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VOORHEES, D.W. The Holland Society: a centennial history 1885-1985. New York, The Holland Society of New York, 1985. Cloth. With many photographic illustrations. 136,XXXVIII pp. - Signed by the author. [Boeknr.: 25545 ]

€ 40,00

VOORHEES. - PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VAN VOORHEES FAMILY IN AMERICA. (No pl.), The Van Voorhees Association, 1935. Wrappers. With folding plate and some illustrations. 52 pp. [Boeknr.: 25510 ]

€ 25,00

VRIES, R.W.P. de. Americana in commemoration of the Hudson-Fulton celebration. Catalogue of books, maps, prints, portraits offered for sale at prices affixed. Amsterdam, R.W.P. de Vries, 1909. Wrappers (spine sl. dam.). With plates. 181 pp. Sale-catalogue with 1486 items. [Boeknr.: 35392 ]

€ 45,00

WALES, S.H. State sovereignty and slavery. Speech delivered at Bridgeport, Conn., March, 1865. Pending the State election. New York, MacDonald & Swank, 1867.Original printed wrappers, with ornamental border. 16 pp. First edition. - 'Here, now, is an opportunity presented to us in the proposed Constitutional Amendment to do an act of justice to a degraded race and to remove the greatest stain which history has fixed upon our national character'. [Boeknr.: 20275 ]

€ 60,00

WALKER, J.W.G. Ocean to ocean. An account personal and historical of Nicaragua and its people. Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1902.Original pictorial cloth. With 4 folding maps and 14 photographic plates. 309 pp. First edition. - During the year 1898 the author was employed, under the direction of the Nicaragua Canal Commission, in surveying the belt of country available for canal construction between Lake Nicaragua and the Pacific ocean (Preface). [Boeknr.: 36624 ]

€ 45,00

WALKER, William. The war in Nicaragua. Mobile, S.H. Goetzel & Co., 1860.Original embossed cloth (spine sl. discoloured). With engraved portrait of William Walker and folding coloured map of Colton's Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, San Salvador & Costa Rica. Revised, enlarged. 431 pp. First edition. - The filibuster William Walker (1824-1860) tried to take over parts of Mexico and later on subjugated Nicaragua and appointed himself dictator, where he served from 1856-57. Walker as commander in chief, was recognized by the United States in May 1856. In a decree, dated September 22, he restored African slavery in Nicaragua. At his high point he was in complete control of Nicaragua, but made the mistake of shutting down the transit lines for steamships from one coast to the other, this at a time when Nicaragua served as the major crossing point. The steamship company was owned by the Vanderbilt's, and Walker lost much of his support from US sources. He returned to the United States briefly before venturing back to Central America. He was finally caught and shot by the Honduran army on September 12, 1860. Palau 373738. [Boeknr.: 36762 ]

€ 475,00

WATERTON, Charles. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824. With original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. 2nd edition. London, B. Fellowes, 1828.Later half calf. With engraved frontispiece depicting 'a nondescript'. VII,341 pp. First published in London in 1825. - Charles Waterton (1782-1865) travelled to British Guiana, where the family owned plantations in 1804. In the years 1805-1812 he managed the family plantations and explored the morasses and mangrove woods of the coastal strip (Demerara). He wrote a vivid description of the Guianas, Pernambuco, St. Domingo, Martinique, Barbados, Demerera, etc. With special attention to their flora and fauna and the aboriginal population. He was an eccentric enterprising traveller (barefoot across jungles, ride on a cayman, etc.) and a zealous naturalist. It is an outstanding work on the natural history of the West Indies. A delightful, almost apological book, flavoured with classical allusions and quotations of Don Quixote (Howgego II, p.629). - (Some foxing).Sabin 102094; Hill 1833; Ragatz p.235. [Boeknr.: 8920 ]

€ 275,00

WATERTON, Charles. Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824. With original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. New edition. Edited, with biographical introduction and explanatory index, by J.G. Wood. London, Macmillan and Co., 1885.Contemporary half green morocco, spine gilt (bound by Mudie). With many woodengravings. XVI,520 pp. School prize college Seti Edmundi. - First published in London in 1825. - Vivid description of the Guianas, Pernambuco, St. Domingo, Martinique, Barbados, etc. With special attention to their flora and fauna and the aboriginal population. Waterton (1782-1865) was an eccentric enterprising traveller (barefoot across jungles, ride on a cayman, etc.) and a zealous naturalist. It is an outstanding work on the natural history of Colombia and Venezuela. - A nice copy.Sabin 102094; Hill 1833. [Boeknr.: 23888 ]

