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

Samawis, A. Bisschop, 1887.Half cloth (sl. loose). 251 pp.Text from Demak of the wayang purwa play Kresna Gugah, written in Javanese script, with some stage directions such as the characters staged, the opening recitatives of the various scenes, the dialogues and so forth (Groenendael, Wayang theatre, 279). - (Some annotations).

Londres, Société Typographique, 1784.Sm.8vo. Contemporary boards. 219,(6) pp.'Lacombe asserted that if the war continued three years longer, there would be left only soldiers, beggars, and thieves. London was full of robbers and footpads, with whom the drivers of coaches were in collusion. .. Englishmen attached themselves to no one, because they considered strangers enemies, whom they dared not openly offend, though their treatment of foreigners was fair enough. The English character had deteriorated since 1756' (Cox III, p.95/96).

(Augsburg, Johann Balthasar Probst, ca. 1750).Contemporary handcoloured perspective view (vue d'optique or Guckkastenbild), with descriptive text in 4 languages, after Adolf van der Laan by Sieuwert van der Meulen. Ca. 29,5 x 40 cm.Optical whaling print depicting the arrival of the Greenland whaling sailers. - (Cut short; sl. soiled).Ingalls 147; Cf. Brewington 86.

Amsterdam, Balthasar Lakeman, 1725.4 volumes in 2. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf (sl. rubbed), with red and green labels on spines, spines ribbed and richly gilt. With 4 title-pages printed in red and black, 2 engraved frontispieces (mounted), 13 engraved maps and plans (12 folding) and 81 engraved plates. 18,350; 404; 254; 200,167,(32) pp.First Dutch edition; first published in Paris in 1722 Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amerique. - Labat (1663/64-1738) went to the West Indies as a Dominican missionary, and gives in this, his most famous work, details of all the islands he visited, and notably of Martinique and Guadeloupe' (Cox II, p.235). 'His highly perceptive and scientific description of these islands and some of the smaller surrounding islands provides some of the only information available from this period. .. His book contains his scientific observations, as well as descriptions of the soil, trees, plants, fruits, and herbs of the islands. He also deals with the natural resources of the… Read More

Leiden, A.W. Sijthoff, (1898).Sm.8vo. Original pictorial cloth. With many illustrations. 182 pp.Translation of Andre´e: au po^le nord en ballon. - Story of the Second Andrée Polar expedition in 1897 by the Swedish Arctic balloonist Salomon August Andrée (1854-1897). - Nice binding.

Paris, Pagnerre, 1845.8vo. Contemporary half green morocco, spine gilt. With 30 steel-engraved plates. 472,(4) pp.From the contents: Histoire, Biographie, Statistique, Politique, Législation, Administration, Religion, Institutions, Armée, Marine, Industrie, Finances, Commerce, Agriculture, Moeurs publiques et privées, L'empereur et sa familie, etc. - Some foxing, otherwise a fine copy.Catalogue Russica L58; Vicare IV, 809.

Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1880.8vo. Contemporary half red morocco, spine and boards richly gilt, a.e.g. With 16 chromolithographed plates and 300 woodengravings. VIII,580 pp.A very fine copy. - Colas 1704; Lipperheide 1118; Hiler p.518.

's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1934- Cloth. With portrait, 2 maps and 3 plates. XX,234 pp.Linschoten-Vereeniging XXXVII. - Yearly record of the proceedings of the WIC from 1631 to 1633,

Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2009. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 22 maps and plates. 190 pp.Linschoten-Vereeniging CVIII. - De Laet compiled a handbook for Dutch sailors and colonizers in Dutch-Brazil. It was shipped to Pernambuco in early 1637. Since then, the bundle had disappeared from view, until it reappeared in 1977 in the John Carter Brown Library in Providence (USA). The Handbook is now being published in Dutch for the first time. It contains new facts about early 17th century Brazil. High-quality intelligence, which paints us an exciting picture of the Dutch expansion in Brazil and the fierce competition with the Portuguese for the trade in sugar, paint wood and tobacco

Lugd. Batav., ex officina Elzeviriana, 1630.16mo. Contemporary calf, rebacked with part of spine laid down, a.e.g.. With engraved armorial title-page. (16),352,(9) pp. Second enlarged edition; the first edition was also published in Leiden in 1630. - Johannes de Laet (1582-1649) was director of the Dutch West India Company (WIC). Beglii Confedearti Respublica is a collection of various authors on North-Central Europe focusing primarily on Belgium.Willems 326; Tiele 633.

