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POTT, P. H. Willem Verstegen, een extra-ordinaris Raad van Indië als avonturier in India in 1659. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1956. Wrappers. With 4 plates. (27) pp. - (Bijdragen KITLV). [Boeknr.: 35908 ]

€ 15,00

PRIMS, Floris Hubert Lodewijk. De reis van den St.Carolus, Kap. Cayphas 1724. Uit den tijd der Oostendsche Compagnie op de oorspronkelijke stukken bewerkt. Antwerpen, Leeslust, (1926). Illustrated wrappers, uncut. With illustrations by M. Pauwaert. 189 pp. The ship Sint-Carolus, of the Oostendse Compagnie, wrecked in the mouth of the Ganges in August 1724 (See Jan Parmentier, Oostende & Co, p.85). [Boeknr.: 3478 ]

€ 25,00

RAJAGOPALAN, S. Old Goa. New Delhi, 1987. Wrappers. With folding plan and 16 plates. 52 pp. [Boeknr.: 30577 ]

€ 18,00

RAYCHAUDHURI, Tapan. Jan Company in Coromandel 1605-1690. A study in the interrelations of European commerce and traditional economies. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1962. Wrappers. With plate and 2 folding maps. X,230 pp. - (V.K.I.). [Boeknr.: 6307 ]

€ 35,00

REID, Stuart. The battle of Plassey 1757. The victory that won an empire. Barnsley, Frontline Books, 2017. Boards, with dust-jacket. With plates. X,270 pp. The victory at Plassey in 1757 established Britain as the dominant force in India. [Boeknr.: 37040 ]

€ 35,00

RHEEDEN, D. van. Souratte, radicale beschrijving Ao. 1758. Door den beamte der O. Ind. Compagnie. (No pl., no date). Wrappers. (71) pp. 19th century offprint dealing with Suratte, the second Dutch establishment in India in the west of the empire of the Great Moguls. [Boeknr.: 29445 ]

€ 35,00

RIETBERGEN, Peter J.A.N. Europa's India. Tussen fascinatie en cultureel imperialisme, 1750-2000. (Nijmegen, Vantilt, 2007) Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many plates. 462 pp. A panoramic survey of the European fascination for India. [Boeknr.: 29722 ]

€ 35,00

ROBERTSON, William. An historical disquisition concerning the knowledge which the ancients had of India; and the progress of trade with that country prior to the discovery of the passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope. With an appendix, containing observations on the civil policy - the laws and judicial proceedings - the arts - the sciences - and religious institutions, of the Indians. London, A. Strahan & T. Cadell, Edinburgh, E. Balfour, 1791.4to. Contemporary calf (part of one hinge splitting but firmly holding).). With 2 large folding maps. XII,364,(12) pp. First edition; with the bookplate of the Bellingham Castle Library and the armorial bookplate of William Bellingham Bart. - William Robertson (1721-1793), the leading Scottish historian of his day, brought out this history of ancient India. He concludes with a wise hope that this account of 'the early and high civilization of India, and the wonderful progress of its inhabitants in elegant arts and useful science, may have some influence upon the behavior of Europeans towards that people' (DNB XVI, p.1314). Also dealing with the discovery of the sea route to India via the Cape of Good Hope. - A good clean copy with wide margins.SAB IV, p.57; Kress B.2182. [Boeknr.: 13152 ]

€ 650,00

ROELOFSZ, M.A.P. De vestiging der Nederlanders ter kuste Malabar. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1943. Wrappers. With 3 maps and 13 illustrations. IV,396 pp. - (V.K.I.). [Boeknr.: 6309 ]

