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ABBOTT, J.S.C. Columbus, de ontdekker van Amerika. Vertaald naar het Engelsch door J.H. Geraets. Amsterdam, W. Versluys, 1887.Original decorated cloth (foot of spine sl. dam.). With 11 illustrations. 176 pp. Bibliotheek voor de jeugd. [Boeknr.: 37335 ]

€ 35,00

ABBRING, H(ermanus) J(ohannes). Fragmenten uit mijne aanteekeningen. Deel I. Groningen, J.H. Bolt, 1836.Original boards. With lithographed title (stamp on title). (4),258 pp. First edition. - Volume I only: letters to a friend dealing with Curaçao. - Very rare.Not in Tiele, Cat. NHSM, Muller America or Sabin. [Boeknr.: 17625 ]

€ 375,00

ACOSTA, José de. Historie naturael ende morael van de Westersche Indien. Waer inne ghehandelt wordt van de merckelijckste dingen des hemels/ elementen/ metalen/ planten ende ghedierten van dien: als oock de manieren/ ceremonien/ wetten/ regeeringen/ ende oorloghen der Indianen. .. nu eerstmael uyt den Spaenschen in onser Nederduytsche tale overgheset: door Jan Huyghen van Linschoten. Enchutsen, Jacob Lenaertsz Meyn, 1598.Sm.8vo. 17th century vellum (back cover soiled). With woodcut device on titlepage and decorated woodcut initials and tailpieces. (7),389,(8) lvs. First Dutch edition, translated by Jan Huygen van Linschoten; first published in Seville in 1590: Historia natural y moral delas Indias. - José de Acosta (1540-1600), Spanish Jesuit missionary and historian, wrote this early important eye-witness account of South America, dealing i.a. with the history of the Indians of Peru and Mexico. 'Agosta was one of the first scholars to formulate a systemic theory of anthropology, suggesting a classification of different peoples into different types, and anticipating later theories of social evolution' (Howgego p.3). It is one of the earliest balanced accounts of the New World, concentrating on the Spanish possessions in Peru and Mexico, covering the Inca and Aztec people. A great classic translated into nearly every European language. It opened the eyes of Europe to the extraordinary wealth Spain was reaping from its possessions in the New World. 'The most convincing, detailed and reliable account of the riches and new things of America' (Streeter 32 English ed.)- (With library stamp on titlepage and faint waterstains in a few leaves). - A very good copy of a pioneering work on America.Tiele 25; Tiele, Mémoire, 289; Muller, America, p.3; Cat. NHSM I, p.261; Sabin 126; European Americana 598/3; Palau 1992. [Boeknr.: 36674 ]

€ 4500,00

ADAMS, James Truslow. New England in the Republic 1776-1850. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1926. Original cloth. With plates. XIV,438 pp. [Boeknr.: 8470 ]

€ 45,00

ALBANY. ALBANY BIRTHPLACE OF THE UNION. Commemorating America's oldest community, the growth of an idea, and an institution dedicated to the advancement of each. Albany, National Savings Bank, 1940. 4to. Wrappers. With many illustrations. XII,66 pp. [Boeknr.: 25416 ]

€ 20,00

ALEXANDER, James Edward. Transatlantic sketches, comprising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies. With notes on negro slavery and Canadian emigration. London, Richard Bentley, 1833.2 volumes. Contemporary half calf, with green and red morocco labels to spines. With two etched frontispieces, etched map and 8 etched plates by W. Heath. XXIII,384; XIII,320 pp. First edition. - 'The author, a well-to-do unattached military officer, went to the new world in 1831. He visited the Guiana coast, the West India islands (Barbados, Tobago, Trinidad, Grenada, St. Vincent, Jamaica, Cuba), the Mississippi valley and that of the St. Lawrence and the eastern part of the United States. His account .. consists of brief descriptions and keen observations on local life and society. .. The author opposes sudden emancipation and holds that the planters had not been given fair hearings. Supports them as against the abolitionists in a temperate, reasonable manner, an entire chapter being devoted to their defence' (Ragatz p.215). An interesting account of the West Indies with fascinating digressions of the slave trade, and an extensive tour of North America - (Names cut from printed title-pages).Sabin 735; Hough, The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, 801; Clark III,3; Afro-Americana, 215. [Boeknr.: 26418 ]

€ 875,00

ALLEN, James Lane. The blue-grass region of Kentucky and other Kentucky articles. New York, Macmillan Comp., 1900.Original decorated cloth, top edge gilt. With 16 plates. 301 pp. Including a chapter: Uncle Tom at home. [Boeknr.: 8419 ]

€ 35,00

ALLERS, Christian Wilhelm. Rund um die Erde. Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig, Union, Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1898).Folio. Original decorated cloth with 6 portrait medallions around a globe (extremties of spine sl. dam.), a.e.g. With numerous plates and illustrations by the author. First edition; with an autograph dedication to H.C. Klinkert, a Dutch Mennonite missionary and translator, by his students. - The journey led across the Mediterranean to Egypt, through the Suez Canal to the Red Sea, to Ceylon, Singapore, Java, Siam, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Canton, Shanghai, Beijing, Kiautschou, Japan, San Francisco and New York. The fine illustrations were made by the German draftsman and illustrator Christian Wilhelm Allers (1857-1915) [Boeknr.: 36755 ]

€ 150,00

AMELUNXEN, C.P. De geschiedenis van Curaçao. Opnieuw verteld. Curaçao, 1929. Cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original printed frontwrapper preserved. With 3 maps. 227 pp. First edition, privately printed. [Boeknr.: 36833 ]

€ 75,00

AMERICA. The United States of America. Compiled and drawn in the Cartographic Section of the National Geographic Society. Washington, National Geographic Society, 1946. Coloured map. Ca. 63,5 x 101 cm. Gift of the Schools of the United States of America through the American Junior Red Cross. [Boeknr.: 36584 ]

€ 65,00

ANDERSON, Alexander D. The Silver Country or the Great Southwest. A review of the mineral and other wealth, the attractions and material development of the former kingdom of New Spain, comprising Mexico and the Mexican cessions to the United States in 1848 and 1853. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1877.Original green cloth, with map of New Spain in black to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt. With folding map (some tears rep.). 221 pp. First edition. - The first important work on the whole of America's Southwest, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico, including much information on the gold and silver mines, agriculture and stockraising, topography and climate, etc. - Blind-stamped library stamp on title-page, otherwise fine.Cowan p.5. [Boeknr.: 8438 ]

€ 150,00

ANDREWS, Charles M. The Fathers of New England. A chronicle of the puritan commonwealths. New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 1919. Decorated cloth gilt, top edge gilt. With 10 plates. X,210 pp. The Chronicles of America Series; Abraham Lincoln edition. - 'More important than the promptings of land-hunger and the desire for wealth and adventure was the call made by a social and religious movement which was but a phase of the general restlessness and popular discontant'. [Boeknr.: 19904 ]

€ 25,00

ANDRIES, Judith. Nederlanders in Amerika. Hilversum, (1996). Wrappers. With many illustrations. 112 pp. Dealing with New Netherland and following period. [Boeknr.: 21691 ]

