Sm.8vo. Original marbled calf, spine richly gilt with red morocco title-label. With engraved portrait, folding plan of Rio de Janeiro and 5 folding engraved plates depicting sea-battles by Meunier. XXXVI,338 pp. These memoires were first published in Amsterdam in 1730 as a pirate edition, extracted from an unfinished manuscript. The first official (and complete) French edition was published in Paris in 1740, after the author's death. Pierre Mortier, the well-known Amsterdam bookdealer, published in the same year an 8vo edition, which was reprinted several times. Admiral Duguay-Trouin (1673-1736) is one of the most illustrious French seamen and corsairs. He inflicted many defeats on England and Dutch warships and in 1711 captured Rio de Janeiro from the Portuguese. 'A popular autobiographical account of one of the most prominent naval figures of the Louis XIV period' (James Ford Bell Library D309). 'The glory and reputation of the famous corsair are sufficient to account for the number of editions which have appeared up to the present' (Borba de Moraes I, p.273). - A very fine copy.Sabin 29198; Polak 2854. [Boeknr.: 33484 ]

€ 475,00

FATAH-BLACK, Karwan & Aart RUIJTER. (Red.). Ten exempel van anderen. De processen tegen opvarenden van de piratenschepen Trompeuse en Resolution in Suriname en op St. Thomas in 1684. Ingeleid en bezorgd. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2019. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 22 plates (some in colours). 183 pp. Linschoten Vereeniging vol. CXVIII. - The reputation of Captain Jean Hamlin and his crew was horrible at the end of the seventeenth century. Although Hamlin himself managed to stay out of the hands of the authorities, this did not apply to part of the crews of the Trompeuse and the Resolution. Various groups were brought to justice in Suriname and on St. Thomas. The collection of interrogations of crew members included in this book makes much clear about the background of the pirates, the life on board these ships and how these pirates determined their strategy and field of operation. [Boeknr.: 35698 ]

€ 30,00

FENTON, Edward. The troublesome voyage of captain Edward Fenton 1582-1583. Narratives & documents edited by E.G.R. Taylor. Cambridge, 1959. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 21 maps and illustrations. LVII,333 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 113. - First full account of the privateering voyage of Edward Fenton which proved to be a failure. [Boeknr.: 21031 ]

€ 30,00

FRANCKE, Johan. Utiliteyt voor de gemeene saake. De Zeeuwse commissievaart en haar achterban tijdens de negenjarige oorlog, 1688-1697. Middelburg, Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen, 2001. Wrappers. With illustrations. XXII,498 pp. - On Dutch piracy. [Boeknr.: 23000 ]

€ 30,00

FREMONT-BARNES, Gregory. The wars of the Barbary pirates. To the shores of Tripoli: the rise of the US navy and marines. Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 2006. Wrappers. With many coloured illustrations. 95 pp. [Boeknr.: 37012 ]