€ 75,00

ROGERIUS, Abraham. La porte ouverte, pour parvenir à la connoissance du paganisme caché. Ou la vraye representation de la vie, des moeurs, de la religion, & du service divin des Bramines, qui demeurent sur les costes de Chormandel, & aux pays circonvoisins. .. Traduite en François par .. Thomas La Grue. Amsterdam, Jean Schipper, 1670.4to. Contemporary speckled vellum, spine ribbed. With engraved title page, folding engraved plate showing different incarnations and 5 engraved illustrations (3 fullpage). (16),371,(4) pp. First French edition. - First published in Dutch De open-deure, tot het verborgen heydendom, Leyden 1651. 'This is the earliest European account of Hinduism in Southern India. Rogerius left in 1630 and worked in Palicatta (Coromandel) for ten years. He then went to Batavia where he served the Portuguese Church for five years. He repatriated in 1647 and settled in Gouda where he died in 1649' (Landwehr, VOC). This is the first work in Europe to publish the translation of a piece of Sanscrit literature (the Sayings of Bhartrhari, on pp. 291-339). The curious plates depict processions, ceremonies and self-chastisement. This copy belonged to François Pétis de la Croix (1653-1713) with his owner's entry and purchase date August 28, 1697, and his notes and comments in the margins. Pétis de la Croix, son of the king's interpreter for oriental languages was educated to succeed his father. He was an eminent orientalist, spoke arab, turkish and the languages of Persia, Tartar and Ethiopia. He was an attaché to the navy, the Foreign Office and interpretor to the King (Howgego p.812). Roger prepared probably the most thorough description of south-Indian Hinduism to be published before the end of the 19th century (Howgego p.903). The first authentic record of Hindu culture as practised by the Tamil Brahmins of South India. - A fine association copy.Landwehr, VOC, 652; Tiele 928; Cat. NHSM I, p.251. [Boeknr.: 12548 ]

€ 975,00

ROSSUM, Matthias van. Werkers van de wereld. Globalisering, arbeid en interculturele ontmoetingen tussen Aziatische en Europese zeelieden in dienst van de VOC, 1600-1800. Hilversum, Verloren, 2014. Wrappers. With illustrations. 448 pp. [Boeknr.: 33516 ]

€ 40,00

SALMON, Thomas. Tegenwoordige staat van de koninkryken Pegu, Ava, Arrakan, Acham. Als mede van het eigentlyke India, of het ryk van den Groten Mogol, en van Malabar, Kormandel, en het eiland Ceilon. Nu vertaald en merkelyk vermeerderd door M. van Goch. 2e druk. Amsterdam, Isaac Tirion, 1741.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With engraved title-page, 2 folding maps (India and Ceylon), and 10 engraved plates (7 folding). (8),680,(8) pp. Original issued as Modern history: or present state of all nations. London 1725-1739. Translated into Dutch: Hedendaagsche historie, of tegenwoordige staat alle volkeren. Volume III covers an ample description of India, Bangladesh, Birma and Ceylon. Tiele 1033; Cordier, B.I., col. 731; Goonetileke 2049. [Boeknr.: 5378 ]

€ 425,00

SANTEN, Hans van. Op bezoek bij de Groot-mogol. Twee hofreizen van de VOC naar de Groot-Mogol in India, 1662 en 1711-1713. Leiden, Sidestone Press, 2016. Wrappers. With illustrations (several in colours). 153 pp. Journey to the Court of India by Dirck van Adrichem (1662) and Joan Josua Ketelaar (1711-1713). [Boeknr.: 37612 ]

€ 45,00

SANTEN, Hans Walther van. De Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie in Gujarat en Hindostan, 1620-1660. Meppel, 1982. Wrappers. With plan and map. 289 pp. - (Thesis). [Boeknr.: 6313 ]

€ 45,00

SCHROEDER, Leopold von. Indiens Literatur und Cultur in historischer Entwicklung. Ein Cyklus von fünfzig Vorlesungen zugleich als Handbuch der Indischen Literaturgeschichte, nebst zahlreichen, in Deutscher Uebersetzung mitgetheilten Proben aus Indischen Schriftwerken. Leipzig, H. Haessel, 1887.Contemporary half brown morocco, spine gilt. VII,785 pp. [Boeknr.: 30518 ]

€ 65,00

(SHERER, Joseph Moyle). Indische tafereelen voor reizigers aan den haard. Rotterdam, weduwe J. Allart, 1830.Modern marbled boards. With fine engraved title. XX,287 pp. First Dutch edition, first published in English in 1821 Sketches of India: written by an officer for fire-side travellers at-home. - Popular narrative dealing with the inhabitants, manners and customs, government, cities, etc. of India. It went through several editions.Not in Tiele or Cat. NHSM. [Boeknr.: 1906 ]

