winter miscellany - Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

The fine engraving depicts the launching of three VOC-vessels on July 1783 (they
were built within half a year !) from the East Indies warehouse and shipyard complex
belonging to the VOC in Amsterdam, below printed text in Dutch and French, with
in the middle an engraved vignette with VOC monogram. - In excellent condition.
Muller, Nederlandsche historieplaten, 4512.
ADMIRAL WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE (1753-1825)
139 WALDEGRAVE, William. William, Lord Radstock, admiral of the White.
From a painting .. by F.W. Wilkin. London, T. Cadell & Davies, 1810.
Engraved portrait of admiral William Waldegrave, first Baron Radstock (1753-1825).
Ca. 38 x 32 cm (incl. margins). - DNB p.480. € 125,00
140 WATERTON, Charles. Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the
United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824. With original
instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history.
New edition. Edited, with biographical introduction and explanatory index, by J.G.
Wood. London, Macmillan and Co., 1885.
Contemporary half green morocco, spine gilt. With many wood-engravings. XVI,520
pp. € 195,00
Vivid description of the Guianas, Pernambuco, St. Domingo, Martinique, Barbados,
etc. With special attention to their flora and fauna and the aboriginal population.
Waterton (1782-1865) was an eccentric enterprising traveller (barefoot across jungles,
ride on a cayman, etc.) and a zealous naturalist. It is an outstanding work on the natural
history of Colombia and Venezuela. - Nice copy.
Sabin 102094; Hill 1833.
141 WILLEY, Austin. The history of the antislavery cause in state and nation.
Portland, Brown Thurston, 1886.
Original pictorial cloth gilt. With 19 (mostly) photographic portraits. XII,503 pp.
€ 150,00
‘For broader and richer intelligence the work goes back centuries to the origin of the
African slave-trade, sketches its horrible progress, its legal abolition by the British
government, and the abolition of slavery under it and in other countries. Slavery is
then followed to this continent, and traced down to the Revolution, and to the
Abolition Ara. Then opens the great conflict; its principles, objects, measures, and
true spirit, all carefully outlined till slavery fell’. (Preface).
Work p.305.