Search Results: Authors starting with R from Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books

Zutphen, Terra, 1980. Wrappers. With many coloured illustrations. 64 pp.On Eliza Charlotte van Zuylen (1864-1947) founder of an Indo-European batik manufactory (batik Belanda) in Pekalongan.

Hilversum, Verloren, 2010. Boards. With many illustrations, several in colours. 830 pp.The Life of Joan Loten, the 'naturalist Governor of Ceylon', details his personal history and his professional career as a servant of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). It contains an inventory of his natural history drawings in the London Natural History Museum and Teylers Museum at Haarlem.

(Amsterdam), Art Unlimited Books, (1989). 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many coloured illustrations. 180 pp.

's Gravenhage, SDU, 1992. Folio. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations. 555 pp.'The impressive quantity of documents not only provides information about the commercial, financial and diplomatic activities of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), but is also very significant for the history of the Netherlands and for those countries and regions in Asia and Africa where the VOC was established'.

's Gravenhage., Erven Doorman, 1853. Original printed wrappers.VI,165 pp.

'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.

('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.

'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.

New Delhi, 1987. Wrappers. With folding plan and 16 plates. 52 pp.

Amsterdam, Nico Israel, 1971. 4to. Imitation leather. With portrait and 2 maps. CVI,182 pp.Argonaut Press 5. - Critical edition of the classic account of El Dorado.

London, 2006. 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 11 maps and plates. XCVII,360 pp.Hakluyt Society, 3rd series, 15. - Sir Walter Ralegh's account of his 1595 expedition to the Orinoco in search of the fabled empire of El Dorado was an immediate publishing success and is one of the most important pieces of Elizabethan travel literature.

Hilversum, Verloren, 2018. Wrappers. 368 pp.With a population of over half a million and a diversity of population groups, languages ??and religions, Suriname is one of the most segmented societies in the Caribbean.

Paris, Hachette, 1966. 4to. Pictorial boards. With many illustrations. 360 pp.

Leiden, A.W. Sijthoff, (1888).Lithographed frontwrapper, with nice scene after J.C. Rappard. Ca. 33 x 24,5 cm.Rare original frontwrapper of an issue of Perelaer's, Het kamerlid Van Berkenstein in Nederlandsch-Indië. - After a drawing by Josias Cornelis Rappard (1824-1898). - Fine.Bastin-Brommer N 691; Cat. KITLV, 4e suppl., p.190; Haks & Maris, Lexicon, p.219.

The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1979. Wrappers. XI,442 pp. - (KITLV).

London, Jonathan Cape, (1929). Cloth. 349 pp.

The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1982. Wrappers. With 7 plates. XX,304 pp. - (KITLV).

Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2000. Wrappers. With illustrations. 319 pp.

's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1953. Cloth. With plan, 3 maps, 7 plates and 7 facsimiles. CX,439 pp.Linschoten-Vereeniging LV. - Provides insight into the daily routine at the castle of Sao George da Mina, headquarter of the Dutch West India Company in West Africa, during the years 1645-1647.

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.