€ 15,00

ANSON, George. Reize rondsom de werreld, gedaan in de jaaren 1740 tot 1744.. op een expeditie naar de Zuidzee; opgesteld uit de journaalen en andere papieren van.. Anson zelven, en onder zyn opzicht uitgegeven door Richard Walter. Uit het Engelsch vertaald. 3e druk .. merkelyk verbeterd. (And:) Reize naer de Zuidzee, met het schip De Wager, onder het opzicht van George Anson, ondernomen in den jaere 1740. Zynde een vervolg op de reize van .. Anson. In't Nederduitsch vertaeld. (1e druk). Leiden, Amsterdam, Johannes Le Mair, Stephanus Jacobus Baalde, Cornelis van Hoogeveen, 1765-1766.2 volumes. 4to. 19th century half cloth, spines gilt. Volume I with title-page printed in red and black with fine engraved title-vignette, 15 folding maps and plans (2 small tears rep.) and 20 folding plates; Volume II with title-page printed in red and black with fine engraved title-vignette and 8 engraved plates (4 folding). (32), 384,(1); (36),212,(16) pp. First published in Dutch in 1749. - Official account of Anson's (1697-1762) famous privateering expedition (1740-1744) of seven vessels against Spanish commerce in the Pacific, edited from Anson's papers by Richard Walter, chaplain of the expedition. Although Anson lost most of his crew (an estimated 1000 lost to scurvy, 300 to typhus and dysentery, four in action and the remainder to shipwreck), and all but one of his ships, he did return with a vast bounty. Anson's voyage appears to have been the most popular book of maritime adventure of the 18th century. His exploits brought back new knowledge about the little-known regions around the southern tip of South America. The second volume contains the account of John Byron (1723-1786), midshipsman to the Wager, separated from Anson's fleet in fog off Patagonia, he rounded Cape Horn and ran aground in the Guayaneco Archipelago, to the south of the Golfo de Penas on the southern Chilean coast. The fate of the survivors, who then divided into two return parties, is one of the most gripping yarns of maritime history. 'Anson'voyage appears to have been the most popular book of maritime adventure of the eighteenth century' (Hill p.646). - A classic account of circumnavigation, a masterpiece of descriptive travel. - Two small library stamps on title-page otherwise a good copy.Tiele 42-43; Cat. NHSM I, p.136; Sabin 1641-1642a; Borba de Moraes, p.39; European Americana 748/224 (first ed.); Cf. Huntress 50C and 57C; Howgego A100. [Boeknr.: 2191 ]

€ 1850,00

ARBER, Edward. The story of the Pilgrim Fathers, 1606-1623 A.D.; as told by themselves, their friends, and their enemies. Edited from the original texts. London, Ward and Downey, 1897. Original cloth, gilt lettering. With portrait of Gov. Winslow and map of Plymouth Bay. X,634 pp. First edition. - Contents: Introduction.--Dr. Cotton Mather's life of Governor William Bradford.--The Bradford manuscript.--Scrooby.--Amsterdam.--Leyden.--The resolution to migrate to America.--The negotiations of the Pilgrim church.--The voyage to America.--A relation, or journal, of the beginning and proceedings of the English plantation, settled at Plymouth.--The complaint of certain adventurers and inhabitants of the plantation in New England.--Edward Winslow Good news from New England.--A brief relation of a credible intelligence of the present state of Virginia.-- and A postscript [Boeknr.: 19981 ]

€ 125,00

ARISTY, Ramón Marrero. La República Dominicana. Origen y destino del pueblo cristiano más antiquo de América. Ciudad Trujillo, Editoria del Caribe, C. por A., 1957 -1958.2 volumes. Folio. Original cloth. With numerous photographic plates and portraits. 491; 445 pp. The Dominican Republic is located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with Haiti,making Hispaniola one of only two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, that is shared by two sovereign states. [Boeknr.: 22857 ]

€ 175,00

ATWOOD, Thomas. The history of the island of Dominica. Containing a description of its situation, extent, climate, mountains, rivers, natural history, &c. London, J. Johnson, 1791.Modern half cloth, uncut. VIII,285 pp. First edition. - Containing also an account of the civil government, trade laws, customs and manners of the different inhabitants of the island of Dominica. Its conquest by the Frencht and by Britain in 1759. Captured by the French again during the war of American Independence, it was restored to Britain in 1783. Thomas Atwood published the first history of the island and still provides the most uniquely vivid, if not unbiased picture of Dominica in the late 18th century. He expressed his opinion that the island could be turned around with additional cattle and an increase of enslaved Africans for the sugar plantations. - (Some foxing and some blank margins restored). - Scarce.Ragatz p.185; Sabin 2343; Afro-Americana 721. [Boeknr.: 36733 ]

€ 1500,00

AYMARD, Gustave. De banneling. Naar de derde Franssche uitgave .. door S.J. Andriessen. 3e druk. 's Gravenhage, Henri J. Stemnerg, 1881.Original pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt. With tinted lithographed frontispiece by Wed. E. Spanier. (4), 216 pp. Gustave Aymard (1818-1883) is one of the great adventure novelists of the 19th century. [Boeknr.: 37378 ]

€ 30,00

AYMARD, Gustave. De scalpjagers. Schetsen uit de nieuwe wereld. 2e druk. Rotterdam, D. Bolle, (ca. 1890).Original embossed red cloth, lettered in gilt. With engraved title vignette. IV,155 pp. Gustave Aymard (1818-1883) is one of the great adventure novelists of the 19th century. [Boeknr.: 37377 ]

€ 30,00

BACOT, Willem - Willem CREDO. Zeeusche spectator over de boedel en het testament van capitein Willem Credo, onder toezicht van Gerard Bacot, predikant te Koudekerk, en syn vrou Paulina Credo, nevens een journaal of dag-lyst van een bedroefde reis naa het vermakelyk Alphen. Tot waarschouwing van jonge predikanten om niet ligt voogdyen aan te nemen. Den 30 April 1734 (No pl.), 1734.Modern cloth with gilt lettering. Title-page printed in red and black. (4),416 pp. First edition. - About the lagacy of Willem Credo (1663-1733) arose in 1734 an enormous quarrel according to this book. The privateer captain Willem Credo, a seaman, warrior and merchant from Middelburg in Zeeland was active between 1689 and 1713 in many areas: West-European Seas, the Mediterranean sea, African Waters and the West Indies. According to several sources in archives he appears to have been very succesful. He brought in nearly two hundred prizes and undertook one, and probably more illegal enslavement voyages from Angola to Sint Eustatius. Credo became a living legend. He owned a country house in Alphen aan de Rijn. - Very rare.Not in Sabin or European Americana. [Boeknr.: 35545 ]

€ 1250,00

BALLANTYNE, Robert Michael. Hudson Bay; or, everyday life in the wilds of North America during six years' residence in the territories of the hon. Hudson Bay Company. London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1912.Original pictorial cloth. With 50 illustrations and plates (several in colours). 367 pp. First published in 1848. - Ballantyne's adventures began in 1841 from York Factory. While he recapitulates much history of the Hudson's Bay Company, he also quotes extensively from the journal he kept during his travels (Graff p.27). A popular account of life in Hudson Bay and the Red River settlement, replete with trappers, Indians, intrepid explorers and travelers, and descriptions of hunting and fishing. Based on the author's experiences as a Hudson's Bay Co. clerk, 1841-47.Cf. Sabin 2952; Wagner-Camp 144a; Arctic Bibliography 1016; TPL 2886. [Boeknr.: 37170 ]

€ 40,00

BARBOUR, Philip. L. (Ed.). The Jamestown Voyages under the first charter 1606-1609. Documents relating to the foundation of Jamestown and the history of the Jamestown colony up to the departure of Captain John Smith, last president of the council in Virginia under the first charter, early in October, 1609. Cambridge, 1969. 2 volumes. Cloth, with dust-jackets. With 11 maps and plates. XXVIII, VIII, 524 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 136-137. - In December 1606, one hundred twenty emigrants left London in three small vessels. They landed nearly five months later in Virginia and founded a settlement which they called Jamestown. Thus the first Englisg colony was established in America. [Boeknr.: 16217 ]

€ 65,00

BARTLETT, William Henry. - WILLIS, Nathaniel Parker. American scenery; or land, lake and river. Illustrations of transatlantic nature. London, George Virtue, 1840.2 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half morocco, spines richly gilt. With engraved frontispiece portrait and map, 2 engraved title-pages and 117 steel-engravings after W.H.Bartlett. IV,140; IV,106 pp. First edition; with armorial bookplate. - In the years 1836-1838 and 1851-1852 William Bartlett (1809-1854), a highly skilful landscape artist, made four voyages to the United States and Canada. His romantic views are among the best produced in the 19th century, they show nice views of the north eastern states in the 1830's including New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, etc. - Some minor foxing but on the whole a handsome copy of this classic American view book depicting the principal American cities and picturesque views.Sabin 3784; Howes B 209; Andres 987; Abbey, Travel, 651;Clark III, 256. [Boeknr.: 1504 ]

