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Haarlem, Ars et Animatio, 2006. 4to. Pictorial wrappers. With many coloured plates and illustrations. 48 pp.Pierre Guillaume, pseudonym for Peter Willemse, is a self taught artist. He is born (1954) and bred in Leiden, where he settled as a professionel painter in 1975. Read More

Wijk en Aalburg, 1995. 4to. Half cloth. With 300 illustrations (185 in colours). 180 pp.Adrien Jean Le Mayeur de Merpres (1880-1958) came to Bali in 1932 and married the Balinese dancer Ni Pollok in 1935. This beautifully illustrated book deals with his youth, his travels and his stay on the island of Bali. English and Dutch text.

Amsterdam, G.S. Leeneman van der Kroe, 1821.Original blue wrappers. 40 pp.The fire began in the backyard of the Cornerhouse at Paramaribo and quickly advanced to an old storage building full of flammable material. A hard-blowing northeastern wind intensified the fire, which ignited one house after another. It lasted for about 24 hours. Nearly 400 mansions and about 800 storerooms and dwellings were burned to the ground. Published for the benefit of the unfortunate inhabitants of Paramaribo. - Rare.Knuttel 25069; not in Sabin, Muller, America or Suriname-catalogus UB Amsterdam.

's Gravenhage, KITLV, 1964. Wrappers. With folding map. VIII,207 pp. An important bibliography on publications devoted to Malay and Bahasa Indonesia.

Haarlem, H.D. Tjeenk Willink, 1893.Original pictorial cloth. With 126 (of 129) woodengravings (several double-page). IV,352 pp.Frederica Johanna van Uildriks (1854 - 1919) was a teacher, writer, feminist and naturalist. Fine illustrated account dealing with Indonesian topography and ethnography: Java (Batavia), Sumatra (Atjeh and Deli), Borneo, Celebes, etc. - (Missing pp.158-167 including 3 engravings).Bastin-Brommer N 705; Cat. KITLV p.7.

's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1883.Original printed wrappers. (2),76 pp.An imaginary interview by a journalist of the Times with the Governor-General of Indonesia, discussing the administration of Indonesia and India.Cat. KITLV p.79; Buur, Persoonlijke documenten, 264.

Amsterdam, Jacob Pietersz. Paets, 1610.Folio. Contemporary vellum. With printed title within engraved border and 18 engraved portraits by N. de Clerck in text. (2),221,(8) lvs.Second Dutch edition, first Italian edition was published in Venice in 1560 La vita dell' invitissimo imperator Carlo Quinto, first published in Dutch in Antwerp in 1570. - 'A general history of the time of Charles V, noting European expansion in both eastern and western hemispheres and its impact in Europe' (James Ford Bell Library U8). 'This highly esteemed biography of Charles V, includes an account of all the events, which took place during the years 1500-1560, and especially of all the achievements of the Spaniards in America' (Muller, America, p.365). Dealing at length with the conquests of the Spaniards in Mexico and Peru. - (Margins first 2 lvs sl. dam.; tear in 1 leaf; some wormholes; waterstained). - Rare.Cf. Cat. NHSM I, p.565; Not in Tiele; Sabin 97678; European Americana 610/111.

Amsterdam, N.J. Boon, (ca. 1900). Original pictorial cloth (design J.G. van Caspel ?). With illustrations and plates. 239 pp.Translation of Au Pôle Sud en ballon, adapte´ du polonais, 1897. - A very nice binding.

's Gravenhage, 1947. Wrappers. 56 pp. - (Offprint Economisch-Historisch Jaarboek).

's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1948. Cloth. With 10 plates. LIII,253 pp.Linschoten-Vereeniging LI. - This Zealand venture is especially important because of their contact with Acheh, a centre of pepper cultivation.

Amsterdam, Prometheus, 1995. Wrappers. With illustrations. 271 pp.Translation of A winter from home. Willem Barents and the North-east Passage.

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1880.Original decorated cloth. VI,(2),352,(4) pp.The Home Library. - Life of John Wesley (1703-1791), an Anglican minister and theologian who, with his brother Charles and fellow cleric George Whitefield, is credited with the foundation of Methodism. After an unsuccessful ministry of two years at Savannah in the Georgia Colony, Wesley returned to London in 1737.

Amsterdam, Antropologisch Sociologisch Centrum, (1971). Folio. Wrappers. With 5 maps. IV,231 pp.

Stuttgart, Antiquariat Inge Utzt, (ca. 1990). Tall 8vo. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated sales-catalogue. 24 pp.