€ 95,00

SLEEN, W.G.N. van der. Zwerftochten door tropisch Britsch-Indië. Amsterdam, Em. Querido, 1929. Decorated cloth. With 50 photographic illustrations. 236 pp. Wanderings through tropical British India with i.a. descriptions of Bombay, Nasik, Agra, Delhi, Travancore, Madura and Madras. [Boeknr.: 4575 ]

€ 25,00

STAAL, Frits. Agni. The Vedic ritual of the Fire Altar. In collaboration with C.V. Somayajipad and M. Itti Ravi Nambudiri (and) Pamela MacFarland. Berkeley, Asian Humanities Press, 1983.2 extensive volumes. 8vo. Original cloth, in slipcases. With maps and tipped in coloured photographic plates by Adelaide deMenil. XXXVIII,716; XVII,832 pp. First edition. - Volume I contains a discussion of the place of the Agnicayana in the Vedic srauta tradition, its textual loci, traditional and modern interpretations of its origins and significance and an overview of the Nambudiri Vedic tradition and a detailed description of the 1975 twelve-day performance. The mantras are published in Devanagari and translation. Volume II contains contributions by scholars on archeology, the pre-Vedic Indian background, geometry, ritual vessels, music, Mudras, Mimamsa, a survey of Srauta traditions in recent times, the influence of Vedic ritual in the Homa traditions of Indonesia, Tibet, China, Japan and related topics. There are translations of the relevant Srauta Sutras of Baudhayana (together with Calanda`s text) and the Jaiminiya (with Bhavatrata`s commentary) as well as the Kausitaki Brahmana. - A fully recording of one of the most complicated Vedic rituals: the Fire Altar. [Boeknr.: 36539 ]

€ 395,00

STAVORINUS, Johan Splinter. Reize van Zeeland over de Kaap de Goede Hoop naar Batavia, Bantam, Bengalen, enz. gedaan in de jaaren 1768 tot 1771. Gevolgd van eenige belangrijke aanmerkingen over den aart, gewoonten, levenswijze, godsdienstplegtigheden en koophandel der volken in die gewesten. Leyden, A. en J. Honkoop, 1793.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half calf, with red morocco title-label to spine. With folding map of the Ganges and the Cape of Good Hope by C. van Baarsel. XXIV,294; 146,(2) pp. First edition; with bookplate of Percival J.G. Bishop. - Stavorinus (1739-1788), captain and rear admiral of the Admiralty of Zeeland, commanded the ship Goes, which was part of the relief fleet under Commander Jacob Pieter van Braam, which succeeded in relieving the besieged Malacca in the battles from 29 May to 21 June 1784. In battles from 2 to 12 August and 29 October to 27 November 1784, Selangore and Riouw were successively liberated when the VOC got into serious difficulties there. 'This work affords an accurate and valuable account of the Cape in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, with an interesting description of Cape Town and its inhabitants' (Mendelssohn). Including also large accounts of Batavia and Bengal. His accounts were published by his son. - A key work on the Dutch in Africa and in the East. - Last 3 leaves sl. waterstained otherwise a fine copy. - Very rare. Mendelssohn II, p.426; S.A.B.IV, p.385; Landwehr, VOC, 296; Cat. NHSM I, p.178; Tiele 1044. [Boeknr.: 27409 ]

€ 1250,00

TAYLOR, Bayard. A visit to India, China, and Japan, in the year 1853. New York, G.P. Putman & Co., 1855.Original embossed blue cloth (foot of spine dam.). With engraved title with oval view of the Tash Mahal and steelengraving depicting The valley of Unna in Loo-Choo. 539 pp. First edition. - Cordier, B.S., col. 2122; Cordier, B.J., col. 521; Löwendahl 1549. [Boeknr.: 31612 ]

€ 95,00

TERPSTRA, H. De Nederlanders in Voor-Indië. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen & Zoon, 1947. Half cloth. With 5 maps and 15 plates. 205 pp. - (Patria). [Boeknr.: 6319 ]

€ 15,00

TERPSTRA, H. De opkomst der westerkwartieren van de Oost-Indische Compagnie (Suratte, Arabië, Perzië). 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1918. Original printed wrappers. With folding map. XII,308 pp. [Boeknr.: 6321 ]

