KUNST EN AMBACHT IN INDONESIË. Inleiding A. Djajasoebrata.

Delft, Ethnografisch Museum, 1969. 4to. Wrappers. With many illustrations. 104 pp.

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Book number: 9019

Keywords: Indonesia Indonesia art Indonesia ethnography

(BEETS, Nicolaas).

Kuser. Een verhaal door den autheur van Jose.

Haarlem, Erven F. Bohn, 1835.Contemporary half morocco, spine richly gilt. With engraved vignette on title-page. XIII,78 pp.First edition. - In his college years, Beets (1814-1903) published several narrative poems reminiscent of Byron in style and content such as kuser. - (Foxed). - Nice binding.

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Book number: 37252

Keywords: Dutch literature Holland

(MOORE, Willem Charles Jacobus van den).

Landbouw-, Nijverheid en Koophandel. Brieven van den Bruinen Ridder aan een Ongenoemde.

Saamaaranch, G.C.T. van Dorp, 1865.Original printed wrappers. 10 pp.Agriculture, industry and commerce in the Dutch East Indies. Three other pamphlets on Dutch colonial government were published under the same name and issued between 1865-1866.Cat. KITLV p.76.

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Book number: 29224

Keywords: Indonesia Indonesia general

(MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel Riquetti de).

Des lettres de cachet et des prisons d'etat. Ouvrage posthume, composé en 1778.

Hambourg, 1782.2 volumes in 1. Modern half vellum. XIV,323; 203 pp.First edition. - The French political thinker and statesman Mirabeau (1749-1791) went to the United Provinces, where he lived by writing hack work for the booksellers; meanwhile Mirabeau had been condemned to death at Pontarlier for sedition and abduction, and in May 1777 he was seized by the Dutch police, sent to France and imprisoned by a lettre de cachet in the castle of Vincennes. His Lettres de cachet exhibits an accurate knowledge of French constitutional history, skillfully marshaled to demonstrate that the system of lettres de cachet was not only philosophically unjust but constitutionally illegal. - (Small brown stain at top of first 70 pages).

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Book number: 11107

Keywords: Europe France

(MASSON , Charles François Philibert).

Lettres d'un Français a un Allemand, servant de réponse a Mr. De Kotzebue, et de supplément aux Memoires secrets sur la Russie. Suivies d'un précis historique de la déportation et de l'exil de l'auteur.

Basle, Decker, Coblence, Lassaul, 1802.Old wrappers. IX,328 pp.Charles François Philibert Masson (1762-1807) was a member of the Institut de France. He started his career as an apprentice watchmaker in Neuchâtel, but he was more interested in the arts and traveled to Russia where he became the tutor of the children of Count Nikolaj Ivanovitsj Saltykov, the Minister of War. The count made him his major domus. He made himself popular in the élite of Saint Petersburg through his wit, his taste in literature and his conversation and was popular in the great houses of Saint Petersburg and at court but the tyrannical Czar Paul I expelled him from Russia as an outspoken symphatiser of the French Revolution. He lived in Germany for a while before returning to France where he published his Mémoires secrets sur la Russie.Cf. Catalogue Russica M554.

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Book number: 31672

Keywords: Europe Russia

(STIJL, S.).

Het leven van Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruiter. 2e druk.

Haarlem, François Bohn, 1796.Old boards. VI,455 pp.Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter (1607 - 1676) is one of the most famous naval heroes in Dutch history. He is widely regarded as the greatest admiral of his time. De Ruyter was alternately employed by the state and shipowners, and was even active in the whaling industry as an independent entrepreneur for a while.Cat. NHSM II, p.846.

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Book number: 37463

Keywords: Dutch maritime history

(BELINFANTE, J.J.).

Het leven van Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruyter. 1607-1676.

's Gravenhage, A.F. van Langenhuysen, 2 volumes. Original embossed cloth, with gilt decoration on front covers, spines richly gilt (spines discoloured). With 130 lithographed plates (mostly depicting 2 scenes on one leaf) and many woodengravings after C.A.A. Last. (30),XIX,480; 747 pp.The Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter (1607-1676) was born in Vlissingen (Flushing) and went to the sea for the first time at the age of 11. He was mate on the whaler Groene Leeuw from 1633 to 1635. In 1636 he became captain of a privateer ship owned by the Lampsins brothers. Then he went to work for them as a merchantman. In 1641 and 1642 he served under Admiral Gijssels. With the rank of rear admiral, he was captain of the merchant vessel De Haze, which had been converted into a warship. In 1644 De Ruyter bought his own ship, the Salamander. He then sailed as an independent captain-merchant, mainly on the West Indies and Barbary (North Africa). He became admiral-in-chief of the Dutch fleet and his achievements with the Dutch Navy during the Anglo-Dutch Wars earned him the reputation as one of the most skilled naval commanders in history. He captured the English flag-ship Royal Charles at Chatham. De Ruyter was fatally wounded in a battle against the French fleet at Messina near Sicily in 1676. His body was buried in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. - Except foxing as usual a fine copy.Cat. NHSM II, p.849.

