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

Enschede, 1996.Long oblong 8vo ( 17 x 65 cm). Original wrappers in cloth box. With 22 silkscreen plates on velin arches.14 copies printed, this is number 2, signed by the artist. - In the spring of 1996, Frans Baake visited St. Pierre & Miquelon, a French territory off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. - A fine Dutch artist's book.

Franeker, Van Wijnen, (1985-89). 2 volumes. Cloth, with dust-jackets. 510; 616 pp.Jan van Baal (1909 - 1992) was an eminent cultural anthropologist and former governor of Nederlands-Nieuw-Guinea (1953-1958).

Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1836.Original half green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With engraved title-vignette and 5 engraved plates (1 folding) by W. Nieuwhoff. XVI,338 pp.First edition. - Trip through part of the Dutch possessions in the East Indies, with fine views of Trincolomale, Tammelgamsche baai, Riouw, the island of Marsch and Cheribon.At the end: Relaas van het voorgevallene en verrigte, door 's lands eskader, onder kommando van den kapitein-kommandant J.J. van Braam, bij de expeditie van Malakka, Salangoor en Riouw, in den jare 1784, in Oost-Indië. - (Some foxing). - Scarce.Tiele 62; not in Cat. NHSM; Cat. KITLV p.56.

Zwolle, Waanders, 2009. 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 60 coloured illustrations. 112 pp.Piet Ouborg started to paint in Indonesia, after 1938 he moved to the Netherlands.

Amsterdam, H.J.W. Becht, (1942). 8vo. Wrappers. With 45 illustrations. 60 pp. - (Palet Serie).

Semarang, (1917). Contemporary half cloth. 368 pp. Privately printed. - Henk Sneevliet (1883 - 1942), was a Dutch Communist, who was active in both the Netherlands and the Dutch East-Indies. As a functionary of the Communist International, Sneevliet guided the formation of the Communist Party of China in 1921.

Middelburg, J.C. & W. Altorffer, 1889.Original printed wrappers (spine rep.). With 2 folding plans. 144 pp.

Amsterdam, Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, 2008. Pictorial wrappers. With plates. 302 pp.White men in the Dutch East Indies usually lived with a "njai", a native woman with a status between servant and lover.

Amsterdam, Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, 2015. Pictorial wrappers. 299 pp.

New Delhi, 1991. Folio. Wrappers. 16 lvs. - (Paper Second International Symposium on Maritime Studies).

Weltevreden, Visser & Co & The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, (1929). 8vo. Original cloth (sl. soiled), spine lettered in gilt. With 3 illustrations. (6),299 pp.Privately printed. - The author was government botanist for the flora of Java.

'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.

London, Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1844.Later half red morocco, spine lettered in gilt. With folding map of Mauritius (mounted on linen), large folding map of South Africa (mounted on linen), 16 etched plates and 28 woodengravings. XVI,628,LVI pp.First edition. - The book is in the form of a diary, and the author seems to have traversed every part of South Africa where there was a mission station or a missionary. In this way he appears to have met almost every prominent man connected with mission work in South Africa at his time. The volume commences with an account of the author's visit to Mauritius, where he stayed about three months. There is a good description of Kaffraria, and of the Basuto, Griqua and Bechuana countries, and the account of the Cape Colony affords valuable information concerning the first part of the nineteenth century (Mendelssohn p.62). It contains vivid descriptions of the people he encountered, particularly the indigenous communities and those involved in the slave trade,… Read More

London, Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1844.Original embossed cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With folding map of Mauritius, large folding map of South Africa, 16 etched plates and 28 woodengravings. XVI,628,LVI pp.First edition. - The book is in the form of a diary, and the author seems to have traversed every part of South Africa where there was a mission station or a missionary. In this way he appears to have met almost every prominent man connected with mission work in South Africa at his time. The volume commences with an account of the author's visit to Mauritius, where he stayed about three months. There is a good description of Kaffraria, and of the Basuto, Griqua and Bechuana countries, and the account of the Cape Colony affords valuable information concerning the first part of the nineteenth century (Mendelssohn p.62). It contains vivid descriptions of the people he encountered, particularly the indigenous communities and those involved in the slave trade, which he found revolting and unchristian.… Read More

(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 living legend. He owned a country house in Alphen aan de Rijn. - Very rare.Not in Sabin or European Americana.

Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1914.Sm.8vo. Original red cloth (spine sl. discoloured). With 18 maps and 44 plans (mostly folding). XLVIII,504 pp..

Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1914. Sm.8vo. Cloth. With 56 maps, and 84 plans. XXX,459 pp.

Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1913.Sm.8vo. Cloth. With 82 partly folding maps and plans. LXVIII,698 pp.

Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1914.12mo. Original red cloth with gilt lettering. With 18 maps and 65 plans (some folding). LXXIV, 484 pp. Second edition, first edition was published in 1905. - Karl Ludwig Johannes Baedeker (1801 - 1859) was a German publisher whose company, Baedeker, set the standard for authoritative guidebooks for tourists. The first edition included Constantinople and the western portion of Asia Minor, together with Cyprus. The second edition was extended with the Balkans and the Aegean islands.Contominas Collection 25.

Leipzig, Karl Baedeker,1896.Sm.8vo. Cloth. With 14 maps, and 27 plans, partly folding. XXXVI,388. Inserted the street-index with plans.