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

Amsterdam, L.J. Veen, 1992. 4to. Wrappers. With many illustrations. 167 pp.

Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1827.2 volumes. Sm.8vo. Later half green calf, with red morocco spine labels, uncut. With 2 identical engraved title-pages depicting the author in a palanquin, 3 folding plates and 4 hand-coloured costume plates after Jacob Haafner by Reinier Vinkeles (missing one of the two plates of the Devedaschie?). X,260; IV,289,(1) pp.Second edition, first published in Amsterdam in 1808. - Travels on the coasts of Orissa and Coromandel in 1808. Jacob Gotfried Haafner (1754 - 1809) was a German-Dutch travel writer who lived in and wrote extensively on India and Sri Lanka. His travelogues were noted for their Romantic undertones, lively descriptions of Indian cultures and peoples, as well as criticisms of European colonialism, slavery, and cultural domination. He mixed up facts, romance and strong prejudices in very readable stories which provide insight into typical English Enlightment views on colonial and Indian society' (Coolhaas p.66-67). Haafner witnessed the Company's death… Read More

Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 1997. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 10 plates. 367 pp.Linschoten-Vereeniging XCI. - Contains Lotgevallen en vroegere zeereizen (1820) & Lotgevallen op eene reize van Madras over Tranquebaar naar het eiland Ceilon (1806).

London, Richard Phillips and Co.,1821.Original wrappers, uncut. With 3 aquatint plates (2 folding) after Reinier Vinkeles by W. Read. 118 pp.First English edition; first published in Dutch Reize te voet door het eiland Ceilon. Amsterdam, 1810. - Jacob Haafner was captured by the English in Madras but escaped to Ceylon. His eyewitness account of his journey on foot through Ceylon in 1810 from Jaffnapatnam to Colombo, was finished by his son Christiaan Mattghias and posthumously published in Amsterdam in 1810. 'Haafner was an anticolonialist, a man before his time, for his ideas were not to be topical until more than a century had elapsed' (De Silva & Beumer, Dutch Ceylon, p.462). Jacob Gotfried Haafner (1754 - 1809) was a German-Dutch travel writer who lived in and wrote extensively on India and Sri Lanka. His travelogues were noted for their Romantic undertones, lively descriptions of Indian cultures and peoples, as well as criticisms of European colonialism, slavery, and cultural domination. He mixed… Read More

Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1826.Sm 8vo. Original printed boards (rebacked), uncut. With engraved title depicting Haafner's arrival on the island Caradival and folding plate depicting his meeting with the Jammedaar at Alamparvé after Jacob Haafner by Reinier Vinkeles. VIII,268 pp.Second edition; first published in Amsterdam in 1806. - Travel from Madras to Ceylon in 1806. Jacob Gotfried Haafner (1754 - 1809) was a German-Dutch travel writer who lived in and wrote extensively on India and Sri Lanka. His travelogues were noted for their Romantic undertones, lively descriptions of Indian cultures and peoples, as well as criticisms of European colonialism, slavery, and cultural domination. He mixed up facts, romance and strong prejudices in very readable stories which provide insight into typical English Enlightment views on colonial and Indian society' (Coolhaas p.66-67). Haafner witnessed the Company's death agony and demise, and wrote about it. He has a lively and compelling manner (Nieuwenhuys,… Read More

Rijswijk, V.A. Kramers, 1938. Wrappers. 63 pp.Herman Willem Daendels (1762 - 1818) was a Dutch revolutionary, military leader, and statesman. He was 36th Governor General of the Dutch East Indies, a position he held from 1808 to 1811.

Haarlem, De Boer Maritiem, (2002). Wrappers. With many illustrations (some in colours). 144 pp.

Batavia, G. Kolff & Co., 1922-1923.2 volumes tex & atlas volume. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering. With 2 folding maps. 559; 408 pp.First edition. - Detailed memorial volume of the town of Batavia (Jakarta) 1619-1919, the capital city of the Netherlands Indies, site of a VOC post from 1610, and founded in 1619 by J.P. Coen, as regional headquarters for the Dutch East India Company (VOC), on the side of the Banten port of Jayakarta. Entirely based on official records, written by the keeper of the Records of Batavia. The plates in the atlas volume depict Dutch houses, furniture, arts & crafts etc.

Arnhem, Is.An Nijhoff en Zoon, 1857.Original embossed green cloth, with gilt decoration on front, spine gilt. With engraved title-page with vignette by J.W. Kaiser. IV,232 pp.

Amsterdam, G.W. Tielkemeijer en W. Willems, 1856.Original brown cloth with gilt ship on frontcover, a.e.g. (rebound, backcover sl. stained). With engraved title-page after H.A. Klinkhamer by J.B. Tétar van Elven (sl. foxed). XI,128 pp.First edition was published in Amsterdam in 1847. - Account of the Dutch shipwreck of the ship Jan Hendrik off the coast of Brazil containing a poem by the Dutch poet Bernard ter Haar (1806-1880): The St. Paulus cliff, with annotations. Cat. NHSM I, p.191; not in Huntress.

Bussum, De Boer Maritiem, 1976. 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many photographic illustrations. 207 pp.

's Gravenhage 1981. Wrappers. With illustrations. 92 pp.BZZLLETIN 91 - Hélène Serafia Haasse (1918 - 2011) born in Batavia, was a Dutch writer, often referred to as the 'Grande Dame' of Dutch literature.

(Leiden), 2013. Wrappers. With illustrations. Tijdschrift van de werkgroep Indisch-Nederlandse letterkunde. - Hélène Serafia Haasse (1918 - 2011) born in Batavia, was a Dutch writer, often referred to as the 'Grande Dame' of Dutch literature.

Amsterdam, Em. Querido, 1993. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. 208 pp.

London, The British Library, 1996. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 50 illustrations. VIII,158 pp.Engelbert Kaempfer was one of the most extraordinary men of his age. Scientist, physician, linguist, artist, he is best known today as an early traveller to Japan.

(No pl.), Bataafsche Leeuw, 2000. 4to. Boards, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations. 304 pp. Thesis. - Bijdragen tot de Nederlandse Marinegeschiedenis.

Amsterdam, 1991. Wrappers. With 4 plates. (17) pp. - (Offprint Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis).

Franeker, Van Wijnen, 2004. Boards. With illustrations. 120 pp.François Valentijn (1666 - 1727) was a Dutch minister, naturalist and author whose Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën describes the history of the Dutch East India Company and the countries of the Far East.

Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2014. 4to. Pictorial boards. With many illustrations (mostly in colours). 136 pp.The Noordsche Compagnie (Northern Company) was a Dutch cartel in the whaling trade, founded by several cities in the Netherlands in 1614 and operating until 1642.

(Groningen, Arctisch Centrum), 1995. Wrappers. 35 pp.