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

Curaçao, 1963. Oblong 8vo. Wrappers. 22 pp.

's Gravenhage, Algemeene Landsdrukkerij, 1882.Large 8vo. Original printed boards. With folding plate depicting the Adder and folding plate depicting the probable location of the wreck. II,181 pp.The Adder was a Dutch ram monitor who sank on the North Sea off the coast of Scheveningen on Wednesday evening 5 July 1882. All 66 people on board were killed. The wreck was never recovered.There was a lot of criticism because it was delayed until Saturday before sending a ship to locate the Adder, while the monitor was expected to be in Hellevoetsluis on Wednesday afternoon. This exceptionally slow course of action on the part of the Navy Department has been heavily criticized. A monitor was a relatively small warship which was neither fast nor strongly armored but carried disproportionately large guns. They were designed for shallow waters and served as coastal ships and used by some navies from the 1860s.Added 11 newspaper clippings from 1882-1883 on the shipwreck, including 1 of the Bataviaasch… Read More

Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, 1940. 8vo. Half cloth. 33,VIII pp.

's Gravenhage, Gebroeders van Cleef, 1858.8vo. Contemporary half cloth. VII,XXX,215 pp.Dealing with European colonization in the Dutch East Indies. - With library stamp of the Ministry of Colonial Affairs. - Cat. KITLV p.74.

Batavia, Lands Drukkerij, (1835).4to. Original boards (spine sl. dam.). With folding tables.Report of the trade and shipping, import and export on Java and Madura for the year 1834.Van der Chijs p.63; Cat. KITLV p.147.

London, 1876.9 woodengravings on 3 leaves (each ca. 31 x 22,5 cm).From: The Graphic. An illustrated weekly Newspaper. - Depicting: Tree and chapel of Christopher Columbus, Havana. The manufacture of sugar: Cutting the cane, Carting home the cane, Water cart and plantation well, Putting cane on conductor, Grinding the cane, Boiling and testing the juice, Night patrol going round the plantations, In the purging house-cutting and crushing the sugar, In the boiler room - feeding the fires with 'bagazo'.

Utrecht, HES Publishers, 1991. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations. XLII,840 pp. A book which I dearly needed during a lifetime of research in the history of the VOC (from the introduction by C.R. Boxer).

Amsterdam, Schiphouwer en Brinkman, 1993. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. VII,144 pp.

Haarlem, H.J.W. Becht, (1989). Wrappers. With many illustrations (several in colours). 72 pp.

Utrecht, Gert Jan Bestebreurtje, 2002. Bound, with dust-jacket. With ca. 1000 illustrations (100 in colours). 381 pp.This richly illustrated vade-mecum is the first study to shed light on a very wide range of subjects related to both the Dutch East- and West-India Company and its activities. An important reference work and invaluable guide for all those interested in Dutch colonial history. Including the material traces of the Dutch presence oversea.

Utrecht, Gebr. van der Post, 1870.Sm.8vo. Original cloth with decoration on frontcover. With tinted lithographed title-page (porcelijn print). XIII,256 pp.First published in 1862; copy from Loudon.

Amsterdam, H. Meulenhoff, (1944). Original decorated cloth, with dust-jacket (design W.A. van der Walle). With illustrations. 201 pp.Juvenile after the 17th century journal of Jacob Segersz. van der Brugge. Illustrated by Willem Albertus van de Walle (1906-1995)

Arnhem, K. van der Zande, 1890.Original pictorial boards (sl. discoloured). With 5 chromo-lithographed plates by P.W.M. Trap. XI,309 pp.First edition. - Travelogue of a visit to Java, Bali, Ambon, Banda, New Guinea, Celebes, Borneo, and Sumatra. The coloured plates depict Poeloe Bras, Europeesche villa met park te Weltevreden, Gezicht te Buitenzorg, Gezicht in de kloof van Padang naar Padang-Pandjang, Maleische (Batak) kampong. - (Small library-stamp on title-page).Cat. KITLV p.7; Ruinen C 246; Buur, Persoonlijke documenten, 343; not in Tiele, Cat. NHSM or Bastin-Brommer.

Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2017. Wrappers. With illustrations. 176 pp.A true story of Jan Wils about the purchase on the gold coast and the transport to Paramaribo of 500 slaves with the slave ship De Coninck in 1686.

Amsterdam, De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1986. Boards, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. 232 pp.

Nijkerk, (1904). half cloth. With 4 plates. 154 pp. - Buur 0208.

Utrecht, Oosthoek's Uitgevers-Maatschappij, 1943. Wrappers. 334 pp. Utrechtsche Bijdragen - Contains 186 letters from and to Van Lansberge. Johan Wilhelm van Lansberge (1830 - 1903) was Governor-general of the Dutch East Indies from 1875 to 1881. He was the first to reside in the Palace of the Governor General building, the present State Palace of Indonesia.

Batavia, 1900-01. 2 offprints in 1. Wrappers. (25; 35) pp. - (T.B.G.).

's Hertogenbosch, Aldus, 1994. 4to. Boards, with dust-jacket. With numerous photographic illustrations (some in colours). 251 pp.

Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, 1978. Wrappers. 18 pp.