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BÖHME, Max. Die grossen Reisesammlungen des 16. Jahrhunderts und ihre Bedeutung. (Strassburg, 1904). Nachdruck. Amsterdam, Meridian Publishing Co., 1968. Wrappers. With 13 illustrations. 165 pp. [Boeknr.: 9465 ]

€ 25,00

BOXER, Charles Ralph. Francisco Vieira de Figueiredo: a Portuguese merchant-adventurer in South East Asia, 1624-1667. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1967. Wrappers. With 3 plates. 117 pp. - (V.K.I.). [Boeknr.: 10659 ]

€ 18,00

BOXER, Charles Ralph. A India Portuguesa em meados do séc. XVII. (Lisboa, 1980). Wrappers. With maps. 79 pp. [Boeknr.: 30584 ]

€ 35,00

BRANDT, Gerard. Het leven en bedryf van Michiel de Ruiter. Op nieuw uitgegeven door E.M. Engelberts. Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1794-1797.5 volumes. Original marbled boards (sl. dam.). With engraved portrait, engraving depicting tomb and folding plate of the funeral, and 5 (of 6) folding plates depicting naval battles scenes in Sicily. Nijborg, Algiers, Kijkduin and Plymouth (missing Rochester - Chatham). First published in folio in 1687. - Biography of one of the most famous admirals in Dutch history, Michiel Adriaenszn. de Ruyter (1607-1676), also of great interest for Dutch political and economic history. Dealing with the early voyages to Jan Mayen Island (whaling), Morocco (Barbary Coast), during this time his esteem grew among other Dutch captains as he would regularly free Christian slaves by redeeming them at his own expense, and the Baltic: he managed to liberate Nyborg in 1659, for this he was knighted by the Danish king Frederick III of Denmark. After he recaptured Guinea on the English in 1664 he crossed the Atlantic to raid the English colonies in America. Visited the Caribbean islands, delivered supplies to the Dutch colony of St. Eustatius, and was engaged in Spanish-Dutch sea-fights and conquests. Giving the damage he had sustained at a certain moment he decided against an assault on New York to retake New-Netherland. He fought the English in the first three Anglo-Dutch Wars. His most famous exploit was against the English fleet: the Raid on the Medway in 1667. He sailed up the Thames to Chatham and burned three ships and captured the English flagship HMS Royal Charles, which he took with him back to Holland. It was a costly and embarrassing defeat for the English. On 18 March 1678 De Ruyter was given a state funeral when his body was buried in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. He was succeeded as supreme commander by Cornelis Tromp in 1679. De Ruyters' flagship De Zeven Provinciën is being rebuilt in the Dutch town Lelystad. - (Some marginal staining).Cat. NHSM II, p.44; Sabin 7405; CF. European Americana IV p.168. [Boeknr.: 37459 ]

€ 275,00

BURROWS, E.H. Captain Owen of the African Survey. The hydrographic surveys of admiral W.F.W. Owen on the coast of Africa and the Great Lakes of Canada. His fight against the African slave trade. His life in Campobello Land, New Brunswick 1774-1857. Rotterdam, A.A. Balkema, 1979. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. VIII,248 pp. [Boeknr.: 29306 ]

€ 30,00

BUYS, M(arius). Uit alle werelddeelen. Merkwaardige ontdekkingen, avonturen te land en ter zee, tafereelen uit het leven der natuur en der volken, enz. Leiden, D. Noothoven van Goor, (1878).Original decorated cloth. With 6 plates (3 chromolithographs by Emrik & Binger depicting Faroe Islands, London and the English Channel). 533,(3) pp. From all parts of the world. Remarkable discoveries, adventures on land and at sea, scenes from the life of nature and peoples, etc. [Boeknr.: 31972 ]