€ 975,00

BAYER, Wolfgang. Reize naar Peru, van 1748 tot 1770. Amsterdam, Willem Holtrop, 1782.Contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt, with red morocco title-label to spine. VI,204 pp. First Dutch edition, first published in German in Nürnberg in 1776 Reise nach Peru. - Rare description of Peru. Bayer went as a missionary to Peru, where he worked between 1752 and 1766 in the district of Juli near lake Titicaca. In 1770 he returned to Europe via Cape Horn. - A very nice copy.Not in Tiele; Cat. NHSM I, p.282; Sabin 4044, Henze I, p.206. [Boeknr.: 32448 ]

€ 875,00

BEALS, Herbert K. a.o. (Ed.). Four travel journals. The Americas, Antarctica and Africa, 1775-1874. Edited by Herbert K. Beals, R.J. Campbell, Ann Savours, Anita McConnell, Roy Bridges. London, 2007. 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations and maps. X,404 pp. Hakluyt Society, 3rd series, 18. - This volume offers annotated texts with biographical and historical introductions of four previously unpublished travel journals from the period 1775-1874. [Boeknr.: 34641 ]

€ 45,00

BECHT, Karl. The Karl Becht collection. Books on Africa including sections on the Middle East, the Far East, the Arctic and Antarctic and America. Stockholm, Bukowski, 1991. 4to. Wrappers. With illustrations. 71 pp. - Auction catalogue. [Boeknr.: 32802 ]

€ 18,00

BEEBE, William. The Arcturus adventure. An account of the New York Zoological Society's first Oceanographic expedition. New York & London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.Original green cloth, top edge gilt. With 76 plates (7 in colours). XIX,439 pp. First edition, published by the Knickerbocker Press. - In 1925, the American biologist Charles William Beebe (1877 - 1962) set out on a second Galápagos expedition, The Arcturus Oceanographic Expedition. His exploration of the Galapagos and Cocos Islands is an example of a scientific exploration and adventure. [Boeknr.: 36739 ]

€ 225,00

BELT, Thomas. The naturalist in Nicaragua: a narrative of a residence at the gold mines of Chontales; journeys in the savannahs and forests, with observations on animals and plants in reference to the theory of evolution of living forms. London, John Murray, 1874.Original pictorial cloth (spine sl. faded). With folding map, 27 wood-engraved plates and illustrations. XXXII,403 pp. First edition. - In 1862 Thomas Belt (1852-1878) sailed for Central America to take charge of the Chontales gold mines in central Nicaragua, arriving at Greytown in the steam-ship Solent. From here he moved south, ascended the San Juan River to the Lago de Nicaragua, then followed the northeastern shore of the lake to Acoyapo and the goldminning village of Santo Domingo, located between the Siquia and Mico rivers. This remained Belt's base of operations for several years, but numerous excursions were made into the surrounding country. In 1872, his final year in the country, he made a long and difficult journey to the north (Howgego IV, p.75). Besides descriptions of nature in the area, the author describes the people, their customs, culture, society, ancient artifacts, etcCharles Darwin wrote on Belt's book "it appears to be the best of all Natural History Journals which have ever been published". - A classic work on the natural history of Nicaragua.Palau 26647; Wood, p. 230. [Boeknr.: 36759 ]

€ 850,00

BENJAMINS, H.D. & J.F. SNELLEMAN. Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch West-Indië. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff & Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1914-1917. Original cloth with gilt coat of arms on front board (spine discoloured and sl. dam.). With 3 coloured maps of the Dutch Antilles and Suriname. X,782 pp. First edition. - Encyclopaedia of the Dutch West-Indian territories: Antilles and Suriname. [Boeknr.: 6691 ]

€ 125,00

BENNETT, George Fletcher. Early architecture of Delaware. Introduction and text by J.L. Copeland. Wilmington, Historical Press, New York, Carl. T. Waugh & Co., (1932). 4to. Decorated cloth. With numerous photographic illustrations, measured drawings and profils. 213 pp. 1200 numbered copies printed. - Showing the influence of successive Dutch, Swedish, and English colonization between 1660 and 1840. [Boeknr.: 25390 ]

€ 125,00

BENZONI, Girolamo. - Americo VESPUCCI. De gedenkwaardige West-Indise voyagien, gedaan door Christoffel Columbus, Americus Vesputius en Lodewijck Hennepin. Behelzende een naaukeurige en waarachtige beschrijving der eerste en laatste Americaanse ontdekkingen... Mitsgaders een getrouw en aenmerkelijk verhaal van de Opperhoofden der Spanjaarden onderlinge oneenigheden doenmaals in America, als ook de onmenschelijke wreedheden door haer aen d'Indianen gepleegd. In't Italiaans beschreeven .. nu eerst getrouwelijk vertaald. Leyden, Pieter vander Aa, 1704.4to. Modern marbled boards. With engraved frontispiece and 5 folding engraved plates. 86 (=89),(11) pp. The first Dutch edition was published in Haarlem in 1610. - The first part is a translation of Girolamo Benzoni's (1518/19-1570) La Historia del mondo nuovo, Venice, 1565. Benzoni went in 1541 as a soldier in the Spanish army at an age of 22 from Milan to the New World. He spent the next 15 years stationed at various posts throughout America. 'It is valuable as an early record of the establishment of Europeans in America written from a non-Spanish standpoint. The woodcuts are of particular interest: engraved from the author's own drawings, they illustrate the daily life of the Indians and some of the natural resources of the country' (Howgego p.107). He describes vividly the Spanish cruelties committed against the Indians. A most important early history of North America. The second part contains the voyages of Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512). The account of Hennepin called for on the title-page is not present, it was issued separately. - ( Age-browned; upper outer corner occasionally waterstained).Tiele 88; Cat. NHSM I, p.263; Muller, America, p.12; European-Americana V, 704/16; Sabin 4806. [Boeknr.: 28524 ]

€ 950,00

BERLIN, Ira. Many thousands gone. The first two centuries of slavery in North America. Cambridge, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998. Half cloth, with dust-jacket. X,497 pp. [Boeknr.: 32560 ]

€ 35,00

(BEVERLEY, Robert). Histoire de la Virginie; contenant, I L'Histoire du premier etablissement dans la Virginie, & de son gouvernement jusques- à present. II. Les productions naturelles & les commodités du païs, avantque les Anglois y négociassent, & l'améliorassent. III. La religion, les loix, & les coûtumes des Indiens naturels, tant dans la guerre, que dans la Paix. IV. L'Etat present du Païs, tant à l'égard de la police, que de l'amerlioration du païs. Par un auteur natif & habitant du païs. Traduite de l'Anglois. Imprimé à Orléans & se vend a Paris, chez Pierre Ribou, 1707.Sm.8vo. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt in compartments and with red morocco title label to spine (1 hinge cracked but firmly holding; extrimities of spine sl. dam.). With engraved frontispiece depicting a sailing ship, folding table, and 14 engraved plates. (8), 416, (18) pp. First French edition; first published in English The history and present state of Virginia. London, 1705; contemporary owner's signature to the title page. - 'After John Smith, the first account of this colony, the first one penned by a native and the best contemporary record of its aboriginal tribes and of the life of its early settlers (Howes p 55). Beverley's style is easy, unsophisticated, and pleasing, and his work is most useful for the period following the Restoration (Church 821). This work affords the most vivid, comprehensive, instructive, and entertaining picture of Virginia at the date of his writing that is to be found (Sabin 5117). The book served to attract many immigrants to Virginia. As a native-born American, he provided English readers with the first thoroughgoing account of Virginia and It also gives a favourable account of the slave society that had developed in Virginia by the beginning of the eighteenth century.. The fine engravings are based on engravings from De Bry's Grand Voyages. - Slightly age-browned otherwise fine.Sabin 5115; European-Americana V, p.90. [Boeknr.: 36178 ]

€ 950,00

BEZERRA, V.C. Olinda do salvador do mundo (biografia da cidade). Pernambuco, (1986). Wrappers. With plates. 317,(2) pp. [Boeknr.: 30620 ]

€ 25,00

BIART, Lucien. Monsieur Pinson. Paris, J. Hetzel et Cie, (1881).Original pictorial gilt cloth. With many woodengravings by H. Meyer. 261 pp. First edition. - Les voyages involontaires. - Adventures on the route from Paris to the Canary Islands, Virgin Islands, and Vera-Cruz. - (Some foxing). [Boeknr.: 37215 ]

