900 - 1104 FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS
- Sl. foxed; title-p. vol. 9 lacks upper corner w. loss of part of title (restored w. paper and lost text reproduced in pen and ink).
- Lacks first free endpaper; sm. dampstain in outer blank margin of frontisp. Spine worn. Otherwise fine.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION to "Den Heere Verlooren [signed] 1 Maart 1824" on htitle. Cat. (...) des Russica 405.
- Libr. stamp on title-p.; modern ticket on first free endpaper; occas. trifle foxed. Otherwise fine.
= Rare and influential abolitionist work (published in the same year as the first edition).
- All vols. w. owner's entry on first free endpaper; occas. sl. foxed/ dogeared. Bindings w. minor imperfections; vol. 1 lower joint splitting. Otherwise a fine set.
= Collected works of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936), Dutch scholar of Oriental cultures and languages and advisor on indigenous and Islamic affairs to the colonial government of the Netherlands East Indies.
AND 4 others similar, incl. a duplicate of vol. 6 of the above and P.S. VAN KONINGSVELD, Snouck Hurgronje en de Islam. Acht artikelen over leven en werk van een oriëntalist uit het koloniale tijdperk (Leyden, (1987), 6 (photogr.) ills., orig. wr., sm. 4to).
- (Vaguely) waterst.
AND 3 miniature booklets from the series "Im Lande der Buren" (n.pl., Aechter Franck-Caffee, ±1900, orig. col. lithogr. ills. and wr., 10x7 cm.).
- Binding sl. soiled and worn; corners showing. = Mendelssohn I, p.65.
Hamilton, J.A. The Siege of Mafeking. Ibid., Methuen & Co., 1900, X,(2),332,45(publ. cat.)p., 2 plans (1x fold.), 15 plates, orig. giltlettered cl.
= Mendelssohn I, p.679.
AND 4 others, i.a. P. ALLEN, Mafeking Day. A snap-shot from real life (ibid., n.d., orig. pict. cl.) and F.D. BAILLIE, Mafeking. A Diary of the Siege (Westminster, 1900, ills., orig. (heavily stained) cl.).
- Lacks frontisp., 1 map, 2 plates, the portrait and 1 text leaf (photocopy of frontisp., portrait and 1 plate bound in); title-p. remargined; maps occas. w. restorations and sl. yellowed/ soiled.
= Landwehr, VOC 583; Tiele 606; Mendelssohn I, p.843-844. Dealing with all aspects of life at the Cape, incl. flora and fauna, geography etc. Also contains an accurate description of the life and culture of the indigenous Hottentots. The first edition was published in Nuremberg, 1719.
- Sl. foxed. Covers sl. rubbed along extremities; frontcover partly discoloured. Otherwise fine.
= A translation of Photographs of South Africa (...), publ. London, 1894. Cf. Mendelssohn II, p.345f (erroneously listing 199 plates). Fine photographs, "Zijnde de grootste en Volmaakste Verzameling Photografiën van Zuid-Afrika, welke ooit Gepubliceerd is. (...) Wordt verkocht bij inteekening" (title-p.).
- Owner's stamps/ annot. on upper pastedown. Ticket on foot of spine.
Koch-Grünberg, T. Zwei Jahre bei den Indianern Nordwest-Brasiliens. Stuttg., Strecker and Schröder, 1923, XII,416p., woodengr. fold. map, 12 photogr. plates, ills., orig. pict. hcl.
- Bookplate/ ticket on upper pastedown; inner hinge broken. Boardedges sl. worn; backstrip w. sm. tears.
AND 7 others similar, i.a. D. PIERSON, Negroes in Brazil (Chicago, 1944, plates, orig. cl.); E. NORDENSKIÖLD, Indianer und Weisse in Nordostbolivien (ibid., 1922, photogr. plates, ills., orig. pict. cl. Bookplate on first free endpaper; owner's annots. throughout) and H.A. FRANCK, Working North from Patagonia (London, 1921, col. lithogr. map., photogr. plates, modern cl.).
