Opmaak 1 - Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

337 STRECKER, Carl Christoph. Auf den Diamanten und Goldfeldern Südafrikas.
Schilderungen von Land und Leuten, der politischen und kulturellen Zustände
Südafrikas. Freiburg im Breisgau, Herder, 1901.
Original pictorial cloth. With frontispiece, folding coloured map and 100 illustrations.
XVI,682 pp. € 195,00
First edition. - A fine illustrated history of South Africa. (Small library stamp on titlepage).
- A very nice copy. - SAB IV, p.426; Kainbacher p.412.
338 STRINGFELLOW, Thornton. Slavery: its origin, nature, and history, considered
in the light of bible teachings, moral justice, and political wisdom. New York,
John F. Trow, 1861.
Original printed wrappers. 56 pp. - Sabin 92871 (note); Work p.319. € 75,00
339 STUART, Martinus. Conscience and the constitution with remarks on the
recent speech of Daniel Webster in the Senate of the United States on the subject of
slavery. Boston, Crocker & Brewster, 1850. 119 pp. € 75,00
After the election of 1848, a new sectional crisis loomed, and Webster tried to preserve
the nation (Rodriguez, Encycl. of world slavery, p. 687).
Sabin 93197.
340 STUART, Martinus. De mensch zoo als hij voorkomt op den bekenden aardbol.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802-07.
6 volumes.Contemporary half calf, spines gilt. With coloured frontispiece, 2 folding
archeological plates, 6 engraved titles with coloured title-vignettes and 41 coloured
aquatint plates by L. Portman after J. Kuyper, depicting ethnic types. € 1.850,00
First edition. - The first Dutch treatise on geographical anthropology, phrenology and
ethnography. Martinus Stuart (1765-1826) was a minister of the church at
Amsterdam, scientist and author of many popular educational works, he was assigned
historian to king Willem I in 1815. He describes the manners and customs of the natives
of America, Africa, Australia and the Pacific. The fine costume plates are printed
in colour and finished by hand, quite a few are after the travel accounts of Captain
Cook, La Perouse, Carver, Levaillant, etc. Each plate depict a native man and woman.
- A very fine large paper copy.
Landwehr, Coloured Plates, 448; Tiele 1065; Lipperheide I, p.376.
341 LES SUITES D’UN NAUFRAGE. Gravés à l’eau forte par Nicolas de Launay,
et terminées au burin, par Catherine Elisabeth Cousinet, femme Lempereur,
d’après le tableau original de Joseph Verner. (No pl., ca. 1790).
Engraving depicting a shipwreck in a stormy sea by the coast. Ca. 36 x 55 cm.
€ 125,00