Opmaak 1 - Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

129 HAAFNER, Jacob. Lotgevallen op eene reize van Madras over Tranquebaar
naar het eiland Ceilon. Haarlem, A. Loosjes, 1806.
Old half cloth (1 hinge dam. but firmly holding). With engraved title with illustration
and folding plate by R. Vinkeles. X,367 pp. € 225,00
First edition. - Travel from Madras to Ceylon in 1806. ‘Jacob Haafner (1755-1809) was
a proficient writer who produced a whole series of books on his adventures in late
18th century Malabar and Ceylon. He mixed up facts, romance and strong prejudices
in very readable stories which provide insight into typical English Enlightment views
on colonial and Indian society’ (Coolhaas p.66-67). Haafner witnessed the Company’s
death agony and demise, and wrote about it. He has a lively and compelling manner
(Nieuwenhuys, Mirror of the Indies, p.21). - (Few stains).
Tiele 433; Cat. NHSM I, p.243; Landwehr, VOC, 347; Goonetileke 2192.
130 HAAFNER, Jacob. Reize in eenen palanquin; of lotgevallen en merkwaardige
aanteekeningen op eene reize langs de kusten Orixa en Choromandel. 2e druk.
Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1827.
2 volumes. Sm.8vo. Original half cloth. With 2 engraved titles with large vignettes, 3
folding plates and 4 (of 5 ? ) hand-coloured costume plates after J. Haafner by R.
Vinkeles. X,260; IV,289,(1) pp. € 325,00
First published in 1807. - Travels on the coasts of Orissa and Coromandel in 1808.
‘Jacob Haafner (1755-1809) was a proficient writer who produced a whole series of
books on his adventures in late 18th century Malabar and Ceylon. He mixed up facts,
romance and strong prejudices in very readable stories which provide insight into
typical English Enlightment views on colonial and Indian society’ (Coolhaas p.66-67).
He ‘witnessed the Company’s death agony and demise, and wrote about it. He has a
lively and compelling manner. Haafner, whose name was spelled Hafner originally,
was a German by birth who had joined his father, a surgeon, in the service of the
Dutch East India company’ (Nieuwenhuys, Mirror of the Indies, p.21).
Tiele 434; Cf. Cat. NHSM I,p. 243; Landwehr, Coloured Plates, 295; Landwehr, VOC, 348.
131 HAAN, Frederik de. De Portugeesche Buitenkerk ingewyd te Batavia A.D.
1695. Uitgegeven ter viering van den 300-jarigen gedenkdag van de stichting van
Batavia 30 mei 1919. Weltevreden, Albrecht & Co., 1919. Oblong folio. Original wrappers.
With 9 tipped-in photographed plates. € 225,00
The Portuguese Outer Church, now named Gereja Sion, is situated in Jl. Pangaran
Jayakarta. This long street is one of the oldest roads outside the old city, in the 17th
century it was very fashionable because of its rich country houses in the mids of big
gardens. The church was built between 1693 and 1695 by VOC authorities and was
used mainly by Mardijkers or freed Portuguese-speaking slaves. It still exists today as
the oldest surviving Dutch building in Jakarta and is still used for its original purpose
by the Protestants. - 250 numbered copies printed.