€ 30,00

FREZIER, Amédée François. A voyage to the South-Sea, and along the coasts of Chili and Peru, in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. Particularly describing the genius and constitution of the inhabitants, as well Indians as Spaniards: their customs and manners, their natural history, mines, commodities, traffick with Europe, etc. With postscript by Edmund Halley. And an account of the settlement, commerce, and riches of the Jesuites in Paraguay. London, Printed for Jonah Bowyer, 1717.4to. Modern pannelled calf, spine ribbed, with red morocco title label on spine. With titlepage printed in red and black, 2 folding profils, 13 engraved plates (1 folding) and 22 maps (15 folding; the frontispiece map with offsetting of the titlepage). (14),335,(9) pp. First English edition; first published in French Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud, Paris 1716. The English edition is preferred because it contains a postscript by Edmund Halley correcting certain geographical erros made by Frézier and it also contains an English translation of a critical report on the Jesuit missions in Paraguay. - An interesting account of the voyage from France, Madeira and the Cape Verde Islands, Santa Catarina Islands, off the coast of Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, through the Straits of Le Maire around Cape Horn and continuing along the coast of South America as far as Lima, describing the chief towns and cities. During his return from Lima, Frézier took the trouble to correct the contemporary charts of the southernmost tip of South America, discovering a new channel in Tierra del Fuego and suppressing many of the imaginary lands previously shown on the maps. His survey also included the Falkland Islands which for the first time were identified as being the same as 'Sebald's Islands'. The return voyage called at Bahia, the Azores and Gibraltar' (Howgego p.399). The observant Frézier brought back information of considerable geographical and scientific value. Much data is included about the native inhabitants, and the work also contains an interesting account of guano. Frézier introduced the ancestor of the modern strawberry to France from Chile (Hill p.231). The relation of M. Frezier has always been highly esteemed from his character as an author of great truthfulness, as well as for the numerous exact maps with which it is illustrated (Field). - Age-browned otherwise fine.Borba de Moraes I, p.329; Sabin 25927 'a production of unrivaled interest and beauty'; Hill 654; European-Americana V, p.216. [Boeknr.: 36427 ]

€ 2850,00

GOUW, J.L. van der. Claes Kniphof, kaperkapitein van Christiaan II in 1525 voor de Hollandse kust. Utrecht, 1949. Cloth. (86) pp. - (In: Bijdragen en Mededelingen H.G.). [Boeknr.: 27869 ]

€ 20,00

HAMEL, Hendrick. Verhaal van het vergaan van het jacht De Sperwer en van het wedervaren der schipbreukelingen op het eiland Quelpaert en het vasteland van Korea (1653-1666) met eene beschrijving van dat rijk. Uitgegeven door B. Hoetink. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1920. Cloth. With folding map and 11 illustrations. XXX,LIII,165 pp. Linschoten Vereeniging XVIII. - Hendrik Hamel's (1653-1666) account of his unexpected and not voluntary visit to Korea (1653-1666) has long been known as the earliest report in a western language on the land, people and customs of Korea. [Boeknr.: 6178 ]

€ 150,00

HONORÉ NABER, S.P.L' & Irene A. WRIGHT. Piet Heyn en de zilvervloot. Documenten uit het archief van den luitenant-admiraal Piet Heyn. Met toelichting en eene levensbeschrijving van dien vlootvoogd uitgegeven. Utrecht, Kemink & Zoon, 1928. Original printed wrappers (spine sl. dam.). With portrait and folding map. CLXXXVII,(1),239,(1),XXXIX,(1),308 pp. Werken Historisch Genootschap.. - Documents relating to the capure by Piet Heyn of the very rich Spanish Silver Fleet in the Caribbean area in 1628. [Boeknr.: 7513 ]

€ 35,00

KERN, J.D.H. De schrik der Zuidzee. Leven en daden van een vrijbuiter uit den tegenwoordigen tijd. Zutphen, Schillemans & Van Belkum, (1893).Original pictorial red cloth. With plates by Joh. Gehrts. 448 pp. First edition. - Dealing with William Henry "Bully" Hayes (1827/1829 - 1877) a notorious American ship's captain who was engaged in blackbirding in the 1860s and 1870s. Hayes operated across the breadth of the Pacific Ocean from the 1850s until his murder on 31 March 1877. He has been described as a South Sea pirate and "the last of the buccaneers". [Boeknr.: 37297 ]

€ 95,00

KETEL, Jacob. Echt relaas van de muiterij op het Oostindisch Compagnieschip Nijenburg. Voor het eerst verschenen in 1764. Opnieuw uitgegeven en van commentaar voorzien door Nienke de Jonge, Leonoor Kuijk en Liesbeth Oskamp. 2e verbeterde druk. Amsterdam, Terra Incognita, 1992. Wrappers. With 31 illustrations. 91 pp. The Nijenburg was a Dutch merchant ship, built in 1757 for the VOC chamber in Hoorn. After a mutiny in the Atlantic, part of the crew disembarked in Portuguese Brazil; the others eventually ended up in Paramaribo. [Boeknr.: 11294 ]

