Asia / VOC - Dutch East India Company

BARCHEWITZ, Ernst Christoph. Neu-vermehrte Ost-Indianische Reise-Beschreibung, darinnen I. Seine durch Deutsch- und Holland nach Indien gethane Reise; II. Sein elfjähriger Aufenthalt auf Java ...; III. Seine Rückreise ...
Erfurt, Johann Friedrich Hartung, 1762. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a full-page map, and 6 engraved plates (5 folding, 1 full-page). Later gold-tooled brown half calf. [20], 687, [16] pp. Full description

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. With a 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. Modern marbled wrappers. [4], 76 pp. Full description

BONTEKOE van HOORN, Willem Ysbrantsz. Gedenkwaardige beschryving, van de achtjarige en zeer avontuurlyke reise van Willem Ysbrantsz Bontekoe van Hoorn, gedaan na Oost-Indien, bevattende vele wonderlyke en gevaarlyke zaken, my op dezelve reise wedervaren. Ook is hier bygevoegt een verhaal van Dirk Albertz. Raven, kommandeur op 't schip Spitsbergen, gedestineert na Groenland.
Amsterdam, Barend Koene, [ca. 1820]. 4to. With a half-page woodcut portrait of Willem Ysbrantsz Bontekoe with the city of Hoorn in the background, 7 (near) half-page woodcut illustrations in the text and a small (typographic) floral tailpiece on the last page. The text of the Bontekoe story is set in Gothic type in two columns, while the tale of Dirk Albertz. Raven is set in a single column in Roman type. Modern half vellum. 64 pp. Full description

[CEYLON]. Provisioneel ende particulier tractaet, gemaeckt, gearresteert ende besloten in 's Graven-Hage, den 27. Martii, 1645. tusschen de heer Francisco de Zousa Continho, raedt ende ambassadeur van den doorluchtighsten grootmachtigen Koningh van Portugael, Algarves, &c. ...; ende de ... Staten Generael van de Vereenighde Nederlandtsche Provincien, &c. aengaende de controversie over de jurisdictie ende territorie van 't Fort Galle [in Ceylon], &c.
The Hague widow and heirs of Hillebrandt Jacobsz. van Wouw, 1645 [= The Hague, Paulus Scheltus, ca. 1697?]. 4to. Modern plain-paper wrapper. [8] pp. Full description

[COMMELIN, Isaac]. Begin ende voortgangh, van de Vereenigde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie. Vervattende de voornaemste reysen, by de inwoonderen der selver provincien derwaerts gedaen. Alles nevens de beschrijvinghen der rijcken, eylanden, havenen, revieren[!], stroomen, rheeden, winden, diepten en ondiepten; mitsgaders religien, manieren, aerdt, politie ende regeeringhe der volckeren; oock meede haerder speceryen, drooghen, geldt ende andere koopmanschappen, met veele discoursen verrijckt: nevens eenighe koopere platen verciert.
[Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius], 1646. 21 parts in 2 volumes. Oblong 4to. With a richly engraved allegorical frontispiece in each volume (one by J. van Meurs, the other unsigned), and 229 engraved maps, views and plates illustrating the voyages, several double-page or folding, including a large folding map of the world. Modern vellum. 71, [1 blank], 112, 56, 31, [1 blank], 56, 20, 51, [1 blank], 31, [1 blank], 27, [1 blank], 62, 88, [10]; 91, [1 blank], 191, [1 blank], 48, 214, [2 blank], 110, 112, 118, 79, [1 blank], 94, 217, [17] pp. Full description

[DUTCH EAST INDIES - VOC]. [Collection of 17 sets of manuscript documents and 1 printed memorandum on various subjects relating to the VOC].
Ca. 1653-1833. Mostly in folio (ca. 33 x 21 mm). Kept in a modern red portfolio with black cloth ties. Ca. 120 ll. Full description

EKATHOTSAROT, King of Ayutthaya (Siam/Thailand). Translaet van eenen brieff geschreven in gout ende bij den Coninck van Syam gesonden aen Sijn Excellentie Mauritio de Nassau.
[The Hague?, ca. 1608]. Folio (34 x 21 cm). Dutch manuscript translation, written in brown ink on paper in a slightly sloped Dutch gothic cursive hand (35 lines with text area 21 x 17.5 cm, plus 2-line drop-title), very neatly written, of a 1607 letter from Ekathatsarot, King of Ayutthaya (Siam/Thailand) to Maurits of Nassau, Prince of Orange (received in 1608), distributed as a manuscript tidings. [1] leaf. Full description

HEYDT, Johann Wolffgang. Allerneuester Geographisch und Topographischer Schau-Platz, von Africa und Ost-Indien.
Nuremberg, C. Tetschner, 1744. Oblong folio (31 x 36.5 cm). With 115 numbered engraved maps and plates, an engraved frontispiece, and an engraved title page. Contemporary vellum, with the author and title lettered in gold on the spine, red edges. [24], 345, [4] pp. Full description

HOOGHE, Romeyn de. Victorien der Nederl. Geoct. O. Compagnie op het Koninkryck van Macasser door den Ed. heer C. Speelman.
[Amsterdam?, 1669]. Engraved view (40 x 54.5 cm), with two battle scenes on top, flanked by portraits of Speelman and Radjah Palacca, with in the centre a laurel wreath with the monogram of the VOC, surrounded by Mars and Mercury, and a banderole with the title; and with letterpress text below the view (11 x 54.5 cm), including two poems by the famous Dutch poet Joost van den Vondel and numbered keys referring to the plate. Framed (75 x 81 cm). Full description

HOUTMAN, Cornelis de and Levinus HULSIUS (translator). Erste Schiffart. Kurtze warhafftige Beschreibung der Newen Reyse oder Schiffart so die Hollendischen Schiff in den Orientalischen Indien verricht: welche Anno 1595. In Martio, alda aussgefahren und erst im Augusto des verlauffenen 1597. Jahrs wider kommen seind. Darinne der gantz Sueces der Reyse... erzehlt wird.
Nürnberg, In verlegung Levinius Hulsius [printed by Christoph Lochner], 1599. 4to. With a double-page world map, and 11 plates and maps. 19th-century gold-tooled straight-grain green morocco, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, an elaborate gold border on both boards, ornaments on the spine, gold-tooled turn-ins. [4], 76 pp. Full description