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Anti-Spanish pamphlet on the VOC that threatened to undermine peace negotiations,
banned by the Dutch in the year of publication

[USSELINCX, Willem?]. Discours by forme van remonstrantie: vervatende de noodsaeckelickheyd vande Oos-Indische[!] navigatie.
[Amsterdam?], 1608. Small 4to. 20th-century half brown sheepskin, marbled sides. [14] pp. Full description

€ 2,250

Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Southeast Asia Spain VOC WIC

Very early European eyewitness description of India, confirming Marco Polo’s statements

VARTHEMA, Ludivico di. The Navigation and v[o]yages of Lewes Vertomannus, Gentelman of the citie of Rome, to the regions of Arabia, Egypte, Persia, Syria, Ethiopia, and East India, both within and without the ryver of Ganges, etc. In the yeere of our Lorde 1503. Conteynyng many notable and straunge thinges, both hystoricall and naturall. Translated out of Latine into Engylshe, by Richarde Eden.
London, Richard Jugge, 1577. 4to. With historiated woodcut initials. Splendid modern full navy blue morocco, bands on spine with title showing faded gilt, covers double-ruled gilt. [10], 466, [6] ll. Full description

€ 265,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Arctic & Antarctic Imaginary Voyages & Utopias India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Iran / Persia Islamic Art, Culture & Science Religion (16th Century) Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia USA - United States of America

An English edition of the first account of a European travelling through the Middle East,
visiting Mecca and Medina, to Persia, India, and the East Indies

VARTHEMA, Ludovico di. [transl. John Winter JONES, ed. Norman Mosley PENZER] The itinerary of Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna from 1502 to 1508 as translated from the original Italian edition of 1510, by John Winter Jones, F.S.A. in 1863 for the Hakluyt Society with a discourse on Varthema and his travels in Southern Asia by Sir Richard Carnac Temple [...].
London, The Argonaut Press, 1928. 4to. With 5 maps, the facsimile text of the title-page and colophon of the original 1510 book of Di Varthema, 1 plate, and a small blue illustration (similar to the blind-tooled image on the front board) on the title-page. Half white and half blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. LXXXV, [1 blank], 121, [3] pp. Full description

€ 500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States India & Sri Lanka Iran / Persia Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia

The Rodney Davidson copy of an incredibly rare Australiana publication about De Vlamingh's voyage to Australia in 1696-97

[VLAMINGH, Willem de (subject); Mandrop TORST (attributed)]. Journaal wegens een voyagie, gedaan op order der Hollandsche Oost-Indische Maatschappy in de jaaren 1696 en 1697 ...
Amsterdam, Willem de Coup, Willem Lamsvelt, Philip Verbeek, and Jan Lamsvelt, 1701. Small 4to. With a small woodcut vignette on the title page and one woodcut decorated initial at the start of the text. 18th-century marbled wrappers, later endpapers, kept in a gold-tooled quarter blue morocco and blue cloth custom box, with the title lettered in gold on the spine. 24 pp. Full description

€ 550,000

Australia Travel & Voyages Australia Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia VOC

The ill-fated voyages of two East Indiamen

€ 2,250

Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia VOC

Two East Indiamen, including a Dutch VOC-ship, defeated by fate

[VOC - SHIPWRECK & PIRACY]. Twee-rampspoedige zee-reyzen, den enen ... met een Fransch Oost Indiesch Compagnie-schip, genaamt Le Prince, ... Den anderen, met het Hollandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie schip, genaamt Rustenwerk, ...
Amsterdam, Bernardus Mourik, [1752 or soon after]. 4to. With 2 etched plates, the publisher's woodcut BM cypher monogram on the title-page, a woodcut tailpiece and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Boards covered with modern pink decorated paperl. [2], 37, [1] pp. Full description

€ 1,500

India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Southeast Asia VOC

History of India, Ceylon and Southeast Asia in the years 1805-1835

WILSON, Horace Hayman. The history of British India. From 1805 to 1835.
London, James Madden and co. (back of title-page: printed by S. & J. Bentley, Wilson and Fley), 1845-1848. 3 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary blind-blocked cloth. XV, [1 blank], 608; XVI, 611, [1 blank]; XVI, 592, 70, [2], 24 pp. Full description

€ 750

Ceylon Economic History & Trade India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Law & Politics Southeast Asia

A British pilot’s logbook, detailing his service in Egypt and Jordan during World War II, together with 5 WWII medals

[WWII - RAF - PILOT'S LOG BOOK]. HELM, Robert French. Royal Air Force. Pilot's flying log book.
[British empire, Royal Air Force, 1938-1955].
With: [WWII MEDALS]. The 1939-1945 Star; The Africa Star; The Burma Star; The Defence Medal 1939-1945; The War Medal 1939-1945.
1 volume and 5 medals. Ca. 22 x 20 cm. With 5 assessment forms mounted on the leaves. Contemporary blueish-grey cloth with the title and manuscript name on the front board, red sprinkled edges. [74] ll. Full description

€ 4,500

Ceylon Egypt India & Sri Lanka Logbooks Military History (20th Century) North Africa UK - United Kingdom

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