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

Den Haad, Ad.M.C. Stok, (ca. 1956). Pictorial cloth, with dust-jacket. 217 pp.Dutch translation of Nobile- Die Tragödie im Polareis. 1956. Novel with introduction by Sjef van Dongen.

Amsterdam, Verschure & Co Scheepswerf en Machinefabriek, 1921- 1923.Oblong 8vo. Original boards. Album with 32 original photographs of the S.S. 'Pollux' under construction and on its way to Indonesia in 1923.

Amsterdam, J.H. de Bussy, 1900. Half cloth. 93 pp.

Rotterdam, Maritiem Museum, (1987). 4to. Wrappers. With many illustrations (several in colours). 183 pp.

(Leipzig, Michael Stoll, 1593).4to. Speckled boards. With fine woodcut on title-page. (4) lvs.Extremely rare 'newsletter' on the war against the Turks in Central Europe. Only 1 copy in WorldCat.

Curaçao, Amsterdam, 1999. Oblong 8vo. Boards. With 135 photographic plates and illustrations. 144 pp.Robert Soublette (1846-1921) and his son Tito (1870-1938) were photographers in Curaçao who visualized the development, changes, and the people of the island around 1900.

Cape Town, Book Exhibition Committee Van Riebeeck Festival, 1952. Half cloth. With plates. XII,187 pp.

Delft, Indonesisch Ethnografisch Museum, 1974. 4to. Wrappers. With illustrations. 100 pp.

'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).

Zutphen, W.J. Tieme & Cie, 1931. Half cloth. With photographic plates. XII,392 pp.

Köln, Hoursch & Bechstedt, 1922.Original pictorial boards. With plates after paintings. 263 pp.

Paris, Toulouse, (1942). Original wrappers (sticker on spine).. With photographic illustrations. 74 pp.

Dordrecht, Foris Publications, 1987. Wrappers. XIII,258 pp.KITLV. - Sahu is a non-Austronesian language spoken on the island of Halmahera in the North Moluccas.

London, Lawrence and Bullen, 1905.Original decorated green cloth gilt, (top of spine dam.). With folding map and many photographic plates. XL,451 pp.The northeastern part of the continent of North America, is the nearest to Europe, and has an interest of its own, in as much as it was the first part of the main continent to be reached from the Old World (Preface). - (Library stamps).

's Hertogenbosch, Minderbroeders Kapucijnen van der Does-de Willeboissingel, 1996. Decorative wrappers. With folding map and coloured photographic illustrations. 99 pp.

Middelburg, Stichting VOC Publicaties, 1989. Oblong 8vo. Wrappers. With many facsimiles. 104 pp.Samuel van der Putte was a Dutch adventurer, linguist and scientist who travelled widely through South East Asia, India, China and Tibet.

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, (1866).Sm.8vo. Original embossed cloth with gilt vignette of an 'Indian' woman on the upper cover, spine gilt. With frontispiece portrait of Queen Emma and 5 wood-engraved plates. 188 pp.First edition. - 'The visit of Queen Emma, of the Sandwich Islands, to this country, has naturally raised a wish in many minds to know something about her native land and its people; and it is hoped this short and plain account of the natural features of the Sandwich Islands, and of the past history and present condition of their native inhabitants, may not prove wholly unacceptable to the public' (Introduction). The appendix list missionaries of the Hawaiian Church Mission and Hawaiian monarchs.Forbes 2681; Hill 486.

's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1959. Cloth. With folding map and illustrations. XVI, 622 p.KITLV. - After the appearance of this thorough and comprehensive work all earlier Sangirese wordlists .. lost any value they had had. The dictionary primarily describes the dialect of the Manganitu district of Great Sangir Island, which through the literary activities of the missionaries had become the standard dialect of Sangirese, but also includes material from other dialects (Noorduyn, Languages of Sulawesi, p.11).

New York, Harper & Brothers,1873.Original pictorial cloth (spine discoloured). With frontispiece, folding map and numerous wood-engravings. XXIX,511 pp.First U.S. edition. - An historical, topographical and economic account of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, profusely illustarted. Samuel Hazard went to Santo Domingo in 1871 as an independent newspaper correspondent to report on the United States Commission that was investigating the overall condition of the island. Congress had been considering Santo Domingo's application for admission into the Union. The volume includes a substantial bibliography.

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1873.Original pictorial cloth, rebacked with the original spine laid down. With frontispiece, folding map and numerous wood-engravings. XXIX,511 pp.First edition. - An historical, topographical and economic account of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, profusely illustarted. Samuel Hazard went to Santo Domingo in 1871 as an independent newspaper correspondent to report on the United States Commission that was investigating the overall condition of the island. Congress had been considering Santo Domingo's application for admission into the Union. The volume includes a substantial bibliography.