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Two first editions, contemporarily bound together View picture(s) 1 ARTHUS, Gothard. Historia Indiae Orientalis, ex variis auctoribus collectae, et iuxta seriem topographicam regnorum, provinciarum & insularum, per Africae, Asiaeque littora, ad extremos usque Iaponios deducta, qua regionum et insularum situs & commoditas ; regum & populorum mores & habitus; religionum & superstitionum absurda varietas; Lusitanorum item Hispanorum & Batavorum res gestae atque commercia varia ... describuntur. Cologne, Wilhelm Lutzenkirch, 1608. Small 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum. With finely engraved allegorical borders on title of the second work. (14, 2 blank), 616, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Africa  Americana  Asia  East Indies  Travel & Voyages  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Description of Atjeh on Sumatra View picture(s) 2 BEAULIEU, August. De rampspoedige scheepvaart der Franschen naar Oostindien, met drie schepen, uit Normandyen. Daar in  hy vertoont, niet alleenlijk de rampen en tegenspoeden, die hem in deze reis overgekomen zijn, en 't verlies van twee zijner schepen, in deze tocht verloren: maar ook veel aanmerkelijke beschrijvingen der plaatsen, daar hy geweest heeft, zijn handelingen met d'inwoonders, hun wetten, zeden en gewoonten. Beneffens verscheide  naaukeurige historien van die gewesten; daar in de geveinstheit, list, bedroch, wreetheit, en in 't kort de gruwelen der groten van die landen, en inzonderheid der Vorsten van Achem, vertoont worden. Door J.H. Glazemaker uit de Fransche taal getrokken en vertaalt. Amsterdam, Jan Tieuwertsz, Pieter Arentsz, 1669. 4to. Modern half vellum. With 7 (of 8) full-page engraved plates by Savery. (4), 170, (2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  East Indies  Indonesia  Popular Books  Shipwrecks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Marquis de Beauvoir in East Asia View picture(s) 3 BEAUVOIR, Ludovic. Java, Siam, Canton. Voyage autour du monde. Quatrième édition. Paris, Henri Plon, 1870. 8vo. Contemporary light brown half pigskin, spine gilt. With a large folding coloured map, 13 full page plates, of which 3 folding. [4], 452 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  China  Circumnavigation  East Indies  Indonesia  Java  Thailand  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Compelling account of shipwreck and survival View picture(s) 4 BONTEKOE, Willem Ysbrantsz. Journael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinge van de Oost-Indische reyse. Begrijpende veel wonderlijcke en ghevaerlijcke saecken hem daer in weder-varen. Begonnen den 18. December 1618. en vol-eynd den 16. November 1625. Waer by gevoegd is het Journael van Dirck Albertsz Raven, als oock verscheyden gedenckwaerdige geschiedenissen, op veel plaetsen verbetert en een groot deel vermeerdert. Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Modern marbled wrappers. With 2 title-pages, both with large woodcut title vignette with two ships on both titles, and double-page engraved plate with 6 views of the ship at fire and in a storm, the islands St. Mary, Samatra and Princes Eyland, and an image of flying fishes. [4], 76 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  East Indies  Shipwrecks  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Reading book about the Dutch explorers View picture(s) 5 BRINKMAN, J. Verzameling van korte Nederlandsche reisbeschrijvingen, een leesboek voor de jeugd. Leyden, D. du Mortier en Zoon, 1823. Sm.8vo. Orig. wrappers. 118 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Africa  Circumnavigation  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  East Indies  Education  Geography  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Piracy & shipwrecks: travelling to the Indies via the Cape of Good Hope in the 18th century View picture(s) 6 BUCQUOY, Jacob de. Sechzehenjährige Reise nach Indien; Aus dem Holländischen nach der 2. Ausg. übersetzt: Nebst einem Auszuge aus Jakob Frankens unglücklichen Reise in den Jahren 1756-1760. Leipzig, Christian Gottlob Hilscher, 1771. 8vo. Modern mottled boards with grey label on spine. With 2 folding engraved plates (a map of the coast of Malabar & Coromandel, and a map & coastal view). [24], 326 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  East Indies  German  Shipwrecks  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Indispensable to the 'De Bry & Thévenot' collectors View picture(s) 7 CAMUS, Armand Gaston. Memoire sur la collection des grandes et petites voyages et sur la collection des voyages de Melchisedech Thenevot. Paris, Baudouin, Imprimeur de l'Institut National, 1802. Large 4to. Contemporary marbled boards with title label on spine. With woodcut printer's vignette on title. (8), 401, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibliography  East Indies  Voyages  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An interesting travel account on Java View picture(s) 8 CHIJS, Jacobus Anne van der. Mijne reis naar Java in 1869 en terugkeer over Engelsch Indië, Palestina enz. in 1870. Utrecht, C. van der Post Jr., 1874. 