78 2501 Utrecht Small collection of manuscript and letterpress documents 
78 2502 Vechtstreek Bruin C 1671 1732 
- Sl. fingersoiled and (water)stained.
= Published in De Zegepraalende Vecht (Amst., 1719). With dedication on first leaf: "Aan mijn Heer den Heere Antoni van Hoek. Op zijn Ed. voortreffelijke Landhoeve Ouderhoek". The estate Ouderhoek was located on the western bank of the Vecht, just south of Loenen aan de Vecht. It was visited by czar Peter the Great in 1717.
78 2503 VOC Fort Victoria Claim of debt 
= An original VOC document of a debt claim addressed to "den borger Andries Willemsz." by the "Secretaris va[n] Justitie" for an amount of "Vierhondert en twintig gulden en 90 stuivers". Below the text the follow-up is stated claiming that Andries Willemsz. cannot fulfill the debt but is allowed to pay a first term of 70 guilders. With three other unidentified signatures below.
78 2504 VOC Fort Victoria Deed of transport concerning a comparants Huijs staande ende gelegen aan de Groote weg van de negozij Foya 
- Lacks large portion at top of right corner, with some partial loss of text but still legible.
78 2505 Voorburg Lot of 4 manuscript documents regarding property in Voorburg 
78 2505 Voorburg Lot of 4 manuscript documents regarding property in Voorburg 
= Two documents (transport of deed and a separation of a piece of land), regarding a "Wooninghe aen de Wijkerbrug, geleegen op de Weijde van ouds genaemd de Groene Wooning (1627), transport of deed of a "plaijsante wooninge off Buijten plaats genaamt Opwijk" (1748) and a piece of land in the polder Tedingerbroek, "ten oosten de kerk van Voorburg" (1750).
78/2506 Weesp Lot of 5 small publications and 1 manuscript 
78 2507 Wieringerwaard Deed of transport concerning property gelegen in de Wieringerwaert in 't Block C 
= Deed by which Susanne Rolwagen, niece and heiress of Leonard Ras (former mayor of Alkmaar) transfers "seven morgen driehondert en sestig roeden lant" to Daniel Ras. Wieringerwaard was poldered in 1611.
78 2508 Zuid Holland Lot of 8 manuscript documents or filled in documents 
78 2508 Zuid Holland Lot of 8 manuscript documents or filled in documents 
78 2508 Zuid Holland Lot of 8 manuscript documents or filled in documents 
78 2508 Zuid Holland Lot of 8 manuscript documents or filled in documents 
= I.a. deeds of transport of property in Wateringen (1614), Oestgeest and surroundings (1663), Rotterdam, a house in the Heerestraat in Voorburg (1785); also a letter of debt (Heenvliet, 1738) and an unread document related to Gorinchem (1591).
ADDED: 6 similar documents, concerning property in Utrecht, Heusden, Doesum and Ferwerd.
78 2509 Zuid Holland Lot of 11 manuscript documents 
78 2509 Zuid Holland Lot of 11 manuscript documents 
78 2509 Zuid Holland Lot of 11 manuscript documents 
= Contains several deeds of transport, i.a. the sale of 6 acres of land in Kiefhoek to "Johan de Wit ontfanger van des Graeffelijckheijts tholle binnen Dordrecht" (1648); the sale of "een wel beplant speeltuyn met een speelhuysgen daer inne gelegen buyten de Seylpoort in den ambachte van Leyderdorp" to potter Augustus Cornelis Schipper (1656) and the sale of reed fields in the Langelant polder in Krimpen aan den IJssel to Pieter Wegman (1721)), as well as several notarial copies/ extracts concerning real estate in Hardinxveld (5x, 1849-1909).
78 2510 Africa Alberti J C L 
78 2510 Africa Alberti J C L 
- Spine-ends and upper joint sl. worn/ rubbed. Otherwise a very fine copy.
