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ANDRADE, Tonio. De val van Formosa. Hoe een Chinese krijgsheer de VOC versloeg. Vertaald door Tristan Mostert. Franeker, Van Wijnen, 2015. Pictorial boards. With illustrations. 496 pp. Dutch translation of: Lost colony. The untold story of China's first great victory over the West. In the Sino-Dutch War, the Dutch met their match in a colorful Chinese warlord named Koxinga. Part samurai, part pirate, he led his generals to victory over the Dutch and captured one of their largest and richest colonies:Taiwan. [Boeknr.: 34021 ]

€ 35,00

COYETT, Frederik. 't Verwaerloosde Formosa, of waerachtig verhael, hoedanigh door verwaerloosinge der Nederlanders in Oost-Indien, het eylant Formosa, van den Chinesen Mandorijn, ende zeeroover Coxinja, overrompelt, vermeestert, ende ontweldight is geworden. Ingeleid en geannoteerd door G.C. Molewijk. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 1991. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. 243 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging XC. - Written by the last Dutch governor of Formosa. One of the very few contemporary written accounts of a company servant; dealing with the Dutch and the organization of the VOC on Formosa and the occupation of the island by the Chinese. [Boeknr.: 8967 ]

€ 35,00

GUILLEMARD, F.H.H. The cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea with notes of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay Archipelago. 2nd edition. London, John Murray, 1889.Original decorated cloth gilt. With 14 maps (5 folding), 28 plates and 111 woodengravings after J. Keulemans, C. Whymper, a.o. by E. Whymper. XIX,455 pp. With armorial bookplate of Peter Antony Lanyon-Orgill. - First published in London in 1886. - Account of an extensive cruise, January 1882 to April 1884, visiting the then lesser known lands and islands in Eastern waters. The Marchesa visited Formosa, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, Kamchatka, Bering Islands, Sulu Islands, British North Borneo, Lubuan and Brunei, Batavia, Celebes, the Moluccas, New Guinea and Amoboina, Banda and the Aru Islands. Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1852 - 1933) was a reader of geography at Cambridge University, a traveller, writer and naturalist. He served as a naturalist on an expedition into Southeast Asia about which he wrote in his The Cruise of the Marchesa which became a popular travel book.Cat. KITLV p.6; Ferguson 10138b; Cordier, B.I., col..1472. [Boeknr.: 1847 ]

€ 275,00

IMBAULT-HUART, C. L'ile Formose. Histoire et description. Précédé d'une introduction bibliographique par H. Cordier. Paris, 1893. Reprint. Taipei, (1995). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With maps, illustrations and plates. LXXXIV,323 pp. Chapters 2-4 are dealing with the Dutch in Formosa. [Boeknr.: 29115 ]

€ 55,00

MOERMAN, Jacques. Antonius Hambrouck, predikant in Schipluiden en op Formosa. Schipluiden, Historische Vereniging Oud-Schipluiden, 2016. 4to. Wrappers. With coloured illustrations. (27) pp. - (Historisch Jaarboek Schipluiden 2015). [Boeknr.: 35865 ]