winter miscellany - Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

4th edition, the first with woodengravings, first published in 1675. - Chapbook with
one of the most popular accounts of disastrous voyages by the Dutch East India
Company (VOC) describing the shipwreck on a desert island. Hunger and cannibalism
are the themes of this popular account of the East Indiaman Ter Schelling. The
author, a member of the crew, kept a journal of his experiences, and the woodcuts
illustrate the crew’s adventures both at sea and on land. The ship left Batavia (Jakarta)
under captain Jacob Jansz. Stroom in 1661 and wrecked on a sandbank off the shore
of Bengal and finally reached mainland Bengal where they were conscripted into the
Mogul army to fight against the kingdom of Assam. The gruesome massacre of captives
by the Nabob is described and illustrated followed by accounts of the kingdoms
of Arrakan, Martabab, Tanassery, Bengala and Patan along the coast of the Bay of
Bengal from modern Bangladesh to Burma. - A good copy of a very rare edition of a
gripping true-life adventure story.
Landwehr, VOC, 422; Cat. NHSM I, p.189; Tiele 462; Huntress 23c (other ed.); Lach,
Asia in the making of Europe III, p.496.
57 HOëVELL, Wolter Robert van. Bedenkingen tegen de mededeeling van den
Minister van Kolonien aan de Tweede Kamer der Staten Generaal, omtrent den
verkoop van landen op Java. Groningen, C.M. van Bolhuis Hoitsema, 1849.
Original printed boards. (4),60 pp. € 65,00
Objections against the selling of land on Java.
Cat. KITLV p.201.
58 HOGENDORP, Gijsbert Karel van. Verhandelingen over den Oost-Indischen
handel. Amsterdam, Wed. J. Dóll, 1801.
Original wrappers, uncut. 189 pp. € 275,00
A second and third volume was published in 1802. - Essays on the commerce of the
East Indies, dealing with the possessions and concessions of the Dutch East India
Company (VOC) in the East Indies. Van Hogendorp’s (1771-1834) role in politics,
that of helping to establish the Dutch monarchy following the Napoleonic period, is
more generally known.
Cat. KITLV p.146.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PASSAGE
UP THE RED SEA COAST OF ARABIA
59 IRWIN, Eyles. A series of adventures in the course of a voyage up the Red-Sea,
on the coasts of Arabia and Egypt, and of a route through the desarts of Thebais, hitherto
unknown to the European travellers in the year 1777. In letters to a lady.
London, J. Dodsley, 1780.
4to. Later half black calf, spine lettered in gilt. With engraved folding plan, 2 engraved
plates (each with 2 views) printed in sepia, and 3 folding engraved maps. XVI,400 pp.
€ 950,00