Arrest du Conseil d'Estat du Roy du 12 Avril 1723, portant reglement pour l'entrée dans le royaume des etains de Siam, provenans de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales de Hollande. by SIAM & THE DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY

Amsterdam, Petrus Conradi, 1771.20th century cloth. Woodcut vignette on titel-page. 132 pp.Dutch translation of: Naufrage et aventures de Pierre Viaud, natif de Bordeaux, capitaine de navire, histoire véritable. Bordeaux 1768. - This book tells the extraordinary story of a French seaman who sailed from Bordeaux in February 1765 as mate in the Aimable Suzette, Captain St. Crie, bound for the West Indies. Forced by illness to remain on the small island of St. Louis, off the coast of Saint-Domingue (Haiti), Viaud enters into a partnership with a Haitian resident, monsieur Desclau, to trade goods to Louisiana. They hire a vessel, the Tigre, Captain La Couture, and sail with sixteen passengers and crew on 2 January 1766. During the voyage the ship springs a leak, and on 16 February 1766 runs aground and breaks up on an island off the coast of Florida. Viaud's account of his adventures somehow fell into the hands of the French scholar Jean Gaspard Dubois-Fontanelle who published it at Bordeaux in 1768.… Read More

Paris, H.J. Jansen et Comp., l'an 3 (1795).3 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary half calf (extremities of spines sl. dam.; hinges cracked but holding). With 22 engraved plates (several folding). XLIV,304; 426; 525,(2) pp.First French edition. - Le Vaillant was born at Paramaribo in Dutch Guiana in 1753, and after being educated in Holland, France, and Germany, proceeded to Paris where he studied the natural history collections, and, full of enthusiasm and ambition, decided to travel into the interior of Africa in order to further his opportunities of gaining information by observing the specimens in their native countries. Making the acquaintance of Mr. Temminck, the Treasurer of the Dutch East India Company, he was enabled to proceed to the Cape in one of the Company's ships called the Held-Woltemaade. During his second excursion (1783 - 1784, he traversed the countries now known as British and German Namaqualand, Damaraland, parts of Bechuanaland, and the Kalahari desert. Later travellers threw doubts on… Read More

Paris, Daumont, (ca.1760).Contemporary handcoloured perspective view (vue d'optique or Guckkastenbild) depicting a view of the village of Yang-ka in Cochin, with legend in Latin and French. Ca.28,5 x 39 cm.Handsome optical harbour view of a village with figures and canal with sailing-ships in Vietnam.

's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1913-1928.15 volumes & Register en bibliografie (1929) & Supplement (1936), together 17 volumes. Original blue cloth and wrappers.Hendrik Kern (1833-1917), a Dutch linguist and Orientalist, is regarded as one of the founding fathers of Oriental studies in the Netherlands. He displayed an extraordinary ability to study, and to master, a wide variety of languages: European, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Malayan, etc. He laid the foundation for Austronesian studies. It is as a comparativist and a philologist that he gained his great reputation. His interests were not restricted to pure linguistics.

London, William Shoberl, 1849.2 volumes. Original embossed red cloth, spines later half morocco, lettered in gilt. With engraved frontispiece view of Cape Town, 2 portraits and 6 woodengravings. XXX,359; IV,456 pp.First edition; with bookplate of I. & F.W. Hosken. - An account of the Cape Colony from the earliest period of settlement down to the Kaffir War of 1876-7. The work is a critique of the British Government in the Cape and the original draft was, according to the author, rejected by several publishers on the grounds that it was too outspoken on the failures of its subject (Mendelssohn II, p.75). An expose of misgovernment at the Cape by the incumbent governor and this made publication of the work very difficult. An uncommon work.- Added an autograph letter by Napier. - Fine.SAB III, p.429.

Gent, W. vander Schelden, 1849.Later half red morocco, spine ribbed. With lithographed frontispiece and title-page, 3 folding maps and 14 lithographed plates. 423 pp.First Dutch edition; first published in Gent in 1848 Missions de l'Orégon et voyages aux Montagnes Rocheuses aux sources de la Colombie, de l' Athabasca et du Sascatshawin. - The Belgian Jesuit priest Pierre-Jean De Smet (1801-73) wrote this work, which was published in French, English and Dutch Flemish, to raise funds for his missionary work among the Indians of the Pacific Northwest. Travels through and about the central Columbia River plateau, the Athabasca River, the country of the Assiniboines, and the Missouri River. With accounts of the manners and customs of the North American Indians, together with exquisite descriptions of the scenery. - (Age-browned).Tiele 1009; Sabin 82264; Wagner-Camp 141:4; Howes D286.

Amsterdam, Henry & Theodore Boom, 1677.2 volumes in 1. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. With engraved title-page, portrait and 2 engraved title-vignettes. (18), 480; 250 pp.First edition; with the bookplate of H. de la Fontaine Verwey. - First monograph on the great Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruiter (1607-1676) who fought the English and French and scored several major victories against them, the best known probably being the Raid on the Medway. This monograph was based on the first biography of De Ruyter written by Lambertus van den Bosch in his Leeven en daden der doorluchtighste zeehelden (Amsterdam 1676). The book by Pielat was published after De Ruiter was given an elaborate state funeral, the publishing date of his book must be around 1681 but it was issued before the famous biography of Gerard Brandt. It also contains the account of De Ruiter's expedition to the West Indies.- (Light staining). - Rare.Not in Cat. NHSM; European Americana IV, p.32.

Utrecht, Kemink & Zoon, 1884-93.3 volumes. Original cloth, spines lettered in gilt. With photograph portrait. XII,605; XII,621; XI,755 pp.Werken Historisch Genootschap. - First printing of Jan van Riebeecks (1618-1677) diary. He was founder and first commander for the Dutch East India Company (VOC) of the Cape of Good Hope. For many years it was the main source of information for anyone studying Van Riebeeck and his time at the Cape. - A fine set.

Amsterdam, Clemendt de Jonghe, (ca. 1675.).Engraved half length portrait with baton and naval battles on both sides and 8 line poem in two columns by I. Koerding, after Hendrick Berckman by Abraham Blotelingh. Ca. 44 x 34,5 cm.Jan Evertsen (1600 -1666) was the most important admiral from the heroic Evertsen dynasty from Zealand, all his five sons were named lieutenants by the Admiralty of Zeeland. - Fine.Muller, Portretten, 1593e; See Roos, Het admiralengeslacht Evertsen.

's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1913-1928.15 volumes & Register en bibliografie (1929) & Supplement (1936), together 17 volumes. Original blue cloth and wrappers.Hendrik Kern (1833-1917), a Dutch linguist and Orientalist, is regarded as one of the founding fathers of Oriental studies in the Netherlands. He displayed an extraordinary ability to study, and to master, a wide variety of languages: European, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Malayan, etc. He laid the foundation for Austronesian studies. It is as a comparativist and a philologist that he gained his great reputation. His interests were not restricted to pure linguistics.