Search Results: Authors starting with I from Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books

's Gravenhage, (1948). 8vo. Wrappers (sl. dam.). With drawings from the Japanese camp by Eva Sandor. 40 pp.

Leiden, Burgersdijk & Niermans, 1946. Half cloth, with dust-jacket. With portrait and 3 folding plates. 112 pp.

Leiden, Universitaire Pers, 1963. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With portrait and 1 folding plate. 134 pp.

Bandoeng, v/h A.C. Nix & Co., 1949. 2 volumes. Half cloth, original frontwrappers preserved. 204; 210 pp. - Buur 1289.

Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1891.2 volumes. Text volume. Later half leather, old boards. 4to. With 10 photographic plates. 135 pp. & Atlas volume. Original boards. Portfolio with 3 (of 4) large folding plans and 27 (of 28) folding plates. (without the map). Important scientific archaeological and archtictural survey of the antiquaties from the Hindu period in Middle-Java, published bij the Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen (Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences). This society, one of the earliest and most famous societies in Asia, became the driving force behind the preservation and study of Javanese antiquities. Cat. KITLV p.543.

('s Gravenhage, 1922. Wrappers. With plan. 11 pp. - (Offprint B.K.I.).

's Gravenhage, 1917. Half cloth. (121) pp. - (Offprint B.K.I.).

Tokyo, University of Foreign Studies, 2004. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers. With illustrations. 324 pp.

(London), 1892. Original printed wrappers. 31 pp.Reprinted, by permission, from the 'Proceedings' of the Institute.

Taipei, (1995). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With maps, illustrations and plates. LXXXIV,323 pp. Chapters 2-4 are dealing with the Dutch in Formosa.

Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2007. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. 352 pp.Linschoten-Vereeniging CVI. - Van Imhoff (1705-1750) made, together with Stein van Gollenesse (1691-1755), an official journey for the VOC, to India and Ceylon. An eye-witness account.

(Middelburg), P. Gillissen, 1779.4 engravings by Arend Fokke Willemsz. and Mathias de Salliet after Engel Hoogerheyden. Each ca. 31 x 50 cm.Rare complete set depicting the shipwreck of the East-Indiaman Woestduyn, of the Amsterdam chamber of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) on the Noorderrassen sandbank off the Walcheren coast between Westkapelle and Zoutelande in 1779. Frans Naerebout and his older brother Jacob, who earned their living fishing and piloting, made two successful rescue attempts from Vlissingen. The first attempt took place during the night of Saturday 24 to Sunday 25 July and the second attempt took place on Sunday afternoon 25 July. The Naerebout brothers managed to save 87 of the 130 people on board, and about 15 people drowned. Virtually nothing of the cargo was recovered. Frans and Jacob Naerebout gained national fame thanks to their heroic actions and art of navigation. - A fine attractive set.Muller, Historieplaten, 4345; Atlas van Stolk, 4295.

Cape Town, 1972.Cloth. With folding map and 5 plates. 366 pp.Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 3. - Sir James Rose Innes (1855 -1942) was the Chief Justice of South Africa from 1914 to 1927 and, in the view of many, its greatest ever judge. Before becoming a judge he was a member of the Cape Parliament, the Cape Colony's Attorney-General, and a prominent critic of Cecil John Rhodes.

's Gravenhage, W.P. van Stockum en Zoon, 1950. Wrappers. With plates. 203 pp. - (Corner 1 leaf dam.).

London, J. Dodsley, 1780.4to. Later half black calf, spine lettered in gilt. With engraved folding plan, 2 engraved plates (each with 2 views) printed in sepia, and 3 folding engraved maps. XVI,400 pp.First edition. - Irwin was born in Calcutta and served with the East India Company. He left India in 1777 for England, when his ship was captured by pirates. From Cossier he was forced to cross the desert to Suez and then on to Luxor, Cairo and Alexandria. In his account of his journey home, he described his experiences and observations during the journey, which lasted eleven months. This journal offers one of the best descriptions of the Arabian coast of the Red Sea at this period. 'This work is chiefly valuable for the information which his personal adventures necessarily give of the manners, etc. of the Arabians' (Cox I, p.232).. Includes two poems by Irwin 'Ode to the dessert' and 'Ode to the Nile'. - (Age-browned).Blackmer Collection 865; Atabey Collection 609; Ibrahim-Hilmy p.325.

Dordrecht, De Leeuw en Kraf, 1790.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt (top of spine sl. dam.). With 2 engraved plates. VIII,418 pp.First Dutch edition; first published in Copenhagen in 1788 Reise nach Guinea und den Caribäischen Inseln in Colombien. - In twelve letters Paul Erdmann Isert (1756-1789), describes his voyage from Copenhagen to the Gold Coast and gives an account of the Danish settlements and considerable details of the customs of the natives. In 1786, he describes the voyage from Africa to the Danish West Indies with a cargo of 452 blacks who rose against the whites on the second day at sea, with a resulting loss of 34 of their number and 2 of the crew wounded after a heated battle. He gives good descrptions of St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. John, Guadeloupe and Martinique. The complete round trip took four years. The book is a source work and, because of being one of the few accounts of a person actually making the Guinea voyage and because of the sensational nature of its contents, it has… Read More

's Gravenhage, W.P. van Stockum & Zoon, 1898.Original decorated gilt cloth. With plates. 109 pp.Hof van Holland is a building complex in the center of The Hague, which has been the center of Dutch politics for centuries.

Leiden, Documentatiebureau Islam-Christendom, 1999. 2 volumes. Cloth. XIV,1095 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).