€ 45,00

TERRY, Edward. Scheeps-togt na Oost-Indien, met een vloot van 5 scheepen. Gedaan in het jaar 1615. Verhalende een zee-slag tussen de Engelsse en een Portugysse kraak, omtrent het eyland Gazidia, ook de gelegenheyd deses eylands met den gods-dienst, aart, zeeden en kleeding deser volkeren. Mitsgaders een nette en naauw-keurige beschrijving van de staten van den Mogol .. Als mede de gods-dienst en zeeden der Mahometanen en heydenen, 't verbranden hunner wijven met de mannen .. en andere zeldsaamheeden. Nu alder-eerst uyt het Engels vertaalt. Leyden, Pieter van der Aa, (ca. 1706).Folio. Modern boards. With engraved title-vignette, engraved folding map and 2 engravings in text. (22) pp. Issued in Pieter van der Aa's collection of voyages; first published in Hakluytus Posthumusas: A Relation of a Voyage to the Eastern India - Amongst the preachers sent to India by the Company in the early years of its commercial transactions in the East, none is perhaps more widely known to day than Edward Terry (1590-1660), who was installed in the Chaplaincy of the English Embassy to the Great Mughal after the death of the reverend John Hill (Prasad, Early English travellers in India, p.277). In India Edward Terry became the chaplain to Thomas Roe, England's ambassador to the Moghul Court. He set off to join the ambassador for the next eighteen months. They followed the progression of the Mughal�s through parts of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, as the ambassador tried fruitlessly to negotiate some sort of commercial treaty that might shore up English interests in the region. Roe�s efforts ultimately came to nought and, after an horrendous, disease-stricken summer in Ahmadabad in 1618, Terry and the ambassador travelled back to Surat for the voyage home. - A comprehensive picture of India that is credible and authoritative. - (Age-browned).Tiele 8; Cat. NHSM I, p.107. [Boeknr.: 12250 ]

€ 275,00

THEVENOT, Jean. Gedenkwaardige en zeer naauwkeurige reizen. Darde en laatste deel. Uit het Fransch in't Nederduitsch gebracht door G. van Broekhuizen. Amsterdam, Timotheus ten Hoorn, 1688.2 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary vellum (soiled). With engraved title-page and 6 engraved pates. (12),235,(6) pp. First Dutch edition; first published in Paris in 1684: Voyages .. contenant la relation de l'Indostan, des nouveaux Mogols & et des autres peuples & pays des Indes. - On the last part of his travels in the Levant the French traveller Jean Thevenot (1633-1667) made excursions into Gujarat, to the Mogul court, and into the Deccan. After exploring India for about a year he returned to Esfahan, where he spent another four months. On his way from Esfahan to Tabriz he became ill and died at Miana in 1667 (Howgego p.1021-1022). Thevenot's travels mark the beginning of the grand epoch of travel and exploration in the Levant (Blackmer 1650). - Interesting description of India.Tiele 1090; Cat. NHSM I, p.257. [Boeknr.: 37180 ]

€ 450,00

TIPU SULTAN, TIGER OF MYSORE. Les fils du sultan se rendent. Le major général Baird ordonne que le Sultan paroisse, on l' informe qu'il n'est point dans le palais, mais que ses deux fils son prêts à se rendre. Alors le major Allen y entre et peu après en sort avec les deux princes, qui le général sont reçus avec tous les témoignages possibles de bonté et d'humanité. (No pl.), A. Suntach, 1804.Engraving depicting the surrender of the two sons of Tipu Sultan after Henry Singleton by F. dal Pedro. Ca. 29,5 x 41 cm. This engraving depicts the capture of two of Tipu Sultan's sons following the Third Anglo-Mysore War (1790-1792). This war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Seringapatam, signed by Lord Cornwallis, the Governor-General of India,on behalf of the British East India Company; representatives of the Nizam of Hyderabad and the Mahratta Empire, and Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore. As part of the treaty, Tipu Sultan ceded part of his dominion to the British, paid a substantial financial settlement, and surrendered two of his sixteen sons as hostages to the British. Accordingly, on 26 February 1792, Princes Mohin-ud-din (or Moiz-ud-din),aged eight, and Abdul Khalik, aged ten, were delivered to Lord Cornwallis at Seringapatam. - Fine [Boeknr.: 34262 ]

