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BAESJOU, René. An Asante embassy on the Gold Coast. The mission of Akyempon Yaw to Elmina, 1869-1872. Leiden, Afrika-Studiecentrum, 1979. Wrappers. With folding map. 250 pp. - (African Social Research Documents). [Boeknr.: 35616 ]

€ 35,00

BENEZET, Anthony. Some historical account of Guinea, its situation, produce, and the general disposition of its inhabitants. With an inquiry into the rise and progress of the slave trade, its nature, and lamentable effects. New edition. London, J. Phillips, 1788.Original boards (rubbed), uncut. With woodcut on title-page depicting a medallion of a slave in chains with the text 'Am I not a man and a brother'. XV,131,(1) pp. First published in Philadelphia in 1771. - Contains an inquiry into the rise and progress of the West-African slave trade, 1442 to 1771, including a general account of Guinea, the Ivory-, Gold- and Slave-Coast, Benin, Kongo and Angola and chapters on the slave-trade by the Portuguese and English, and chapters on the treatment of the slaves in the North American colonies and in the West Indies. Benezet (1713-1784), a French-born Quaker and Philadelphia resident, was one of the chief early anti-slave trade agitators in the New World, his views influenced those of English abolitionists William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson. Appended is an extract from Granville Sharp's Representation of the injustice and dangerous tendency of tolerating slavery, first published in 1769 - An important, very early, comprehensive American indictment of the slave trade and slavery.Cardinall 377; Sabin 4689, Ragatz p.479; Hogg 1734; Work p.257; Afro-Americana 1084. [Boeknr.: 11460 ]

€ 495,00

BOWDICH, Thomas Edward. Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of other parts of the interior of Africa. London, John Murray, 1819.4to. Later half red morocco, spine ribbed. With folding plate depicting an Arabic circular, wood-engraved plan of Ichonographical Sketch of Coomassie, 2 maps (1 folding), 5 engraved sheets of music on 3 leaves, and 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates (2 folding, the 'First day of the yam custom' is a coloured facsimile). VIII,(2),512 pp. First edition. - Bowdich (1791-1824) was appointed conductor of a mission to Ashantee organised by the African Company in 1815 and, using considerable diplomatic and negotiating skills, succeeded in forming a treaty with the King of Ashantee, bringing peace to the British settlements along the Gold Coast. 'This work, the most important after Bruce's, excited great interest, as an almost incredible story ..of a land of warlike and barbaric splendour hithero unknown'(DNB). 'Bowdich must be considered as the first who achieved the object of penetrating to the interior of Africa' (Thomson, The exotic and the beautilul, 79). - Some offsetting otherwise a fine copy.Abbey, Travel, 279; Tooley, Coloured plates, 95; Prideaux p.238. [Boeknr.: 7710 ]

€ 675,00

BROECKE, Pieter van den. Reizen naar West-Afrika van Pieter van den Broecke 1605-1614. Uitgegeven door K. Ratelband. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1950. Cloth. With portrait, 5 maps and 6 plates. CVI,124 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging LII. - Describes a period when the WIC was still non-existent, the Dutch captured forts on the Guinea coast even before that Company was erected. [Boeknr.: 3725 ]

€ 35,00

BROMMER, Bea. (Red.). Ik ben eigendom van .. Slavenhandel en plantageleven. Wijk en Aalburg, Pictures Publishers, 1993. 4to. Cloth. With numerous illustrations (several in colours). 144 pp. Slave-trade and plantations. [Boeknr.: 13779 ]

