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HUSSIN, Nordin. Melaka and Penang 1780-1830: A study of two port towns in the Straits of Melaka. (No pl., 2001). Wrappers. With illustrations. XII,508 pp. Thesis. - Trade and society in the Straits Of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English Penang. [Boeknr.: 28648 ]

€ 45,00

LEWIS, Dianne. Jan Compagnie in the Straits of Malacca, 1641-1795. Athens, Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1995. Pictorial wrappers. XIII,160,(8) pp. After a hundred years ruled by the Portuguese, the Dutch took over the port city for more than a hundred and fifty years. [Boeknr.: 35033 ]

€ 35,00

MEYER TIMMERMAN THIJSSEN, D. Twee gouverneurs (Abraham Couperus, Jan Samuel Timmerman Thijssen) en een equipagemeester (Jan Hendrik Meijer) in en om Malakka 1778-1823. 2e herziene druk. Bilthoven, 1991. Wrappers. With many illustrations (several in colours). 192 pp. - Privately printed. [Boeknr.: 14023 ]

€ 25,00

SCHOUTEN, Wouter. Reys-togten, naar en door Oost-Indien, in welke, de voornaamste landen, koningryken, steden, eilanden, bergen en rivieren, met haare eigenschappen, beneffens de wetten, godsdienst, zeden en dragten der inwoonders, en wat verder zoo van dieren, vrugten, en planten, aanmerkelyks in die gewesten is; naauwkeurig word beschreven .3e druk. Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg & Jan 't Lam, 1740.2 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary half calf (modern boards), spine gilt. With titlepage printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, 4 illustrations and 27 (of 42) engraved plates by C. Decker and J. Kip. (8),328; 253, (22) pp. First published in 1676; large paper copy. - Wouter Schouten (1638-1704) spent 7 years as a physician in the service of the VOC in the East 1658-1665. He was an observant traveller who explored inland into environs of nearly everey port-of-call. His travel-account stayed very popular for a long time because of his ample and vivid descriptions of the countries, the different peoples and anything of note concerning the animals, plants, etc. of Java, Amboyna, Ternate, Celebes, Cape of Good Hope, coast of Coromandel, Malabar, Persia, Arabia, Ceylon, etc. Because of the bad weather the fleet arrived on the return voyage in Bergen (Norway), where Schouten eyewitnessed the attack by the English in 1665. - (Missing pp.291/292; portrait and 15 plates; last pp. stained).Tiele 991; Cat. NHSM I, p.174; Landwehr, VOC, 284; Mendelssohn II, p.279-80; Howgego p.947. [Boeknr.: 36245 ]

€ 395,00

SCHOUTEN, Wouter. Reys-togten, naar en door Oost-Indien, in welke, de voornaamste landen, koningryken, steden, eilanden, bergen en rivieren, met haare eigenschappen, beneffens de wetten, godsdienst, zeden en dragten der inwoonders, en wat verder zoo van dieren, vrugten, en planten, aanmerkelyks in die gewesten is; naauwkeurig word beschreven. 3e druk. Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg & Jan 't Lam, 1740.2 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt (extremities of spine skilfully rep.). With titlepage printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait, 4 illustrations and 43 engraved plates (several folding) by C. Decker and J. Kip. (8),328; 253, (22) pp. First published in 1676 with the title Oost-indische voyagie; large paper copy with additional folding map: Nieuwe en nette zeekaart van de geheele waereldt. - Wouter Schouten (1638-1704) spent 7 years as a physician in the service of the VOC in the East 1658-1665. He was an observant traveller who explored inland into environs of nearly everey port-of-call. His travel-account stayed very popular for a long time because of his ample and vivid descriptions of the countries, the different peoples and anything of note concerning the animals, plants, etc. of Java, Amboyna, Ternate, Celebes, Cape of Good Hope, coast of Coromandel, Malabar, Persia, Arabia, Ceylon, etc. Because of the bad weather the fleet arrived on the return voyage in Bergen (Norway), where Schouten eyewitnessed the attack by the English in 1665. 'His book was extremely popular in northern Europe and was translated into German (1676) and French (1707 and 1725)' (Lach & Van Kley, Asia in the making of Europe, III,2, p. 955). - Belongs to the best travel stories written at the time. - A fine copy. Tiele 991; Cat. NHSM I, p.174; Landwehr, VOC, 284; Mendelssohn II, p.279-80; Howgego p.947. [Boeknr.: 37617 ]

€ 2250,00

SPRUIT, Ruud. Het land van de sultans. Maleisië en het kolonialisme. 's Gravenhage, SDU, 1989. Wrappers. With illustrations. 127 pp. [Boeknr.: 245 ]

€ 15,00

TERPSTRA, H. De factorij der Oostindische Compagnie te Patani (Malaysia). 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1938. Wrappers. With folding map. IV,250 pp. - (V.K.I.). [Boeknr.: 6320 ]

€ 60,00

VOS, Reinout. Gentle Janus, merchant prince. The VOC and the tightrope of diplomacy in the Malay world, 1740-1800. Translated by B. Jackson. Leiden, KITLV, 1993. With 4 maps, and 4 illustrations. Wrappers. VI,(2),252 pp. [Boeknr.: 7044 ]

€ 25,00

VOS, Reinout. Koopman en koning. De VOC en de Maleise tinhandel 1740-1800. Merchant and monarch The VOC and the Malay tin trade, 1700-1800. Utrecht, 1990. Folio. Wrappers. 240 pp. - (Thesis) [Boeknr.: 9825 ]

€ 65,00

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