€ 18,00

KETTING, Herman. Leven, werk en rebellie aan boord van Oost-Indiëvaarders (1595-1650). Amsterdam, Aksant, 2002. Boards. With 58 illustrations. 379 pp. [Boeknr.: 29273 ]

€ 65,00

LEIDSCHRIFT. Een behouden vaart ? De Nederlandse betrokkenheid bij kaapvaart en piraterij. Leiden, 2011. Wrappers. 178 pp. Contributions by Henk den Heijer, Ruud Paesie, Jurre Noest, Henk Nellen, Eric Wilson, Liesbeth Sparks, Joost Schokkenbroek, Jeroen ter Brugge and Anita van Dissel. [Boeknr.: 37045 ]

€ 18,00

LOO, I.J. van. Profijt voor Daniël ? De Zeeuwse kaapvaart en het Spaans-Engelse vredesverdrag van 1630. Middelburg, Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap, 1990. Wrappers. With illustrations. (31) pp. - (Offprint). [Boeknr.: 24215 ]

€ 15,00

MOLLEMA, J.C. Een muiterij in de achttiende eeuw. Het afloopen van het Oost-Indische Compagnieschip Nijenborg in 1763. Haarlem, H.D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon, 1933. Boards. With 2 plates. 103 pp. [Boeknr.: 229 ]

€ 20,00

MURRAY, Thomas Boyles. Pitcairn: the island, the people, and the pastor. To which is added a short notice of the original settlement and present condition of Norfolk Island. 12th edition. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, (1860).Sm.8vo. Original embossed cloth with gilt vignette on front cover, spine gilt (top of spine sl. damaged). With map, folding facsimile, 4 portraits and 12 plates. 414,(4) pp. First published in 1853. - The author recounts the voyage of the Bounty, the mutiny, Captain Bligh's voyage in an open boat, the voyage of the Pandora, and includes material on Peter Heywood, as well as describing Pitcairn and its inhabitants (Hill p.422).Hill 1209; O'Reilly/Reitman 4306. [Boeknr.: 9720 ]

€ 275,00

PIDOU DE St. OLON, François. Beschryving van het keyserryk van Marokko, behelsende de aart en eygenschap, mitsgaders de situatie van het voorschreve land. Item de zeeden, gewoonten, regeering, godsdienst en staatkunde van des zelve inwoonders. Vermeerdert met een reys-beschryving, door den kaiptein Roland Frejus, bevorens uyt last van den voornoemden koning van Vrankrijk, aan Mouley Archy, koning van Tasiles, broeder en voorzaat van den tegenwoordigen koning van Marokko, in Mauritanien gedaan. Uyt het Fransch vertaalt. 's Gravenhage, Meyndert Uytwerf, 1698.2 volumes in 1. Sm.8vo. Contemporary vellum (foot of spine sl. dam.). With engraved frontispiece portrait, engraved folding map and engraved folding plan, 2 engraved plates (1 folding, both sl. dam. in lower margin, sl. affecting the image), and 7 engraved costume plates of Moroccan men and women in traditional costume. (22),350,(14) pp. First Dutch edition; first published in Paris in 1694 Etat present de l'empire de Maroc. - François Pidou de Saint Olon (1640 - 1720), was sent by Louis XIV, to effect an exchange of slaves, and to conclude a treaty and alliance against the Barbary corsairs of Salé. He disembarked in the Bay of Tetuan and met the Sultan at Mekenes, but he had to leave the country without effecting his object. He was even imprisoned for some time at Tetuan by the Kaid of that place. The author's position as ambassador, gave him access to areas of Moroccan society previously unrecorded by travelers. - (Some wormholes).- Scarce.Gay 1264; Playfair & Brown 306; not in Tiele; Boucher de la Richarderie IV, p.46 (French ed.); Chadenat 5267 (French ed.). [Boeknr.: 36785 ]