€ 65,00

BLACKBURN, Robin. The making of New World slavery. From the Baroque to the modern 1492-1800. London, Verso, (1997). Boards, with dust-jacket. V,602 pp. 'An incisive synthesis of developments in North America, the Caribbean and Latin America'. [Boeknr.: 32557 ]

€ 35,00

BODDAM WHETHAM, J.W. Across Central America. London, Hurst & Blackett, 1877.Original decorated cloth (top of spine sl. dam.). With frontispiece view of Guatemala, title page printed in black and red and with engraved vignette of Flores, Lake of Peten. XII,353 pp. First edition. - 'One of the classic travelogues by an experienced travel book author, recounting his observations during a visit to Guatemala and the Yucatan during 1873. Provides detailed descriptions of physical setting, people, places, life-styles and customs, with particular attention to rural Indians, furnishing an account of Guatemalan life during the Barrios regime' (Grieb GU197).Howgego III, p. 83-84. [Boeknr.: 36682 ]

€ 295,00

BOISSEVAIN, Charles. Van't Noorden naar 't Zuiden. Schetsen en indrukken van de Vereenigde Staten van Amerika. Haarlem, H.D. Tjeenk Willink, 1881-1882.2 volumes. Original half morocco, spines gilt. XI,320; XI,330 pp. First edition. - From the North to the South. Sketches and impressions of the United States of America. Charles Boissevain (1842 - 1927) was a journalist and later editor and owner of the Algemeen Handelsblad. - A nice set. [Boeknr.: 36621 ]

€ 95,00

BOLDINGH, I. Flora voor de Nederlandsch West-Indische eilanden. Amsterdam, J.H. de Bussy, 1913. Wrappers. XX,450 pp. - (Koloniaal Instituut Amsterdam). [Boeknr.: 17447 ]

€ 35,00

BOLSTER, W. Jeffrey. Black Jacks. African American seaman in the age of sail. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1997. Half cloth, with dust-jacket. With plates. VIII,310 pp. An epic tale of the rise and fall of black seafaring. [Boeknr.: 32558 ]

€ 25,00

BOLT, Christine. The anti-slavery movement and reconstruction. A study in Anglo-American co-operation 1833-77. Oxford, University Press, 1969. Cloth, with dust-jacket. (10),197 pp. [Boeknr.: 20347 ]

€ 25,00

BOOGAART, E. van den, H.R. HOETINK & P.J.P. WHITEHEAD (Eds.). Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen 1604-1679. A humanist prince in Europe and Brazil. Essays on the occasion of the tercentenary of his death. The Hague, 1979. Folio. Cloth. With frontispiece, 16 coloured plates, and 206 illustrations. 538 pp. Fine illustrated work on Maurits the Brazilian, the enlightened Dutch governor-general of Dutch Brazil, with emphasis on the scientific and artistic exploration of Dutch Brazil. [Boeknr.: 5961 ]

€ 95,00

BOOGAART, E. van der & F.J. DUPARC. (Red.). Zo wijd de wereld strekt. Tentoonstelling n.a.v. de 300ste sterfdag van Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen op 20 december 1979. Den Haag, Mauritshuis, 1979. 8vo. Wrappers. With many illustrations, several in colours. 286 pp. [Boeknr.: 299 ]

€ 25,00

BOSCH, G.B. Reizen in West-Indië, en door een gedeelte van Zuid- en Noord-Amerika. Utrecht, N. van der Monde, 1829-1843.3 volumes. Half cloth, rebacked with the original spines laid down. With 3 engraved titles with nice oval views of 'De haven van Curaçao' (waterstained) by W.H. Hoogkamer, 'St. Thomas' and 'Gouvernements huis te Suriname' (browned) after J.M. Engelberts by J.B. Tétar van Elven. VIII,377; 430; X,424 pp. First edition. - Gerardus Balthazar Bosch (1794 - 1837), reverend and school-inspector on Curaçao (1825-1836), gives a very interesting account of his travels to St. Eustatius, St. Martin, Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, St. Thomas and Suriname. With an emphasis on the Dutch properties in the West Indies. Tiele 171; Cat. NSHM I, p. 263; Sabin 6448. [Boeknr.: 11442 ]

€ 950,00

BOUGAINVILLE, Louis-Antoine de. Reis rondom de weereld, gedaan op bevel des konings van Frankrijk, in de jaren 1766 tot 1769, met het fregat La Boudeuse en het fluitschip L'Etoile. Uit het Fransch vertaeld en met eenige aenteekeningen verrijkt, door Pieter Leuter. Dordrecht, Abraham Blussé en Zoon, 1772.4to. Contemporary half calf, spine lettered in gilt (sl. soiled). With engraved title-vignette, engraved plate and 21 folding engraved maps by A. van Krevelt (1 repaired; mostly browned). XXVI, 412 pp. First Dutch edition, first published in Paris in 1771 Voyage autour du monde. - First French circumnavigation of the world. Louis Antoine Bougainville (1729 - 1811) gives an account of the discovery, occupation and natural history of the Falkland Islands, which he handed over to Spain. He describes in detail the expulsion of the Jesuits of Paraguay. He visited Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Patagonia, Buenos Aires, the Tuamotu Archipelago, Tahiti, the Samoa Islands, the New Hebrides, the Solomon, Luisiada, and New Britain archipelago, and the Moluccas, Batavia and Mauritius were visited before he sailed for home by way of the Cape of Good Hope and Ascension Island and arrived once again in France in 1769. He created a great deal of interest among the French in the Pacific and his work echoed Jean Jacques Rousseau's concept of the 'noble savage'. - (Small part of p. 141/142 missing with some loss of text). Tiele 177; Cat. NHSM I, p.137 (French ed. only); Sabin 6872; Hill 163; Borba de Moraes I, p.115; Howgego B142. [Boeknr.: 36706 ]

€ 650,00

BOUMAN, P.J. Johan Maurits van Nassau de Braziliaan. Utrecht, A. Oosthoek, 1947. Half cloth, with dust-jacket. With 14 plates. XI,216 pp. [Boeknr.: 6547 ]

€ 18,00

BOUSSENARD, Louis. Les Robinsons de la Guyane. Paris, La Librairie Illustrée, (1892).8vo. Contemporary half red morocco, spine gilt. With many wood-engravings after Férat by D. Dumont. 632 pp. Part I: Le tigre blanc; Part II: Le secret de l'or, Part III: Les mysteres de la foret vierge. Louis Henri Boussenard (1847 - 1910) was a French author of adventure novels. - A nice copy. [Boeknr.: 25565 ]

€ 125,00

BOXER, C.R. De Nederlanders in Brazilië 1624-1654. Alphen a.d. Rijn, A.W. Sijthoff, (1977). Cloth, with dust-jacket. 325 pp. [Boeknr.: 6549 ]

€ 18,00

BOYLE, T. Coraghessan. World's end. A novel. (New York, Viking, 1987). Half cloth, with dust-jacket. XVII,456 pp. First edition. - The scene is laid in New Netherland. [Boeknr.: 30977 ]

€ 35,00

BRASSEY, Annie. Voyage d'une famille autour du monde a bord de son yacht Le Sunbeam .. traduit de l'Anglais par J. Butler. Paris, Maurice Dreyfous, (1878).8vo. Original decorated red cloth gilt, a.e.g. With 6 coloured maps and 120 woodengraved plates and illustrations. XIV,360 pp. First French edition; first published in London in 1878: A voyage in the Sunbeam: our home in the Ocean for eleven months. - Voyage from England to South America, South Sea islands, Japan, China, Ceylon and Suez. One of the most popular and best-selling Victorian travel writters was Lady Annie Brassey (1839-1887), who circumnavigated the globe with her wealthy husband, Thomas Brassey, in his schooner, the Sunbeam, and recorded the journey in A voyage in the Sunbeam, first published in 1878, frequently reprinted, and translated into five languages. It included an account of Lady Annie's diversion overland with her children to visit Cairo and the pyramids while the Sunbeam passed through the Suez Canal (Tuson, Western women travelling East, p.199). - Some foxing as usual otherwise fine. Robinson, Wayward women, p. 203/204; Theakstone p.32. [Boeknr.: 1052 ]