€ 650,00

TORÉN, Olof & Gustav EKEBERG. Reise des Herrn Olof Toree nach Surate und China, nebst einer kurzen Beschreibung von der chinesischen Feldökonomiae und einer Nachricht von dem gegenwärtigen Zustande der engländischen Colonien in dem nördlichen Amerika. Herausgegeben von Linnáus. Leipzig, Christian Gottlob Hilscher, 1772.Sm.8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine lettered in gilt (foot of spine sl. dam.). 238 pp. First German edition. - Olof Torén was a Swedish botanist and priest (1718-1753). The first part contains a German translation of Torén's East India Company voyage to China in 1750-1752, in the form of letters to Linnaeus, originally published as an appendix to Osbeck's narrative (1757). Followed by a translation of Carl Gustaf Ekeberg's Kort berättelse om den chinesiske landt--hushållningen, (A brief account of Chinese husbandry), first published in Stockholm in 1757. The appendix contains a German translation of Dominique de Blackford's Précis de l' état actuel des colonies angloises dans l' Amérique septentrionale (Milan 1771). This work includes: Antwort des Herren (Benjamin) Franklin auf das gerichtliche Befragen vor dem Unterhause im Februar 1766 als die Widerrufung der Stempelacte dasselbst in Erwegung gezogen wurde. (30 pp). The Stamp Act 1765, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper from London which included an embossed revenue stamp. The articles written in colonial newspapers were particularly critical of the act because of the Stamp Act's disproportionate effect on printers. - (Two small library stamps on title-page). - Scarce.Cordier, BS, col. 2097-98; Walravens 197; Löwendahl 566; Sabin 5691 & 96191 (not seen); Eutiner Landesbibliothek 1395; Boucher de la Richarderie VI, p.57-58. [Boeknr.: 36787 ]

€ 1250,00

TOY, Sidney. The strongholds of India. Melbourne, William Heinemann, 1957. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many photographic illustrations. XVI, 136 pp. The author is an 'authority on fortifications and castles, and this is a pioneering study on strongholds in India. Sites are described from the Himalayas to Madura in the south. [Boeknr.: 37049 ]

€ 40,00

TWIST, Johan van. Generale beschrijvinghe van Indien, ende in't besonder van't coninckrijck van Guseratten, staende onder de beheersinge van den groot machtighen coninck Chaiahan: anders genaemt den grooten Mogor. (Amsterdam, Joannes Janssonius, 1646).Oblong 8vo. Modern wrappers. 112 pp. (text set in two columns). Extracted from Commelin's collection of voyages. - Johan van Twist, a Dutch merchant and envoy of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). served as director of the Dutch factories in Ahmedabad, Cambay, Baroda, and Broach. In 1638 he returned to Batavia, in Java, where he wrote his General description of India, usually regarded as the first Dutch documents to describe any part of India in detail (Howgego p.1041). 'Van Twist's General description of India is primarily a detailed account of Gujarat. He reports on its government, its relationship to the Mughul empire, and the history of how Gujarat came under Mughul control. He describes Gujarat's geography, fauna, flora, cities, food, commerce, religions, and social customs' (Lach & Van Kley, Asia in the making of Europe, III, p.473). Landwehr, VOC, 250; Tiele 1106. [Boeknr.: 31989 ]

€ 450,00

TZOREF-ASHKENAZI, Chen. German soldiers in colonial India. London, Routledge, 2016. Wrappers. IX,237 pp. The author presents a detailed study of two German regiments which served in India under the British between 1782 and 1791. [Boeknr.: 37021 ]