€ 1250,00

PRIVATEERING. Copy van een brief, geschreeven aan boord van het kaaper-fregat De Dolphyn, capitein Van der Linden, aan .. Matthys Ooster, te Amsterdam. Amsterdam, Mattheus Schooneveld, 1781.Folio. (4) pp. Congratulations to Matthys Ooster on the save return of the commissievaarders De Dolphyn, Triton and Spion after hijacking two English ships with a load of coal, The Mary, captain Josias Gibson and The Providence, captain Thomas Wright, off the coast of England. On the return voyage there was a short (12 minutes) confrontation with 4 other English ships off the coast of Texel. Finally the fleet came home safe. Written by Dion. Werner on board of the ship the Dolphyn on the road of Texel, September 16, 1781. - (Stained). - Rare. [Boeknr.: 36243 ]

€ 375,00

RAVENEAU DE LUSSAN. Journal du voyage fait a la Mer de Sud, avec les flibustiers de l'Amerique en 1684. & années suivantes. 2e edition (= 3e edition). Paris, la veuve de Jean Bapt. Coignard et Jean Baptiste Coignard fils, 1693.Sm.8vo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt with red morocco title-label to spine (spine ends dam., lower part of hinges splitting but firmly holding). With woodcut printer's mark on title-page. (16),448,(1) pp. Third edition, first published in Paris in 1689. - 'A rare and charming book. Raveneau de Lussan, a young Frenchman who whished to see the world, sailed from France for San Domingue in 1679. His indebtedness led him to join the buccaneers in search of his fortune. .. Raveneau spent several months raiding in the West Indies, and several years raiding the Pacific coast between Guatemala and Chile. He details both the romantic and the bleak sides of the buccaneering profession, interwoven with colorful descriptions of the natives of the regions and a clear picture of the Spanish colonies on the Pacific' (Hill 1423). - An interesting account of buccaneering in the West Indies and the Pacific coast of South America, including details on the manners of the natives of the countries he visited. It gave Defoe inspiration for his Robinson Crusoe. - Final leaves waterstained in outer margin, otherwise fine.Sabin 67985; European Americana 693/142; Leclerc 487; Cox II, p.270: A very famous and entertaining work. [Boeknr.: 28511 ]

€ 950,00

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

SCHOKKENBROEK, J.C.A. & J. ter BRUGGEN. (Red.). Kapers & piraten. Schurken of helden ? Rotterdam, Maritiem Museum, 2010. Wrappers. With many coloured illustrations. 126 pp. [Boeknr.: 31933 ]

€ 20,00

TAPRELL DORLING, H. Sea venturers of Britain. 'Taffrail'. London, Collins' Clear-Type Press, (ca. 1930). Original pictorial cloth. With maps. XV,317 pp. On John Hawkins, Martin Frobisher, Drake, William Dampier, Anson, Cook, Franklin and Scott. [Boeknr.: 18487 ]

€ 18,00

VERHEES-VAN MEER, J.Th.H. De Zeeuwse kaapvaart tijdens de Spaanse successieoorlog 1702-1713. Middelburg, Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap, 1986. Wrappers. With 17 plates. IX,294 pp. [Boeknr.: 6133 ]

€ 30,00

VISSER, W. de. Piet Hein en de zilvervloot. Oorlog en handel in de West. Hilversum, Verloren, 2001. Wrappers. With many illustrations (some in colours). 88 pp. [Boeknr.: 3580 ]

€ 15,00

WEBER, R.E.J. De beveiliging van de zee tegen Europeesche en Barbarijnsche zeeroovers 1609-1621. Amsterdam, Noord-Hollandsche Uitgeversmaatschappij, 1936. 8vo. Cloth. With frontispiece. X,233 pp. - (Werken Commissie Zeegeschiedenis). [Boeknr.: 2566 ]

€ 30,00


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