Search Results: Titles starting with O from Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books

Lisboa, 1998. Wrappers. 483 pp.

's Gravenhage, Jacobus Scheltus, 1743.4to. Misbound (with dog's ears). With woodcut coat of arms on title-page. 47 pp.Compilation of all charters of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), starting with the original charter of 1602 followed by all prolongations up until 1754. The charter, granted by the States General, meant that the VOC was the only organization from the Dutch Republic allowed to trade in this region. - (Age-browned).Landwehr, VOC, 19.

History Research Society of the Tappan Zee, 1926. Wrappers. With folding plan and some illustrations. 87 pp. 'One of the earliest, perhaps the first, dwelling set up in this vicnity was that of Wolfert Ecker, or Acker, immortalized by Irving under the facetious title of 'Wolfert's Roost'.

Nyack, 1983. Wrappers. With folding plan, illustrations and advertisements. 56,(42) pp. First published in 1928. Before 1883 Nyack had been governed by Orangetown.

(No pl., n.d.). Wrappers. 8 pp.Draft for the release of the slaves.

Rotterdam, H. Nijgh, 1857.Original printed wrappers. 48 pp.Brochure focused on the printing-press in the Dutch East Indies. - Cat. KITLV p. 726.

Tilburg, Henri Bergmans, (1950). 4to. Decorated cloth (spine discoloured). With many illustrations. 512 pp.

Weltevreden, 1921. 4to. (16),6 pp.

Londres, Société Typographique, 1784.Sm.8vo. Contemporary boards. 219,(6) pp.'Lacombe asserted that if the war continued three years longer, there would be left only soldiers, beggars, and thieves. London was full of robbers and footpads, with whom the drivers of coaches were in collusion. .. Englishmen attached themselves to no one, because they considered strangers enemies, whom they dared not openly offend, though their treatment of foreigners was fair enough. The English character had deteriorated since 1756' (Cox III, p.95/96).

Helmond, Palladium Publishers, 1992. 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many coloured illustrations. 144 pp.

Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1902.Original pictorial cloth. With 4 folding maps and 14 photographic plates. 309 pp.First edition. - During the year 1898 the author was employed, under the direction of the Nicaragua Canal Commission, in surveying the belt of country available for canal construction between Lake Nicaragua and the Pacific ocean (Preface).

Amsterdam, KIT, 2011. 4to. Boards. With many illustrations (several in colours). 216 pp. The origins, increase and composition of the collection at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam are described.

Baarn, Bosch & Keining, 1990. 4to. Wrappers. With many photographic illustrations. 191 pp.

Zwolle, W.E.J. Tjeenk Willink, 1931. Half cloth. 103 pp.Uhlenbeck p.75: elementary manual. - Interleaved copy.

Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1925 - 1935.4to. 25 volumes + 3 portfolios with Suite des épreuves sur Chine. Original half morocco, marbled boards, spines ribbed, uncut, top edges gilt (spines evenly discoloured brown). With plates and illustrations.One of 1500 numbered copies in Arabic; with the 3 volumes of the extra suites of the illustrations, published under the supervision of H. Barthelemy, bound separately. - The definitive collected edition of Anatole France (1844-1924), a French poet, journalist, and novelist, including all hitherto unpublished texts, edited by Gerard Le Prat. The artists contributing to this edition are Belot, Carlègle, Caillaud, Colin, Dethomas, Dufour, Edy Legrand, Hermann-Paul, Latour, Le Breton, G. Leroux, Saleido, Marty, Mirande, Naudin, Prinet, and Roubille. Contents: Alfred de Vigny, etude. Poesies: Les Poemes dores, Idylles et legendes, Les noces corinthiennes; Jocaste et le chat maigre. Le crime de Sylvestre Bonnard, membre de l'Institut; Les desirs de Jean Servien. Le… Read More

Geneve, J.L. Pellet, 1784.4 volumes. Old wrappers, uncut.Vol. I: L'Histoire du stadhoudérat, II: L'Histoire du parlement d'Angleterre, III-IV: Mémoires politiques.Guillaume-Thomas Raynal, abbé de Raynal, (1713 - 1796), French writer and propagandist who helped set the intellectual climate for the French Revolution. His most important work was the Histoire des deux Indes (1770) a six-volume history of the European colonies in India and America.

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius II, 1616.Engraved bird's eye view of Budapest, contemporary coloured by hand. Ca. 14 x 18,5 cm.From: Tabularum Geographicarum contractarum libri septem. - Beautiful view of Budapest, based on the work of Jacob Hoefnagels, publishshed by Braun & Hogenberg (1572 and later).

Batavia, De Unie, 1939. Folio. Decorated cloth. With many photographic illustrations and advertisments. 321 pp.The issue of the KPM Yearbook is intended to give a general survey of the ports touched by KPM Lines and the hinterland they govern in the Dutch East Indies, Africa, Australia, New Zealnd, Philippine Islands, China, Siam, and the Straits settlementsI.

New York, Davies & Kent, 1859.Original printed wrappers with handsome decorative border. 176 pp.First edition. - The largest meeting ever held in New York in favor of the Constitution and the Union. - (Some blank corners dam.).

Amsterdam, Rotterdam, 1869.Official printed announcement in which Daendels asks to entrust consignment of his ships, signed by J. Daendels.