€ 125,00

BRAZIL. Inquérito para a expansão do comércio Português no Brazil, organisado pela Câmara Portuguesa de Comércio e Indústria. (Introduction by Alberto de Oliveira). Porto, Imprensa Portuguesa, 1916.Half calf, original printed wrappers preserved. XVI,326 pp. Survey for the expansion of Portuguese trade in Brazil. [Boeknr.: 8576 ]

€ 65,00

BRAZIL. REVISTA DO INSTITUTO ARQUEOLÓGICO, HISTÓRICO E GEOGRÁFICO PERNAMBUCANO. Vol. LIII. Recife, 1981. Wrappers. With many plates. 262 pp. [Boeknr.: 16778 ]

€ 35,00

BREMER, Fredrika. Frederika Bremer. Haar leven, hare brieven en nagelaten geschriften, uitgegeven door hare zuster Charlotte Quiding-Bremer. Naar de Hoogduitsche uitgave door W.D. Statius Muller. Haarlem, De Erven Loosjes, (1870).2 volumes. Old boards (damaged). 271; 274 pp. First published in German Lebenschilderung, Briefe und nachgelassene Schriften. Leipzig 1868. - The Swedish novelist and feminist reformer Fredrika Bremer (1801-1865), born at Tuorola Manor House near Abo in Finland, then part of Sweden, travelled to America in 1849. She spent the period 1856-1861 in Switzerland, Belgium, France, Italy, Greece and Palestine. She was a pioneer in the Swedish women's movement and a renowned novellist of her time.Theakstone, Victorian & Edwardian women travellers, pp.33-34. [Boeknr.: 31673 ]

€ 225,00

BRIDGES, George Wilson. The annals of Jamaica. London, John Murray, 1828.2 volumes. Later boards (Symington Bookbinder York), with original printed title labels, uncut. XIX,604; XII,505,(1) pp. First edition. - The book was taken off the market by court order following action brought against the publisher by two free persons of color, Lescesne and Escoffery, who had been deported from Jamaica unjustly, because of the libel it contained on them. It provides information on Jamaica from the earliest times to 1826, including a review of the institution of slavery, the religious situation in the island, notes on natural history, and the British administration. One of the best known histories of a Caribbean island (Ragatz). Sabin 7820; Ragatz p. 194. [Boeknr.: 36664 ]

€ 850,00

BROUWER, Hendrick. Goud en Indianen. Het journaal van Hendrick Brouwers expeditie naar Chili in 1643. Bezorgd en ingeleid door Henk den Heijer. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2015. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 29 illustrations (several in colours). 344 pp. Linschoten Vereeniging CXIV. - The directors of the WIC agreed with Johan Maurits' proposal to establish a home base in southern Chile. This is the account of the Dutch attempt to establish a home base in Chile and to drive out the Spanish colonists with the help of Indian allies. [Boeknr.: 33907 ]

€ 45,00

BROWN, J. Ross. Crusoe's island: a ramble in the footsteps of Alexander Selkirk with sketches of adventure in California and Washoè. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1864.Sm.8vo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With numerous woodengraved illustrations. 436 pp. First edition. - One of the most entertaining books relating to early Californian life. The author was a distinguished traveler and diplomat. In addition to those upon the title, the work contains 'A dangerous journey' and 'Obersrvations in office', while Indian agent (Cowan p.26). Also incuded 'A peep at Washoe' (Nivada).Sabin 8657; Howes B876; Hill 199. [Boeknr.: 36749 ]

€ 95,00

BROWN, Richmond. Op reis naar het onbekende. Ontdekkingstocht van een vrouw naar de onbekende Indianen-stammen van Centraal-Amerika. Vertaald door M.P.C. de Gruyter. Amsterdam, J.M. Meulenhoff, (1925). Original pictorial cloth. With photographic plates. 331 pp. Dutch edition of: Unknown tribes and uncharted seas. London 1924. - A Caribbean journey. 'Lady Brown's enthusiasm and curiosity, and what might just have been another flimsy feminine travel account became a carefully researched and much-respected ethnographical study' (Robinson, Wayward women, p.130). [Boeknr.: 27828 ]

€ 45,00

BRYAN, C.D.B. The National Geographic Society. 100 years of adventure and discovery. New York, Harry N. Abrams, (1994). 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 406 photographic illustrations (290 in colours). 484 pp. Brings to life the flamboyant explorers and innovative photographers, starting in 1888. - A fine copy. [Boeknr.: 9384 ]

€ 45,00

BRYANT, William Cullen. (Ed.). États-Unis et Canada. L'Amérique du nord pittoresque. Traduit, revu et augmenté par Bénédict - Henry Revoil. Paris, A. Quantin, 1880.Folio. Contemporary half red morocco. With double-page map and numerous wood-engravings. 779 pp. A fine illustrated description of North America. [Boeknr.: 10426 ]

€ 175,00

BUDDINGH, D(erk). Ontdekking van Amerika, en herhaalde zeereizen derwaarts in de X, XI, XII, XII en XIV eeuw (volgens het Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap van Koppenhagen). 's Gravenhage, J. van der Beek, 1838.Original printed wrappers with decorative border (sl. dam.). 60,(2) pp. First edition. - Discovery of America and repeated voyages thither in the 11th-14th century based on the book by C.C. Rafn, Antiquitated Americanae, Hafniae 1837. According to Sabin 67470 'the fullest and most important work that has yet been published relating to the discovery of America by the Northmen' Cat. NHSM I, p.109; Muller, America, p.34; the Dutch edition not in Sabin. [Boeknr.: 33468 ]

€ 225,00

BURNS, Alan. History of the British West Indies. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1954. Original cloth. With maps. 821 pp. First edition. - A comprehensive history concentrating on the period up to 1900. [Boeknr.: 36810 ]

€ 75,00

BUSSIERRE, Marie Théodore de. L'empire Mexicain. Histoire des Toltèques, des Chichimèques, des Aztèques et de la conquête Espagnole. Paris, Henri Plon, 1863.Original embossed cloth. 427 pp. First edition. - Marie-Théodore Renouard, Viscount of Bussierre ( 1802 - 1865 ) was a French diplomat, traveller, ethnologist and a writer. The Appendix contains translations of poems originally written in the native language Netzahualcoyotl. - (Some foxing).Sabin 9561. [Boeknr.: 8477 ]

€ 175,00

BUTLER, William Francis. The wild north land: being the story of a winter journey, with dogs, across northern north America. 7th edition. London, Sampson Low, 1878.Original brown cloth with illustration on front cover. With portrait, folding map and 14 (of 15) wood-engraved plates. X,358; 32 pp. First published in 1873. -- An amazing account of a journey across Canada to British Columbia, Oregona and the Pacific. Beginning in 1872 in Red River and reaching Lake Athabasca by March 1873, following the Peace River through the Rocky Mountains to the Fraser River and to the Pacific coast. [Boeknr.: 37327 ]

€ 150,00

BUVELOT, Quentin. (Ed.). Albert Eckhout (1610-1666). Een Hollandse kunstenaar in Brazilië. Met bijdragen van Q. Buvelot, D.M. Teixeira, E. de Vries, Fl. Egmond, P. Mason. Zwolle, Waanders, 2004. Cloth, with dust-kacket. With 100 illustrations (50 in colours). 160 pp. Albert Eckhout (c.1610-1665) was a Dutch portrait and still life painter. Eckhout, who was born in Groningen, was among the first European artists to paint scenes from the New World. In 1636 he traveled to Dutch Brazil, where he stayed until 1644, invited by count John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen.There, he painted portraits of the natives, slaves and mulattos of Brazil in the seventeenth century, besides numerous sketches of plants and animals. [Boeknr.: 28033 ]

