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

Zutphen, Walburg Pers, (1991). 4to. Wrappers. With many illustrations. 192 pp.

(Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 1989). Wrappers. With illustrations. 343 pp.

Haarlem, Fibula-Van Dishoeck, (1982). Boards, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations. 164 pp.

Zutphen, Walburg Pers, (2002). 4to. Boards, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations (several in colours). 192 pp. Richly Illustrated history of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).

(No pl., ca. 1948). Folio. Wrappers. 30 pp.

Utrecht, Johannes Ribbius, 1682.4to. Contemporary vellum. With engraved frontispiece, 3 double-page maps of Mexico, South America and Guatemala, and 8 plates (2 double-page). (18),450,(68) pp.First Dutch edition; first published in London in 1648 The English-American his travail by sea and land: or a new survey of the West-India's, containing a journall of three thousend and three hundred miles within the main land of America. With the bookplates of J.W. Six and F.C. Koch. - Gage, originally belonged to the Dominican order, and served as a missionary priest in Mexico, going out in 1625. His book, published in 1648, created a sensation at the time. In it the author describes Mexico and the wealth of South America, commenting upon the ease with which it could be conquerred. Gage's description of the vast regions from which all foreigners had been jealously excluded by the Spanish authorities is possible responsible for generating the English attacks on Spanish territories during Cromwell's government -… Read More

Zwolle, Waanders, 2020. Boards. With 90 illustrations. 160 pp.Dealing with ceramics and other objects found on board eight shipwrecks from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries. The finds tell fascinating stories about the Maritime Silk Road in Asia. This opens up a hidden world of international trade and exchange.

(No place, ca. 1656).Engraving depicting the marble grave memorial with naval battle scene designed by Willem de Keyser and Rombout Verhulst, after Van Kampen by A. Sioertsma. With 4 line poem. Ca. 46,5 x 32 cm.Jan / Johan van Galen (1604 -1653) was mortally wounded during the naval Battle of Livorno / Leghorn which took place on 4 March 1653 during the First Anglo-Dutch War, near Livorno, Italy. It was a victory of a Dutch fleet under Commodore Johan van Galen over an English squadron under Captain Henry Appleton. Added an engraved oval potrait of Jan van Galen by J. Houbraken. Both mounted on one board with label Atlas van Amsterdam van D.C. Meijer Jr.Muller, Portretten, 1770k; 1768h.

's Gravenhage, Azië Instituut, 1971. Wrappers. With illustrations (some in colours). 48 pp.

Utrecht, Centraal Museum, 1962. Wrappers. With map and 45 plates. 131 pp.

Amsterdam, Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, 1952. Wrappers. With 16 plates.

New Delhi, Usha, 1984. 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With plates. X,270 pp.Selections from the records of the Madras government. - Two important memoirs by Stein van Gollenesse (1743) and Moens (1781).

Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, 1892. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. 72 pp. Report on the state of affairs in Minahassa, Celebes.Cat. KITLV p.31.

London, British Library, 1994. 4to. Boards, with dust-jacket. With 252 coloured illustrations. 240 pp.With presentation inscription from the author. - Annabel Teh Gallop is a specialist in Southeast Asia, and is Head of the Southeast Asia Section at the British Library. A catalogue of a superb exhibition of one hundred Malay letters dating from 1521 to the end of the nineteenth century, from public and private collections. The letters are not only beautiful art objects but are also a precious resource for the political, diplomatic and economic history of the Malay archipelago.

New York, London, Macmillan Company, 1907.Original decorated cloth gilt, top edge gilt. With numerous plans, plates and illustrations. XVI,579 pp. The first edition was published the same year. - A fine copy.

Cape Town, 1984. Cloth. With plates. (12),152 pp.Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 15. - In 1895 Edmund Garrett (1865-1907) was appointed editor of the Cape Times and remained there during the crucial period of the Jameson Raid, the lead-up to the South African War. A staunch imperialist, he formed close relationships with Sir Alfred Milner, Governor of the Cape, and with Dr Jane Waterston. His letters to his cousins give an intimate and lively account of life in Cape Town until 1899.

New York, American Anti-slavery Society, 1860.Sm.8vo. Original printed wrappers (dam.). 144 pp.Anti-Slavery Tracts. No.4. New series. - . William Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 1879) was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, which he founded with Isaac Knapp in 1831 and published in Massachusetts until slavery was abolished by Constitutional amendment after the American Civil War. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States. Sabin 53392; Afro-Americana 4020.

Zutphen, Walburg Pers, (2000). 4to. Wrappers. With many illustrations (several in colours). 555 pp. - 19th century accounts of Dutch waterengineers working in Japan.

Paris, Gaume Frères, 1847-48.4 volumes. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt. With 2 large folding plans (Plan de Rome ancienne et moderne & Plan de Rome souteraine ou des catacombe). XII,563; 708; 659; 600,CIV pp. - First edition.

Amsterdam, Bataafsche Leeuw, 1996. 4to. Boards, with dust-jacket. With numerous illustrations (several in colours). 317 pp.