Opmaak 1 - Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

ished that country’s slave trade in 1807, the African Institution was a semiofficial
watchdog organization created to monitor enforcement of the new abolition laws
(Rodriguez, Encycl. of world slavery, p.18). - Sabin 70222.
290 REYE, Theodor. Die Wirbelstürme, Tornados und Wettersäulen in der Erd-
Atmosphäre dargestellt und wissenschaftlich erklärt. Hannover, Carl Rümpler, 1872.
Contemporary half calf, gilt. With 4 folding maps (‘Sturmkarten zum Gebrauche für
Seeleute’) and 30 woodengravings and lithographed plates. XVI,248 pp. € 125,00
‘Bei der Ausarbeitung dieses Buches habe ich nicht nur die Meteorologen von Fach
und die gebildeten Seeleute unserer Kriegs- und Handelsmarine im Auge gehabt, sondern
auch den weiteren Leserkreis, der für die Naturwissenschaften und insbesondere
für Wind und Wetter Interesse hat’ (Vorrede).
291 NEUES RHEINPANORAMA. Frankfurt a/M, P.H. Frey & Co., (ca. 1880).
Original decorated cloth. Photographed leporello of the Rhine from Köln to Mainz.
With 16 pp. text in German, French and English.- (One fold torn). € 125,00
292 RICE, C.D. The rise and fall of black slavery. London, The Macmillan Press,
1975. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 16 plates. XIII,427 pp. - Covers the history of black
slavery, the slave trade and the abolition. € 35,00
293 RICHTER, W. Die Sklaverei im Griechischen Altertume. Ein Kulturbild nach
den Quellen in gemeinfasslicher Darstellung. Breslau, F. Hirt, 1886.
Original embossed cloth, gilt lettering. 168 pp. € 75,00
294 RODWAY, James. In the Guiana forest. Studies of nature in relation to the
struggle for life. With an introduction by Grant Allen. New York, Charles Scribner’s
Sons, 1894.
Original green cloth, spine gilt, a.e.g. With frontispiece and 15 photographic plates.
XXIII,242 pp. € 95,00
From the contents: The forest; The man of the forest; The animals of the forest;
Interdependence of plants and animals; The struggle for life; On the rivers and creeks;
Up in the trees; In the swamp; On the sand-reef and mountains; On the sea-shore; In
the tropical gardens; etc.
295 ROEVER-BONNET, H. de. Rudolf Bonnet. Een zondagskind. Zijn leven en
zijn werk. Wijk en Aalburg, Picture Publishers, (1993). 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket.
With many illustrations (several in colours). 171,(1) pp. € 65,00
First biography of the Dutch painter Johan Rudolf Bonnet (1895-1978) who spent the
greater part of his life abroad, first in Italy and North-Africa, later he settled down on
the isle of Bali.