Author: HERING, Johannes Hermanus.
Title: Beschryving van het eiland Curaçao, en de daar onder hoorende eilanden, Bon-Aire, Oroba en Klein Curacao. Benevens een kort bericht, wegens het gesprongen schip Alphen.
Description: Amsterdam, Joannes van Selm, 1779. Half red morocco, spine lettered in gilt. With engraved plan of Curaçao and the castle and harbour by A. v. Krefelt on one sheet, and a plate depicting the explosion of the frigate Alphen in the port of Willemstad on the St. Anna Bay in Curaçao after S. Fokke by J. van Selm. (6),89 pp. First edition; with the bookplate of Frederik Muller. - A description of the islands of Curaçao, Bonaire and Aruba and the explosion of the frigate Alphen with the entire crew of 206 men in the port of Willemstad on the St. Anna Bay in Curaçao, September 15, 1778. Commanded by captain George Willem Hendrik Baron van der Feltz. - Rare. Tiele 469; Muller, America 506; Sabin 31486; Muller, Historieplaten, 4332 b; De Groot & Vorstman, Zeilschepen, 176; Atlas van Stolk 4279; Renkema 110.

Keywords: America Caribbean Curaçao Dutch travel Islands Nederlandse Antillen