Asia / VOC - Dutch East India Company

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

[INDONESIA - INDIA - SRI LANKA]. Nederlandsch India, in haaren tegenwoordigen toestand beschouwd; of waar en gronding berigt van haare regeering, derzelver bestier en handelingen; haare bezittingen; haare militie; haar kwijnenden handel, zeevaart, enz.
Batavia [= Amsterdam?], [1780?]. 8vo. With a decoration on the title page, headpiece and factotum all built up from rococo typographic ornaments. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. 80 pp. Full description

KAEMPFER, Engelbert (Sir Joseph BANKS, ed.). Icones selectæ plantarum, quas in Japonia collegit et delineavit.
London, [Library of the British Museum], 1791. Folio (42 x 26.5 cm.). With 59 etched plates, (8 are double-page), by Daniel Mackenzie. Slightly later half calf, marbled sides, gold-tooled monogram AL on spine. [4], 3, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[KEULEN, Gerard and Johannes van, and others]. [Composite sea atlas containing 56 detailed charts including 3 manuscript charts].
Amsterdam, [Johannes van Keulen and others, 1700-1753, engraved title page dated 1734]. Large folio (61.5 x40.5 cm). With an engraved allegorical title page by Aernout Nagtegael after Jan Luyken, and 56 detailed sea charts, the whole expertly coloured by a contemporary hand. The atlas includes 22 large folding charts, including 3 highly interesting manuscript charts, 27 double-page charts, 1 full-page chart, and 6 half-page charts, most of them with beautiful cartouches, depicting views, local people, and merchandise. The maps are engraved and originally edited by the most famous Dutch cartographers and map-publishers of the late 17th- and early 18th centuries. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, with green cloth closing ties. Title page and 56 charts. Full description

[L'HERMITE, Jacques]. Breeder verhael ende klare beschrijvinge van tghene den admirael Cornelis Matelief de Jonge inde Oost-Indien voor de stadt Malacca, ende int belegh der zelver wederbaren is: als ooc den vreesselijcken strijdt ter zee / tusschen den admirael voorschreven ende de portugijsen ende andere geschiedenissen meer. overgeschreven by eenen der commisen inde vlote.
Rotterdam, Jan Janssz., 1608. 4to. With a woodcut illustration on the title page representing a fleet arriving at the port of Malacca, one woodcut initial and a woodcut tailpiece. 19th-century gold-tooled red morocco. [9] ll. Full description

[MACNENY, Patrick]. Wederlegginge van de argumenten ...
Including:
(2) [PESTERS, Ernst]. Copie van de memorie door den Heere Pesters ...
(3) [VOC, Directors of the]. Copie van de Remonstrantie van de bewindthebberen van de Oost-Indische Compagnie der Vereenighde Nederlanden.
(4) [BASSECOUR, Johan de la; Directors of the WIC]. Copie van de Remonstrantie van de Bewindthebberen van de West-Indische Compagnie.
The Hague, Paulus & Isaac Scheltus, 1723. 4to (21 x ca. 16.5). With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, the text is primarily set in gothic type, and a large woodcut tailpiece on p. 75. 20th-century dark green morocco, signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London at the bottom turn-in at the front of the work. With the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. 75, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH - VOC - HEALTH]. Ziekten aan boord der uitvarende schepen naar Indië 1774-1783.
1774-1783. Folio. Loosely inserted in contemporary wrappers with the manuscript title on the front. The work is kept in a brown cloth folder, with a red morocco title label on the front, lettered in gold. [5] ll. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT LETTER - VOC - CEYLON]. [Mattheus SCHENKENBERG]. [Contemporary copy of a letter dated 3 January 1699 from Mattheus Schenkenberg to his uncle Harmen van Soelen].
[Jaffanapatnam, Ceylon, 3 January 1699]. Folio (33 x 21 cm). The Dutch letter is written in a neat late 17th-century cursive hand in brown ink. Folded and kept together by an orange, white and blue piece of string in the left margin (1.5 cm from the edge of the leaves, in the middle). [5], [3 blank] pp. Full description

MARRE, Jan de. Batavia, begrepen in zes boeken.
Amsterdam, Adriaan Wor & heirs of G. onder de Linden, 1740.
With:
(2) MARRE, Jan de. Bespiegelingen over gods wysheid in't bestier der schepselen, en eerkroon voor de Caab de Goede Hoop.
Amsterdam, Adriaan Wor & heirs of G. onder de Linden, 1746.
(3) MARRE, Jan de. Hof- en mengeldichten.
Amsterdam, Adriaan Wor & heirs of G. onder de Linden, 1746.
3 works in 1 volume, the first in 6 parts. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece and an elaborate title-vignette (identical on all three title-pages. And ad. 1 with a folding engraved plate of Jakarta "as it was in 1731" by Jan van der Laan. Contemporary vellum, red spine label. [36], 320, [6]; [42], 178, [22], [20], 214, [4] pp. Full description

MÖKERN, Philipp van. Ostindien, seine Geschichte, Cultur und seine Bewohner. Resultate eigener Forschungen und Beobachtungen an Ort und Stelle. Deutsche Original-Ausgabe.
Leipzig, Hermann Costenoble, 1857. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. XII, 395; [6], 327 pp. Full description