€ 125,00

WATERTON, Charles. Wanderings in South America. The north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824. With original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. New edition. Edited, with biographical introduction and explanatory index, by J.G. Wood. London, Macmillan and Co., 1880.Contemporary half green calf, spine richly gilt, with red morocco title-label. With 100 wood-engravings. XVI,520 pp. First published in London in 1825. - Vivid descriptions of the Guianas, Pernambuco, St. Domingo, Martinique, Barbados, etc. With special attention to their flora and fauna and the aboriginal population. Waterton (1782-1865) was an eccentric enterprising traveller (barefoot across jungles, ride on a cayman, etc.) and a zealous naturalist. It is an outstanding work on the natural history of Colombia and Venezuela. - A nice copy.Sabin 102094; Hill 1833; Howgego II, p.629. [Boeknr.: 7461 ]

€ 175,00

WATSON, John Fanning. Annals of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, in the olden time; being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania. Enlarged with many revisions and additions by Willis P. Hazard. Philadelphia, E.S. Stuart, 1887.3 volumes. Original cloth, spines gilt (spines discoloured). With numerous plates and illustrations. XVI,609; VII,633,(7); 524 pp. First published in Philadelphia in 1830. - With armorial bookplate of Boies Penrose II. - Classic history of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania with a tremendous amount of social and cultural history on the city and state from the founding through the 18th century. Including sections on events leading to the American Revolution, slavery, whaling, histories of local native American tribes and European settlers.- (With occasional annotations in the margins).Sabin 102140; Howes W 169. [Boeknr.: 8144 ]

€ 150,00

(WEEDA, Paulus). Korte uittreksels uit merkwaardige land- en zeereizen, uitgegeven door de Maatschappij: Tot nut van't algemeen. 2e stukje. Leyden, Deventer, Groningen, Mortier en Zoon, J. de Lange, J. Oomkens, 1842.Original printed wrappers (spine sl. dam.). With 5 folding maps. IV,149 pp. Voyages of Von Humboldt to America, Parry to the Arctic, Franklin to the Arctic, Denham & Clapperton in Africa, Web, Raper & Colebrooke to the Himalaya & Oxley & Sturt in Australia.Cat. NHSM I, p.109. [Boeknr.: 36198 ]

€ 95,00

WEILL, F. West-Indië. Van Looy's handelskaarten met tekst, onder toezicht van den directeur van het Bureau voor Handelsinlichtingen te Amsterdam. Amsterdam, S.L. van Looy, 1909. 8vo. Cloth. With 4 large folding maps of the West-Indies. 104 pp. [Boeknr.: 17505 ]

€ 65,00

WERD, G. de. (Hrsg.). Soweit der Erdkreis reicht. Johann Moritz von Nassau-Siegen 1604-1679. Kleve, Städtisches Museum Haus Koekkoek, 1979. Folio. Wrappers. With 12 coloured plates, and numerous illustrations. 428 pp. Fine illustrated catalogue on Johan Maurits the Brazilian, sent out by the Dutch West India Company to become Governor of Dutch Brasil (1637-1644). [Boeknr.: 6571 ]

€ 40,00

WEST, Benjamin. The death of General Wolfe. London, Woollett, Boydell & Ryland, 1776.Contemporary handcoloured engraving after Benjamin West by William Woollett. Ca. 47 x 59,5 cm. The Death of General Wolfe is a 1770 painting by Anglo-American artist Benjamin West (1738-1820), commemorating the 1759 Battle of Quebec, where General James Wolfe (1727-1759) died during his famous victory over the French at Quebec, which delivered Canada into the hands of the British, known as The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, also known as the Battle of Quebec. The painting, containing vivid suggestions of martyrdom, broke a standard rule of historical portraiture by featuring individuals who had not been present at the scene and dressed in modern, instead of classical, costumes. It depicts the general surrounded by his officers and a native American warrior, with ships in the background. Despite the fact that the painting is a more dramatized version of Wolfe's death than reality, West's work was groundbreaking for art of its time. Some consider the depiction of the Indigenous warrior in the painting, by kneeling with his chin on his fist and looking at General Wolfe an idealization inspired by the noble savage concept.The original heroic painting by Benjamin West of 1770 was an instant success and the engraving by William Woollett which followed was one of the most commercial successful prints ever published (Von Erffa & Staley, The paintings of Benjamin West, p.213). In death, General Wolfe gained fame as a national hero and became an icon of the Seven Years' War and British dominance in late eighteenth century North America. William Woollett's engraving was the best-known copy of West's original and It has become one of the best-known images in 18th-century art. - Mounted on linnen, occasionally faint rubbing, otherwise fine. [Boeknr.: 32289 ]