€ 45,00

CRUICKSHANK, Brodie. Achttien jaren aan de Goudkust. Uit het Engelsch vertaald en met eene inleiding vermeerderd door D.P.H.J. Weijtingh. Amsterdam, Weijtingh & Van der Haart, 1855.2 volumes. Original printed wrappers (spines rep.). With large folding lithographed view of Elmina by W. Bartels. XVI,251; XIV,208 pp. First enlarged Dutch translation of Eighteen years on the Gold Coast of Africa, including an account of the native tribes and their intercourse with Europeans. London 1853. - This Dutch edition has an introduction by D.P.H.J. Weijtingh, dealing with the history of the Dutch possessions on the coast. Cruikshank served on the Gold Coast of Africa (Southern Ghana) from 1834-1854 and was a member of the first Legislative Council of the Gold Coast, as well as the first Collector-General of the colony. The work offers insight into the judicial system, music, religion, dance, and social customs of the native people.Cat. NHSM I, p.205; Gay 2865 (English ed.); Hess & Coger 6372 (English ed.); Cardinall 518 (English ed.); not in Tiele. [Boeknr.: 10188 ]

€ 475,00

DAENDELS - Herman Willem Daendels 1762 - 1818. Geldersman - patriot - jacobijn - generaal - hereboer - maarschalk - gouverneur. Van Hattem naar St. George del Mina. (Utrecht, Matrijs, 1991). Folio. Boards, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations. 174 pp. After the fall of Napoleon, king Willem I and the new Dutch government feared that Daendels could become an influential and powerful opposition leader and effectively banned him from the Netherlands by appointing him Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast (now part of Ghana). In the aftermath of the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, Daendels tried to redevelop the rather dilapidated Dutch possessions as an African plantation colony driven by legitimate trade. [Boeknr.: 2383 ]

€ 35,00

DRAGTENSTEIN, Frank. Van Elmina naar Paramaribo. De slavenhaler. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2017. Wrappers. With illustrations. 176 pp. A true story of Jan Wils about the purchase on the gold coast and the transport to Paramaribo of 500 slaves with the slave ship De Coninck in 1686. [Boeknr.: 34568 ]

€ 20,00

ELET, Jacobus. Naar de koning van Dahomey. Het journaal van de gezantschapsreis van Jacobus Elet naar het West-Afrikaanse koningrijk Dahomey in 1733. Ingeleid door Henk den Heijer. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2000. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 17 illustrations. 208 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging XCIX. - In 1732, Agaja, king of Dahomey, captured the Dutch Company factory Jaquin after a conflict with the merchant Hendrik Hertogh. After one year the oppercommies Jacobus Elet was sent to re-establish the contacts, but he was not succesfull. [Boeknr.: 22486 ]

€ 30,00

EMMER, P.C. Engeland, Nederland, Afrika en de slavenhandel in de 19de eeuw. Dl.II: De afschaffing van de slavenhandel; de reactie op de Goudkust en de werkzaamheid van de Engels-Nederlandse gerechtshoven ter wering van de slavenhandel. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1974. Cloth. (100) pp. - (In: Economisch- en Sociaal-Historisch Jaarboek). [Boeknr.: 29060 ]

€ 30,00

HAM, Gijs van der. Dof goud. Ghana en Nederland sinds 1593. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Nijmegen, VanTilt, 2016. 4to. Pictorial boards. With many coloured illustrations. 170 pp. [Boeknr.: 33961 ]

€ 25,00

HAM, Gijs van der. Dof goud. Nederland en Ghana, 1593 - 1872. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Nijmegen, VanTilt, 2013. 4to. With many coloured illustrations. 200 pp. [Boeknr.: 33354 ]

€ 25,00

HARTENSTEIN, Karl. Anibu. De 'nieuwe tijd' op de goudkust en onze zendingstaak. Geautoriseerde vertaling door E.C. Brouwer-Van Dijk. Met een inleiding door K.J. Brouwer. Culemborg, De Pauw, 1933. Cloth. With photographic plates. 175 pp. [Boeknr.: 6826 ]

€ 18,00

HEIJER, H. den. Goud, ivoor en slaven. Scheepvaart en handel van de Tweede Westindische Compagnie op Afrika, 1674-1740. (Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 1997). Wrappers. With illustrations. XV,445 pp. Thesis on the Dutch slave-trade in West Africa; with summary in English. [Boeknr.: 19467 ]