€ 45,00

CAIRNES, J(ohn) E(lliot). The slave power: its character, career, and probable designs: being an attempt to explain the real issues involved in the American contest. 2nd edition. New York, Carleton, 1862.Original embossed cloth (spine discoloured and extremities sl. dam.). 171 pp. First edition published the same year in New York. - Thorough analysis of socio-economic backgrounds of slavery in North America. Preface: 'Considering slavery as the true origin of the civil war now existing, (the author) treats of its economic basis, of the organization, tendencies, development, and external policy of slave societies, and of the career and designs of the slave power' (Preface). 'The slave society concept was adumbrated in the late nineteenth century, particularly in The slave power (1862) written by John E. Cairnes, and became common currency among popularization of the Marxist slave mode of production' (Macmillan, Encyclopedia of world slavery, p.826). 'Confederates probably intend to revive the African slave trade, which continued until 1860' (Hogg p.233). - (Library stamp on title-page).Sabin 9856; Work p.365; Hogg 2857; Afro-Americana 1929. [Boeknr.: 17956 ]

€ 175,00

CAMPBELL, George. White and black. The outcome of a visit to the United States. New York, R. Wortington, 1879.Original cloth (extremities of spine dam.), top edge gilt. XVII,420 pp. First American edition; with bookplate of the East Memorial Foundation Laurel, Mississippi. - Mainly dealing with the black people in the Southern States.Work p.370; Howes C91. [Boeknr.: 20169 ]

€ 95,00

CAMPE, Joachim Heinrich. Découverte de l'Amérique, ouvrage propre a l'instruction et a l'amusement de la jeunesse. Traduit de l'Allemand. 5me édition. Paris, Belin le Prieur, 1833.3 volumes. Sm.8vo. Original wrappers. With engraved frontispiece, 2 folding maps and 15 engraved plates with 30 illustrations. First published in Hamburg in 1781-1782 Die Entdeckung von Amerika. - Volume I is about Columbus, volume II about Cortésand volume III about Pizzaro. - A nicely illustrated juvenile history of the discovery of America.Sabin 10295; Gumuchian 1041; Osborne Coll. 161; Eutiner Landesbibliothek p.111. [Boeknr.: 1817 ]

€ 150,00

CANDELIER, Henri. Rio-Hacha et les Indiens Goajires. Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1893.Original red cloth, spine richly gilt, a.e.g. With 42 plates and illustrations. XX,282 pp. First edition. - Through this publication, the author records his knowledge about indigenous communities in La Guajira, Colombia, including fine engravings that complement the descriptions presented by the French traveler. Candelier décrit en détail leur aspect physique, leur caractère, leur vêtements, leurs armes, leurs coutumes, leur croyances et conclut: la péninsule Goajire n'est pas un beau pays, ni un pays bien sûr pour les civilisès (Broc, Dictionaire illustré des explorateurs .. Amérique, p. 57). - A fine copy. [Boeknr.: 36649 ]

€ 350,00

CAPTURED BY INDIANS. Het kleine meisje dat onder roodhuiden gevangen was genomen. Een waar verhaal. Uit het Engelsch. Amsterdam, A. van Oosterzee, 1878.Sm.8vo. Original printed wrappers. With 2 woodengravings. 31 pp. On printed frontwrapper the same title but with the addition: Een verhaal voor kinderen. Amsterdam, Het Evangelisch Verbond, 1878. Printed by Kon. Stoomdrukkerij Warmoesstraat, Amsterdam. Story of Lydia Caster, a five year old white girl, captured by the Cherokee Indians in 1817. In 1819 she was freed and taken to the mission station Brainerd where she died in 1820. At the end three short stories about other captured children. - Rare captivity narrative dealing with captivity and adoption by native Americans. [Boeknr.: 37632 ]

€ 295,00

CARRIBEAN. FOCUS: CARIBBEAN. Edited by Sidney W. Mintz and Sally Price. Washington, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1984-85. 10 (of 11) issues. Wrappers. K.M. BILBY. The Caribbean as a musical region; M.R. TROUILLOT. Nation, state, and society in Haiti, 1804-1984; C.STONE. A political profile of the Caribbean; M.C. ALLEYNE. A linguistic perspective on the Caribbean; G.B. HAGELBERG. Sugar in the Caribbean: turning sunshine into money; S.W. MINTZ. From plantations to peasantries in the Caribbean; etc. [Boeknr.: 31028 ]

€ 95,00

CARRIBEAN. WEST INDIES. (No pl., ca. 1800).Engraved map by T. Clerk, coloured in outline. Ca. 50 x 69 cm. Detailed map of the Caribbean region, depicting the Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti/Dominican Republic, and the Lesser Antilles. - (Browning). [Boeknr.: 26469 ]

€ 325,00

CERRI, Urbano. Staat van de Roomsch Catholyke religie, door de geheele werreld: geschreeven tot dienst van Paus Innocentius de XI. Uyt een echt Italiaansch handschrift in't Engelsch overgezet .. door Richard Steele. Uyt het Engelsch vertaald door A.G.L.R.C. Amsterdam, Nicolaas ten Hoorn, 1715.Sm.8vo. Contemporary half calf. Title page printed in red and black. 340 pp. First published in London the same year: An account of the state of the Roman-Catholick religion throughout the world .. now first translated from an authentick Italian MS never publish'd. - Translation from an Italian manuscript written from 1675 to 1679, containing an account of the state of the Roman-Catholic religion throughout the world: Europe, Asia, Africa and America. - (Age-browned).European-Americana V, p. 192; Streit I, 802. [Boeknr.: 36635 ]

€ 225,00

CHAPMAN, Frank M. Camps and cruises of an ornithologist. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1908.Original green cloth with a pictorial decoration of a flamingo on the upper cover, top edge gilt. With coloured frontispiece and 250 photographic plates and illustrations. XVI,432 pp. First edition. - There are chapters on birds in the Atlantic coast islands of Gardiner's Island and Cobbs Island, of Florida, Bahamas, California, and Western-Canada. - A fine copy of a profusely illustrated study. [Boeknr.: 36651 ]

€ 125,00

CHARLEVOIX, Pierre François Xavier de. Histoire de l'isle Espagnole ou de S. Domingue. Paris, Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1730-1731.2 volumes. 4to. Contemporary speckled calf (2 hinges skilfully rep.), spine gilt with red and green morocco lables to spines. With 3 engraved headpieces and 18 maps and plans (11 folding). XXVIII,482,(59); XIV,506,(60) pp. First edition. - An extensive history of Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, based on the manuscripts of the Jesuit missionary Jean-Baptiste de Pers, covering the years from 1492 to 1724, including much material relating to the indigenous and black populations. With handsome detailed engraved maps of Santo Domingo, Haiti, Venezuela, and the Caribbean area. One of the most important single histories of a Caribbean island from this early period. - A fine copy with wide margins.Sabin 12127; Palau 67166; European-Americana VI, p.75; Afro-Americana 2213; Howgego p.217; Boucher de la Richarderie VI, p.182; Le Clerc 1371; Chadenat 1279 Ouvrage très recherché. [Boeknr.: 36727 ]

€ 3250,00

CHASTELLUX, François Jean marquis de. Voyages dans l'Amérique septentrionale dans les années 1780, 1781 & 1782. Paris, Prault, 1786.2 volumes. Contemporary mottled calf, spines richly gilt (extremities of spines damaged; 2 hinges sl. damaged but holding). With 2 engraved maps and 3 folding plates (stained). 390; 372,(2) pp. First complete and authorized edition; first unauthorized edition published in Cassell in 1785. The author's observations cover a wide range of topics concerning the geography, society, and history of the emerging United States, and include many references to events of the American Revolution' (James Ford Bell Library p.84). He travelled through the States of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, giving with great detail the incidents and impresssions of colonial life. 'In its completed form constitutes the first trustworthy record of life in the United States' (Howes). 'This jounal is one of the most notable of American travel accounts of the Revolutionary period not only because of Chastellux's keen observation and directness of his narrative but also because of his acute comments on society and the character of the people in different walks of life' (Clark I, 212). - (Some staining). Sabin 12227; Howes C324; Cox II, p.159; Leclerc I, 325 (incomplete copy); Boucher de la Richarderie VI, p.61. [Boeknr.: 1119 ]

€ 695,00

CHURCHMAN, John. An account of the gospel labours, and Christian experiences of a faithful minister of Christ, late of Nottingham, in Pennsylvania, deceased. To which is added, a short memorial of the life of.. Joseph White, late of Bucks County. London, James Phillips, 1780.Contemporary calf (foot of spine sl. dam.). VII,351,(1) pp. Popular work, first issued in 1779, many times reprinted. Including Churchman's (1705-1775) visits to England, Ireland and Holland, from the year 1750 to 1754 and his travels along the colonies of Pennsylavnia, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia and New York. Also dealing with the Indians and slaves in the U.S. Churchman was a Quaker minister from Nottingham, Pennsylvania. Sabin 13025; Clark II,64; Evans 16233. [Boeknr.: 20143 ]