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Book number: 29143

Keywords: Dutch maritime history maritime history

LITERATUURLIJST VOOR HET ADATRECHT VAN INDONESIË. 2e druk. (With) AANVULLENDE LITERATUURLIJST (1927- 1 september 1937).

's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1927-38. 2 volumes. Wrappers. 452; 159 pp.

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Book number: 7777

Keywords: Indonesia Indonesia general

(NENY, Patrice-François de).

Mémoires historiques et politiques des Pays Bas autrichiens.

Neuchatel, Fauche, Favre & Compagnie, 1784.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. VIII,429 pp.Dedication printed in civilité. - A general political history of the Southern Low Countries, also dealing with the trade with Spain, England, Holland and Liege. A fundamental source for the political and diplomatic history of the period.- (Without the portrait).Cf. Dekkers, Bibliotheca Belgica Juridica.

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Book number: 13571

Keywords: Belgium Dutch history Holland

(GRAAFLAND, I.P.C.).

Naar de(n) Oost ! Opmerkingen van een Indischman door Creusesol.

Utrecht, Van der Heide & Leijdenroth, 1908. Original decorated boards. (6),158 pp.To the East, observations of an Indianman, recommending a career in the Dutch East Indies.Buur 690.

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Book number: 31624

Keywords: Indonesia Indonesia belletrie Indonesia general indonesia exploration

(QUANDT, Christlieb).

Nachricht von Suriname und seinen Einwohnern sonderlich den Arawacken, Warauen und Karaiben, von den nüzlichsten Gewächsen und Thieren des Landes, den Geschäften der dortigen Missionarien der Brüderunität und der Sprache der Arawacken. Görlitz, 1807. Reprint with foreword by H.C. van Renselaar.

(Amsterdam, S. Emmering, 1968). Cloth. With folding map and two plates. XIV,(2),316 pp.

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Book number: 13504

Keywords: Suriname mission

(KALFF, Martin).

De nalatenschap van Barents en zijne togtgenooten op Nova Zembla.

(No pl., Het Leeskabinet), 1872. With 2 tinted lithographed plates depicting 4 illustrations of the wintering on Nova Zembla by P. Blommers. 26 pp.

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Book number: 36227

Keywords: Arctic Dutch travel Nova Zembla Pole

(TULLY, Miss).

Narrative of a ten years' residence at Tripoli in Africa: from the original correspondence in the possession of the family of the late Richard Tully, Esq. the British Consul. Comprising authentic memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning Bashaw, his family, and other persons of distinction; also, an account of the domestic manners of the Moors, Arabs, and Turks.

London, printed for Henry Colburn, 1816.4to. Contemporary half calf, with green morocco title-label to spine. With engraved folding map and 5 fine hand-coloured aquatints. XIII,(2),370 pp.First edition; with armorial bookplate of C. Robert Bignold. - These letters were written by the sister or sister-in-law of Richard Tully, British consul at Tripoli from 1783 to 1793. The work is particularly valuable for its details of family life in the seraglio. The female members of Tully's family were on intimate terms with the Bashaw's family and were admitted into all the life of the seraglio. 'It is a delicious mixture of sensational subject-matter and deadpan delivery' (Robinson, Wayward Women, p.248). 'The volume will be found an object of particular curiosity, from the lively and artless manner in which it lays open the interior of the Court of the Bashaw of Tripoli. It contains, we believe, the only exact account which has ever been made publicly known of the private manners and conduct of this African Despot, and details such scenes and events, such sketches of human weakness and vice, the effects of ambition, avarice, envy, intrigue, as will scarcely appear credible in the estimation of a European'. (Preface). This is one of the most important records of Tripolitan life during the 18th century. The very attractive plates depict genre scenes and costumes. - A fine copy.Abbey, Travel, 299; Tooley, Coloured plates, 493; Blackmer Collection 1682; Atabey Collection 1241.

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Book number: 1753

Keywords: Africa Europe Jubileum cat. Nubia Turkey

(LIGNAC, P. de).

Natuurkundige beschouwing van de man en de vrouw in den huwelyken staat. Uit het Fransch vertaald door P.L. 2e druk.

Amsterdam & Leyden, Compagnie Boekverkopers, 1785.2 volumes. Half green cloth. With 4 folding engraved plates. (12),291,(8); 348,(13) pp.First published in Dutch in 1772, first edition in French published in Lille in 1772 De l'homme et de la femme, considérés physiquement dans l'état du marriage. According to Bibliotheca Medica Neerlandica vol.I, p. 450 translated by Pieter Leuter. Dealing with all aspects that are linked with matrimony, fertility, reproductive process, pregnancy, impotence, lust enhancing remedies, virginity, man's and woman's reproductive organs etc. - (Waterstained).

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Book number: 37086

NEDERLAND EN DE ORIËNT. (N.a.v. de tentoonstelling Fata morgana. De verbeelding van het Oosten: Nederlandse oriëntalisten 1830-1930).

Amsterdam, 2004. 4to. Wrappers. With coloured illustrations. 53 pp.Kunstschrift - On Willem de Famars Testas, Tico Martinus Lycklama a Nijeholt, Jacobus van Looy, Marius Bauer & Daniël van der Meulen.

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Book number: 28440

Keywords: Egypt Levant Middle East