€ 1450,00

WESTERVELT, Frances A. Bergen County New Jersey. Marriage records copied from the entries as originally made at the court house by the ministers and justices of the Peace of the country (1797-1865). New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1929. Wrappers. 116 pp. Added in photocopy: N.G. BLAUVELT. Index of Bergen County marriages. 1933. 82 lvs. [Boeknr.: 25450 ]

€ 65,00

WETTENGL, K. (Red.). Maria Sibylla Merian 1647-1717. Kunstenares en natuuronderzoekster. Haarlem, Teylers Museum, (1998). 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With numerous illustrations (many in colours). 276 pp. Anna Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 - 1717), made at the age of 52 in 1699 a trip to Suriname with her youngest daughter, Dorothea Maria Graff. She studied the plants and insects and made detailed drawings of them. [Boeknr.: 31773 ]

€ 45,00

WHYMPER, Edward. Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator. 2nd edition. London, John Murray, 1892.Contemporary half calf. With 4 maps, 20 plates and 118 illustrations. XXIV,456 pp. First published in 1891. - An exciting and important account of Whymper's climbing to the top of Mount Cimborozo, a lofty destination that had defeated Humboldt and Bolivar. With descriptions of his preparations and his scientific results. 'Often considered his magnum opus, Travels among the Great Andes of the Equator combines a popular account of his ascents with his detailed scientific observations' (DNB). - A fine copy of a classic of South American mountaineering literature. Neate W66. [Boeknr.: 8320 ]

€ 350,00

WHYMPER, Fréderick. Voyages et aventures dans l'Alaska (ancienne Amérique Russe). Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglais avec l'autorisation de l'auteur par Émile Jonveaux. Paris, Hachette et Cie., 1871.Contemporary half green morocco, spine gilt, top edge gilt. With folding map and 37 wood-engravings. II,412 pp. First French edition; first published in London in 1868: Travel and adventure in the territory of Alaska, formerly Russian America. - The author, a member of the Western Union Telegraph Co. Expedition, visited Plover Bay (Chukotka) 1865, and Petropavlovsk 1866, traveled in Kamchatka and on the west coast of Okhotsk Sea; later made journeys up and down the Yokon River from the Norton Sound region. He gives here accounts of his journeys (Arctic Bibl. 19424 English ed.). Whymper's account, and his artwork, constitute one of the most significant contributions to Alaska description of this period' (Haycox, Alaska Biblio. p. 254) Also containing the author�s reminiscences of his travels in British Columbia in the 1860�s, and his trip to the interior of Vancouver Island in 1864 - Some foxing otherwise fine.Howgego IV, p.1004. [Boeknr.: 25554 ]

€ 175,00

WIEDER, F.C. De stichting van New York in juli 1625. Reconstructies en nieuwe gegevens ontleend aan de Van Rappard documenten. 's Gravenhage, 1925. Reprint. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2009. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 28 maps and plates. XI,242 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging XXVI. - Dealing with the founding of Nieuw Amsterdam at the mouth of the Hudson River in July 1625. [Boeknr.: 31072 ]

€ 45,00

WIENCEK, Henry. The Hairstons. An American faimily in black and white. New York, St. Martin's Press, (1999). Half cloth, with dust-jacket. XX,361 pp. [Boeknr.: 32111 ]

€ 25,00

WILLIAMS, Sherman. New York's part in history. New York, London, D. Appleton and Comp., 1915. Original cloth (dam.), top edge gilt. With maps and plates. XIV,391 pp. - (Libr. copy). [Boeknr.: 25543 ]

€ 35,00

WILLIAMSON, James A. The voyages of the Cabots and the English discovery of North America under Henry VII and Henry VIII.London, 1929. Reprint. Amsterdam, Nico Israel, 1971. 4to. Imitation leather. With 13 maps and plates. XIII,290 pp. Argonaut Press 7. - The voyages of John Cabot in 1497 and 1498 and the North West voyage of Sebastian Cabot. [Boeknr.: 34524 ]

€ 45,00

WILSON MOORE, Rachel. Journal of Rachel Wilson Moore, kept during a tour to the West Indies and South America, in 1863-64. With notes from the diary of her husband; together with his memoir. (Edited by) George Truman. Philadelphia, T. Ellwood Zell, 1867.Original cloth, spine gilt. 274 pp. First edition. - Journal of her keen observations of life in the Caribbean, including visits to plantations. She was shocked by the state of slavery. With visits to Nassau, Havana, St. Thomas, Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada, Trinidad, etc.Sabin 50430; Afro-Americana 6787; Theakstone, Vicorian & Edwardian women travellers, p.190. [Boeknr.: 36709 ]

