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

Washington, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1984-85. 10 (of 11) issues. Wrappers.K.M. BILBY. The Caribbean as a musical region; M.R. TROUILLOT. Nation, state, and society in Haiti, 1804-1984; C.STONE. A political profile of the Caribbean; M.C. ALLEYNE. A linguistic perspective on the Caribbean; G.B. HAGELBERG. Sugar in the Caribbean: turning sunshine into money; S.W. MINTZ. From plantations to peasantries in the Caribbean; etc.

Zwolle, Waanders, 2010. 4to. Boards. With many coloured illustrations. 144 pp.Gives an impression of the legacy obtained by contacts between Brazil, Ghana, India, Indonesia, The Netherlands, Russia, Sri Lanka, Suriname and South-Africa during the past 400 years.

Paris, Remoissenet, 1806.2 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half green calf, spines lettered in gilt. With engraved portrait and 100 engraved plates. IV,80; 82 pp.First published in 1792. - Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755 - 1794) was a French poet, novelist and fabulist, chiefly known as the author of pretty fables. The fine engraved plates follow the fables of Aesop and those of Faërne. - A fine copy.

Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1906. Folio. Half cloth. With 120 facsimiles. Facsimiles of Javanese letters for use in teaching Javanese. In Javanese characters.Uhlenbeck p.55.

The Hague, W.P. van Stockum & Son, 1900.Original green pictorial cloth. With photographic plates. 266 pp. First published in Singapore in 1898. - Augusta de Wit (1864 - 1939) was a Dutch writer, born in the Dutch East Indies. She published a collection of her articles, first published in the Singapore Straits Times, as an illustrated book, Facts and Fancies about Java noting that 'Hollanders do not understand the Javanese, nor do the Javanese understand the Hollanders, in any true sense of the word'.

1918-1924.Oblong 8vo. Decorated cloth. Album with 34 tipped-in photographs of Malang and Bandoeng with manuscript captions. Various sizes.With bookplate of Boek en Handelsdrukkerij J.M.Chs. Nijland, Soerabaia. - A family photograph album depicting Malang and Bandoeng: meisjesbond Bandoeng; B Mulo Malang; home Oud Kalisat; Idjen plateau; Sophie Renardel de Lavalette; Hotel Hombracht in Malang; school class with 22 names; home Emmastraat Malang.

Ca. 1937 - 1939.Oblong 8vo. Cloth (sl. soiled, spine ends sl. damaged). Album containing ca. 250 tipped-in and loosely inserted photographs, with manuscript captions. Various sizes.Images on board the ss Slamat, an ocean liner of the Koninklijke Rotterdamsche Lloyd line and of their stay in Marseille, Port Said, Suez Canal, Colombo, Sabang, Singapore, Seroei, Seweroe, Sabang, Singapore, Seroei, Seweroe, Kereema, Nisak and Priok.

Ca. 1910-1920.Oblong 8vo. Decorated cloth. Leporello album with 48 tipped-in photographs, with manuscript captions. Various sizes. Images of the passenger / cargo steamships Rumphius and the Van Riebeeck in Soemenep, harbour of Soerabaja and the Emmahaven in Padang, Sabang, Endeh, Nw. Tersana, korfbal in Bandoeng, interior of Emmalaan 17 in ?, present of teachers and pupils of the K.E.S. to director Van Hattum, korfball in Bandoeng. Some names family de Ruiter, Louis Klinkhamer, Annie van Rooyen, Timmermans, daughters of director Van Hattum. - With printed label Nanyo-Shokwai Ltd. Java & Japan.

Hilversum, Verloren, 2015. Wrappers. 592 pp.

Edinburgh, W.P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, 1886.Original pictorial cloth (extremities of spine sl. dam.). With 3 plates. 228 pp.Boys' own library; with school bookplate. - 'The present volume is an epitome of the 'Arctic explorations', an official account of the Second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin'.Sabin 37002.