€ 40,00

HEIJER, Henk den. Nederlands slavernij-verleden. Historische inzichten en het debat nu. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2021. Pictorial boards. With illustrations and plates (several in colours). 336 pp. Based on the latest insights, this book sketches an impressive picture of the Dutch participation in the transatlantic slave trade and the use of slaves in the plantation colonies. [Boeknr.: 36388 ]

€ 30,00

HEUL, Frank van der. Van kreeftskeerkring tot Kaap de Goede Hoop. Van 'spiegeltjes en kralen', piraten en slavernij tot de laatste reis van de Holland-Afrika Lijn. Haarlem, Hollandia, (2002). Wrappers. With plates. 272 pp. [Boeknr.: 29080 ]

€ 18,00

HEUVEL, Aad van den. Een verre moordenaar. Amsterdam, de Arbeiderspers, (1998). Wrappers. 229 pp. Crime novel about the diary of David van Nijendaal and the WIC and his visit to the Ashene people in West Africa.. [Boeknr.: 28842 ]

€ 18,00

HEUVEL, Aad van den. Willem Bosman in goud en slaven. Een reisverslag naar aanleiding van dagboeknotities. Amsterdam, Meulenhoff, (1981). 8vo. Boards. With many illustrations (some in colours). 160 pp. Willem Bosman (1672 - ?), employee of the Dutch West India Company (WIC) and chief Dutch factor at the castle of Elmina, wrote the first authoritative and detailed account of the West Coast of Africa, during a 14 years' residence there. It is the chief source for the knowledge of the Dutch slave-trade during the second half of the 17th century. [Boeknr.: 6579 ]

€ 18,00

HEYN, Piet. De Westafrikaanse reis van Piet Heyn 1624-1625. Uitgegeven door K. Ratelband. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1959. Cloth. With portrait, map and 2 facsimiles. CV,79 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging LXI. - Piet Heyn firmly established the WIC's position on the African coast. [Boeknr.: 262 ]

€ 35,00

ISERT, Paul Erdmann. Reis na Guinea en de Caribische eilanden in Columbien. Uit het Hoogduitsch. Dordrecht, De Leeuw en Kraf, 1790.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt (top of spine sl. dam.). With 2 engraved plates. VIII,418 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in Copenhagen in 1788 Reise nach Guinea und den Caribäischen Inseln in Colombien. - In twelve letters Paul Erdmann Isert (1756-1789), describes his voyage from Copenhagen to the Gold Coast and gives an account of the Danish settlements and considerable details of the customs of the natives. In 1786, he describes the voyage from Africa to the Danish West Indies with a cargo of 452 blacks who rose against the whites on the second day at sea, with a resulting loss of 34 of their number and 2 of the crew wounded after a heated battle. He gives good descrptions of St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. John, Guadeloupe and Martinique. The complete round trip took four years. The book is a source work and, because of being one of the few accounts of a person actually making the Guinea voyage and because of the sensational nature of its contents, it has been heavily drawn on by writers on the slave traffic for nearly a century and a half (Ragatz p. 226). He was the first European explorer of Ashanti and is also known for his attempts to end the Danish-Norwegian slave trade. Cat. NHSM I, p.140 (later ed.); Cardinall 397; Sabin 35245; Cf. Gay 2812; Hough, The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection 405; Work p.11; Hogg 160; Not in Tiele. [Boeknr.: 27468 ]

€ 495,00

KAN, C.M. Nederland en de kust van Guinea. Utrecht, J.L. Beijers, 1871.Original printed wrappers. 57 pp. Treatise against the transfer of the Dutch West-Africa possession to Britain (realized in 1872). [Boeknr.: 15238 ]