€ 65,00

VALENTIJN, François. Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën, vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands Mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens eene wydlustige beschryving der Moluccos, Amboina, Banda, Timor, en Solor, Java .. Suratte .. Choromandel, Pegu, Arracan, Bengale, Mocha, Persien, Malacca, Sumatra, Ceylon, Malabar, Celebes of Macassar, China, Japan, Tayouan of Formosa, Tonkin, Cambodia, Siam, Borneo, Bali, Kaap de Goede Hoop en van Mauritius. Dordrecht, Amsterdam, J. van Braam, G. onder de Linden, 1724-1726. Reprint. Franeker, 2002-2004. 5 volumes in 8. Folio. Artificial leather. With 241 portraits, maps, plates and illustrations. One of the most extensive works on the history of the Far East (including Persia), which never can be superseded as many of the documents of which the author made use, do not longer exist. François Valentijn (1666-1727) was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church who lived for many years on Amboyna and Java. During this period he collected an enormous mass of information, especially in the fields of history, geography and ethnology, concerning all parts of the world where the VOC was active: Indonesia, with large parts on Batavia and the Moluccas, Persia, Malacca, Ceylon, India, Cape of Good Hope, Japan, China and Formosa, etc.. The work is profusely illustrated with numerous fine engraved maps, plans, portraits and spectacular views. They are engraved by the best artists of the time like F. Ottens, J.C. Philips, G. Schouten, J. Goeree etc. mostly after designs by M. Balen. Apart from the fine engravings the work is of particular interest for its cartography. It contains interesting maps of Australia, probably drawn after manuscript maps now lost. For his descriptions of the natural history of Amboyna Valentijn used i.a. the unpublished 'Amboinsch Dierboek' by the famous naturalist Rumphius, of which the original manuscript has been lost. [Boeknr.: 24014 ]

€ 375,00

VETH, Pieter Johannes. Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakestein. (Amsterdam, 1887). Modern wrappers. (100) pp. - (Offprint De Gids). [Boeknr.: 34312 ]

€ 45,00

VRIES, R.W.P. de. M.A.J. Bauer. Amsterdam, A.J.G. Strengholt, 1944. 4to. Half cloth. With many illustrations. 144 pp. Marius Bauer (1867-1932) travelled far and wide to countries like India, Indonesia, Turkey and Morocco. He can be considered as one of the few Dutch orientalists and one of the best Dutch graphic artists of his time (Haks & Maris p.26). [Boeknr.: 35842 ]

€ 18,00

WHEELER, J.Talboys. Early records of British India: a history of the English settlements in India. Reprint. Delhi, (1991). Cloth, with dust-jacket. 384 pp. [Boeknr.: 21394 ]

€ 40,00

WINIUS, G.D. & M.P.M. VINK. The merchant-warrior pacified. The VOC (The Dutch East India Company) and its changing political economy in India. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1991. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With map, and 10 illustrations on plates. VIII,(2),201 pp. [Boeknr.: 12164 ]

€ 45,00

WISELIUS, Jakob Adolf Bruno. Het gevangenis- en dwangarbeidstelsel in Nederland- en in Britsch-Indië, gevolgd door een opstel over de jute-aanplant en jute-spinnerijen in Bengalen. Zaltbommel, Joh. Noman en Zoon, 1885.Original printed wrappers. VIII,275 pp. Regulations for prisonsystem and forced labour in the Dutch East Indies and British India and the jute cultivation in Bengalen.Cat. KITLV p.128. [Boeknr.: 31583 ]

€ 95,00

ZALM, Leo van der. Backers Branie of een VOC-oorlog in Zuid-India. (1717). Roman. (Haarlem, In de Knipscheer, 1998). Boards, with dust-jacket. 192 pp. [Boeknr.: 29118 ]

€ 15,00

ZIEGENBALG, Bartholomäus & Heinrich PLUTSHAU. Propagation of the gospel in the East: being an account of the success of two Danish missionaries, lately sent to the East Indies, for the conversion of the heatherns in Malabar. In several letters to their correspondents in Europe. Rendered into English from the High-Dutch. Second edition. London, J. Downing, 1711.Sm.8vo. 3 parts in 1 volume. Contemporary polished calf, gilt fillets on sides, spine richly gilt. (16),XXXII,78; VIII,60; 4;(2) pp. First edition published in 1709-1710. - The authors of these letters were missionaries sent by king Frederick IV of Denmark in 1705 to found a mission station in Malabar. The first letter was written from Cape of Good Hope. Contains a narrative of the voyage to the coast of Coromandel, their settlement at Tranquebar, the divinity and philosophy of the Malabarians, their language and manners, a journey from Tranquebar to Madras, the management of the schools and a proposal for printing the New-Testament in Portuguese, in order to be dispers'd among the natives at Malabar, and in other parts in the East-Indies. The two young Pietist preachers pioneered the Lutheran mission in Tranquebar, a small Danish colony on the south-east coast of India. Ziegenbalg brought Lutheranism and a printing-press to Tanjore court. - A very fine copy.SAB IV, p.850; Cox I, p.281; Howgego Z13. [Boeknr.: 36238 ]

€ 1275,00

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