Opmaak 1 - Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

Canada and Louisiana, he gives very detailed and observant accounts of the Indian
tribes and settlements which he visited. 'One of the most descriptive historians of
North America' (Howgego p.217). - A very fine set.
TPL 190; Sabin 12139; European-Americana VI, 744/50 (French ed.); Leclerc 315
(French ed.); Howes C308.
31 CHASE, Ezra B. Teachings of patriots and statesmen; or, the 'founders of the
Republic' on slavery. Philadelphia, J.W. Bradley, 1860.
Modern cloth. With steel-engraved portrait. 495 pp. € 160,00
Memorial of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society to Congress on the slave trade,
1790; Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, drawn by Madison and Jefferson;
Slavery in the district of Columbia in 1831, 1835 and 1836; Agitation of slavery in
the House of Representatives in 1839; etc.
Sabin 12174; Work p.299.
32 CLUVERIUS, Philippus. Batavische oudheden, ofte verhandeling .. over de
drie uitlopen, en monden van den Rhyn. Mitzgaders, wegens de vyf volken, die
eertyds aan deselve gewoont hebben, te weten, Toxandren, Batavieren, Caninefaten,
Frisen, en Marsacen. 's Gravenhage, Engelbregt Boucquet, 1709.
2 volumes. Sm.8vo. Contemporary mottled calf (2 hinges cracked but holding),
spines gilt, with red morocco labels to spines. With engraved frontispiece by J.
Schynvoet, engraved folding views of Scheveningen and Leiden, 2 (of 3) engraved
plates, and 4 folding engraved maps. (27),307,(21); 319,(16) pp. € 125,00
First Dutch edition, first published in Latin in 1611; with armorial bookplate. -
Scholarly study on the river-mouthes of the river Rhine.
Tiele 248.
33 COBBETT, James Paul. A ride of eight hundred miles in France; containing a
sketch of the face of the country, of its rual economy, of the towns and villages .. to
which is added, a general view of the finances of the kingdom. London, Charles
Clement, 1824.
Sm.8vo. Later half calf. 202,(9),(4) pp. € 95,00
34 (COLERIDGE, Henry Nelson). Six months in the West Indies. 2nd edition,
with additions. London, John Murray, 1826.
Later half cloth. With engraved frontispiece map. (4),328 pp. € 170,00
Description of Trinidad, St.Vincent, Martinique, Madeira, Barbados, etc. 'Contains an
unusually lucid and cool consideration of the situations of the slaves and planters,
maintaining that, all things considered, the formers' lot was very comfortable indeed.
.. The work attracted a great deal of attention.' (Ragatz p.221).
Sabin 14318; The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, 738.