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Fine view of Paramaribo

[VIEW - SURINAM]. SCHLEY, Jacob van der. Gezicht van de stad Paramaribo en het Fort Zelandia in Suriname.
[Amsterdam, 1770]. Engraved view (21.5 x 36 cm), with caption below the image. Full description

€ 450

City Plans, Topography & Views Fortification & Military Architecture Prints & Print Series South America Surinam

Rare German translation of Speelman's expedition against the Kingdom of Makassar

[SPEELMAN, Cornelis Janszoon]. Journal, oder kurtze Erzehlung des Anfangs, Fort- und Aussgangs des Krieges, welcher zwischen dem König und mehrerer Regierunge des Reichs Macassar und der Oost-Indischen Compagnie der Vereinigten Niederlanden in den Jahren 1666, 1668 und 1669 geführet worden.
Hamburg, Gottfried Schulken, 1670. 4to. Disbound, preserving the original endpapers. [18] ll. Full description

€ 3,250

Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Military History (17th Century) Netherlands Southeast Asia VOC

A bestseller of illustrated 17th-century travel literature, probably printed by Izaak Elzevier

SPILBERGEN, Joris van and Jacob Le MAIRE. Miroir Oost & West-Indical, auquel sont descriptes les deux dernieres navigations, faictes es années 1614. 1615. 1616. 1617. & 1618.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius [printed by Izaak Elzevier?], 1621. Oblong 4to (17.5 x 23 cm). With 24 (of 25) engraved plates, including 5 double-page and 10 larger folding. Modern vellum. [4], 172 pp. Full description

€ 16,500

Book History, Printing & Typography Brazil Charts & Maps City Plans, Topography & Views Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Latin America Navigation Peru South America Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages South America Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia VOC

Colourful account of a shipwreck near Mauritius

STOKRAM, Andries. Korte beschryvinghe van de ongeluckige weer-om-reys van het schip Aernhem, nevens noch zes andere schepen, onder't gebiedt van den heer Arnout de Vlaming van Outshoorn, van Batavia na het vaderlandt afgevaren, op den 23. december 1661. van welcke gemelte schepen noch drie vermist worden.
Amsterdam, Jacob Venckel, 1663. Small 4to (19.5 x 16 cm). Modern marbled wrappers. 16 pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Dutch Literature Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks VOC

Regulations for maritime trade

TJASSENS, Johan. Zee-politie der Vereenichde Nederlanden verthoont in een tafel, ende twee kleyne boecken ... Waer achter ghevoecht zijn eenighe saecken tot onderrechtinge en kennisse tot de politie dienende.
The Hague, Johan Veely, 1652. 4to. Contemporary vellum. [36], 276 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Fishery & Whaling History / 17th Century Law & Politics VOC WIC

Description of Gujarat (Northwest India) by the director of the VOC

TWIST, Johan van. Generale beschrijvinghe van Indien. Ende in 't besonder kort verhaal van de regering, ceremonien, handel, vruchten en geleghentheydt van 't Koninckrijck van Gusuratten, staende onder de beheerschinghe van den Groot-Machtighen Koninck Cajahan: anders genaemt den grooten Mogor ... Hier achter is by-gevoeght de aenwijsinge van meest alle kusten, drooghten ende reeden, om door gantsch Indien te zeylen.
Amsterdam, for Joost Hartgers, 1648. 4to. With woodcut printer's device on the title-page. 19th-century marbled wrappers. [1], [1 blank], 94 pp. Full description

€ 2,500

India & Sri Lanka Navigation VOC

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

A banned pamphlet on Dutch colonization and trade in America

[USSELINCX, Willem]. Naerder bedenckingen, over de zee-vaerdt, coophandel ende neeringhe, als mede de versekeringhe vanden staet deser vereenichde landen, inde teghenwoordighe vrede-handelinghe met den Coninck van Spangnien ende de aerts-hertoghen.
[Amsterdam], 1608 Small 4to (18.5 x 14 cm). With a woodcut arabesque ornament on the title-page and 1 woodcut decorated initial letter. Modern pink paper wrappers. [36] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Economic History & Trade History / 17th Century Latin America Law & Politics Netherlands Slavery South America Spain WIC

A very rare edition of a popular manual on navigation,
together with the logarithmic tables and trigonometric functions

VEUR, Adriaan Teunisz. van. Zeemans schatkamer, daar in de stuurmans-konst niet alleen als voor deezen beschreeven; maar ook verscheide zaken verbetert en bygevoegt zyn ...
Amsterdam, Johannes II van Keulen, 1755.
With:
(2) De tafelen sinuum, tangentium, en secantium ...
Amsterdam, Isaac Swigters, [ca. 1752].
2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page, numerous woodcut mathematical figures, tables, decorated initials, and tail-pieces. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title and author on the spine, red edges. [4], 326, [16]; [256] pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Education & Pedagogy Mathematics Navigation Netherlands School & Textbooks VOC

Manuscript inventory of a huge VOC tea shipment

[VOC - TEA]. Herman de HOOGH. Proef, taxatie en prys lyst der theën, dewelke verkogt en opgehouden zyn by d'Oostyndi Compagnie kamer Hoorn op den 12. Octo. 1790, aangebragt van China per 't schip Blitterswyk.
Amsterdam, 1790. Folio (37.5 x 24 cm). Manuscript in brown ink on paper. Single sheet. [2] pp. Full description