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DOORNBOS, Klaas. Schipbreuk in Oman. De overlevingstocht van 30 drenkelingen van 't VOC-schip Amstelveen door de woestijn van Zuid-Arabië, 1763. Gebaseerd op het journaal van Cornelis Eyks. Amsterdam, University Press, 2014. Wrappers. With illustrations (several in colours). 184 pp. Shipwreck and survival in Oman in 1763. The fate of the Amstelveen and thirty castaways on the South coast of Arabia. Based on the notes of Cornelis Eyks.It is the oldest surviving European account of the desert coast of Oman and the people who lived there. Eyks' logbook was recently found in France. It has been used gratefully in the retelling of this incredible VOC story. [Boeknr.: 37656 ]

€ 30,00

FLOOR, Willem. First contacts between the Netherlands and Masqat. A report on the discovery of the coast of Oman in 1666: Translation and Introduction. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner, 1982. Wrappers. (16) pp. - (Offprint Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft). [Boeknr.: 37650 ]

€ 15,00

WITKAM, J.J. News from the West. Letters from Oman to Batavia, 1798-1806. Leiden, Universiteit Leiden, 2003. 8vo. Wrappers. With facsimiles. 27 lvs. 25 copies printed at the occasion of the visit to Leiden University Library by H.E. the minister of Awqaf and Religious Affairs of the sulatnate of Oman, Shaikh Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Abdullah al Salimi on Friday 11 July 2003. [Boeknr.: 37635 ]