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

Amsterdam, Em. Querido, 1991. Sm.8vo. Wrappers. With illustrations. 184 pp.

Kloosterzande, Duerinck, (1994). Wrappers. With 8 plates. 160 pp. Dealing with the VOC in Ceylon, the Moluccas and Batavia.

Haarlem, erven Fr. Bohn, 1819.Sm.8vo. Wrappers. (4),90 pp.First edition. - Gerrit Gijsbert van Paddenburgh (1783-1824) was the first Dutch teacher who permanently settled on the island in 1816. After being fired as a teacher due to a drinking problem, he worked as a writer and journalist on the island. Much of the information is of practical use and seems to aim at new visitors or settlers. After a description of the geography and climate of the island, the author describes the various settlements forming Willemstad. - Rare description of Curaçao and the adjacent islands. - (pp 81-90 damaged with loss of text).Tiele 841; Cat. NHSM I, p.271; Sabin 58127.

Amsterdam, Bataafsche Leeuw, 2008. Boards. With many illustrations (some in colours). 428 pp. - (Thesis).

Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2014. 4to. Picorial boards. With many coloured illustrations. 208 pp. Fine illustrated standard work on the Middelburgse Commercie Compagnie, founded in 1720. Especially known for the trans-Atlantic slavetrade.

Amsterdam, Bataafsche Leeuw, 2002. 4to. Boards, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations (several in colours). 237 pp. The VOC-ship Stavenisse wrecked off the coast of Terra Natal in South Africa in 1686.

Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2016. Boards. With plates (several in colours). 143 pp.Account of the shipwreck of the Dutch slave ship Neptunis off the coast in West Africa in 1785.

Amsterdam, Bataafsche Leeuw, 1999. 4to. Boards, with dust-jacket. With many coloured illustrations. 205 pp. Shipwrecked near the Maldives in 1726.

Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2012. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. 239 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging CXI. - Account of the disastrous South Sea-expedition by Hubregt Kempe and his stay in South America.

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891.Original decorated cloth (extremities of spine sl. dam.). (8),230,(8) pp. First published in New York in 1887. - Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) was an American lawyer and author whose fiction usually depicted an idealized vision of the Antebellum South. He was notable for writing much of his dialogue in Negro dialect. This is his first collection of short stories, written in the dialect of the blacks of Eastern Virginia.

New York, Fordham University Press, 1989. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations. IX,166 pp. Signed by the author. - On the Danish settlement in Guinea, Christiansborg, and the Danish West Indies, St. Thomas and St. Croix.

Batavia, De Unie, 1939. Folio. Decorated cloth. With many photographic illustrations and advertisments. 321 pp.The issue of the KPM Yearbook is intended to give a general survey of the ports touched by KPM Lines and the hinterland they govern in the Dutch East Indies, Africa, Australia, New Zealnd, Philippine Islands, China, Siam, and the Straits settlementsI.

Amsterdam, N.V. Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij, 1938. Original pictorial wrappers with illustration of the Boissevan on front. With a double-paged routemap and many photographic illustrations. 64 pp.With fine illustrations and text of the destinations in Africa and Asia. - In very good condition.

's Gravenhage, J. Belinfante, 1835.Original boards, with title label to spine. XVI,152 pp. With library stamp of Bibliotheek Financiën. - The civil institutions following the Holy Scripture.

Cape Town, 1990. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. XXXIV,441pp.Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 21. - William Coates Palgrave (1833-1897) was active in South West Africa (Namibia) over a period of 25 years. As Special Commissioner to Hereroland and Namaland, he undertook 5 consecutive commissions to that country on behalf of the Cape government. This volume, containing the official journals, or minutes and reports produced during the commissions, records the life of a country on the brink of colonisation.

London, Macmilland and Co, 1883.Sm.8vo. Contemporary blue calf, spine gilt. With engraved portrait on titel-page and 5 folding maps and plans. VI,427 pp.First published in 1865; with bookplate of F. Cleveland Morgan. - Palgrave (1826-1888) made the first known west-to-east crossing of the Arabian Peninsula, from Ma'an in southern Jordan to Qatif on the Persian Gulf. The French emperor Napoleon III, who, anticipating the construction of the Suez Canal, sought to extend French hegemony over the region, was willing to provide financial backing. The book was immediately translated into French and became a bestseller throughout Europe. - A classic of Arab travel literature.

Amsterdam, Spectrum, (2019). Pictorial boards, with dust-jacket. With illustrations and coloured plates. 368 pp.The ship Erebus took part in the Ross expedition of 1839-1843, and was abandoned in 1848 during the third Franklin expedition. The sunken wreck was discovered by the Canadian Victoria Strait expedition in September 2014.

Paris, Maradan, 1794.8 volumes + atlas volume. 8vo and large 4to. Contemporary half calf (some extremities of spines sl. dam.). Atlas volume with 108 engraved plates and maps, many folding or double-page.Second French edition, first published in 1788-1793; translation of the German edition Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. St. Petersburg 1771-1776 . - The German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and at the request of Catherine, he was placed in charge of an academy expedition into Russia and Siberia. The expedition set out from Moscow in April 1768 with five naturalists and seven astronomers. Pallas arrived back in St. Petersburg in July 1774 with a vast amount of data and many fossil specimens, but broken in health (Howgego p.784). His expedition was concerned with natural history in the widest sense, including geography, agriculture, and other disciplines. Also included descriptions of journeys in the… Read More

(Curaçao, 1978). Wrappers. With many illustrations. 229 pp.

Amsterdam, De Bezige Bij, 1986. Wrappers. 199 pp.