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Historical work on the Dutch trade and activities at sea, esp. whaling and herring fishery, with magnificent views of the harbours of the Netherlands, including Batavia View picture(s) 1 AA, Cornelis van der [& D.JONG, H. Kobell Jr. & M. SALLIETH]. Atlas van de zeehavens der Bataafsche Republiek & die van Batavia  en Onrust. Mitsgaders de afbeeldingen van de haringvisscherij en de walvischvangst. In Een-en-dertig Kunstplaaten naar het  Leven afgebeeld ... En met vermelding van veele bijzonderheden, betreffende den ouden en lateren toestand der Nederlandschen koophandels, visscherijen, traffieken en fabrieken. Amsterdam, L. Maaskamp, 1805. Large folio . Modern three-quarter calf. With fine engraved title in various scripts by Klockhoff, and 31 double-page engraved views (ca. 285 x 395 mm) of Dutch harbours with a great variety of sailing-ships, mostly in a stiff breeze, including the harbours of Batavia and Onrust (an island near Batavia) in the Dutch East-Indies and two views of herring-fishery and whaling, after the drawings by H. Kobell Jr. and D. de Jong, engraved D. de Jong & M. Sallieth, with captions in French and Dutch. (5), VI-XII, 135 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colonial History  Fishing  Indonesia  Maritime History  Ships & Shipbuilding  VOC  Whaling  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare dutch voyage accounts to Chile and Japan, fine copy with 2 engraved folding maps and 1 plate View picture(s) 2 BROUWER, Hendrik. Journael ende Historis verhael van de reyse gedaen by oosten de Straet Le Maire naer de custen van Chili in den jare 1643 voor gevallen. Including: [VRIES, Maerten Gerritsz.]. Als mede een beschryvinghe van het eylandt Eso, ghelegen ontrent dertigh mylen van het machtigh Rijcke van Japan ... soo als eerst in  't selvige jaer door het schip Castricum bezeylt is. Amsterdam, Broer Jansz., 1646. 4to. Modern wrappers, preserved in cloth box. With 2 folding engraved maps and a folding engraved plate. 104 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  Chile  Japan  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The battle of the Dutch ship the 'Medusa' against the Japanese fleet View picture(s) 3 CASEMBROOT, François de. De Medusa in de wateren van Japan, in 1863 en 1864. Tweede druk The Hague, Gebroeders Van Cleef, 1865. 8vo. Original lithographed wrappers. Plate of the steamer 'Medusa'  in the Strait Simonoseki and 2 large folding maps depicting the battle situations near Japan, all 3 lithographed by S. Lankhout. VIII, 136 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  Colonial History  Japan  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The Dutch sick and tired of England View picture(s) 4 DOWNING, George., C. BURGH and Jacob ROCK & P. DE GRAEF. Den Toestant der Swevende Verschillen, tusschen de Oost, ende West-Indische Compagnien, van Engelant, ende van de Vereenighde Nederlanden. (Amsterdam), "naer de copye," 1664. 4to. Untrimmed, in later plain wrappers. 22, (2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colonial History  England  Low Countries  Pamphlets  Trade  VOC  WIC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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By an eyewitness: San Sebastian (Mozambique) besieged by the Dutch View picture(s) 5 DURAN (DURAO), Antonio. Cercos de Mocambique, defendidos por Don Estevan de Atayde, capitan general, y governador de aquella plaça. Madrid, the widow of Alonso Martin (= Francisca de Medina), 1633. 8vo. Richly gilt and decorated 19th-century vellum with diapered floral rolls and knot work ornaments, with red morocco title label lettered in gold, red spinkled edges. Woodcut coat of arms of the dedicatee Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count de Olivares and Duke of San Lucar on title, woodcut head- and end-pieces and initials. (8), 82 ff. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Colonial History  Dutch  Militaria  Portugal  Spain  Travel & Voyages  VOC  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) 6 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 (580 x 500 mm). XXXII, 96 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: East Indies  Germany  Indonesia  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the end of the VOC View picture(s) 7 HOGENDORP, Gijsbert Karel van. Brieven aan eenen participant in de Oost-Indische Compagnie.- Vervolg op de brieven...- Tweede vervolg... Amsterdam, Widow J. Doll, 1802-1803. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary yellow red sprinkled wrappers. 37, [3]; [3], 40-124, [1], [1 blank]; [3], 126-179, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Politics  Surinam  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Nagasaki and the Dutch portrayed by a Japanese artist View picture(s) 8 ISONO BUNSAI. Nagasaki Miyage. (Souvenir of Nagasaki). Nagasaki, Yamatoya (Juo), 1847. 