€ 95,00

KERDIJK, Lodewijk. West-Afrika 1857/1858. Reisjournaal van Lodewijk Kerdijk. Ingeleid door A.F. Schepel. Schiedam, Interboek, 1978. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 30 plates. 228 pp. In his diary Lodewijk Kerdijk gives a vivid picture of the slave trade, naval officers who fought against the slave trade, and the Dutch and English factories who occupied fortresses on the Gold Coast. [Boeknr.: 14355 ]

€ 20,00

KERNKAMP, J.H. Johan van der Veken en zijn tijd. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, (1952). Wrappers. With 3 plates. 35 pp. Johan van der Veken ( 1549 - 1616) was a Rotterdam merchant in West Africa. [Boeknr.: 6830 ]

€ 15,00

KLOOSTER, Wim. Tussen honger en zwaard. Nederlands Atlantische rijk in de zeventiende eeuw. Leiden, University Press, 2018. Wrappers. With illustrations (some in colours). 341 pp. Dealing with the Dutch on the Gold Coast, Caribbean islands, North American east coast and Brazil. [Boeknr.: 35864 ]

€ 40,00

KOERT, Robert van. Afrikaanse Dutch Wax. Dutch wax design technology. Van Helmond naar West-Africa. Uniwax en GTP in postkoloniaal Ivoorkust en Ghana. (Helmond, 2007). 4to. Boards. With many coloured illustrations. 160 pp. On Dutch batiks made for West-Afrika. [Boeknr.: 30728 ]

€ 40,00

LAM, Jan Dircksz. Expeditie naar de Goudkust. Het journaal van Jan Dircksz Lam over de Nederlandse aanval op Elmina, 1624-1626. Ingeleid en bezorgd door Henk den Heijer. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2006. Cloth. With illustrations. 208 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging CV. - Eye-witness account of the defeat of the Dutch on the West African coast at the beginning of the 17th century. [Boeknr.: 29456 ]

€ 25,00

LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van. Itinerario .. Deel III: Beschryvinghe van de gantsche custe van Guinea, Manicongo, etc. volcht noch de beschryvinghe van West Indien. Uitgegeven door C.P. Burger en F.W.T. Hunger. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1934. Cloth (stained). With portrait and 3 folding maps. XXXIV,337 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging XXXIX. - Description of East and West Africa and America from Nova Francia (Canada) to Strait Magalhâes, taken from Bernardus Paludanus and others. [Boeknr.: 30809 ]

€ 25,00

PAESIE, Ruud. Geschiedenis van de MCC (Middelburgse Commercie Compagnie). Opkomst, bloei en ondergang. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2014. 4to. Picorial boards. With many coloured illustrations. 208 pp. Fine illustrated standard work on the Middelburgse Commercie Compagnie, founded in 1720. Especially known for the trans-Atlantic slavetrade. [Boeknr.: 33431 ]

€ 30,00

PAESIE, Ruud. Lorrendrayen op Africa. De illegale goederen- en slavenhandel op West-Afrika tijdens het achttiende-eeuwse handelsmonopolie van de West-Indische Compagnie, 1700-1734. Amsterdam, Bataafsche Leeuw, 2008. Boards. With many illustrations (some in colours). 428 pp. - (Thesis). [Boeknr.: 30795 ]

€ 35,00

PAESIE, Ruud. Slavenopstand op de Neptunus. Kroniek van een wanhoopsdaad. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2016. Boards. With plates (several in colours). 143 pp. Account of the shipwreck of the Dutch slave ship Neptunis off the coast in West Africa in 1785. [Boeknr.: 34182 ]

