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WILMERDING, John. Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane. With contributions by Elizabeth Garrity Ellis, Franklin Kelly, Earl A. Powell, III, Erik A.R. Ronnberg. Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1988. 4to. Wrappers. With many illustrations and plates (mostly in colours). 163 pp. Fitz Henry Lane (born Nathaniel Rogers Lane, also known as Fitz Hugh Lane) (1804 - 1865) was an American marine painter and printmaker. [Boeknr.: 35472 ]

€ 40,00

WITSEN, Nicolaes. Aeloude en hedendaegsche scheeps-bouw en bestier: waer in wijtlopigh wert verhandelt, de wijze van scheeps-timmeren, by Grieken en Romeynen: scheeps-oeffeningen, strijden, tucht, straffe, wetten en gewoonten. Beneffens evenmatige grootheden van schepen onses tijts, ontleent in alle hare deelen: verschil van bouwen tusschen uitheemschen en onzen landaert: Indisch vaertuygh: galey-bouw: hedendaegsche scheeps-plichten: verrijckt met een reex verklaerde zee-mans spreeck-woorden en benamingen. Amsterdam 1671. Reprint. Alphen aan den Rijn, Canaletto, 1979. 4to. Leather, spine gilt. With title-page printed in red and black, frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe and 114 plates. (16),516, 40,(4) pp. First published in Amsterdam by Casparus Commelijn, Broer en Jan Appelaer in 1671 - The first scientific book on shipbuilding published in the Netherlands, giving in details the construction of the ships and the building from the earliest times all over the world, for merchants- and war-ships. Written by a Nicolaes Witsen (1641-1717), a Dutch diplomat, cartographer, burgomaster of Amsterdam and director of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). - A fine copy. [Boeknr.: 37020 ]

€ 95,00

WOOD, Thomas. Cobbers. A personal record of a journey from Essex, in England, to Australia, Tasmania and some of the reefs and islands in the Coral Sea, made in the years 1930, 1931, and 1932. London, Oxford University Press, (1936). Cloth. With plates. XIII,256 pp. [Boeknr.: 19264 ]

€ 20,00

WORGAN, George B. Journal of a First Fleet surgeon. (1788). Sydney, The Library Council of New South Wales, 1978. Cloth. XIII,71 pp. [Boeknr.: 26329 ]

€ 18,00

YK, Cornelis van. De Nederlandsche scheepsbouw-konst open gestelt. Vertoonende naar wat regel; of evenredenheyd, in Nederland meest alle scheepen werden gebouwd; mitsgaders masten, zeylen, ankers, en touwen, enz. daar aan gepast. Delft, Andries Voorstad, 1697. Facsimile edition. Rotterdam, Langerveld, (1970). Folio. Cloth. With With frontispiece and 21 plates (13 double-page) by and after Jan and Caspar Luyken. (14),354,(8) pp. The first book in Dutch on practical shipbuilding, a very important source for the history of the construction and equipment of Dutch ships in the seventeenth century. A great 17th century Dutch book on ship-building, written by a man of practice. [Boeknr.: 26566 ]

€ 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 ]