Opmaak 1 - Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

LITHGOW, William. 19 jaarige lant-reyse, uyt Schotlant nae de vermaerde deelen
des werelts Europa, Asia en Africa .. het besichtigen van 48 oude en moderne koninckrijcken,
21 republijcken, 10 absolute vorstendommen, en 200 eylanden. .. Uyt't
Engels overgeset. Amst., Jacob Benjamin, 1653. With engraved title and 7 engraved
plates and illustrations. (4),186; 98 pp.
First Dutch edition 1652. - William Lithgow (1582 - 1645 ?) travelled, in three journeys
and mostly on foot, through Europe, Greece, Turkey (1609-11), Crete, the
Levant, Egypt and North Africa, covering in all, he estimated, more than 36.000
miles. Embedded in his euphuistic narrative are the first reports of such novelties as
coffe-drinking in Europe, Turkish baths, the Aleppo-Baghdad pigeon post, artificial
incubation, and Turkish tobacco pipes.
Tiele 695; Cat. NHSM I, p.133.
147 SCHOMBURGK, Robert Hermann. A description of British Guiana,
geographical and statistical: exhibiting its resources and capabilities, together with
the present and future condition and prospects of the colony. London, Simpkin
Marshall, and Co., 1840.
Later half morocco, spine gilt with green morocco title-label. With folding engraved
map, coloured in outline, with a view of New Amsterdam and George Town. (2),155
pp. € 425,00
First edition. - Sir Robert Schomburgk (1804-1865), though German born, was long
in the service of the British government. He spent many years exploring and surveying
British Guiana. He was convinced that a colony could be established on the upper
Essequibo. The government took his proposals into account and in 1841 put him in
charge of establishing a colony in Guyana. - A fine copy. - Sabin 77782.
148 SCHOMBURGK, Robert Hermann. Report of an expedition into the interior
of British Guayana, in 1835-6. - Diary of an ascent of the river Corentyn, in October,
1836; and of the river Berbice, in 1836-7, in British Guayana. - Researches in
Guayana in 1837-9. (London, 1837-40).
3 extracts from the London Geographical Journal bound in 1 volume. Contemporary
half red calf (sl. soiled), spine gilt with morocco title-label, 2 printed front-wrappers
preserved (1 with autograph dedication by the author and an engraving of the mountain
of Ataraïpu, in Guayana). With engraved plate depicting King William IVth's
cataract and 3 folding maps. 61; 68; 109,(2) pp. € 625,00
First editions. - In 1823 Britain sent an expedition to Guyana - a land the British were
keen to colonize - under the leadership of a German, Herman Schomburgk (1804-
1865). He explored the Essequibo River (the sources of which he was the first to
reach) the Corentyn and the Berbice and investigated in great detail the capabilities
of the colony of British Guyana (DNB).
Sabin 77793, 77794.