= The very rare first edition. Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 217; Tiele 31 and Cat. NHSM p.209 (both listing the first Dutch ed. Amst., 1810); Gay 3153; Mendelssohn p.18; Henze I, p.32; Kainbacher I, p.10 (German ed. Gotha, 1815). "He gives a full account of the natives, including chapters on the situation and climate of kaffraria, and on the education, language, occupations, and ailments of the various tribes, together with remarks on their form of government, manner of conducting their warfare, relations with the Cape Colony, and many other interesting matters." (Mendelssohn). The author was a German officer from Waldeck who served in the Dutch army and was sent to Cape of Good Hope in 1802 and shortly afterwards to Fort Frederik in the Bay of Algoa. He stayed there until 1806, during which time he was able to observe the life and culture of the Bantu speaking people who were at the time known as Kaffers. He wrote his book in his native tongue, but had it translated for the first edition in Dutch by J. Konynenburg (the first German edition was published in Gotha in 1815). Interestingly, Alberti distances himself from the observations of Barrow(in his An account of travels into the interior of southern Africa) and others concerning the customs and culture of the native people that he describes in much more favourable terms than Barrow and with more esteem.
78 2511 Africa Bosman W 
78 2511 Africa Bosman W 
78 2511 Africa Bosman W 
78 2511 Africa Bosman W 
- Occas. sl. yellowed. Binding sl. warped. Fine copy..
= Tiele 173; Gay 2808; Henze I, 304 ("zuverlässiger und vollständiger als die früheren Berichte über Ober-Guinea"); cat. NHSM p.204 and cf. Kainbacher I, p.153. The very rare first edition, divided in 22 letters, written from S. George del Mina, the main Dutch trading-station, where the author was chief merchant in the service of the West-India-Company from 1689-1702. Chief source for the knowledge of Dutch slave-trade during the latter half of the 17th century and important for the history of the commercial rivalry with the English, Danes and Brandeburgers.
78 2512 Africa Bruce J 
78 2512 Africa Bruce J 
- Backstrips and corners rubbed, otherwise a fine set.
= The rare complete first Dutch edition, WITH the often lacking map of Abyssinia. Cf. Gay 44 (French eds.); Cox I, p.388f; Howgego B171 (Engl. eds.); cf. Kainbacher I, p.154 (German eds.). "The result of his travels was a very great enrichment of the knowledge of geography and ethnography." (Cox).
78 2513 Africa Dapper O 
78 2513 Africa Dapper O 
78 2513 Africa Dapper O 
78 2513 Africa Dapper O 
78 2513 Africa Dapper O 
78 2513 Africa Dapper O 
78 2513 Africa Dapper O 
- Owner's stamp on title-p.; occas. sl. browned as usual (affecting a few maps and plates), nevertheless contents fine. Binding fine apart from some worn spots along margins and sl. split upper joint.
= The second revised and best edition (first 1668). Tiele 298; Gay 219; Mendelssohn II, p.119. The first large general description of the African continent. The work is based on the early accounts of the Portuguese and Spanish explorers, the English works by Purchass and Jarrick, the journals and descriptions of Dutch navigators like Van Noort, Van Neck, Linschoten, Spilbergen, but especially on unpublished reports and eye-witness accounts of Dutch merchants, visitors and soldiers. Very detailed on the West Coast, where the Dutch ivory-, gold- and slave-trade flourished and on Angola (Luanda was captured by a WIC fleet in 1647). On the settlement on the Cape only a cursory note is found, while the surrounding tribes are described in remarkable detail. The second part, devoted to the African islands, from Malta to Madagascar, includes an ample account of the French colonization of the latter. The work is famous for its splendid detailed maps and plates, i.a. engraved after drawings by Reinier Noomsz (Zeeman).
78 2514 Africa Le Vaillant F 
78 2514 Africa Le Vaillant F 
78 2514 Africa Le Vaillant F 
78 2514 Africa Le Vaillant F 
- Stamp on title-p.; occas. sl. foxed/ sl. fingersoiled. Two vols. joint(s) strengthened/ restored.
= Tiele 659 (erroneously calls for 6 vols.); cf. Mendelssohn I, p.889; cf. Gay 3118. Cox I, p.389: " (...) interesting as an account of South Africa at a time when comparatively little was known regarding its natural history and the Dutch settlers". Henze III, p.228: "Seine Werke fesselte durch lebhafte, flüssige Diktion und mußten Gemüter mächtig ansprechen, in denen noch Rousseausche Ideen nachklangen. Kein Reise-schriftsteller über Süd-Afrika hat größere Beachtung in west. Ausland gefunden als er."
