Arrest du Conseil d'Estat du Roy du 12 Avril 1723, portant reglement pour l'entrée dans le royaume des etains de Siam, provenans de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales de Hollande. by SIAM & THE DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY

London, John Murray, 1857.Contempoary calf, spine gilt (sl. rubbed; one hinge sl. dam. but holding). With folding wood-engraved frontispiece depicting the Victoria Falls by Whymper, engraved portrait (margins foxed), a folding cross section, 2 folding maps by John Arrowsmith and 42 wood-engraved plates and illustrations. X,687pp.This first edition appeared in various issues the same year. - An account of Livingstone's first expedition (1853-1856). With the help of the Makololos, a South African tribe, Livingstone planned to explore the whole of southern Africa as far as Angola. The missionary had become an important explorer. As the first European, he traveled on the Zambezi to Kazembe in a pirogue, a fast water vessel made from a tree trunk. In order to escape from the slave traders of Portuguese Africa, Livingstone traveled via Cassange and Bihé to Luanda, a Portuguese port and the capital of Angola, where he arrived completely exhausted on 31 May, 1854. As soon as he had recovered from his fever,… Read More

Harlingen, Hero Galama, (ca. 1665).Engraved half length portrait with heading Vivit post funera virtus, baton and naval battle in the background, after Lodewyck vander Helst by Abraham Blotelingh. With 8 line poem in 2 columns by I. de Decker. Ca. 45 x 35 cm.Fine portrait of Auke Andriesz Stellingwerf (1635 -1665), a Dutch admiral who served the Frisian admiralty and died while commanding a squadron in the battle of Lowestoft. - (Skilfully remargined).Muller, Portretten, 5148a: zeer fraaije gravure.

(Amsterdam, 1630). Engraving by Bernard Picart. Ca. 26 x 33 cm.From: Le Clerq. Geschiedenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden.- Stranded whale on the Dutch shore near Katwijk, February 2, 1598. This engraving 'is particular important as a prototype for both whale print iconography and 17th century Dutch landscape. This particular depiction of a sperm whale was to be copied for two hundred years in European stranded whale and natural history prints' (Ingalls p.190). - Fine.Muller, Historieplaten, 1082a; Ingalls, Lothrop Collection, 360; Brewington, Kendall Whaling Museum, 532; See Sliggers & Wertheim, 'Op het strand gesmeten', p.52-56.

Amsterdam, Johannes van der Hey, 1817.Contemporary half calf (top of spine sl. damaged). With engraved view on title-page after De la Belle by D. Veelwaard and engraved folding map by D. Veelwaard. VIII,340 pp.First Dutch edition, first published in Hamburg in 1816: Lettres sur le Caucase et la Géorgie suivies d'une rélation d'un voyage en Perse en 1812. - The correspondence sent by Frederika Afanas'eva von Freygang's (née Kudriavskaia) to her husband contains an account of the journey to the Caucasus in the years 1811-1812. It is one of the earliest accounts by a Russian woman writer. The second part of the book, by Frederika Freygang's husband Wilhelm, is a historico-political account of the Transcaucasus region compiled from notes taken in the field. - (Age-browned).Muller, Bibl. Neerlando-Russe 113; Catalogue Russica F761; Miansarof p.348; Wilson p.76 (not the Dutch ed.); Not in Tiele.

Three original watercolours showing traditional Arab sailing vessels off the coast with native fishermen, common in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean region. Signed by SCHLIEN.One plate is dated 1886. Seize ca. 24 x 19 cm and 2 others ca. 31 x 23,5 cm. - Decorative views.

Bonn, Leipzig, Kurt Schroeder, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1923-1927.6 volumes in 7. Original half cloth (5) and wrappers (2).Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) was a famous Dutch scholar of Oriental cultures and languages and Advisor on Native Affairs to the colonial government of the Netherlands East Indies. 'He knew more about Islam than the best-informed Muslim and more about colonial government than the Colonial Office itself, and many an opponent was antagonised or even silenced by his vitrolic criticism'.With Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) a new chapter begins in Dutch Islam scholarship in general and the study of Indonesian Islam in particular. .. In spite of all the criticism, no one intending to seriously study Islam in Indonesia will be able to avoid reading Snouck Hurgronje's work and consulting them again and again' (Boland-Farjon, Islam in Indonesia, p.16-17). The collected works is an authorised edition with corrections by the author. It includes all his publications until 1927 with the… Read More

Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, 1853-1854.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With 2 folding maps and 7 lithographed plates (4 tinted). VIII,274; 292 pp.First edition. - Miscellaneous pieces on Indonesia of historical interest especially on Java from an archaeological point of view. Brumund's (1814-1863) 'beste opstellen en verhalen (staan) in de bundel Indiana. Hij toont hierin een kennis van land en volk, van de Javaanse cultuur en het maatschappelijke leven die zonder meer imponerend is als we bedenken hoe weinig toen nog maar bekend was en hoe Brumund zijn kennis bijna uit het niets heeft moeten vergaren' (Nieuwenhuys, Oost-Indische Spiegel, p.130). - With small library stamp on title-page, otherwise fine.Bastin-Brommer N643; Landwehr, Coloured Plates, 246; Tiele 203.

Paris, Daumont, (ca.1760).Contemporary handcoloured perspective view (vue d'optique or Guckkastenbild) depicting a view of the village of Yang-ka in Cochin, with legend in Latin and French. Ca.28,5 x 39 cm.Handsome optical harbour view of a village with figures and canal with sailing-ships in Vietnam.

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.

Amsterdam, Henry & Theodore Boom, 1677.2 volumes in 1. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. With engraved title-page, portrait and 2 engraved title-vignettes. (18), 480; 250 pp.First edition; with the bookplate of H. de la Fontaine Verwey. - First monograph on the great Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruiter (1607-1676) who fought the English and French and scored several major victories against them, the best known probably being the Raid on the Medway. This monograph was based on the first biography of De Ruyter written by Lambertus van den Bosch in his Leeven en daden der doorluchtighste zeehelden (Amsterdam 1676). The book by Pielat was published after De Ruiter was given an elaborate state funeral, the publishing date of his book must be around 1681 but it was issued before the famous biography of Gerard Brandt. It also contains the account of De Ruiter's expedition to the West Indies.- (Light staining). - Rare.Not in Cat. NHSM; European Americana IV, p.32.