= Curious print depicting world history as a group of streams, probably used in the classroom for history lessons. Brink, Nederlandse geschiedkundige schoolwandkaarten p.13: "Het idee lijkt afkomstig van de Duitse hoogleraar in de geschiedenis F. Strass, die in 1803 'Der Strom der Zeiten oder Bildliche Darstellung der Weltgeschichte' publiceerde. Hij had daarmee veel succes en bracht een reeks van vertalingen en navolgingen op gang."
With the accompanying vol.: F. STRASS, Explication du Tableau de l'histoire Universelle (The Hague, F.J. Weygand, 1819, without binding).
= Text in Dutch, English and Spanish.
- One plate w. 2 closed tears in image; a few plates trifle frayed. Otherwise contents fine.
= Van Doorne/ Van Kempen 2487; Rouffaer/ Muller I, p.632; not in Sabin. Rare account by an ex-civil servant who did not agree with the Dutch policy concerning Surinam, which got him into trouble with the authorities. The plates were used earlier for P.J. Benoit, Voyage à Surinam (1839)/ Scènes de la vie Américaine, description de la Guyane Hollandaise (1858). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXIII.
- Sl. foxed; bookblock split.
= Van Doorne/ Van Kempen 3878; Bibl. van Suriname p.161; Tiele 642; Sabin 38932; Kolfin p.70: "In 1842 gaf Lans in een klein en decoratief bedoelde illustratie in zijn boek Bijdrage (...) het zware werk tussen het manshoge suikerriet weer als een middagje schoffelen in de moestuin."
- Backstrip sl. worn; final quire (w. plates) loosening.
= Van Doorne/ Van Kempen 3879; Doorninck 1184; Sabin 38934; Rouffaer/ Muller p.629. Rare.
- Maps trifle foxed. Backstrip sl. chipped. = Van Doorne/ Van Kempen 4726; Koeman p.162.
- Spine plasticized; ticket and library stamp on frontwr.
= Van Doorne/ Van Kempen 6254; Bibl. van Suriname p.171.
Gon Netscher, A.D. van der. Bijdrage ter aanwijzing van de grondslagen, waarop de afschaffing der slavernij in Suriname dient gevestigd te worden. The Hague, A. Belinfante, 1858, 47p., later hcl. w. orig. frontwr. laid down.
- First and final lvs. sl. browned. = Van Doorne/ Van Kempen 2282; Bibl. van Suriname p.168.
AND 3 others similar, i.a. A.D. VAN DER GON NETSCHER, De opheffing van de slavernij en de toekomst van Nederlandsch West-Indië (The Hague, 1862, orig. wr. (printed on frontwr.: "van den schrijver")) and IDEM, Beschouwing van het op 25 October 1858 voorgesteld ontwerp van wet ter afschaffing der slavernij in Suriname (...) (ibid., 1859, later hcl. w. orig. frontwr. laid down).
= Not in Van Doorne/ Van Kempen; Bibl. van Suriname p.172.
AND 4 others, i.a. P. FRAISSINET, Eenige West-Indische kolonieën na de emancipatie (Amst., 1879, orig. wr.) and N. BEETS, De bevrijding der slaven. Redevoering (...) (Haarlem, 1856, later hcl. w. orig. frontwr. laid down).
= Offprint from Tijdschrift van het Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, vol. 2, 1st series.
AND 1 other: G. VERSCHUUR, Suriname (n.pl., (1894), woodengr. ills., modern wr., 4to).
- Contemp. owner's entry on htitle. Binding rubbed; spine-ends dam.
Loohuis, J.G. a.o. Siam Muang-Thai. The Hague, Ten Hagen/ Genootschap "Nederland-Siam", 1931, 112p., num. (photogr.) ills., orig. wr., sm. 4to.
- Wr. sl. yellowed/ soiled; frontwr. lower corners w. sm. tear/ creases.