78 2515 Africa Stanley H M 
78 2515 Africa Stanley H M 
78 2515 Africa Stanley H M 
- Maps partly sl. foxed (mainly on verso); one map strengthened at extremities of folds on verso. Good/ fine set in very fine bindings.
= Stanley's account of his 4th and last African expedition all the way from the East Coast to Egypt. The original English edition was published in 1890. The third part contains the Dutch translation of the sequel to Stanley's In darkest Africa: Arthur Jephson's account of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition.
78 2516 Almanacs Almanach na de Nieuwe en Oude Stijl Voor 't Jaer onses Heeren Jesu Christi 1645 Door Doctor David Origanus / Eenighe vermaeckelijke Kluchten / Den onvervalschten Italiaensche Wa
- Almanac interleaved w. some contemp. annots. on blank lvs. A very fine copy.
= Rare almanac, no copy traced on the market or in libraries.
78 2517 America Carver J 
78 2517 America Carver J 
78 2517 America Carver J 
78 2517 America Carver J 
- From the library of Bob Luza with his bookplate on upper pastedowns. Tear (±5 cm.) in map; fold. plate foxed; 1 handcol. plate sl. thumbed. Binding rubbed.
= Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 253; Cat. NHSM, p.270; Sabin 11190; Howes C215; Howgego C63; not in Tiele. Henze I, p.518: "(...) Seine Travels erschienen erst 1778, erlebten dann aber schnell 23 Ausgaben und wurden eins der populärsten Reisewerke über N.-Amerikas. Neben der Beschreibung der Reise enthält das Werk reiche Beobachtungen über Sitten und Bräuche, Religion und Sprache der Indianer. Es findet sich darin wohl auch erstmals der Name "Oregon" als Bezeichnung des "Grossen West-Flusses", der "bei der Anian-Strasse in den Pazifik mündet.""
78 2518 America Hedendaagsche Historie of Tegenwoordige Staat van Amerika 
78 2518 America Hedendaagsche Historie of Tegenwoordige Staat van Amerika 
78 2518 America Hedendaagsche Historie of Tegenwoordige Staat van Amerika 
- Occas. sl. yellowed. Sl. chafed spot on frontcover of vol.1; spine-ends partly sl. chipped. Otherwise bindings and contents fine.
= Contains a large number of interesting and detailed maps and plans of both Americas, i.a. of "Mexico en Nieuw Granada", Vera Cruz (2x diff.), Porto Bello, Panama, Carthagena (2x diff.), Lima, Rio de la Plata, Valparayso, Surinam, Martinique, Porto Rico, New Orleans, Quebec (siege of the English) and Canada. Sabin 31212: "The latter half of the third volume relates to Louisiana, Canada and the countries near Hudson's Bay. The numerous maps and plates are well executed."
78 2519 America Kalm P 
78 2519 America Kalm P 
- Blank margins sl. foxed (endpapers worse); both vols. cancel stamp on first free endpaper; first few leaves and 2nd half of vol.2 (partly vaguely) waterstained in lower outer mainly blank margin.
= Sabin 36988, quoting Stevens: "Far superior to the [orig.] Swedish or English editions." Fred. Muller, Cat Books on America 829-832; Cat. NHSM I, p.269; Tiele 577; Henze II, 7f. Howes K 5: "Most trustworthy description of Swedish settlements in 18th century Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania."; Cox II, p.142: "This voyage of the Swedish naturalist was undertaken for the purpose of discovering whether any North American plants could be introduced advantageously into Sweden." This first and only Dutch edition is nowadays very rare.
78 2520 America Spilbergen J van 
- New endpapers; tiny hole in p.7-8. Otherwise a fine copy.
= Very rare journal in which the manners and customs of the native Americans are described for the first time. Sabin 89449; Tiele 1028; Tiele, Mémoire p.69-72: "Réimpression du précédent, avec abréviations, sans la préface, & avec une autre addition à la fin (p.62-64), contenant une notice succincte des coutumes des indigènes Américains".