Opmaak 1 - Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

Caspian Sea. 'Struys kept no diary, so that by the time his narrative was finally published
in 1676, his fanciful imagination had somewhat distorted the reality behind his
journey. At sea he experienced typhoons, shipwrecks, hunger and captivity, and he
was several times sold as a slave, a misfortune always guaranteed to delight a seventeenth
century audience' (Howgego p.999). - A nice copy.
Tiele 1061; Cat. NHSM I, p.117-118; Cordier, Bibl. Japonica (and) Sinica, p.387
(and) p.2083; Blackmer collection 1616; Adelung II, 107; Mendelssohn II, p.450-51.
164 STUERS, (Hubert Joseph Jean Lambert de). De vestiging en uitbreiding
der Nederlanders ter Westkust van Sumatra. Uitgegeven door P.J. Veth. Amsterdam,
P.N. van Kampen, 1849-50.
2 volumes in 1. Half brown morocco, spine ribbed. With 2 maps and 14 handcoloured
or tinted lithographed plates by C.W. Mieling after the author. CX,240;
(2),264 pp. € 1.195,00
First edition; with armorial bookplate of J. de Stuers. - Interesting account based on
information and reports collected by De Stuers (1788-1861) when he was military
commandant and resident of Padang between 1824 and 1829. Including reports on
the military campains against the Padri movement, fanatic Muslims.
Tiele 1066; Cat. NHSM I, p.512; Bastin-Brommer N 406; Landwehr, Col.Pl., 449.
165 TACHARD, Guy. Voyage de Siam des Peres Jesuites, envoyés par le roy, aux
Indes & à la Chine. Avec leurs observations astronomiques, & leurs remarques de
physique, de géographie, d'hydrographie, & d'histoire. Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier,
1687.
Sm. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With engraved frontispiece, double-page plan, 4
double-page maps, 25 engraved plates (16 double-page), and engraved vignettes, by
C. Vermeulen after P. Sevin. (10),264, 133-227,(12) pp. € 1.950,00
Second and best edition. - In 1685 Guy Tachard (1648-1712) accompanied, as official
geographer, the first embassy, under Chevalier de Chaumont, to be sent from Louis
XIV of France to Siam (Thailand). 'Chaumont himself, somewhat naively, was disappointed
that Narai and Phaulkon seemed to show little interest in Christianity. He and
others had been led by Vacher to believe that the Siamese king was on the point of
accepting baptism. The king was only beguiled by Western science and his minister
only intrigued by the possibility of a political and military alliance with France that
would help to bolster his waning personal authority at the court' (Lach, Asia in the
making of Europe, III, p.254). At the Cape they were well received by Adriaan van
Rheede and Simon van der Stel. His account of their scientific investigations and
observations at the Cape in 1685 is one of the best. Java, Sumatra, and Bantam were
also visited and described. Plates depicting costumes, animals, plants, Siamese bargues,
etc. - A very fine copy. – See illustration.
Mendelssohn II, p.461-462; SAB IV, p.456; Walravens, China illustrata, 66.