€ 20,00

PREVOST, Antoine François. Reizen langs de westkust van Afrika, van Kaap Blanko tot Sierra Leona: vervattende de Engelse bezittingen, en koophandel, op de riviere Gambra, met de aardrykskundige- en natuurkundige historie der nabuurige landen. - Reizen naar Guinee en Benin, vervattende de kust van Sierra-Leona, tot aan Kaap Gonsalvo. 's Gravenhage, Pieter de Hondt, 1748.2 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt in compartments (top of spines rep.). With title-pages printed in red and black, 12 engraved maps (6 folding) and 43 engraved plates (13 folding) by J. van Schley. 435,(5); (4),532,(6) pp. Historische beschryving der reizen, volume IV-V, enlarged and improved Dutch edition of the French series started by Antoine François Prévost d' Exiles (1697 - 1763), usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost. This volume covers a detailed description of West-Africa with accounts of the English and Dutch possessions on the coasts and their slave trade. With fine engravings. - (Some minor foxing).Tiele 103; Cat. NHSM I, p.108. [Boeknr.: 7817 ]

€ 950,00

RATELBAND, K. (Red.). Vijf dagregisters van het kasteel Sao Jorge da Mina (Elmina) aan de Goudkust (1645-1647). 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1953. Cloth. With plan, 3 maps, 7 plates and 7 facsimiles. CX,439 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging LV. - Provides insight into the daily routine at the castle of Sao George da Mina, headquarter of the Dutch West India Company in West Africa, during the years 1645-1647. [Boeknr.: 3728 ]

€ 45,00

RATELBAND, Klaas. Nederlanders in West-Afrika 1600-1650. Angola, Kongo en São Tomé. Bezorgd door René Baesjou. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2000. Wrappers. With illustrations. 319 pp. [Boeknr.: 15193 ]

€ 30,00

REINDERS FOLMER-van PROOIJEN, Corrie. Van goederenhandel naar slavenhandel. De Middelburgse Commercie Compagnie 1720-1755. Middelburg, Koninklijk Zeeuws Genootschap, 2000. Wrappers. With illustrations. 222 pp. [Boeknr.: 22056 ]

€ 30,00

RUGGENBERG, Rob. Slavenhaler. Amsterdam, Em. Querido, 2007. Boards. 304 pp. Juvenile on slave-trade. [Boeknr.: 30736 ]

€ 15,00

RUYTER, Michiel Adriaansz. de. De reis van Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruyter in 1664-1665. Uitgegeven door P. Verhoog en L. Koelmans. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1961. Cloth. With 8 plates and 9 maps. XVIII,364 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging LXII. - De Ruyter visited West-Africa and the Caribbean. [Boeknr.: 3729 ]

€ 40,00

VEER, Paul van 't. Daendels, maarschalk van Holland. Zeist, W. de Haan, 1963. Wrappers. With plates. 221 pp. Herman Willem Daendels (1762 - 1818) was a Dutch revolutionary, military leader, and statesman. He was 36th Governor General of the Dutch East Indies, a position he held from 1808 to 1811. [Boeknr.: 34717 ]

€ 15,00

WERUMÉUS BUNING, A. De Ruijter's Afrikaansche reis. Een vergeten bladzijde uit het leven van onze grooten zeeheld. Aan het volk verteld. Rotterdam., D. Bolle, (1905).Original decorated cloth (sl. soiled). With portrait. 168 pp. De Ruijter's journey to West Africa and the West Indies, 1664-1665. [Boeknr.: 27340 ]

€ 35,00

ZEE, Henri van der. 's Heeren slaaf. Het dramatische leven van Jacobus Capitein (1717-1747). (Amsterdam), Balans, 2000. Wrappers. With portrait. 176 pp. Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein (ca. 1717 - 1747) was a Dutch Christian minister of Ghanaian birth who was one of the first known sub-Saharan Africans to study at a European university and one of the first Africans to be ordained as a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church. He is credited with spreading the use of the written word in his native Ghana. Though a former slave, Capitein wrote a dissertation defending the right of Christians to keep slaves. [Boeknr.: 2815 ]

€ 18,00

ZUIDHOEK, Arne. De mooiste schepen van De Holland West-Afrika Lijn. Zaltbommel, Aprilis, 2006. Boards. With 150 photographic plates. 124 pp. [Boeknr.: 29065 ]

€ 20,00

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