GERT JAN BESTEBREURTJE Rare Books Langendijk 8, 4132 AK Vianen The Netherlands Telephone +31 - (0)347 - 322548 E-mail: [email protected] Visit our Web-page at http://www.gertjanbestebreurtje.com Prices are quoted in euro, for clients within the European Community 6 % VAT will be added to the prices. CATALOGUE 171 TRAVEL Illustration on cover cover no. 76 LETH, Hendrick & Andries de. Carte Nouvelle de la Mer du Sud. Amsterdam ca. 1730. Central-Celebes Expedition 1909-1910 1 ABENDANON, E(duard) C(ornelius). Midden-Celebes- Expeditie. Geologische en geographische doorkruisingen van Midden- Celebes (1909-1910). Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1915-1918. 4 volumes + atlas. 8vo and folio. Original decorated cloth, atlas volume original half cloth (sl. dam.). With ca. 500 plates and illustrations and atlas volume with 16 folding coloured maps. € 475,00 Account of the scientific expedition in Central-Celebes 1909-1910 organized by the Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap. Including the history of the discovery of Celebes. Contributions by G.J. Hinde, G.F. Dollfus, W.F. Gisolf, J.H. Kruimel, S.J. Vermaes and M. Weber. 'Gedurende twee jaar doorkruist Abendanon Celebes voor geografisch en geologisch onderzoek. Het resultaat van deze expeditie wordt neergelegd in een prachtig uitgegeven, lijvig vierdelig boekwerk van 1900 bladzijden met veel illustraties en kaarten, de duurste publicatie ooit door het KNAG gefinancierd' (Wentholt, In kaart gebracht met kapmes en kompas, p. 76). - Rare with the atlas volume. 2 AMSTERDAM. Ancrage dans le port d'Amsterdam. (No pl., ca. 1780). Engraving after Gerrit van de Welde by Antonio Suntach.Ca. 12,5 x 18 cm. € 95,00 Du Cabinet de M. Poullain. - Fine harbour view of the IJ in Amsterdam with many sailing ships. 3 AMUNDSEN, Roald & Lincoln ELLSWORTH. De eerste vlucht over de Noordpool. Vertaald door Louis Blok. Amsterdam, H.J.W. Becht, (1926). Cloth (discoloured). With ca. 120 photographic illustrations. 282 pp. € 35,00 € 35,00 First published in Oslo in 1926: Den Første flukt over Polhavet. - Narrative of the Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile North Polar Flight, 1926, in the airship Norge. The first North Pole flight from King's Bay, West Spitsbergen, over the North Pole to Teller, Alaska. - Arctic Bibliography 410. 4 ARCHER, Mildred. Company drawings in the India Office Library. London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1972. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 78 plates and illustrations (4 in colours). XIV,298 pp. € 45,00 € 45,00 Company drawings were made by Indian artists who were employed by the British East India Office to illustrate the manners and customs of India. 5 ARPI, Mario d'. Messico. Bergamo, (1924). Original decorated cloth. With 2 maps and ca. 150 photographic plates and illustrations. 182 pp. € 45,00 € 45,00 The English way of life in British India 6 ATKINSON, George Francklin. 'Curry & rice', on forty plates; or, the ingredients of social life at 'our station' in India. London, Day & Son, (1858). 8vo. Original blind-tooled orange cloth with eleborate gilt pictorial decoration, spine gilt, a.e.g. With tinted lithographed title-page (two small tears blank margin repaired) and 39 tinted lithographed plates (some misbound) and 1 leaf of text to each plate. € 695,00 € 695,00 First edition. - Hilarious caricature of the English way of life in British India in the 19th century, with nice tinted lithographed plates depicting the judge, magistrate, colonel, racecourse, coffee shop, tiger shooting, bazar, etc. Among the plates depicting the daily routines are excellent tinted illustrations of tiger shooting and pig sticking (Czech p.14). - Except some foxing as usual, a very nice copy. Abbey, Travel, 487; Hiler p.52. Sudan 7 BAKER, Samuel White. Ismailïa: a narrative of the expedition to Central Africa for the suppression of the slave trade. Organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1875. Original brown pictorial cloth gilt (extremities of spine dam.). With engraved portrait, 2 coloured maps (1 folding) and many woodengraved plates. 542 pp. € 275,00 First American edition. - 'This work by the celebrated traveller and sportsman describes his extremely difficult and eventful journey to, and administration in, the Sudan. He was the first Englishman to take high office under the Egyptian government. Although well-equipped and accompanied by a substantial number of troops, he had to contend with the hostility of the slave- traders (who fought several pitched battles against him) as well as that of the terrain' (Blackmer Sale). Hess & Coger 179; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, p.49; Czech p.11; Gay 2578; Scheybeler, Paolo Bianchi Collection, 25; Howgego IV, B10. Travels in Greece 8 BARTHELEMY, Jean Jacques. Reise des jungen Anacharsis durch Griechenland vierhundert Jahr vor der gewöhnlichen Zeitrechnung. Aus dem Französischen. Berlin, Libau, Lagarde und Friedrich, 1789-1793. 