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

's Gravenhage, H.C. Susan, C. Hzoon, 1856-1858.3 volumes. 8vo. Original printed boards, spines half cloth. IV, 675; 616; 612 pp.First edition of the re-edition of the parts relating to the East-Indies of Valentijn's extensive work published in 1724-1726. - (Browned).Tiele 1121; Landwehr, VOC, 467

Dordrecht, Amsterdam, J. van Braam, G. onder de Linden, 1724-1726. Reprint. Franeker, 2002-2004. 5 volumes in 8. Folio. Artificial leather. With 241 portraits, maps, plates and illustrations.One of the most extensive works on the history of the Far East (including Persia), which never can be superseded as many of the documents of which the author made use, do not longer exist. François Valentijn (1666-1727) was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church who lived for many years on Amboyna and Java. During this period he collected an enormous mass of information, especially in the fields of history, geography and ethnology, concerning all parts of the world where the VOC was active: Indonesia, with large parts on Batavia and the Moluccas, Persia, Malacca, Ceylon, India, Cape of Good Hope, Japan, China and Formosa, etc.. The work is profusely illustrated with numerous fine engraved maps, plans, portraits and spectacular views. They are engraved by the best artists of the time like F. Ottens, J.C. Philips,… Read More

London, 1978. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With folding map and 13 plates. XV,395 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 149. - This edition of Valentijn embraces the part dealing with Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in the fifth volume of his Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien, 1726 (Old and New East Indies).

Dordrecht, Amsterdam, Joannes van Braam, Gerard onder de Linden, 1724-1726.5 parts in 8 volumes. Folio. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt and with black title-labels (later boards). With engraved allegorical frontispiece, printed title-page in red and black, folding portrait of Valentijn, 19 portraits of the Governors-General, and 326 illustrations, maps, plans, bird's-eye views and plates (most of them double-page or folding; including fragments of Javanese manuscripts).First edition. -The most important early work documenting the history of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the East Indies and the Far East, which never can be superseded as many of the documents of which the author made use, do not longer exist. François Valentijn (1666-1727) was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church who lived for many years on Amboyna and Java. During this period he collected an enormous mass of information, especially in the fields of history, geography and ethnology, concerning all parts of the world… Read More

Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1928. Wrappers. 412 pp. - (Library stamp on titlepage).

Hamburg, König et Richter, 1729.Sm.8vo. 2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half vellum, with old brocade-paper to boards (sl. soiled). Title-page printed in red and black and with engraved frontispiece. (14),183, (25); 94 pp.

(No pl., ca.1650).Engraved plan with fine cartouche by B. Picart. Ca. 10,5 x 13 cm.Siege of Sas van Gend by the state army under Frederik Hendrik in 1644.

Grand Rapids, B. Eerdman, 1933. Cloth, with dust-jacket. 385 pp.

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1686. 2 volumes. Sm.8vo. Contemporary calf, spines richly gilt (spine ends dam., 1 hinge dam.). With printer's device on titlepages, folding engraved map, folding engraved plate (with tears), folding engraved plan of Neuheusel and 4 engraved plates (some tears, one lower margin missing). (36)364,(16); 403, (16) pp.With engraved armorial bookplate. - (Age-browned; some stains).Blackmer 1714 & Atabey 1273 (other editions).

Cologne, Pierre le Jeune (= Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier), 1686.Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt (rubbed). With engraved printer's device on title-page. (4),213,(11) pp.First edition. - Sehr interessantes inhaltreiches Büchlein in der Art der Elsevirschen Republiken. Verfasser, beziehungsweiss Compilater ist Vanel (Apponyi 1265). Vanel produced many historical works (Blackmer p.361). Bound with: VANEL, Claude. Histoire des troubles de Hongrie. Tome II- III. Amsterdam, 1686.

Cologne, Pierre Le Jeune (= Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier),1686.Sm.8vo. Contemporary vellum. With woodcut on titlepage. 8,202,6 pp. With old handwritten name Ansonio Pucci on flyleaf. - A historical work regarding the history of Hungary, the influences of Christianity and Islam, European wars, as well as geographic and topographical surveys.Not in Apponyi.

Amsterdam, Jan Mets, (1993). 4to. Wrappers. With many photographic illustrations by H.F. Tillema, G. Kurkdjian, a.o. 168 pp.

Oslo, Grøndahl & Son, 1960. 8vo. Half blue leather. With many photographic illustrations. 444 pp.

Leiden, Universiteit Leiden, 2000. Wrappers. IV,306 pp. - (CNWS).

's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1979. Wrappers. VIII,302 pp. - (KITLV.).

's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1966. Half cloth, original frontwrapper mounted. VIII,91 pp. KITLV. - The Sa'dan Toraja language was studied during more than sixty years by the Leiden linguist H. van der Veen, who lived and worked for almost forty years (1916-1955) in South Celebes as a Bible translator for the Netherlands Bible Society (Noorduyn p.202).

Zwolle, Waanders, Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum, 2014. Pictorial boards. With 322 coloured illustrations. 232 pp.This book is about two kinds of objects. On the one hand, those produced by Asian craftsmen and artists and adapted to appeal to the Western tastes of their Dutch (and wider European) export market. On the other, domestic and ornamental items produced for Western, Eurasian and Asian household in Asia itself.

Den Haag, Martinus Nijhoff, 1975. Wrappers. With 10 illustrations. (10),58 pp.Relations between Morocco and the Netherlands in the 18th century.

Hilversum, Verloren, 2020. Pictorial boards. With many illustrations (some in colours). 318 pp.Analysis of novels and short stories about life aboard mail boats.

(Amsterdam, 1681). Engraving by Jan Luyken with 4 engraved scenes from the Dutch winter camp on Novaya Zemlya on 1 sheet after Gerrit de Veer. Ca. 22 x 31,5 cm.From: Bor. Oorsprongk, begin, en vervolgh der Nederlandsche oorlogen. - This is one of many different versions of the engraving on the title-page of Gerrit de Veer, Waerachtige beschryvinghe van drie seijlagien (1598). This engraving depicts four images of the Dutch wintering on Novaya Zemlya in a wooden cabin by Willem Barentsz and his crew in 1596-97. This is the earliest over-wintering this far north. Muller, Historieplaten, 1052; Atlas van Stolk 977; Van Eeghen & Van der Kellen, p.15; Ingalls, Lothrop Collection, 2.