€ 275,00

(WILSON), Thomas. The knowledge and practice of christianity made easy to the meanest capacities: or, an essay towards an instruction for the Indians .. In twenty dialogues. 19th edition. London, F.C. and J. Rivington, 1811.Sm.8vo. Contemporary calf (hinges weak). (8),XXIV,280 pp. First edition was published in London in 1740. - Wilson was bishop of Sodor and Man, a diocese of the Church of England. This instruction manual for American missionaries was frequently reprinted during the years 1740-1848, meant "for propagating the Gospel amongst Indians and Negroes," During a visit of London in 1735 he met James Edward Oglethorpe, British soldier, Member of Parliament and founder of the Colony of Georgia. It was the beginning of Wilson's interest in foreign mission.Sabin 104690. [Boeknr.: 25294 ]

€ 95,00

WOLF, Edmund Jacob. The Lutherans in America. A story of struggle, progress, influence and marvelous growth. With an introduction by H.E. Jacobs. New York, J.A. Hill & Comp., 1889. Original cloth (spine ends dam.). With many illustrations and plates. 544 pp. Account of the earliest Lutherans in America: the Dutch, Swedes and Germans. - (With library stamp). [Boeknr.: 16377 ]

€ 45,00

WOLLEY, Charles. A two years' journal in New York and part of its territories in America. London, 1701. Reprint. With an introduction and notes by E. Gaylord Bourne. New York, Harbor Hill Books, 1973. Cloth, with dust-jacket. 75 pp. An eyewitness account of New York by the first English clergyman (1678-1680). [Boeknr.: 25591 ]

€ 40,00

WRIGHT, Marie Robinson. The new Brazil. Its resources and attractions, historical, descriptive, and industrial. Philadelphia, George Barrie & Co., (1901).Folio. Original decorated cloth gilt, gilt edges. With numerous photographic illustrations in the text. 450 pp. First edition. - Marie Robinson Wright 1853 - 1914) was an American travel writer. She was elected member of learned societies in various parts of the world; and served as a special delegate or representative to international expositions. It was, however, as an observer and especially as a writer, that Wright gained her fame. Her books were written about Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, and Mexico. These volumes were generous octavos, well illustrated, and filled with facts gathered chiefly from authoritative sources or confirmed by her own observations. They ran through more than one edition, and were esteemed in the countries they described. A major guide to Brazil, profusely illustrated showing all aspects of life in Brazil during the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. [Boeknr.: 1982 ]

€ 75,00

ZEE, Henri van der. Het edelste gewest. De geschiedenis van Nieuw-Nederland 1609-1674. Amsterdam, H.J.W. Becht, 1982. Boards, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. 278 pp. The story of the only Dutch colonial experiment in North America, from its discovery in 1609 by Henry Hudson to the ignominious defeat that forced Pieter Stuyvesant to hand the area over to the English in 1664 and the brief reconquest of 1673-1674. [Boeknr.: 6870 ]

€ 25,00

ZIMMERMANN, (Eberhard August Wilhelm) von. Taschenbuch der Reisen, oder unterhaltende Darstellung der Entdeckungen des 18ten Jahrhunderts. Jahrgang II. Leipzig., Gerhard Fleischer, 1803.Sm.8vo. Original boards (sl. rubbed). With frontispiece depicting Johanna from Suriname, portrait of Charles Marie de la Condamine, folding map of the West-Indies by Arrossmith, and 9 engravings (8 folding. (6),304 pp. Almost entirely devoted to the West-Indies: Chatoyer, ein Oberhaupt der schwarzen Carraiben auf St. Vincent, nebst seinen fünf Frauen; Die Maron-Neger schliessen auf Jamaica Frieden mit den Engländern; Frelawny Town, die Stadt der Maron-Neger auf Jamaica; Marsch gegen die Maron-Neger im holländischen Gujana; etc. With fine plates , 2 plates taken from Stedman, Suriname. - (Browned). [Boeknr.: 17501 ]

€ 175,00

ZURING, J. De bewogen historie van de Cosmas en Damianuskerk in Igarassu, het oudste kerkje van Brazilië. Venlo, Van Spijk, (1995). 4to. Wrappers. With illustrations. 54 pp. The Cosmas and Damian church in Igarassu, the oldest church in Brazil. [Boeknr.: 30559 ]

€ 18,00

ZWIERLEIN, Frederick .J. Religion in New Netherland. A history of the development of the religious conditions in the province of New Netherland 1623-1664. New York, Jon P. Smith, 1910. Wrappers. With folding map. VI,351 pp. Thesis. - With autograph dedication by the author. [Boeknr.: 14628 ]

€ 45,00

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