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

Nürnberg, Johann Daniel Tauber, 1672.Sm. folio. Later overlapping vellum, with red morocco titlelabel, with ties. With titlepage printed in red and black, finely engraved portrait and frontispiece by J.A. Böner, 15 half-page engravings, plus 2 additional ones on seperate leaf, and several woodcut head and tail pieces and initials. (52),168,(16) pp.Second and best edition, first published in 1662. - In this second edition Daniel Wülfer inserted more descriptions in the text and added many voluminous notes, citing as authorities a great many of the published descriptions of Asia available at the time. His account is very useful for its description of the daily life of a VOC soldier, and it is particularly valuable for its detailed portrayal of the Dutch conquest of Colombo and Jaffnapatam from the Portuguese in the 1655-1658 compaigns, in which Saar participated. Saar describes Java, Batavia, Amboina, and Banda, a Dutch defeat in Persia, conquest of some towns in India and Malacca, etc. Most of his… Read More

Paris, Cinemato, 1968.Large coloured poster by Guy Lécureux. Ca. 158 x 116 cm.Small tear at top, otherwise fine.

Utrecht, Antwerpen, Prisma-Boeken, (1962-1965). 2 volumes. Wrappers. 202; 190 pp. Novels by black authors.

Philadelphia, 1903. Original cloth, top edge gilt, uncut. With plates and illustrations. 141 pp.500 numbered copies printed for the author. - Justus Falckner (1672-1723), born in Germany, served as pastor of the Dutch Lutheran congregations in Manhattan and Albany County, New York and Hackensack, New Jersey. He learned the Dutch language and also preached in English and later in German.

Stuttgart, W. Kohlhammer, 1952. 8vo. Wrappers, uncut. With 4 plates. X,336 pp.Quellenwerke zur alten Geschichte Amerikas. Aufgezeichnet in den Sprachen der Eingeborenen. Herausgegeben von der Lateinamerikanischen Bibliothek, Berlin. - Aztec tex with German translation.

Stuttgart, W. Kohlhammer, 1950. 8vo. Wrappers, uncut. With 4 plates. XIII,400 pp.Quellenwerke zur alten Geschichte Amerikas. Aufgezeichnet in den Sprachen der Eingeborenen. Herausgegeben von der Lateinamerikanischen Bibliothek, Berlin. - Aztec tex with German translation.

(Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 1986). Wrappers. With illustrations. 104 pp.

Jakarta, Penerbit Yayasan Krama Yudha, 1992. 4to. Wrappers. IX,238 pp. The Indonesian struggle for Independence in South Sumatra.

Leipzig, H. Haessel, 1887. Modern half cloth. XIV, (2), 408 pp..

Amsterdam, IsaakTirion, 1736.Contemporary vellum. With engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved portraits and 5 folding maps of Germany (browned). 12,(4),670,(10) pp.Original issued as Modern history: or present state of all nations. London 1725-1739. Translated into Dutch:Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren. Volume VIII contains an ample description of Germany. - A fine copy.Tiele 1033.

Amsterdam, Isaac Tirion, 1735.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved plates (1 folding), 2 engraved plates depicting whales, 3 engraved portraits and 5 folding maps. (8),317-976,(8) pp.Original issued as Modern history: or present state of all nations. London 1725-1739. Translated into Dutch:Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren. - This volume VII contains a description of Russia, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, including chapters on English and Dutch whaling round Greenland and the Davis Strait. With fine plan of St. Petersburg and maps of Russia, the Arctic and others.Tiele 1033; Muller, Bibl. Neerlando-Russe, 311.

Amsterdam, Isaac Tirion, 1741.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With engraved title-page, 2 folding maps (India and Ceylon), and 10 engraved plates (7 folding). (8),680,(8) pp.Original issued as Modern history: or present state of all nations. London 1725-1739. Translated into Dutch: Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat alle volkeren. Volume III covers an ample description of India, Bangladesh, Birma and Ceylon. Tiele 1033; Cordier, B.I., col. 731; Goonetileke 2049.

Amsterdam, Isaac Tirion, 1738.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait, folding view of Scherpenheuvel, folding plan of Brussels, Antwerp, Gent, Brugge, Doornik, Oostende, Yperen and Rijssel, and 4 folding maps. (12),548,(12) pp.Original issued as Modern history: or present state of all nations. London 1725-1739. Translated into Dutch:Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren. - Volume XI contains a description of Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg with fine engravings.Tiele 1033.

Amsterdam, IsaakTirion, 1759.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt (top of spine restored). With engraved frontispiece, folding map of Spain and Portugal, folding map of the Strait of Gibraltar and folding plate of Gibraltar, 2 folding plates of Lissabon after the Earthquake and 1 other folding plate depicting an auto da fé (inquisition). (4),662,(18) pp.Part of the series Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren. An historical, geographical and ethnological description of the world of encyclopaedical proportions. This volume, published without a number, contains an ample description of Spain and Portugal with a special chapter on their colonies. - (Age-browned).Tiele 1033.

Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion, 1766-1769.3 volumes. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt. With 3 engraved frontispieces and 25 folding engraved maps and plates.Continuation of the series started by Thomas Salmon, Contemporary history, or the present state of all the nations. The Dutch edition contains many new and original material i.a. description of the Dutch settlements in America. The numerous maps and plates are well executed (Sabin). Among the maps are a map of the Western hemisphere, maps of California, Mexico, South-America, Brazil, Canada, etc.Tiele 1033; Cat. NHSM I, p.7; Sabin 31212.

Leiden, Eduard IJdo, 1928. Wrappers. With 2 plates (1 folding). X,254 pp. - (Thesis).

's Gravenhage, Gebr. J. & H. van Langenhuysen, 1866.Modern wrappers. 22 pp.Present exemplaar. - The colonial question of the hour, explained in more detail with some propositions to change the cultivation system on Java.Cat. KITLV p.196.

Zutphen, W.J. Thieme & Co., 1893. Later half cloth. 247 pp.First edition published in 1892. - Critical account of Bantam by a employee of the colonial government. The last chapter is dealing with Multatuli and Bantam. - Scarce. Buur 376.

Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2005. Wrappers. With illustrations. 133 pp.Live on a rubber and coffee plantation on Java.

Amsterdam, Jacob Beniamin,1653.4to. Later marbled boards. With engraved title, 3 engraved plates and 26 full or half-page engravings in the text. 292 pp.First Dutch edition, first published in London in 1615: A relation of a journey begun an.Dom. 1610. Foure bookes, containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Egypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and islands adjoyning - George Sandys (1578-1644) was the son of the Archbishop of York and a literary figure of some standing. In 1609 he set sail for the East and he spent the next year travelling in Turkey, Egypt and Palestine and later studied antiquities in Rome. His observations first appeared in English in 1615 and his text was soon regarded as a special authority on the Levant. He has been called the first 'classical tourist' of England. Sandys also was interested in colonial promotion, and was one of the undertakers named in the third charter of the Virginia Company in 1611, and later treasurer and a member of the Council. He… Read More