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

(Augsburg, Johann Balthasar Probst, ca. 1750).Contemporary handcoloured perspective view (vue d'optique or Guckkastenbild), with descriptive text in 4 languages, after Adolf van der Laan by Sieuwert van der Meulen. Ca. 29,5 x 40 cm.Optical whaling print depicting the arrival of the Greenland whaling sailers. - (Cut short; sl. soiled).Ingalls 147; Cf. Brewington 86.

(Augsburg, Johann Balthasar Probst, ca. 1750).Contemporary handcoloured perspective view (vue d'optique or Guckkastenbild), with descriptive text in 4 languages, after Adolf van der Laan by Sieuwert van der Meulen. Ca. 31 x 40 cm.One of a set of four optical scenes depicting whaling. These prints were a popular 18th century visual entertainment. This set is copied from the Dutch set of sixteen by Adolf van der Laan and Siewert van der Meulen. - A fine old handcoloured scene depicting the arrival of the Greenland whaling sailers.Ingalls, Francis B. Lothrop Collection, 147; see Brewington, Kendall Whaling Museum, 86.

(No pl., ca. 1930). Picture stamp.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. 4to. Cloth. XXXI,964 pp.Contains about 345000 geographical locations. - (Library stamps).

(Rotterdam, Museum voor Volkenkunde, 1989). 4to. Boards. With ca. 150 photographic illustrations. 192 pp.Including a survey of commercial photographers and photographic studios in the Netherlands East Indies 1850-1940.

Assen, Van Gorcum, 1964. Cloth, with dust-jacket. 141 pp.Anjerpublications. - Contributions by Lillian Gamble, Hector Lennox Crombis, Michael H. Buckmaster, Carmen L. McCornack and Edwin Chapman.

's Gravenhage, Jacobus Scheltus, 1753.4to. With large printer's device on title. 39 pp.Treaty between Sicily and the Netherlands. - Not in Knuttel.

(No pl.), 1663.Modern speckled boards. 24 lvs. Seeing Europe in a false peace with the Turks, the author warns of the outbreak of a new war and demands, among other things, concrete measures to arm the army. In fact, war between Sultan and Emperor was declared a short time later. - (Stained; some leaves with a pink stain).Apponi 879.

(No pl.), 1967. Wrappers. 126 pp. Contrubutions by P. Wagenaar Hummelincjk, D.C. Geijskes, A. Brouwer, J. Lanjouw, etc.

Leipzig, Otto Wachsmuth, (ca. 1895).Chromo-lithographed plate. Ca. 64 x 87 cm.Goering-Schmidt. Ausländische Kulturpflanzen. - Schoolplate depicting a large view of a tobacco plantation with black workers and white masters and on the left side parts of a a tobacco plant. In the background a harbour view with sailing ship.- (With paper sticker of Retel's Bureau voor Schoolinstallatie, Rijswijk, pasted on the name of the publisher). - Very decorative plate.

Cape Town, A.A. Balkema, 1951. Cloth. With 154 illustrations and plates (some in colours). 152 pp.

Geneve, 1782.Old wrappers, uncut. XXIV,400 pp. The Geneva Revolution of 1782 was a short-lived attempt to broaden the franchise and include men of modest means in the republican government of the oligarchic Genevan city state. - (Stained).

Amsterdam, Stoomvaart Maatschappij 'Nederland', 1950. 8vo. Cloth. With maps and photographic plates. XIX,239 pp.

Amsterdam, Wereldbibliotheek, 1939. Original pictorial cloth. With woodcuts by D. van Luijn. 39 pp.

Leyden, D. Noothoven van Goor, (ca. 1860).Original embossed cloth, with gilt decoration on front cover (sl. spotted), spine lettered in gilt . With lithograved titler-page with handcoloured illustration and 5 handcoloured lithographed plates. VIII,169 pp.First published in 1841. - Scenes from the lives of important Dutch men of earlier and later times.

Leyden, L. Herdingh en Zoon, 1815.Contemporary half calf (damaged). IV,112 pp. Dutch translation of Tableau de la Saxe, issued in Annales des voyages et de la géographie et de l'histoire, Paris 1808-1814. Description of Saxony, Germany. - Not in Tiele.

Amsterdam, G. Portielje & Zoon, (1850-1851).2 volumes. 8vo. Original embossed cloth, with gilt central ornament, spines richly gilt (spines dicoloured). With VII,328; VIII,420; (4) pp.

Saba, published by the author, 1979. Wrappers. With photographic illustrations. 104 pp.Will Johnson, local historian and for many years leader of Saba's Government, recounts the history of Saba through both the oral and documented records.

's Gravenhage, 1976. Wrappers. With illustrations. VII,605 pp. - (Thesis).

's Gravenhage, Bandung, W. van Hoeve, (1954). Folio. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 7 maps and numerous photographic illustrations (some in colours). 319 pp.