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

Soerabaia, 1931. Folio. Half cloth. With 3 folding coloured maps and many photographic illustrations. VIII,424 pp. Ample history of the Surabaya municipality from the earliest times up till 1906. - Standard work.

Amsterdam, KIT, 2011. Boards. With numerous coloured illustrations. 168 pp. - The origins, increase and composition of the collection at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam are described.

Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 1988. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 49 illustrations. 175 pp.Linschoten-Vereeniging LXXXVIII. - The ending of the Dutch period in Japan (1640-1853) and the start of a new relation beginning with the presentation of the Dutch steamship Soembing to Japan. This became the first Japanese naval ship: Kwankomaru.

Den Haag, Leopold, (1986). Wrappers. 207 pp.

Assen, De Torenlaan, 1961. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. 118 pp.Stories, set in the Dutch East Indies published upon the occasion of the author's 90th birthday.

Baarn, Boekenkring, (1964). Pictorial cloth (spine discoloured). 227 pp.

London, The Shell Petroleum Company, 1949. Half cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations J.H. Doeve. X, 142 pp.

Den Haag, H.P. Leopold, 1949. Pictorial cloth. With illustrations by Menno van Meeteren Brouwer. 355 pp.

(Kaap, 1974). Oblong 8vo. Boards, with dust-jacket. With many photographic illustrations of the old houses. 185 pp.Tulbagh, named after Dutch Cape Colony Governor Ryk Tulbagh, is a town located in the 'Land van Waveren' in the winelands of the Western Cape, South Africa.

Gouda, G.B. van Goor Zonen, (1891).Original pictorial cloth. With 5 (of 6) plates by F. Bergen. VIII,228 pp.Kruis en halve maan, deel III.

Maarssen, 's Gravenhage, Gary Schwartz & SDU, 1988. Pictorial wrappers. With 94 illustrations (some in colours) after De Famars Testas. 232 pp. The Dutch artist Willem de Famars Testas (1834-1896) travelled together with the French Egyptologist Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) in Egypt.

Arnhem, Nijmegen, Gebr. E. & M. Cohen, (ca. 1900).Original pictorial red cloth. With illustrations. 394 pp.First published in Amsterdam in 1862.

London, Parkgate Books, 2000. Folio. Pictorial boards. With many photographic plates. 144 pp. Chronological history of marine archeology starting with Kyrenia ship, 288 B.C. Cyprus, till the shipwreck of the Sea Empress, 1996 Mildford.

Amsterdam, Bert Bakker, 1995. Wrappers. With illustrations. 314 pp.

Amsterdam, Bert Bakker, 1993. Wrappers. With illustrations. 552 pp.The history and development of civil servants for administration in the Dutch East indies.

Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2020. 4to. Boards. With many illustrations, mostly coloured. 175 pp.Between 1683 and 1795, Suriname was governed by the Sociëteit van Suriname, a partnership between the city council of Amsterdam, the West India Company and the family Van Aerssen van Sommelsdyck.

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.

Paris, Guillaumin, 1845.2 volumes. Contemporary half vellum, with red and green morocco labels on spines. XXXI,470; 433 pp. First edition. - Léonard Joseph Faucher (1803 - 1854) was a French politician and economist. - (Some foxing).

London, The Gawthorn Press, (ca. 1950). Boards. With illustrations. 51 pp.

Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2023. Cloth, with dust-jacket. 256 pp.Linschoten Vereeniging 123. - Michael de Febure wrote during his journey in 1721-1722minutely on what he saw and experienced. He talks about daily life on board, pirates, marine fauna, scurvy, navigation, temperature observations and the peoples and cultures of Cape Verde, India and the Azores.