7 volumes. Original embossed cloth, spines lettered in gilt. With 7 portrait frontispieces and 34 plans and maps (mostly folding). € 950,00 First German edition. - This famous and influential work was first published in French in 1788, Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce; numerous editions and translations appeared throughout the 19th century. Although there had been earlier attemps to popularize what was known of Greek antiquity, none was so immediately succesful and influential as Barthelemy's Anacharsis, which played an important part in the development both of neo-classicism and philhellenic sentiment in France. - (Age-browned). - Scarce. Fromm 2082; Cf. Blackmer 83 and Atabey 67; Eutiner Landesbibliothek 0085 (later ed. only). 9 BEAUFORT, Louis de. Dissertation sur l'incertitude des cinq premiers siecles de l'histoire romaine. Utrecht, Etienne Neaulme, 1738. Sm.8vo. Old marbled wrappers (spine damaged), uncut. With title-page printed in red and black, with engraved printer's device on title and engraved frontispiece by P. Yver. (12),348; (3) pp. € 175,00 First edition. - The author explains what methods and documents might be used to give a truly scientific base to history. Arctic 10 BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Partie de la Mer Glaciale contenant la Nouvelle Zemble et le pais de Samoiedes suivant les découvertes des Hollandois et les cartes des Russes .. par M. Bellin. Paris, 1758. Engraved map of Nova Zembla and part of the Northeast passage, with a decorative title cartouche. Ca. 21,5 x 34,5 cm. € 125,00 From: L'Histoire Generale des Voyages. - Fine map produced by the French hydrographer and geographer, Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703- 1772) detailing the archipelago of Novaya Zemlya, the Samoyeds, and part of the Northeast passage. Schoonhoven 11 BERKUM, Henricus van. Beschryving der stadt Schoonhoven, bevattende in zig een verhaal van derzelver grond, waterstroomen, bevolking, benaming, oudheyd, vryeheeren, handvesten, privilegien, voorregten, keuren, handel, hooft-neeringen, ambagten, brandt, oorlogs gevallen, sterkte, gelegentheyt, 't oude en nieuwe wapen, geestelyke en weereltlyke gebouwen, geleerde mannen, oude en nieuwe regeeringsform, verwisseling in kerkelyke en weereltlyke zaaken, en zeltzaamheden. Nader overzien en merkelyk vermeerdert, door J(ohannes) A(drianus) B(lok). Gouda, Gysbert en Willem de Vry, 1762. 4to. Contemporary half calf (1 hinge cracked but firmly holding), spine gilt, with red morocco title label. With title-page printed in red and black and woodcut coat of arms of Schoonhoven, folding genealogical table, folding engraved view from the river Lek by Jan Punt, folding engraved plan by Isaac Tirion, and 2 folding engraved views one of the city-hall and the other of the Barthlemy church by Jan Punt. (28),616,(9) pp. € 395,00 Important description of the city of Schoonhoven in the western Netherlands, called Zilverstad (silvercity). With fine topographical views by Jan Punt. - A fine copy. Nijhoff-Van Hattum 20; Bodel Nijenhuis 1316. 12 BERNATZIK, Hugo Adolf. Gari-Gari. Leben und Abenteuer bei den Negern zwischen Nil und Kongo. Berlin, Deutsche Buch- Gemeinschaf, (1930). Original pictorial boards, spine half cloth. With folding map and 116 photographic illustrations. 204,(2) pp. € 45,00 First edition. - Classic travel- account by the Austrian ethnographer Hugo Adolf Bernatzik (1897-1953) dealing with his trip along the Nile in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. - A fine copy. Kainbacher p.41. 13 BINOT, Guy. Pierre Dugua de Mons. Gentilhomme Royannais, premier colonisateur du Canada, lieutenant général de la Nouvelle-France de 1603 à 1612. (Royan), Bonne Anse, (2004). Wrappers. With illustrations. 267,(2) pp. € 35,00 € 35,00 Pierre Dugua de Mons (c. 1558 – 1628), a French merchant, explorer and colonizer, was born in the Château de Mons, in Royan, Saintonge (southwestern France) and founded the first permanent French settlement in Canada. 14 BLAEU, Joan. Atlas maior. Volume I - II: Englia, Scotia & Hibernia. Introduction and texts by Peter van der Krogt. Hongkong, Taschen, (2006). 2 volumes. Folio. Cloth, with dust-jackets, in slipcase. With numerous coloured maps. € 65,00 € 65,00 Fine reprint of two volumes of the Atlas Maior of 1665 with maps of England, Scotland and Ireland. Based on the copy in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Wien. A sailing-car on the Dutch beach 15 BLAEU, Joan. Currus veliferi Ill.mi Pr. Mauritii Nassouii. - De zeyl-wagen die de doorluchtige vorst Maurits van Nassou, prins van Oranje, graef van Nassou, &c. heeft doen maken. Amsterdam, 1649. Engraving depicting 2 sailing-cars on the Dutch beach with many spectators in the foreground and sailing vessels in the background, after Jacob de Gheyn (II) by Willem Isaacsz. van Swanenburg coloured by hand; Dutch text on verso. Ca. 43 x 56,5 cm. € 1.850,00 From: Blaeu's Toneel der steden. - Fascinating view of prince Maurits with his friends on a trip on the beach from Scheveningen to Petten with a sailing-car designed by Simon Stevin in 1602. - A very decorative view. Muller, Historieplaten, 1158.