New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 1919. Decorated cloth gilt, top edge gilt. With 10 plates. X,210 pp. The Chronicles of America Series; Abraham Lincoln edition. - 'More important than the promptings of land-hunger and the desire for wealth and adventure was the call made by a social and religious movement which was but a phase of the general restlessness and popular discontant'.

Melbourne, Albert J. Mullett, 1914.Original cloth, lettered in gilt. With maps, photographic plates, and illustrations. (12),598 pp. The articles 'are in most cases not readily accessible to general readers abroad, nor even to those in Australia. Much of the material also has not hitherto been published'

Weltevreden, 1929. 2 volumes. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt lettering. With plates. II,429; II,437 pp.Contributions by F.D.K. Bosch, H.C.R. Brandstetter, J.C. van Eerde, Th. van Erp, S.J. Esser, R. Goris, B. de Haan, B.J. Haga, J. van Kan, R.A. Kern, J.P. Kleiweg de Zwaan, N.J. Krom, J. Kunst, C.C.F.M. Le Roux, A. Maass, E.C. Godée Molsbergen, J.H. Neumann, A.W. Nieuwenhuis, Th. Pigeaud, P.V. van Stein Callenfels, etc.

Haarlem, H.D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon, 1865- 1915.In issues. With many photographic illustrations.Sir John Franklin en de Noordpoolreizen. 1865. - Schipbreuken in de Noordpoolzee. Lotgevallen van Barends en Von Krusenstern. 1866. - Reis naar de Noordpoolstreken. 1869. - Noordpool-reis van de Germania en de Hansa. 1875. - Nansen en zijn Poolreis door F.J. van Uildriks. 1897. - De Polaris. Zes maanden op het ijs. 1878. - De Zweedsche Pool-expeditie, onder leiding van A.E. Nordenskiöld. 1878. - Vijftien maanden in de Zuidpoolstreken. Naar het Fransch van Adrien de Gerlache. 1902. - De moordende Pool. Het reisverhaal van kapitein Scott. 1914. - and 4 others.

London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892.Original green cloth (spine dam.). With folding facsimile and 2 portraits. XV,679 pp. Ferguson 13816. - (Some small library stamps.).

Leiden, KITLV, 1995. Wrappers. VIII,272 pp.The Dutch were late in abolishing the slave trade (1814) and slavery (1863).

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1859.Original cloth, rebacked with the original spine laid down. With coloured frontispiece, folding map and 40 woodengraved plates and illustrations (2 in colours). X,551 pp.First published in London in 1858. - 'One of the outstanding works on Fiji. Reverend Thomas Williams, of Adelaide, Australia, lived as a Wesleyan missionary in Fiji for thirteen years. Reverend James Calvert, considered the 'father' of the Fiji missions, worked there for seventeen years. The preface to the first volume gives a few guidelines to the pronunciation of the Fijian language. The book contains information on the origins of the natives, their warlike tendencies, industrial produce, manners, customs, religion, and language. The enormity of the task attempted and accomplished in Fiji is a tribute to the persistent endeavors of the various missionary societies at work in the South Seas' (Hill 1885). - A fine copy.

Amsterdam, Johannes van der Hey en Zoon, 1838-1840.3 volumes in 2. Original boards. With lithographed portrait. (4),XLIV,365; (4),XXXII,216; XXXII,424 pp.Copy from the: Bibliotheek van de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente te Amsterdam.Filips van Marnix (1540 - 1598) was a Flemish and Dutch writer and statesman, and the probable author of the text of the Dutch national anthem the Wilhelmus. Willem Broes (1766-1853) clergyman (successor of Martinet at Zutphen) studied ecclesiastical and Dutch history, and wrote several works on these subjects.

Amsterdam, Willem Jansz. Blaeu, 1612.Engraved plan from a bird's-eye view of Vlissingen, coloured by hand, with legenda and 3 coats of arms. Ca. 22,5 x 29,5 cm. From: L.Guicciardini, Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden.

Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner, 1982. Wrappers. (16) pp. - (Offprint Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft).