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

(No pl., ca. 1650). Engraved halflength portrait with sea-battle in the background after H. Berckman by Jean du Bois (Johannes van Houten) with 12 line poem by W. Brest. Ca. 44 x 34 cm.Adriaen (ca. 1620-1684) was the oldest son of the famous Joost Banckert (ca. 1597-1647; 'Gesel der Spanjaarden, schrik der Portugezen'). Adriaen played an import role in the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars. He functioned as the most important adviser of the Zeeland admiralty and in 1678 even received a seat on the admiralty council. - A fine portrait.Cf. Muller, Portretten, 203 a; Hollstein 3; Van Someren 241.

Zwolle, Waanders, 2002. Wrappers. With 175 illustrations (many in colours). 208 pp. - (Jaarboek Monumentenzorg).

Bandung, 's Gravenhage., W. van Hoeve, (1954-56). 3 volumes. Cloth, with dust-jackets. With many illustrations and maps. 1446 pp.The first Indonesian encyclopedia to be published in Bahasa Indonesia.

Nürnberg, Lucas Meyer, 1592.Modern speckled boards. With nice woodcut on title page and woodcut medaillon portrait. (4) lvs. First edition. - Extremely rare 'newsletter' on the raids of Hasan Pasha of Bosnia in Central Europe in the period 1591 - 1592. Hasan Predojevic (c. 1530 - 1593), also known as Telli Hasan Pasha was the fifth Ottoman beylerbey of Bosnia and a notable Ottoman Bosnian military commander, who led an invasion of the Habsburg Kingdom of Croatia during the Ottoman wars in Europe. From July to October 1592, he led devastating raids into Slavonia, Bohemia, Croatia, and Hungary resulting in the capture of 35,000 people and the enslavement and death of more than 20,000 people. Not in Apponyi or Göllner; only 1 copy in Worldcat.

Wilmington, Historical Press, New York, Carl. T. Waugh & Co., (1932). 4to. Decorated cloth. With numerous photographic illustrations, measured drawings and profils. 213 pp. 1200 numbered copies printed. - Showing the influence of successive Dutch, Swedish, and English colonization between 1660 and 1840.

Seattle & London, University of Washington Press, (1984). 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 173 illustrations (16 in colours). 240 pp.'Brief accounts of twenty-six voyages and biographical sketches of fifty artists establish the historical framework for the drawings and paintings'.

Delhi, (1991). Cloth, with dust-jacket. 384 pp.

London, The Shell Petroleum Company, 1949. Half cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations J.H. Doeve. X, 142 pp.

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

Leiden, KITLV, 1996. Wrappers. With plates. 150 pp.

Amsterdam, Terra Incognita, 1992. Wrappers. With 31 illustrations. 91 pp. The Nijenburg was a Dutch merchant ship, built in 1757 for the VOC chamber in Hoorn. After a mutiny in the Atlantic, part of the crew disembarked in Portuguese Brazil; the others eventually ended up in Paramaribo.

Baarn, Ambo, 1996. Wrappers. With illustrations. 391 pp.

Bunschoten, Historische Vereniging 'Bunscote', (2001). 4to. Boards. With many illustrations. 142 pp.Diary of Gijsbert Heeck containing the experiences on his third voyage to the East Indies in 1654.

Amsterdam, Scheltens & Giltay, (1929). Original pictorial wrappers (top of spine sl. dam.). With photographic plates and illustrations by Pol Dom. 244 pp.First edition. - Adaptation to children's book of Vijf jaar in ijs en sneeuw. Mijn leven in het Noordpoolgebied. - Josephus Maria Andreas Cornelius (Sjef) van Dongen (1906 - 1973) was a Dutch Arctic voyager and politician. From 1923 till 1928 he was stationed at Spitsbergen.

Leiden, Mencken Kasander & Wigman, 2002. Wrappers. With illustrations. 296 pp.Leendert Hasenbosch, (c.1695-probably end of 1725) was a Dutch employee of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) who was marooned on uninhabited Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean, as a punishment for sodomy. He wrote a diary until his presumed death.

Amsterdam, Scheltens & Giltay, (1929). Original pictorial cloth. With photographic plates and illustrations by Pol Dom. 244 pp.First edition. - Adaptation to children's book of Vijf jaar in ijs en sneeuw. Mijn leven in het Noordpoolgebied. - Josephus Maria Andreas Cornelius (Sjef) van Dongen (1906 - 1973) was a Dutch Arctic voyager and politician. From 1923 till 1928 he was stationed at Spitsbergen.

Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1946. Wrappers. 130 pp. - (Sinica Leidensia).

Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen & Zoon, 1900. Original printed wrappers. With portrait. 31 pp.Uitgave ten bate van het Herman Coster-Fonds. - A memoir of dr. Coster, who was State Attorney of the South African Republic, and conducted the prosecution of the Reformers connected with the Jameson Raid and the Reform Movement, at that period. He was killed at the battle of Elandslaagte (Mendelssohn I, p.385).SAB IV, p.679.

(Utrecht, 1947). Wrappers. 237 pp. Offprint H.G. - Report on the Dutch East Indies written on board the ship Deventer on his way home.

Amsterdam., L.J. Veen, (1924). Original imitation batik binding, with photographic illustration on frontcover. (Portrait of the author missing). 287 pp.First edition. - Novel situated in Batavia, including an account of the sea-voyage to Indonesia. Dutch imitation batik, produced by the Leidsche Katoenmaatschappij (1836-1936) was used during the beginning of the 20th century for book bindings. - Fine.Buur, Persoonlijke documenten 977; See Kasper van Ommen. Leidse katoentjes vs. Javaanse batik. (De Boekenwereld Jrg. 34, 4).