8vo. Original lithographed wrappers. With 3 full-page lithographed plates. VIII, 125, [3 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Colonial History  Dutch  East Indies  Java  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Second edition of the first book on Sumatra, with large engraved folding map View picture(s) 9 ESCHELS-KROON, Adolph. Beschreibung der Insel Sumatra, besonders in Ansehung des Handels, und der dahin gehörigen Merkwürdigketen. Nebst einer Original-Charte. Mit einer Vorrede von Gottlob Benedict von Schirach. [Hamburg, Bohn, 1782]. 8vo. Later half vellum with marbled boards. With a large engraved folding map of Sumatra (58 x 50 cm). XXXII, 96 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: East Indies  Germany  Indonesia  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The celebrated voyage of "l'Uranie", with 1 map and 25 plates View picture(s) 10 FREYCINET, Rose de. Campagne de l' "Uranie" (1817-1820). Journal d'après le manuscrit original, accompagné de notes par Charles Duplomb. Chartres and Paris, Durand for the Société d'Éditions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, 1927. Large 4to (28.5 x 23 cm). Original wrappers. With 1 map and 25 plates (of which 13 colour-printed and 3 double-page) after designs by Jacques Arago, the official artist of the voyage. [2 blank], XIII, [1 blank], 190, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Australia & New Zealand  East Indies  Hawaii  Pacific  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Valuable account of the customs, natural history, politics and trade of India and Persia View picture(s) 11 FRYER, John. Negenjarige Reyse door Oostindien en Persien ... Begonnen met den jaare 1672 en geeyndigt met den jaare 1681. In acht brieven geschreven door d'Heer Johan Freyer. Uyt het Engels vertaalt. The Hague, A. de Hondt, etc. 1700. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, red sprinkled edges. With engraved frontispiece, engraved author's portrait, 3 folding maps and 7 folding engraved plates and views. [8], 566, [26] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  East Indies  Middle East  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Bound by the most important binder of The Hague of the second half of the 18th-century View picture(s) 12 HEEMSKERK, Johan van. Batavische Arcadia, waar in: onder 't loof-werk van liefkooserye, gehandelt werdt, van den oorsprong van 't Oudt Batavien, vryheidt der voorige en volgende bataviers, vrye zee, zee-vonden, vinders van verborgen schatten, verbeurten van goederen, uytperssen der waarheid door pynigen, onheyl van de lankwilligheidt der regtspleegingen, met de oorsaaken van dien, en behulpmiddelen daar tegen; mitsgaders van andere diergelyke ernstige saaken meer. Dezen laatste druk met fraaye figuuren vermeerdert, en een verduitsching van alle de uytheemsche taalen. Amsterdam, Anton & Adrianus Schoonenburg, 1751. 8vo. Contemporary elaborately gilt marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt with floral, acorn, and crown ornaments and ochre title label lettered in gold, covers tooled with borders with shells, central piece within another gilt border with cornerpieces topped with acorns, g.e., marbled endpapers (CHRISTIAAN MICKE, The Hague). With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by A. van  Laan after J. Onkruyt, large folding view of Batavia, and 4 folding engraved plates. (16), 656, (44 + 3 with notes to the binder & catalogue of books of Schooneburg) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Bindings  East Indies  Literature  Low Countries  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With etching by Rembrandt View picture(s) 13 HERCKMANS, Elias. Der Zee-vaert lof, handelende van de gedenck-waerdigste zee-vaerden met de daeraenklevende op en onder-ganghen der voornaemste heerschappijen der gantscher wereld: zedert haere beginselen tot op den dagh van huyden. In VI boecken beschreven. Amsterdam, Jacob Pietersz. Wachter, 1634. Folio. Contemporary vellum. With richly engraved allegorical title, and 18 large etchings in text, including an original etching by Rembrandt: an allegorical scene of the "Ship of Fortune", the others by W. Basse. [20], 236, [8] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Art General  Cartography  East Indies  Literature  Rembrandt  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Dutch East Indies described by a Frenchman View picture(s) 14 LANDES, Charles-Célestin-Anthony. Les Indes orientales Neerlandaises. Conférences faites au Collège des Interprètes.- (IDEM). Ngo Bao An abandonne sa famille pour sauver son ami.- (IDEM). L'heureuse rencontre su tableau des hibiscus. Saigon, Collège des Interprètes, 1885-1886. Large 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt with red and black morocco title-labels, gilt upper edges. (4), 108; (4), 50 (last blank); (4), 60 (51-110) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  East Indies  Indochina  Literary History  Vietnam  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Portuguese in Brazil & Asia, with a folding world map View picture(s) 15 MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro. Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI. Selectarum, item, ex India epistolarum, eodem interprete, libri IV. Accessit Ignatii Loiolae vita. Cologne, [successors to Arnold?] Birckman, Arnold Mylius, 1593. Folio. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with a triple border of rolls (1 initialled EW A[ugsburg]) around central panel stamps with allegorical figures (Patience and the 3 theological virtues on the front; the 4 cardinal virtues on the back), with seventeenth-century(?) gold tooling added, including a centrepiece with Saint Urban and the St. Urban coat of arms on the front board, and the boards coloured brown. With a large folding engraved map of the world (26 x 48.5 cm), woodcut publisher's device on the title-page, 2 part-titles, a woodcut tailpiece, and about 30 woodcut initial letters (plus about 100 repeats) from 10 series (13-48 mm, the main series 39 mm), and bands of arabesque fleurons. [4], 541, [1], [2 blank], [36] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  America [South]  Brazil  China  Colonial History  East Indies  India  Jesuits  Mission  Persia  Portugal  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most complete edition of this celebrated work on 'the Indies', esp. on Brazil and Japan View picture(s) 16 MAFFEI, Joan Petri. Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI. Selectarum, item, ex  India epistolarum libri IV. Accessit liber recentiorum epistolarum; à Ioanne Hayo ... Antwerp, Ex officina Martini Nutij, 1605. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum with ink lettering on spine and small gilt stamp of a rooster in centre of covers, rests of ties. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials. (72), 478, (2, blank); 401, (7) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: America [South]  Asia  Brazil  East Indies  History  Japan  Jesuits  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important 16th-century narrative of a shipwreck near the Cape of Good Hope View picture(s) 17 MARTINEZ, Pierre. Raguaglio d'un notabilissimo naufragio, cavato da una lettera del P. Pietro Martinez, scritta da Goa. Al Molto Rever. P. Generale della Compania di giesu, Alli 9. di Decembre M.D. LXXVI. Venice, Giolito, 1588. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. 62 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  East Indies  Jesuits  Shipwrecks  South Africa  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A history of the British, Dutch and Portuguese colonial activities in the East Indies View picture(s) 18 MÖKERN, Philipp VAN. Ostindien, seine Geschichte, Kultur und seine Bewohner. Resultate eigener Forschungen und Beobachtungen an Ort und Stelle. Deutsche Original-Ausgabe. Leipzig, Hermann Costenoble, 1857. 2 parts in one. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, gilt title on spine. XII, 395; (6), 327 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colonial History  East Indies  England  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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History of piracy in Mindanao, Jolo and Borneo View picture(s) 19 MONTERO Y VIDAL, José. Historia de la pirateria malayo-mahometana en Mindanao Joló y Borneo. Comprende desde el descubrimiento de dichas islas hasta junio de 1888. Tomo I [-II]. Madrid, Manuel Tello, 1888. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. XX, 751, [1], 130 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: East Indies  History  Indonesia  Malaysia  Philippines  Piracy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Dutch embassy to the Chinese emperor in 1655: breaking the age-old policy of keeping foreigners out of the country View picture(s) 20 NIEUHOF, Joan. Het gezantschap der Neêrlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, den tegenwoordigen keizer van China: waar in de gedenkwaerdighste geschiedenissen, die onder het reizen door de Sineesche Landtschappen, Quantung, Kiangsi, Nanking, Xantung en Peking, en aan het keizerlijke hof te Peking, sedert den jare 1655. tot 1657. zijn voorgevallen, op het bondigste verhandelt worden. Beneffens een naukeurige beschrijving der Sineesche steden, dorpen, regeeringh, Wetenschappen, hantwercken, zeden, godsdiensten, gebouwen, drachten, schepen, bergen, gewassen, dieren, etc. en oorlogen tegen de Tarters. Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1670. Folio. Contemporary vellum with blind ruling and centre-piece on both sides, ribbed spine. Engraved title with the Chinese emperor sitting on a throne with his left arm resting on a globe and with a convicted criminal laying at his feet, title printed in red and black, full-page engraved portrait of Nieuhof with engraved poem by Jan Vos underneath, one large folding map of China, 34 double-page engraved plates and views on Batavia, Kanton, Macao, Nankan, Nankin, Peking,  etc., and 110 half-page engraved views and plates of religious and public ceremonies, costumes, animals, fishes and plants in the text with captions in Dutch, Dutch and Latin, or Dutch and French, or Dutch, French and Latin. (8), 208, 258, (10) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  China  Discovery & Exploration  East Indies  Indochina  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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