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

Amsterdam, A.J.G. Strengholt, 1944. 4to. Half cloth. With many illustrations. 144 pp.Marius Bauer (1867-1932) travelled far and wide to countries like India, Indonesia, Turkey and Morocco. He can be considered as one of the few Dutch orientalists and one of the best Dutch graphic artists of his time (Haks & Maris p.26).

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.

's Gravenhage, Pieter van Thol, 1729.Sm.8vo. Contemporary half roan. With engraved title vignette, title printed in red and black. (8),510,(9) pp.Third enlarged edition. - Dutch administration of justice.

(No pl.), 4 Mey 1763. Folio. (12) pp.Extract uyt de Resolutien van de Heeren Staaten van Holland en West-Vriesland. - Memorial on sending more seamen to the Indies.

(Washington), 1866. Disbound. 55 pp. - (Senate Ex. Doc., 39th Congress, 1st session).

Utrecht, 1984. Wrappers. With illustrations. 10 pp.

(No place, ca. 1890). Original red embossed cloth gilt. Leporello with 16 original photographs depicting buildings in the city of Münich. - Fine condition.

Paris, Bureaux de l'Administration, 1866-1867.8vo. Contemporary half red morocco. With numerous woodengravings and 10 coloured fashion-plates. 380;94 pp. (p. 225 with tear).An illustrated French literary magazine that was published in Paris from 1833 to 1900.

Amsterdam, Holkema & Warendorf, 1928. 12 issues. 4to. Wrappers. With photographic illustrations and some coloured plates.Contributions by Dutch scholars on international expeditions.

Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2013. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. 397 pp.Linschoten-Vereeniging CXII. - 'Matelief's fleet of eleven ships left Texel on May 12, 1605. From April 30 until August 24, 1606, he besieged Malacca in league with the sultan of Johore. He won two impressive naval victories over the Portuguese during this time. After he divided his fleet on January 6, 1607, Matelief visited Bantam, Jakatra, Amboina, and Ternate, where he built a fort, and the China coast, where he attempted to negotiate a trade agreement. His journal is well written and exceedingly rich in details' (Lach & Kley, III, p.468).

Amsterdam, J.L. Joachimsthal, 1879 - 1882.8 (of 9) volumes. Contemporary red morocco with gilt decorations on front and back boards, spines gilt, a.e.g., (spine ends sl. dam.). Hebrew and Dutch text. - Prayer for: Den avond van den verzoendag; Eersten en tweeden dag van het Paaschfeest; Zevenden en achtsten dag van het Paaschfeest; Eersten dag van het nieuwjaarsfeest; Tweeden dag van het nieuwjaarsfeest; Sabbath der middeldagen van het loofhuttenfeest, het slotfeest en het vreugde feest der wet; Eersten en tweeden dag van het loofhuttenfeest; Eerste en tweeden dag van het wekenfeest. - A fine set.

London, John Murray, 1867.Original embossed cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 13 woodengraved plates (plan of Antananarivo missing). XVIII,502 pp.First edition. - Arriving in May 1862, William Ellis became embroiled in court intrigues in the attemp to convert Radama to Christianity but his attemps were cut short when Radama was killed by his own troops (French missionaries reporting back to Europe that Ellis had been involved in the coup) (The Paolo Bianchi collection, 130).Grandidier 1635.

London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1901.Half calf, spine gilt. With 3 coloured maps and numerous photographic illustrations. XIII,242 pp.First published in German Reissebilder aus Ostafrika und Madagaskar. Leipzig 1887. - 'There is no book in existence which presents so complete and truthworthy an account of Madagascar, the Mascarenes and the smaller islands of the Ocean to the East and South East of Africa as this work of Professor Keller. To the scientific thoroughness and accuracy of the German professor he adds the vividness and realism due to personal travel and investigation' (Translator's preface by H.A. Nesbitt). One of the best authoritative accounts of Madagascar and nearby islands, including interesting photographic images of natives, flora and fauna.- Scarce.SAB II, p.735; Grandidier 1799.

(Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802-07).Handcoloured aquatint plate by L. Portman after J. Kuyper, depicting a man and woman from Madagascar. 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.

Baarn, De Kern, 1987. Wrappers. With illustrations. 197 pp.Letters from Magdalena and Balthasar Paumgartner, a merchant couple from Neurenberg in the 16th century.

Utrecht, J.H. van Peursen, (1880 ).Original decorated cloth, lettered in gilt. With lithographed frontispiece after Jozef Hoevenaar. 177 pp.Élise Françoise Louise de Pressensé was a French woman of letters (1826-1901).

New Haven, London, 1969. 2 volumes. Folio. Original cloth, in slipcase. With maps and facsimiles in colours.Vol.I: translation of the manuscript., edited by R.A. Skelton. Vol.II: coloured facsimile of the manuscript of Yale university. - 'One of the most important geographical manuscripts known, and one of the handsomest. The report of man's first voyage around his world' (Foreword). For the geography and history of the pre-Spanish Philippines, Pigafetta's account is a primary source, objective and sympathetic. For the history of Borneo, 'the European sources .. have importance .. because there are almost no native annals or monuments of so early a date to tell of the island's past' (Introduction). He sighted the Cape of Good Hope and the Cape Verde Islands.

Amsterdam, De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1992. 4to. Wrappers. With many illustrations (several in colours). 142 pp.

Francfurt am Mayn, Johann Baptista Schonwetters. 1664.5 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary vellum (sl. soiled). With engraved title-page, 4 engraved half-titles and 7 engraved plates (5 folding). (8), 418 pp.Apparently first collected edition, compiled from various sources, including early Turkish histories. (Blackmer 352.) Rare popular description of the Ottoman Empire, with emphasis on the wars of the Ottomans with Austria in the 16th and 17th century. Schuster has prefaced his historical narrative with an account of Islam. With fine engraved battle-scens.Apponyi 2080; Atabey 1111; Weber 1663 - 712.

Amsterdam, J.L. Joachimsthal, 5642 - 1882.Contemporary half calf. Hebrew and Dutch text.