Search Results: Titles starting with C from Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books

Cape Town, P. Schaefer & Co., (ca. 1900).Oblong 8vo. Original red cloth, with illustration of Cape Town harbour in gilt on front. With double-page panorama of Cape Town and 14 other coloured photographic views.The fine views depict the City Hall, Parliament House and The Avenue, Adderley Street (2), the entrance to the Castle, the Docks, Three Anchor Bay, Sea Point, Sea Point showing Lionshead, Victoria Road and the Twelve Apostles, Camps Bay, Groot Schuur Rondebosch, Muizenberg, and Kalk Bay and St. James. - Mint condition.SAB I, p.463.

Amsterdam, Erven van F. Houttuyn, 1767.Contemporary half calf (spine sl. dam.). With title-page printed in red and black and 4 engraved plates by R. Nuys. XXV,(3),628,(12) pp.First Dutch edition. - The Chinese novel of romance and adventure Haoqui zhuan, translated from the English edition of Thomas Percy Hau kiou choaan, or the pleasing history, London 1761. It is the first important piece of Chinese imaginative literature to be published in Europe. Haoqiu zhuan gives an idea of the everyday life of China, which was neglected by the scholarly researches of the missionaries (Löwendahl 514). This work also contains an overview of a Chinese play, a treatise on Chinese poetry, translations of some Chinese poems, and a number of Chinese proverbs and sayings. - Scarce.Cordier, B.S., col. 1755; Lust 1107.

1831. Contemporary half green morocco (spine damaged; 1 hinge broken). VII,315 pp. Rare. - No copy in Worldcat.

New York, Schmidt & Co., 1897.Fine chromolithoghraphed label. Ca. 11 x 17 cm.

Cape Town, R. Beerman, 1954. Pictorial boards. With many photographed plates and advertisements. 264,(2) pp.

Amsterdam, Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum, 1999. 4to. Wrappes. With many coloured illustrations. 38 pp.

Paris, Jacques Bélon, (ca. 1890).Share with decorated border and nice view of a plantation, with all 30 coupons attached. Ca. 30 x 40,5 cm.

's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1931. Modern wrappers (original frontwrapper mounted). XXIV,625 pp. - (B.K.I.).

's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1955. Wrappers. XVI,743 pp. - (B.K.I.).

Mijnbouw Maatschappij Kahajan, gevestigd te Soerabaia. 1903. - Naamlooze Vennootschap Cultuur Maatschappij 'Tjimonteh, gevestigd te Batavia. 1912. - Naamlooze Vennootschap Cultuur Maatschappij 'Soerowinangoen', gevestigd te Batavia. 1919. - Naamlooze Vennootschap Cultuur Maatschappij 'Melangbong', gevestigd te Amsterdam. 1923. - Naamlooze Vennootschap Tagalsch Prauwenveer, gevestigd te Batavia. 1927. - Naamlooze Vennootschap Cultuur Maatschappij 'Sambawa', hoofdzetel te Bandoeng. 1928.

(No pl.), 1684.Modern marbled boards. 78 pp. In the seventeenth century, Hungarian resistance to Habsburg rule fostered considerable media output in the Holy Roman Empire as well as in other regions of Europe. Newspapers, stand-alone pamphlets, and extensive historiographical treatises in multiple languages covered the rise and fall of Hungarian leader Ferenc III Nádasdy and the rebellion of Protestant nobleman Imre Thököly.Apponyi 1145.

Paris, Alexis Eymery, 1818.16mo. Contemporary half calf (spine ends skilfully restored). With engraved frontispiece and title-page, and 12 engraved plates. VI,235 pp.Fine illustrated book on natural history, incuding one plate of a sperm whale. Written by Adélaïde Gillette Billet Dufrénoy (1765-1825), a French poet and painter from Brittany. - (Age-browned).

(Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802-07).Handcoloured aquatint plate by L. Portman after J. Kuyper, depicting a man and woman with child from Bantu peoples in South-Africa. Ca. 13,5 x 9 cm.In: M. Stuart, De mensch zoo als hij voorkomt op den bekenden aardbol. - The first Dutch treatise on geographical anthropology. - Fine.Landwehr, Coloured Plates, 448; Tiele 1065.

Antwerpen, De Sikkel, 1931. Wrappers. With portrait, map and 12 facsimiles. 26 pp.Calcoen, a Dutch narrative of the second voyage of Vasco da Gama to Calicut, printed at Antwerp circa 1504.

12 drawings after Long Thien Shih depicting Malaysia. Ca. 49,5 x 49 cm.Pages from the past. In celebration of a century of Shell's growth with Malaysia, this calendar commemorates the last 100 years of Malaysia's eventful history.

Haarlem, Oud & Co. Wijninkoopers, 1934. 6 coloured sheets depicting scenes with a Dutch sailing vessel in The Netherlands, Indonesia and the Pole after drawings by Jo Spier. Ca. 28 x 32 cm. - Fine.Fine impressions of the Dutch East Indies and the Pole by the Dutch artist Jo Spier (1900-1978).

London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1884.Sm.8vo. Contemporary polished blue calf, gilt fillets round sides, inner dentelles, spine richly gilt in compartments, with red morocco title-label to spine (Ralfe Brothers London). With frontispiece and 16 wood-engraved plates (several double-page). 208 pp. From the contents: The climate, soil, and natural productions, mines, the big tree, the caves, the Yosemite valley, natural productions, the highway, life on the Pacific slope, etc. - A nice copy.Not in Cowan.

Amsterdam, Frédéric Bernard 1730. 2 volumes. Contemporary marbled calf, spines richly gilt, with red morocco title-labels (top of spines sl. dam.). With engraved plate with coat of arms. (6), LXX,439; (2), 500 ppFirst edition; with bookplate of Madame de la Borde. - Tricaud, prior of the Abbey of Belmont, was a litterateur and historian. Most of the work is concerned with the Turco-Venetian campaign in the Morea 1716 -1717. - Scarce.Navari, Collection Contominas, 748 (volume I only); not In the Blackmer or Atabey Collection.

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1908.Original green cloth with a pictorial decoration of a flamingo on the upper cover, top edge gilt. With coloured frontispiece and 250 photographic plates and illustrations. XVI,432 pp.First edition. - There are chapters on birds in the Atlantic coast islands of Gardiner's Island and Cobbs Island, of Florida, Bahamas, California, and Western-Canada. - A fine copy of a profusely illustrated study.

London, S.W. Partridge & Co., 1898.Original decorated cloth. With frontispiece. 320 pp. - (The Romance of Colonization).