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WALLACH, Janet. Koningin van de woestijn. Gertrude Bell, raadgever van koningen, avonturier, bondgenoot van Lawrence of Arabia. Amsterdam, Anthos, 1997. Wrappers. With photographic plates. 527 pp. Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (1868 - 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist who explored, mapped, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making due to her knowledge and contacts, built up through extensive travels in Syria-Palestine, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Arabia. [Boeknr.: 21688 ]

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WALRAVEN, Willem. Brieven. Aan familie en vrienden 1919-1941. Biografische inleiding van F. Schamhardt. 2e vermeerderde druk. Amsterdam, G.A. van Oorschot, 1992. Cloth, with dust-jacket. 948 pp. [Boeknr.: 11412 ]

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WEBER-VAN BOSSE, A(nna). Een jaar aan boord H.M. Siboga. 2e druk. Leiden, E.J. Brill, (1904).Original printed wrappers (spine sl. dam.). With folding map, 26 photographic plates and 40 illustrations. XI,335 pp. The author accompanied her husband Max Weber on a scientific sea-expedition in the Indonesian Archipelago during one year, 1899 -1900.Buur, Persoonlijke documenten, 629. [Boeknr.: 20086 ]

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WEISSENBORN, Thilly. Vastgelegd voor later. Indische foto's (1917-1942). Verzameld door Ernst Drissen. Met een voorwoord van Olaf J. de Landell. Amsterdam, Sijthoff, (1983). 4to. Wrappers. With numerous photographic plates. 151 pp. Margarethe Mathilde (Thilly) Weissenborn (1889 - 1964) was a Dutch photographer. She is the first female professional photographer in the Dutch East Indies. She was born in East Java, where her German-Dutch parents had a coffee plantation. From 1893 she grew up in The Hague. In 1913 she returned to Java where she joined Atelier Kurkdjian. In 1917, the photographer became head of Atelier Lux, a photo studio in Garoet in East Java. In 1920 Thilly Weissenborn became owner of the Lux workshop. [Boeknr.: 7469 ]

€ 35,00

WENNEKES,Wim. Gouden handel. De eerste Nederlanders overzee, en wat zij daar haalden. Amsterdam, Atlas, (1996). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. 472 pp. [Boeknr.: 14882 ]

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WERD, G. de. (Hrsg.). Soweit der Erdkreis reicht. Johann Moritz von Nassau-Siegen 1604-1679. Kleve, Städtisches Museum Haus Koekkoek, 1979. Folio. Wrappers. With 12 coloured plates, and numerous illustrations. 428 pp. Fine illustrated catalogue on Johan Maurits the Brazilian, sent out by the Dutch West India Company to become Governor of Dutch Brasil (1637-1644). [Boeknr.: 6571 ]

€ 40,00

WIJNAENDTS VAN RESANDT, W. De gezaghebbers der Oost-Indische Compagnie op hare Buiten-Comptoiren in Azië. Amsterdam, Liebaert, 1944. Half cloth. With folding map. 316 pp. Genealogische Bibliotheek. - Short biographies of the men at the head of the most important Company offices outside the Indonesian archipelago. [Boeknr.: 6213 ]

€ 65,00

WILLINK, Robert Joost. The fateful journey. The expedition of Alexine Tinne and Theodor von Heuglin in Sudan (1863-1864). Amsterdam, University Press, 2011. 8vo. Wrappers. With many illustrations (several in colours). 456 pp. This compelling, richly illustrated study recounts the last African journeys of the intrepid Dutch traveller Alexine Tinne (1835-1869). [Boeknr.: 33056 ]

€ 75,00

WINCKEL, L.F.A. De militaire loopbaan van den luitenant-generaal Karel van der Heyden. Utrecht, H. Honig, (1896). Original cloth (corner front cover dam.). With portrait in photogravure. 179,IX pp. The military career of Karel van der Heyden (1826 - 1900). He participated in military operations on Bali, Borneo and Aceh (Sumatra). He became Governor of Aceh and received the Militaire Willems-Orde. In 1887 he became commander of the Royal Colonial Military Invalids House in Bronbeek.Cat. KITLV p.245. [Boeknr.: 10556 ]

