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New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1846 - 1855.2 volumes. Original cloth, rebacked with the original spines laid down. With folding map, 2 folding plates with facsimles, 2 folding maps of Rensselaers Wyck, portrait of Stuyvesant and Rensselaer. 493; 608 pp. Vol. II second edition. - E B. O'Callaghan became keeper of historical manuscripts for the State of New York in 1848. He compiled many volumes of colonial records and translated many of the Dutch-era documents. Born in Ireland ca. 1797 and died in 1880 in New York City.

's Gravenhage, Nijgh & Van Ditmar, (1962). Cloth, with dust-jacket (dam.). 226 pp.

Amsterdam, Swets & Zeitlinger, 1966. 2 volumes. Cloth. 1016,26; 612 pp.An important bibliography of books published in the Dutch East Indies. Volume one is devoted to books printed in European languages, the second volume to books printed in indigenous languages.

Leiden, University Press, 2020. Wrappers. With illustrations. XI,292 pp.The system of fortifications built and maintained by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in India and Sri Lanka.

Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2022. Wrappers. 256 pp.Johan Maurits (1604-1679), is known as a patron of art and architecture. Between 1636 and 1644 he was governor-general of the northeast of Brazil on behalf of the West India Company (WIC). His period there was of great importance to Dutch Brazil, the WIC and the Dutch history of slavery.

Franeker, T. Wever, 1957. Wrappers. 295 pp.Thesis. - The ecclesiastical relations between South Africa and the Netherlands (1652-1952).

Amsterdam, J.H. de Bussy, 1939. Cloth (spine discoloured). With 18 plates. XVI,348 pp.

Haarlem, Wed. A. Loosjes Pz., 1822.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half calf (rubbed). With 2 nice engraved title-vignettes by D. Veelwaard. IV,282; 271 pp.First Dutch edition; the German edition Briefe in die Heimath, auf einer Reise durch Deutschland und Frankreich was published in Altona in 1820. - Letters written home by Adam Gottlieb Oehlenschläger (1779-1850) during a journey through Germany and France in 1816-1817. - (Some foxing).Not in Tiele.

Amsterdam, Stichting Indigo, (1985). 4to. Boards, with dust-jacket. With numerous illustrations (several in colours). 223 pp.

Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2000. 4to. Wrappers. With 140 illustrations. 216 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.

Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1781. 24 pp.Exchange of Dutch sailors kept prison in England, among them 49 of the ship Rotterdam, and English sailors of the English East India Company, wrecked off the coast of Noordwijk. 'De heeren Ooster en van Haren administreerden een fonds uit giften van particulieren bijeen gebracht, tot ondersteuning der gevangenen. De hertog van Richmond verleende in Engeland zijn tusschenkomst' (Knuttel 19548).

Hagae-Comitis, apud Hillebrandum à Wouw, 1667.4to. With woodcut coat of arms of the States General, lion with sword and 7 arrows, in an elaborately decorated cartouche with military attributes on title-page and woodcut initial on first page. (28) pp.Latin version of the Treaty of Breda 31 July 1667, by England, the United Provinces, France, and Denmark-Norway. It brought an end to the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-1667) in favour of the Dutch. England, however, received New Netherland (New York, New Jersey) and some outposts in Africa from the Dutch, the Dutch retained Suriname.Knuttel 9519; Sabin 2154C; European Americana III, p.231.

Amsterdam, F.H.J. Bekker, (1905). Original decorated blue cloth. 161 pp.

Amsterdam, Bas Lubberhuizen, 2000. Wrappers. With illustrations. 272 pp.

Barby, Christian Friedrich Laux & Leipzig, Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1777.2 volumes in 1. Sm.8vo. Old boards. With 3 folding engraved maps and 4 folding engraved views. (16),1068, (46) pp.First edition. - The Moravian missionary Christian Georg Andreas Oldendorp wrote a passionate publication on the political, geographic, and social conditions of the West Indies, including the origin and living conditions of the enslaved laborers. His opus is one of the first ethnological descriptions of the history of Africa and the Caribbean. An important part of the report is the description of the geography, flora, fauna, and political, economic, and social conditions and living conditions of the population of the islands. In particular, he described the enslaved laborers, including their African origin, language, customs, and religion and especially their fate in the West Indies - housing, work, punishments, and the relationships with their owners and the Europeans - A very important account of the Moravian… Read More

London, Frank Cass, (1998). Wrappers. IX,198 pp.

Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1651.2 volumes in 1. 4to. Old half vellum, marbled boards. With engraved frontispiece and 10 engravings in the text. 134; 120 pp.First Dutch edition published in the same year, first issued in Schleswig in 1647: Offt begehrte Beschreibung der newen Orientalischen Reyse. - Olearius travelled in the train of the embassy of the Duke of Holstein to Russia and Persia. This was the first German expedition to Persia. The embassy travelled from Riga to Moscow and Astrakhan. Olearius became a Persian scholar. During his travels Oearius collected many valuable information on Russian customs and tradition, his account greatly influenced European opinion of Russia in the 17th and 18th centuries. - Atabey Collection 884 (French ed.); not in Blackmer; Muller, Neerlando-Russe, 255; Adelung II, pp.299-306; Howgego M38;Tiele 814; Cat. NHSM I, p.255.

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1860.Original brown cloth gilt (extremities of spine dam.). With coloured lithographed frontispiece showing a winter scene in Japan, and 60 wood-engraved plates and illustrations. XVI,645 pp.First American edition. - Laurence Oliphant (1829-1888), British adventurer, diplomat, author and traveller, was private secretary to Lord Elgin and accompanied him to Calcutta, Hongkong, Canton, Tientsin and Yedo. The main purpose of the mission was the signing of treaties opening both China and Japan to British trade. The first part gives a detailed survey of the river Yangtze, opening up the hinterland to Western commerce. The second part gives a detailed description of the political and social conditions in Japan. 'The Narrative of the Earl of Elgin’s Mission to China and Japan (1859) gives a fascinating account of 19th-century gunboat diplomacy' (Encycl. Britannica).Cordier, B. S., col. 2376; Cordier, B.J., col. 547; Löwendahl 1224; Howgego IV, p.461-462.

Rio de Janeiro, 1923. Half morocco. With folding maps.Other smaller works on Brazil included.