Roma 1602.Engraved plan. 34 x 49 cm.The second state of Antonio Lafrere’s map of the Battle of Szigetvar, which saw the death of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. The battle was fought between the defending Magyar forces under the leadership of Nikola Subic Zrinski, former Ban of Croatia, and the invading Ottoman army under the nominal command of Sultan Suleiman.The map shows a meticulous image of the battle, with the Magyar forces battling from the walled castle and “fortezza nova”, defending the Ottoman forces firing across the water, with mounted horseman and canon shown. The location of the tent of Suleiman (Padiglione del gran turcho) is shown in the top of the map. The siege lasted from August 6 to September 8 1566 and though it resulted in an Ottman victory, there were heavy lossen on both sides. Both commanders died during the battle - Zrinski in the final charge and Suleiman in his tent from natural causes.

Amsterdam, Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, 1968. Wrappers. With maps. VIII,86 pp. - (Thesis).

Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2006. Cloth. With illustrations. 208 pp.Linschoten-Vereeniging CV. - Eye-witness account of the defeat of the Dutch on the West African coast at the beginning of the 17th century.

Bruxelles, Louis Haiman et Comp., 1835.4 volumes. Sm.8vo. Original marbled boards, with paper title-labels to spines.First edition published in the same year. - Lamartine (1790-1869), with his wife and daughter, travelled in his private yacht in style of an Ottoman prince, presenting costly gifts to his hosts. He was known in the East as l'Emir Français. Lamartine left his family at Beirut and went on to the Holy Land alone, he returned to France overland via Constantinople and the Danube valley. He spent 16 months in the Levant.Cf.Blackmer Collection 942 and Atabey Collection 659; Tobler p.153; Rohricht 1776; Europa und der Orient p.336.

Breda, Amsterdam., F.P. Sterk & L. van Bakkenes, 1835-1836.4 volumes. Contemporary half calf, with title label to spines. With frontispiece portrait, folding table and 2 folding lithographed maps. XII,294; 370; 344; VI,338 pp.First Dutch edition; first published in French Souvenirs, impressions, pensées et paysages, pendant un voyage en Orient, Paris 1835 . - Lamartine, with his wife and daughter, left Marseilles in October 1832, in his private yacht which was fitted out with a library and an arsenal. He travelled in the style of an Ottoman prince, presenting costly gifts to his hosts and was known in the East as l'Emir Français. Lamartine left his family at Beirut and went on to the Holy Land alone. His daughter Julie died of consumption at Beirut, and Lamartine returned to France overland via Constantinople and the Danube valley. He spent 16 months in the Levent (Blackmer p.199). - (Foxing).Blackmer Collection 942; Atabey Collection 659; The Ömer Koç Collection II, 300; Tobler 153; Rohricht… Read More

Amsterdam., C.L. Brinkman, Utrecht, J.L. Beijers, 1884.Original cloth, spine gilt. With folding plate and large folding coloured map. 101 pp.Tijdschrift KNAG. - Account of the Dutch expedition to the Kara Sea, (Karskoje More), in 1882-1883.

Amsterdam, G.S. Leeneman van der Kroe, 1824. Wrappers. 45 pp. Concerns about Suriname as a reaction on an article in Bijdragen tot de Huishouding van Staat in het Koningrijk der Nederlanden, verzameld ten dienste der Staten Generaal by Gijsbert Karel graaf van Hogendorp.Suriname-Cat. UB Amsterdam 3834.

Aruba, De Wit, (1968). Wrappers. With portraits. (6),85 pp.

Aruba, De Wit, (1971). Wrappers. With illustrations. 165 pp.

Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen & Zoon, (1942). Half cloth. With plates.185 pp. - (Patria).