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

Rabat, Université Mohammed V, 1988. Wrappers. 358,96 pp.Actes du 1er Collogue maroco -néerlandais à la Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines de Rabat. Some contributions in Arabic. Contributions by B.J. Slot, P.S. van Koningsveld, P.C. Emmer a.o.

(No pl., Het Leeskabinet), 1872. With 2 tinted lithographed plates depicting 4 illustrations of the wintering on Nova Zembla by P. Blommers. 26 pp.

Amsterdam, H. Meulenhoff, 1916. 4to. Cloth. With many illustrations. 121 pp.

Amsterdam, J.H. de Bussy, 1895. Original pictorial wrappers. (8),234 pp.The Japanese stories were written during the author's trip through Japan and first published as articles in newspapers. - A fine copy.

Rotterdam, B. van de Watering, 1903. Contemporary half cloth, spine lettered in gilt. 229 pp. From the contents: Van't oude Batavia. - W. van Haren en zijn Koloniale Boetzang. - Het Bataviaasch Museum. - Een verloren 'Buitencomtoir' der O.I. Compagnie. - etc.

Haarlem, H.D. Tjeenk Willink, 1894.Original decorated green cloth, gilt lettering. 292 pp.Historical essays focused on the Dutch East Indies: Een Indische veldtocht in het jaar 1706; Een oud-Indisch tooneelspel; Een Hollandsch gezantschap naar den grooten mogol; etc. - A nice copy.Buur, Persoonlijke Documenten, 400.

Hilversum, Verloren, 1999. Wrappers. With many illustrations (several in colours). 280 pp. Travel-account of a trip by the ship De Vondel from Genua to the Dutch East Indies, China and Japan.

Franeker, T. Wever, (1982). Cloth. With illustrations. 368 pp.

Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 1999. Boards, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations. 255 pp. Dutch engineer working in Japan just after the opening.

The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1972. Cloth. With 2 folding maps. XII,328 pp. KITLV. - The personal experience of daily life in the years 1932-1942 among the Biak speaking people of the Radja Ampat area (Sorong), West New Guinea.

Den Haag, J.N. Voorhoeve, 1954. Wrappers. With folding map. 250 pp. -Thesis. - Religion and myths of the Biak People of the Biak Islands, Geelvink Bay, North West New Guinea.

's Gravenhage, 1960. Folio. Cloth. With many photographic illustrations. 296 pp.Billiton, a large island between Sumatra and Kalimantan remained barely occupied until 1851, when the Billiton Compamy began mining tin there. Extensive immigration of Chinese laborers began in 1852.

Hilversum, C. de Boer, 1961. 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many photographic illustrations. - Text in Dutch and English.

Bussum, Van Holkema & Warendorf, (1977). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many photographic illustrations. 368 pp.Biography of L.A. Schoonheyt, a medical doctor who served in the Dutch internmentcamp 'Upper Digul', for sentenced Indonesian political prisoners.

Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, (1840).4to. Original half red cloth. With steelengraved title-page after W.H. Bartlett by R. Wallis, folding map and 70 steelengraved plates after W.H. Bartlett, J.D. Harding by G. Richardson, J.T. Willmore, J.C. Bentley. H. Adlard, R. Wallis, S. Fisher, a.o.VI,206,(2) pp.The valleys of Piedmont: Turin, Pignerol, Luzerne, St. Jean, La Tour, Castelluzzo, Angrogna, Rora, St Martin, Clusone, Perosa, Pragelas, Dauphiné and Ban de la Roche. - (Light age-browned).

Utrecht, J.L. Beijers, 1871.Original printed wrappers. 57 pp.Treatise against the transfer of the Dutch West-Africa possession to Britain (realized in 1872).

Batavia, G. Kolff & Co., 1931. 8vo. Wrappers. VI,253 pp.

London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1864.Contemporary polished calf, spine richly gilt. With steelengraved portrait, folding map, 7 steel-engraved plates and many wood-engravings. 510 pp.First published in Philadelphia in 1856. - 'In a brief life of thirty-six years, mostly in ill health, Elisha Kent Kane participated in two Arctic explorations and by the time of his death in 1875 was regarded as a true American hero and one of the nation's most popular authors' (Stam, Books on ice, p.39). Narrative of the Second Grinnell Expedition on the Advance, 1853-1855, to search for the Sir John Franklin Expedition and to explore the region north of Smith Sound. Expedition members explored Greenland's Humboldt Glacier while other members of his team explored Ellesmere Island and set a northernmost record on the coast of Greenland.Arctic Bibl. 8373; Sabin 37001; Hill 903 (other ed.); Howgego III, pp.283-287.

Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, (ca. 1860).2 volumes in 1. Original half cloth, spine gilt. 175; 164 pp.Expedition to determine the fate of Franklin's lost expedition, led by Elisha Kent Kane.Cf. Arctic Bibl. 8373; Sabin 37001.

Tilburg, J.B. van Gorp & Zn., 1904. Original decorated boards. 135 pp.Elisha Kent Kane (1820 - 1857) was an American explorer, and a medical officer in the United States Navy. He was a member of two Arctic expeditions to rescue the explorer Sir John Franklin.