€ 95,00

WIRKUS, Faustin & Taney DUDLEY. De blanke negerkoning. Hoe een Amerikaansche sergeant der mariniers op het eiland La Gonave tot koning werd gekroond. Met een voorrede van William B. Seabrook. Vertaald door J.L.J.F. Ezerman. 's Gravenhage, J.Philip Kruseman, (ca. 1931). Original cloth. With map and photographic plates. 304 pp. First publishd in English in 1931: The White King of La Gonave: The true story of the sergeant of marines who was crowned king on a Voodoo island. - Faustin Edmond Wirkus (1896 - 1945), was a Polish-American U.S. Marine stationed in Haiti during the United States occupation of Haiti (1915-1934). He was reputedly crowned Faustin II, King of La Gonâve, a Haitian island west of Hispaniola, on 18 July 1926, and ruled until he was transferred by the United States Marine Corps to the United States mainland in 1929. [Boeknr.: 31764 ]

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WITTEVEEN, Menno. Antonio van Diemen. De opkomst van de VOC in Azië. Amsterdam, Pallas Publications, 2011. Wrappers. With coloured illustrations. 402 pp. Thesis. - Van Diemen's nine years as Governor-General were successful and important for both the colony and the commercial success of the Dutch East India Company. He devoted much of his energy to expanding the power of the company throughout South-East Asia. Under his rule Dutch power was established in Ceylon. Van Diemen is best remembered for his efforts to foster exploration of the "Great South Land", Australia. [Boeknr.: 32507 ]

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WRIGHT, Irene A. (Red). Nederlandsche zeevaarders op de eilanden in de Caraïbische zee en aan de kust van Colombia en Venezuela gedurende de jaren 1621-1648 (9). Documenten hoofdzaakelijk uit het Archivo General de Indias te Sevilla. Met vertaling der documenten door C.F.A. van Dam. Utrecht, Kemink en Zoon, 1934-35. 2 volumes. Modern half cloth. With plates. 256,434; 168,272 pp. - (Historisch Genootschap). [Boeknr.: 6542 ]

€ 95,00

YOUNG, George. Het leven en de reizen van Kapitein James Cook, beschreven naar naauwkeurige berigten in zijne dagboeken en andere bescheiden voorhanden. Uit het Engelsch. Utrecht, C. van der Post, 1854.2 volumes in 1. Original illustrated cloth (sl. soiled;1 hinge sl. dam.). With 2 tinted lithographed title-pages by P.W.M. Trap, portrait of Cook and 4 lithographed plates (map missing). X,VI,306; (2),246,(1) pp. First published in London in 1836 The life and voyages of Captain James Cook; drawn up from his journals and other authentic documents. - The life and voyages of the English navigator and hydrographer Captain James Cook (1728-79). His travels had led to a variety of scientific knowledge in navigation and natural history. - (Some staining).Beddie 2023. [Boeknr.: 31681 ]

€ 95,00

ZIJLMANS, G.C. Eindstrijd en ondergang van de Indische bestuursdienst. Het corps binnenlands bestuur op Java 1945-1950. (Amsterdam), De Bataafsche Leeuw, (1985). Boards, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. 374 pp. - (Thesis). [Boeknr.: 5368 ]

€ 30,00

ZWART, J. A.J. Duymaer van Twist. Een historisch-liberaal staatsman. 1809-1887. Utrecht, Oosthoek's Uitgevers Maatschappij, 1939. Wrappers. With portrait. (4),408 pp. Utrechtsche Bijdragen. - Albertus Jacobus Duymaer van Twist (1809 - 1887) was the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1851 to 1856. [Boeknr.: 2439 ]

€ 45,00

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