Author: SIJPESTEIJN, C(ornelis) A(scanius) van.
Title: Beschrijving van Suriname, historisch-, geographisch- en statistisch overzigt, uit officiele bronnen bijeengebracht.
Description: 's Gravenhage, Gebroeders van Cleef, 1854. Later half calf, spine lettered in gilt. With folding lithographed plan of Paramaribo and folding lithographed map with coat of arms. XVI,296 pp. First edition. - Historical, geographical and statistical description of Suriname by Jhr. Cornelis Ascanius van Sypesteyn (1823 - 1892), compiled from official sources. He was a Dutch colonial administrator in the West Indies between 1846 and 1859, worked for the Department of the Colonies, was a member of parliament and from 1873 till 1882 Governor General of Suriname. In the first chapter an overview of the history of the colony is given, the second chapter contains the geographical description, the third chapter deals with the population and the plantations, the slaves, the forts, the military, the Bushnegroes, the Indians and the runaways, with at the end an overview of the export of the main products (sugar, coffee, cotton, cocoa, indigo, rum and molasses) over the years 1816 to 1852. - A fine copy. Tiele 1075; Cat. NHSM I, p.285; Sabin 80989; Muller, America, p.171; Suriname-catalogus UB Amsterdam 6774; Koeman, Suriname, 54.
Keywords: America Dutch travel Suriname slavery
Title: Beschrijving van Suriname, historisch-, geographisch- en statistisch overzigt, uit officiele bronnen bijeengebracht.
Description: 's Gravenhage, Gebroeders van Cleef, 1854. Later half calf, spine lettered in gilt. With folding lithographed plan of Paramaribo and folding lithographed map with coat of arms. XVI,296 pp. First edition. - Historical, geographical and statistical description of Suriname by Jhr. Cornelis Ascanius van Sypesteyn (1823 - 1892), compiled from official sources. He was a Dutch colonial administrator in the West Indies between 1846 and 1859, worked for the Department of the Colonies, was a member of parliament and from 1873 till 1882 Governor General of Suriname. In the first chapter an overview of the history of the colony is given, the second chapter contains the geographical description, the third chapter deals with the population and the plantations, the slaves, the forts, the military, the Bushnegroes, the Indians and the runaways, with at the end an overview of the export of the main products (sugar, coffee, cotton, cocoa, indigo, rum and molasses) over the years 1816 to 1852. - A fine copy. Tiele 1075; Cat. NHSM I, p.285; Sabin 80989; Muller, America, p.171; Suriname-catalogus UB Amsterdam 6774; Koeman, Suriname, 54.
Keywords: America Dutch travel Suriname slavery
Price: EUR 302.50 = appr. US$ 328.77 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 12896
- Book number: 12896