€ 75,00

CLAY, Henry. Speech of Henry Clay, of Kentucky, on taking up his compromise resolutions on the subject of slavery. Delivered in Senate, Febr. 5th & 6th, 1850. New York, Stringer & Townsend, 1850.Disbound pamphlet. 32 pp. First edition. - Congress ultimately approved Clay's bill, which became known as the Compromise of 1850. Despite widespread acceptance of the compromise, it soon became obvious that it offered only a temporary solution to the problem, as its vague language left much open to debate (Rodriguez, Encycl. of world slavery, p.159).Sabin 13550 (note); Work p.330. [Boeknr.: 20269 ]

€ 45,00

CLIPPERTON. - Isla de la pasion llamada de Clipperton. Publicacion oficial. México, Arturo García Cubas Sucesores Hermanos, 1909.Original green cloth. With 6 photographic plates and 10 folding maps. 96 pp. Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores de Mexico. - Documents relating to Mexico's claim to the possession of the Island of Clipperton. It is an uninhabited coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean and an overseas state private property of France, under direct authority of the Minister of the Overseas. [Boeknr.: 36757 ]

€ 125,00

COHEN, Robert. Jews in another environment. Surinam in the second half of the eighteenth century. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1991. Cloth, with dust-jacket. XV,350 pp. 'The most important Jewish center in the western hemisphere during the 18th century was - 'the great colony' - Surinam. There, Jews formed perhaps the most privileged Jewish community in the world. They were often plantation and slave owners, as well as a sizeable proportion of the white population. They had their own village, with extensive autonomous rights' [Boeknr.: 7351 ]

€ 95,00

COLUMBUS, Christoffel. LOS RESTOS DE COLON informe de la Real Academia de la Historia al gobierno de S.M. sobre el supuesto hallazgo de los verdaderos restos de Christóval Colon en la iglesia catedral de Santo Domingo. Madrid, M. Tello, 1879.Sm.8vo. Later half leather (original printed front wrapper preserved). With 6 plates. VII,197 pp. First edition. - THE REMAINS OF COLON report from the Royal Academy of History to the government of S.M. about the alleged discovery of the true remains of Christóval Colon in the cathedral church of Santo Domingo. [Boeknr.: 22852 ]

€ 150,00

COMETTANT, Oscar. Voyage pittoresque et anecdotique dans le Nord et le Sud des États-Unis d'Amérique. Paris, A. Laplace, 1866.8vo. Contemporary half morocco (1 hinge sl. dam.), spine gilt, a.e.g. With 22 steelengraved plates (including 4 handcoloured depicting native Americans). VII,(1),469,(1),(2) pp. Best edition, the first to be illustrated. - Comettant visited New York, Niagara Falls, Montreal, Quebec, Saratoga, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, Washington, Charleston, Mobile, New Orleans, Vicksburg, Memphis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, and comments on hotels, food, fire-fighting, theatres, black minstrels, elegant society, painting, music, steam boats, commercial life in Lower Canada, the Iroquois, Girard College, slavery and social life in the South. The fine plates are by Willman, Outhwaite, Ferdinand Dellannoy Lalaisse and Golin after Saintin, Noel, Lebreton and Foulquier. - Fine.Sabin 14940; Howes C641; [Boeknr.: 20025 ]

€ 650,00

CONSTANTIN-WYER, M. Les grandes figures coloniales. Champlain. Paris, Plon, (1931). Half calf. With plates. IX,240 pp. Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635) was a French navigator, explorer and colonial pioneer in Nouvelle France (Canada) [Boeknr.: 8311 ]

€ 30,00

COOK, James. Reize rondom de waereld. Vertaald door J.D. Pasteur. Leyden, Amsterdam, 's Hage, Honkoop, Allart en van Cleef, 1795-1803.13 volumes + index volume. Contemporary half calf (top of spines of 3 volumes sl. dam.) with morocco labels to spines. With engraved portrait, 13 engraved title-pages, 52 folding engraved maps by C. van Baarsch and 134 engraved plates (mostly folding) by J.S. Klauber. First Dutch edition; with bookplate of B.J. van Dongen. - First collected accounts of the three great voyages by James Cook (1728-1779), the first really scientific navigator, providing 18th century Europeans with their first virtually complete insight into the previously more or less unexplored region of the Pacifc.Volume I-III contain the life of Cook and his first voyage 1768-1771. The expedition sailed aboard HMS Endeavour to Tahiti, then sailed to New Zealand.where he mapped the complete coastline. He was the first European in New Zealand since Abel Tasman in 1643. Cook then voyaged west, reaching the southeastern coast of Australia near today's Point Hicks on 19 April 1770, and in doing so his expedition became the first recorded Europeans to have encountered its eastern coastline. Cook returned to England via Batavia. Volume IV-VII contain his second voyage 1772-1775. Cook commanded HMS Resolution on this voyage, while Tobias Furneaux commanded its companion ship, HMS Adventure. Cook's expedition circumnavigated the globe at an extreme southern latitude, becoming one of the first to cross the Antarctic Circle. On his return voyage to New Zealand in 1774, Cook landed at the Friendly Islands, Easter Island, Norfolk Island, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu. Volume VIII-XIII contain his third voyage 1776-1780. On his last voyage, Cook again commanded HMS Resolution, while Captain Charles Clerke commanded HMS Discovery. On this expedition he became the first European to begin formal contact with the Hawaiian Islands. From the Sandwich Islands, Cook sailed north and then northeast to explore the west coast of North America north of the Spanish settlements in Alta California. He charted the majority of the North American northwest coastline on world maps for the first time. Cook returned to Hawaii where he was killed in a fight between his men and the natives of Hawaii in 1779. 'Cook earned his place in history by opening up the Pacific to western civilization and by foundation of British Australia. The world was given for the first time an essentially complete knowledge of the Pacific Ocean and Australia, and Cook proved once and for all that there was no great southern continent, as had always been believed. He also suggested the existence of antarctic land in the southern ice ring, a fact which was not proved until the explorations up the 19th century. Cook was a brilliant navigator and hydrographer, an excellent administrator and planner, and probably the first sea captain to realize the importance of preserving the health and well-being of his crew' (P.M.M. p.135). - James Cook contributed much to European knowledge of the Pacific, several islands were encountered for the first time by Europeans and charting of large areas of the area was a major achievement. - (Some volumes sl. waterstained). - A fine set.Tiele 268; Cat. NHSM I, p.140; Beddie 52. [Boeknr.: 12736 ]

€ 5750,00

COOPER, Constance J. (Ed.). 350 years of New Castle, Delaware. Chapters in a town's history. Published in honor of the 350th anniversary of the founding of New Castle, Delaware. New Castle, Historical Society, 2001. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. XVI,206 pp. New Castle was founded by the Dutch as Fort Casimir in 1651. [Boeknr.: 24371 ]

€ 35,00

COOPER, James Fenimore. Conanchet. (Vertaald door) J.J.A. Goeverneur. 2e druk. Leiden, A,W. Sijthoff, (1900).Original pictorial red cloth. With 4 plates. 137 pp. Children's book about Indians. - James Fenimore Cooper (1789 - 1851) was an American writer whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune. His most famous novel is The Last of the Mohicans (1826). [Boeknr.: 37364 ]

€ 30,00

COOPER, James Fenimore. Narramatta und Conanchet. Eine Erzählung für die reifere Jugend. Nach dem Englischen von Franz Hoffmann. Stuttgart, Anton Stoppani, 1845.Original printed boards (foot of spine sl. dam.). With 16 illustrations on 8 leaves. IV,199 pp. James Fenimore Cooper (1789 - 1851) was an American writer whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune. His most famous novel is The Last of the Mohicans (1826). - (Foxed). [Boeknr.: 37320 ]

€ 95,00

COOPER, William J. Liberty and slavery. Southern politics to 1860. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, (1983). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. VII,309 pp. [Boeknr.: 26145 ]

