Opmaak 1 - Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

of ingratiating himself with people of every rank in life. Unlike some popular
favourites, he was the idol of his own domestic circle’ (DNB). The beautiful plates are
made after drawings by the author. - Some offsetting of the plates as always, hole in
blank margin of last leaf vol. I; half-title vol. II missing, otherwise a very fine copy.
Abbey, Travel, 13; Tooley, Coloured plates, 382; Prideaux pp.225-227; Colas 2407;
Lipperheide I, p.314;Hiler p.718; Bibl. Russica P1037.
280 PRELL, A. Ge-eft acht ! Schetsen uit het Indische soldatenleven. Amsterdam,
Van Holkema & Warendorf, 1893.
Original pictorial cloth. (8),199 pp. € 75,00
Twelve sketches of military life in the Dutch East Indies. - Rare.
Buur 388.
281 PREVOST, Antoine François. Reizen langs de westkust van Afrika, van Kaap
Blanko tot Sierra Leona: vervattende de Engelse bezittingen, en koophandel, op de
riviere Gambra, met de aardrykskundige- en natuurkundige historie der nabuurige
landen. - Reizen naar Guinee en Benin, vervattende de kust van Sierra-Leona, tot aan
Kaap Gonsalvo. ‘s Gravenhage, Pieter de Hondt, 1748.
2 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt in compartments (top of spines
rep.). With title-pages printed in red and black, 12 engraved maps (6 folding) and 43
engraved plates (13 folding) by J. van Schley. 435,(5); (4),532,(6) pp. € 1.650,00
Enlarged and improved Dutch edition of the French series edited by Prevost: Historische
beschryving der reizen, vol. IV-V. Detailed description of West-Africa with accounts of
the English and Dutch possessions on the coasts. With fine engravings. - (Some
minor foxing). - Tiele 103; Cat. NHSM I, p.108.
282 PROULX, M. En route pour la Baie d’Hudson. Tours, Alfred mame et Fils,
1893.
Original decorated boards, gilt (spine ends sl. dam.), a.e.g. With woodengraved portrait
and 19 fine woodengraved plates. 157,(1) pp. € 75,00
Fine illustrated account of a trip on the Abitibi river to Hudson’s Bay, with details on
the Eskimos. - (Some foxing).
283 PUBLICATIE. Het staats-bewind der Bataafsche Republiek doet te weten:..
dat de publicatiën van den 31. January en 16 Augustus 1799/ betrekkelyk de ventjagery
.. worden ingetrokken en gesteld buiten effect. Den Haag, Staats-drukkery,
1802.
Broadside, with woodcut coat of arms. Marbled wrappers. € 110,00
Official publication concerning peddling.