8vo. Bound in the Japanese manner in original, blue paper wrappers, with title label pasted on front wrapper. Text printed from woodcuts, with 12 double-page and 6 full-page woodcuts including a map of Nagasaki, an interior with Chinese merchants (library of the Chinese trade settlement south of Deshima), a Dutch interior with VOC merchants: 'Hollandsche uurwerk', view on a fleet, a VOC ship, interior with Dutch merchants at diner, portrait of a Dutch woman: 'Holland vrouw', woodcut with an elephant: 'Olifant', harbour views, other interiors, a kite festival and another procession, city views. 27 double lvs., the first and last pasted on wrappers. Full description >> Related Subjects: Japan  Netherlands  VOC  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Containing all the official notices issued in 1805 by the last Dutch governor-general of the South-African colony View picture(s) 9 JANSSENS, Jan Willem. Collected proclamations, advertisements and notices in Dutch, addressed to the colonists of Cape of Good Hope. Cape Town, the Press at the Castle, 1805. 38 pieces in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary half roan. All pieces with the autograph signature of the governor-general, Janssens, and/or his Secretary J.A. Truter. 28 lvs., interleaved with blanks Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Cartography  Commerce  Economy  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The famous circumnavigation by Jacques L'Hermite, with a description of Peru and Chile by Madriga and Spilbergen View picture(s) 10 L'HERMITE, Jacques de (Johan van WALBEECK). Journael van de Nassausche vloot, ofte beschrijvingh van de voyagie om den gantschen aert-kloot, gedaen met elf schepen... Amsterdam, Joost Hartgertsz., 1648. 4to. 18th-century marbled wrappers. With half-page woodcut with two ships on the title-page and a large double-page engraved plate. [2], 76 [ i.e 78] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  America [South]  Chile  Dutch  Navigation  Peru  Travel & Voyages  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The VOC and Japan View picture(s) 11 NACHOD, Oskar. Die Beziehungen der Niederländischen Ostindischen Kompagnie zu Japan im siebzehnten Jahrhundert. Leipzig, Rob. Friese Sep.-Cto. 1897. Large 8vo. Half morocco, gilt title on spine. XXXIV, 444, CCX pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Japan  Netherlands  Trade  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The war at the settlement Bandjermasin, Borneo View picture(s) 12 REES, Willem Adriaan van. De Bandjermasinsche krijg van 1859-1863. Nader toegelicht. Arnhem, D.A. Thieme, 1867. 8vo. Contemporary half cloth. With 3 folding lithograps (2 views (of which one chromo), 1 plan). [2], 139, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colonial History  Indonesia  Militaria  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare Dutch translation by Jan van Hoogstraten (1662-1756) View picture(s) 13 RENNEFORT, Urbain Souchu de. Naauw-kuurig verhaal van de opgank, vordere successen en voornaamste voorvallen der Franse Oost-Indise compagnie tot haar einde toe. Middelburg, Gillis Horthemels de Jonge, 1688. 12mo. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. Woodcut title vignet. (24), 660 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: East Indies  French  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A new passage to the Pacific and state-sponsored piracy View picture(s) 14 SPILBERGEN, Joris van. Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae Navigationum; quarum una Georgii à Spilbergen classis cum potestate Praefecti, altera Iacobi le Maire auspiciis imperioque directa, annis 1614, 15, 16, 17, 18. Exhibens novi in mare Australe transitus, incognitarumque hactenus terrarum ac gentium inventionem: praelis aliquot terra marique commissa, expugnationesque urbium: una cum duabus novis utriusque Indiae historiis, catalogo munitionum Hollandicarum ... Leiden, Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619. Oblong 4to (18.3 x 24 cm). Contemporary blind stamped pigskin over boards, spine with raised bands, marbled edges. Large allegorical engraving on title, with 25 numbered engraved maps and views: 2 large folding maps (one of the world and the one of the East Indian archipelago), one folding, one double-page and 18 full-page plates with several insets, etc. 175 pp., lacking blank leaf (P4), which divides the two narratives but was mistakenly included as pp.119-20 in the continuous pagination. Full description >> Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Brazil  Circumnavigation  Discovery & Exploration  East Indies  VOC  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important work on Dutch maritime law View picture(s) 15 TJASSENS, Johan. Zee-politie der vereenigde Nederlanden verthoont in een tafel, ende twee kleyne boecken. The Hague, Johan Veely, 1652. 