€ 25,00

COTTEAU, Edmond. Promenades dans les deux Amériques 1876-1877. Paris, G. Charpentier et Cie, 1886.Contemporary half morocco, spine gilt. With 2 folding maps. 320 pp. Edmond Cotteau (1833 - 1896), a French journalist and photographer, became a collaborator for Le Temps and Le Tour du monde, and led a life of globetrotting. - (Library stamp on title-page; foxed as usual). [Boeknr.: 32457 ]

€ 65,00

CUBA. MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, a report from the Secretary of State upon the subject of the supposed kidnapping of colored persons in the southern States for the purpose of selling them as slaves in Cuba. (Washington), 1866. Disbound. 55 pp. - (Senate Ex. Doc., 39th Congress, 1st session). [Boeknr.: 20228 ]

€ 75,00

CUNDALL, Frank. The handbook of Jamaica for 1929 comprising historical, statistical and general information concerning the island, compiled from official and other reliable records. Forty-ninth year of publication. Jamaica, The Government Printing Office, 1929.Original embossed cloth gilt (sl. discoloured). With 3 maps (1 folding) and 4 photographic plates. VII,568 pp. + XXVII pp. with advertisments. [Boeknr.: 36746 ]

€ 125,00

CURAÇAO. - Het springen van's lands oorlogschip Alphen, in de haven van Curaçao. (No pl.), P. Conradi & v.d. Plaats, 1787.Engraving depicting the explosion of the Dutch men-of-war Alphen in the harbour of Willemstad, St. Annabaai Curaçao, after Hendrik Kobell by Jan Punt. Ca. 23 x 35,5 cm 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. An explosion rips the ship to pieces. Commanded by captain George Willem Hendrik Baron van der Feltz. - A fine impression.Muller, Historieplaten, 4332 b; De Groot & Vorstman, Zeilschepen, 176; Cf. Atlas van Stolk 4279. [Boeknr.: 22287 ]

€ 275,00

CURAÇAO. Geschiedenis der missie van Curaçao. Door enkele paters Dominicanen. Uitgegeven door het Provinciaal Vicariaat der Paters Dominicanen op Curaçao. Curaçao, Scherpenheuvel, (1945). 8vo. Wrappers. With photographic plates. XV,174 pp. [Boeknr.: 17281 ]

€ 45,00

CURAÇAO. RAPPORT RAAKENDE DE TOESTAND VAN HET EILAND CURACAO, en wat tot ververbeetering diend gedaan te worden. (No pl., 1739). Folio. (8) pp. Extract uyt de resolutien van de Heeren Staaten van Hollandt en Westvrieslandt, in haar .. vergadering genomen op vrydag den 12 juny 1739. - Detailed report detailing with the West India Company and the miserable condition of the Dutch fortresses on Curaçao, on the precauctions that must be taken and the financial aspects involved. [Boeknr.: 29630 ]

€ 325,00

CURAÇAO. RAPPORT RAAKENDE EENIGE PROVISIONEELE VOORSIENING TOT SECURITEIT VAN HET EILAND CURACAO. (No pl., 1739). Folio. (4) pp. Extract uyt de resolutien van de Heeren Staaten van Hollandt en Westvrieslandt, in haar .. vergadering genomen op vrydag den 12 juny 1739. - Report dealing with the West India Company and the defence of the island of Curaçao, by sending some warships and infantry. [Boeknr.: 29631 ]

€ 275,00

DAHLBERG, H.N. Kaart van Suriname. Map of Surinam. Mapa del Surinam. Schaal 1 : 1.000.000. Paramaribo, C. Kersten & Co., (1960). Large folding coloured map, in wrappers. Ca. 80 x 58,5 cm. - Koeman, Suriname, 121. [Boeknr.: 28760 ]

€ 45,00

DALTON, Leonard V. Venezuela. London & Leipsic, T. Fisher Unwin, 1912.Original blue cloth, with coat of arms on front cover (spine soiled), uncut. With large folding map and 34 photographic illustrations. 320 pp. [Boeknr.: 36721 ]

€ 40,00

DAMPIER, William & Lionel WAFER. Nieuwe reystogt rondom de wereld, waarin omstandiglyk beschreeven worden de land-engte van Amerika, verscheidene kusten en eilanden in West-Indiën, de eilanden van Cabo Verde, de doortogt van de Straat Le Maire na de Zuid-zee, de kusten van Chili, Peru, Mexico; 't eiland Guam een van de Ladrones, 't eiland Mindanao een van de Filippines; en de Oost-Indische eilanden omtrent Cambodia, China, Formosa; Luconia, Celebes, enz. Voorts Nieuw Holland, Sumatra, de eilanen van Nicobar, de Kap de Goede Hoop, en 't eiland Sante Helena. In't Engelsch beschreeven .. en daaruyt vertaald door W. Sewel. Nymegen, Isaac van Campen, 1771 - 1772.4 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine richly gilt (foot of spine skilfully rep.). With 2 engraved title-pages and 43 engraved maps and plates (including worldmap) by C. Luyken en J. Lamsvelt. 13,405,(9); 305,(7); 80,(6); (92 pp. Second and third Dutch edition, first published in Dutch in 's Gravenhage 1698-1704; first published in English in 1697 A new voyage round the world.. - Dampier's descriptions of his wide-ranging buccaneering travels (he sailed around the world three times) include the account of the first English visit to Australia in 1688. His voyages marked the beginning of British scientific exploration of the Pacific. Countries visited are in America the West-Indies, Chili, Peru, Mexico, Brazil (including the earliest written description of Bahia), in Africa the Cape of Good Hope, Isles of Cape Verd and in Asia the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines and Formosa, Australia and various islands in the Pacific. 'Generally regarded as the greatest explorer and navigator before Cook, Dampier was also a popular and an exciting storyteller who inspired both Swift and Defoe. His books went through many editions and, in some form, have remained in print untill the present day' (The Davidson Collection 32). William Dampier (1651-1715) combined a swashbuckling life of adventure with pioneering scientific achviements. Parts IV contains Lionel Wafer. Nieuwe reistogt en beschryving van de land-engte van America. - Some waterstaining in blank margin part I, otherwise a very fine large paper copy.Tiele 290; Cat. NHSM I, p.135; European Americana V, p.214; Sabin 18388; Borba de Moraes I, p.242; Mendelssohn I, p.409-10; SAB II, p.10; Van Eeghen-van der Kellen 319; Howgego pp.294-298. [Boeknr.: 12785 ]

€ 2450,00

DANTZIG, A. van. Het Nederlandse aandeel in de slavenhandel. Bussum, Fibula-Van Dishoeck, 1968. Boards. With many illustrations. 144 pp. [Boeknr.: 8659 ]

€ 18,00

DARWIN, Charles Robert. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the command of capt. Fitz Roy. 5th edition. London, New York, Melbourne, Ward, Lock and Co., John Murray, 1889.Original pictorial green cloth (damaged). With portrait and 15 plates. XIX,,381 pp. + booklist of 14 pp. From the corrected and enlarged edition of 1845. - The first major scientific work by Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882). As a young man, he accompanied HMS Beagle on her voyage around the world (1831-1836). Darwin's many excursions ashore, particulary into the Andes and on the Galápagos Islands, led him to develop his theory of the evolution of the species. Throughout the trip, he had sent back reports and speciments to Henslow in England, and by the time of his return, he had earned a reputation as one of the nation's foremost naturalists. - A classic travel-account.P.M.M. 344b. [Boeknr.: 22331 ]

€ 175,00

DARWIN, Charles Robert. On the structure and distribution of coral reefs; and geological observations on the volcanic islands and parts of South America. Visiting during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. With a critical introduction by John W. Judd. London, New York, Melbourne, Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co., 1890.Sm.8vo. Original green cloth, spine gilt. With 6 maps (3 folding) and many woodengravings. XX,549,(6) pp. The Minerva Library; edited by G.T. Bettany. - The voyage of the Beagle lasted from December 1831 to October 1836 and carreid Darwin around the wotld, but especially to South America. This would remain Darwin's only longer voyage. [Boeknr.: 36667 ]

€ 175,00

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