4to. Contemporary overlapping vellum. With title in red and black with woodcut printer's device. [36], 276 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Economy  History  Law  Maritime History  VOC  WIC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Description of Gujarat (India) by the director of the VOC View picture(s) 16 TWIST, Johan van. Generale Beschrijvinghe van Indien. Ende in 't besonder Van 't Coninckrijck van Guseratten, staende onder de beheersinge van den Groot Machtighen Coninck Chaiahan: anders genaemt den grooten Mogor. Uyt verscheyden Autheuren ende eygen onder-vindinghe vergadert ende by een ghestelt. Batavia, Druckerye vande Gansen Pen, 1638 [= Amsterdam, J. Jansz., 1645]. Oblong 4to. Old wrappers. [2], 112 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  East Indies  India  Trade  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare complete set of one of the most important early works on the East Indies, with 2 extra plates View picture(s) 17 VALENTIJN, François. Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën, vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands mogentheyt in die gewesten, benevens eene wydluftige beschryvinge der Moluccos, Amboina, Banda, Timor, en Solor, Java, en alle de eylanden onder dezelve landbestieringen behoorende; het Nederlands Comptoir op Suratte, en de levens der Groote Mogols; Als ook een keurlyke verhandeling van 't wezentlykste, dat men behoort te weten van Coromandel, Pegu, Arracan, Bengale, Mocha, Persien, Malacca, Sumatra,  Ceylon, Malabar, Celebes of Macassar, China, Japan, Tayouan of Formosa, Tonkin, Cambodia, Siam, Borneo, Bali, Kaap Der Goede Hoop en van Mauritius. Te zamen dus behelzende niet alleen een zeer nette beschhryving van alles, wat Nederlands Oost-Indiën betreft, maar ook 't voornaamste dat eenigzins tot eenige andere Europeërs, in die gewesten, betrekking heeft. Dordrecht; Amsterdam, J. van Braam; G. Onder de Linden, 1724-1726. 5 parts in 8 vols. Folio. Modern half calf, spine ribbed and gilt with red morocco title-labels. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by A. van Buysen after C. Mulder, engraved vignette on general title, 8 separate titles, folding engraved portrait of the author by J. Houbraken, engraved dedication to Egidius van den Bempden, 8 folding tables, 24 engraved maps, most of them folding, 265 engraved plans, views, portraits and plates of plants, animals, costumes, etc., of which many are double-page and/or folding and 78 engravings in text. This copy with 2 extra double-page engraved plates by M. Sallieth. Together ca. 3500 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Asia  Cartography  East Indies  Indonesia  Java  Natural History  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Three VOC voyages together in the very rare Dutch translation View picture(s) 18 VRIES, Simon de. Drie seer aenmercklijcke reysen nae en door veelerley gewesten in Oost-indien; gedaen van Christophorus Frikius, chirurgijn: Elias Hesse, bergh-schrijver: Christophorus Schweitzer, boekhouder; yeder bysonder, van 't jaer 1675 tot 1686. Bevattende, nevens noyt beschrevene gedenckwaerdigheden, oock. Een eygentlijck beright van den laetsten Bantamschen oorlogh, en de veroveringh van geheel Groot-Java door de Hollanders. Desgelijcks van de staet der Sillidaische goudmijn van d'E. E. Oost-indische Compagnie op Sumatra. Alles van de schrijvers in eygener persoon bygewoond. Utrecht, Willem vande Water, 1694. 4to. Contemporary vellum. With engraved frontispiece, and 7 engraved plates. [6], 435, [29] pp Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Discovery & Exploration  Earth Sciences [General]  Shipwrecks  Travel & Voyages  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Poster for ca. 1750 a ship (galliot - galjoot) and inventory auction View picture(s) 19 [AUCTION POSTER - SHIP]. BONTEKONINGH, Joannes and Dirk (brokers). Presenteren (uyt der hand) te verkoopen, een extraordinary welbezeylt galjoot-schip, genaamt De Maria: Is in 't 1711 Nieuw Uitgehaalt,... en tegenwoordigh in de Nieuwe Zyds Wal, agter de Oude Stads Herbergh, is liggende. Amsterdam, Karel van Rijschooten II, [ca. 1750]. 1 folio leaf, printed on 1 side. Full description >> Related Subjects: Maritime History  Ships & Shipbuilding  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A short-lived school project in Dutch East India View picture(s) 20 [DUTCH EAST INDIES - NAVIGATION]. Project tot het opregten van een corps cadets de marine voor den zee-dienst in Indiën, en tot het aanqueken van jonge zee-officiers, midsgaders het stigten van een academie voor de zelve. Batavia, in 't Casteel, August 23, 1743. Folio. With a woodcut initial. 8 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Dutch  Navigation  Pamphlets  VOC  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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