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1800Best.-Nr. ABC_47410Ceylon Sri Lanka and the Netherlands 1800. Contemporary decorated paper wrappers. 8vo 16.5 x 10.5 cm. Written in a late 18th-century or early 19th-century cursive in French and Dutch. With: 2 MANUSCRIPT - FRENCH & DUTCH POEMS AND SONGS. Quelques Chansons. Ad 1: An interesting manuscript probably written by a Dutch person in the service of the VOC Dutch East-India Company during the time the VOC had trading stations and later was ruling Sri Lanka until 1802. Remarkably the majority of the birds snakes and other animals described here are described by the same indigenous names as those used by Jacob Haafner in his Reize te voet door het eiland Ceilon 1754. The birds other animals plants and trees described include: a "kiroudin" a kind of eagle or harrier native to the Malabar coast the "pambou-rajah of konigs slang" poisonous "Royal" snake a "rollewaijs" a Rollewai a kind of bat typical for Ceylon the "tijger-royal" Royal tiger the "anacondo" an anaconda or water boas a large snake a "alamaram/wortelboom" mangrove tree the "ananas" pineapple the "casjou" cashew nut and "mangas" mangos among many others. Ad 2: A manuscript written in French and Dutch consisting of thirteen humorous poems and songs in French and Dutch. This part was probably added a few decades after the text on the natural history of Ceylon by the same author possibly after their return to the Netherlands. It is written in a later hand upside down and back to front from p. 28 to p. 15: 6 humorous poems in French: "Le vaillant troubadour" "Romance" in 3 stanzas "Romance de la petite Condrille" in 3 stanzas no title in 3 stanzas no title in 5 stanzas and 7 humorous poems in Dutch: "Toverfluit" "Oost-Indië boven" a riddle "De schrandere priester" "De getrouwe raad" "De gereede raadgever" and finally "De predikant en de dorpsschout".With manuscript annotations on the wrappers mainly repeats of the supposed title: "Quelques Chansons". The wrappers show clear signs of wear with some paper loss to the spine and edges of the wrappers. With manuscript writing exercises and an excerpt of a French text on the paste-downs/inside of the wrappers. Otherwise in good condition.l cf. Valentijn V 1726 pp. 50-54. unknown
1699Best.-Nr. ABC_47411Jaffanapatnam Ceylon 1699. Folded and kept together by an orange white and blue piece of string in the left margin 1.5 cm from the edge of the leaves in the middle. Folio 33 x 21 cm. The Dutch letter is written in a neat late 17th-century cursive hand in brown ink. Contemporary copy Copia perhaps by Schenkenberg himself or by his secretary including the address on the first leaf: Rotterdam./ Aenden Edelen Heer./ Harmen van Zoelen/ oud burgermeester der stadt/ en Bewinthebber vande Oostindische/ Comp. ter Camer Aldaar.Very interesting letter by the Director commandeur of the fort and Dutch East India Company VOC station Jaffanapatnam on the northern-most coast of Ceylon now: Sri Lanka facing the Coromandel coast of India. The fort was captured from the Portuguese by Rycklof van Goens in the 1630s and was an important stronghold for the VOC presence on Ceylon during the late 17th and 18th centuries. The letter offers clear insight in the VOC policy regarding appointments nominations and commissions as well as for the required qualifications and salaries for the various functions. The letter also shows how important family ties recommendations and even favouritism and nepotism were in these matters.Matthaeus Schenkenberg was born in Batavia in 1667 as son of Hendrik Schenkenberg and Henrietta Chasteleyn. He writes that after having been chief-merchant opperkoopman for eight years he had been appointed by the high command at Batavia the hooge regeering director commandeur of the fort Jaffanapatnam Jaffna in June 1698 as the successor of Hendrik Swaardecroon with a monthly salary of 120 guilders for five years. Hardly a year after this appointment he is already dissatisfied - one of his predecessors Floris Blom who was director from 1669-1693 earned 150 guilders - and he is seeking for a following step in his career. Thats why he is writing this letter to his uncle Harmen van Zoelen or Soelen; ca. 1635-1702 hoping to be helped into a better job: a good move because Van Zoelen was one of the directors of the VOC chamber in Rotterdam and burgomaster of that city.Which is why he asks his uncle to put in a good word for him in order to obtain an appointment as for instance Governor of places like Macassar Celebes Ambon or Banda island between Sumatra and Malacca. Indeed Mattheus Schenkenberg was appointed Governor of Banda where he ultimately died on 14 June 1709 his tomb is still in existence.With faint folding lines and some pencil annotations on the first and last pages small wormholes in the left inner margins of the leaves very slightly affecting the text but not its legibility the edges are very slightly frayed and the last page is slightly browned. Overall in very good condition.l Bons Kinderen van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie Master scriptie Univ. Leiden 2015 esp. pp. 82-83; Van den Belt Het VOC bedrijf op Ceylon in de 18e eeuw Zutphen 2008; Valentijn V 1726 p. 564. unknown
2021Best.-Nr. SONG1913087026Edward Everett Root 2021-03-31. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.29x0.77x9.48. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Edward Everett Root hardcover
Best.-Nr. SONG3631644582Peter Lang Gmbh Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften 2014-06-16. New. hardcover. Used: Good. 5.83x0.75x8.27. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften hardcover
1903Best.-Nr. LCCDKE4XUWG9Batavia: G. Kolff & Co. 1903. Contemporary brown cloth title in gold decorated endpapers. Folio. With 1 engraved double-page plate 4 lithographed colour-plates and 22 albumen photographs with guard leaves containing text. 2 works in 1 volume. Rare first and only edition of a report on the investigation of tea cultivation and production in Assam India and Ceylon. The Dutch cultural association Cultuur Maatschappij in Palakan-Salak asked H.J.Th. Netscher and Alexander Albert Holle to investigate the Assam and Ceylon tea cultivation and production with regard to the economic position of Java tea in the world market. Netscher and Holle had their investigations on tea cultivation and culture in British India and Ceylon printed but never put them on the market merely giving some copies to parties concerned with the tea industry. They gave the present copy to Norbert Pieter van den Berg head agent of the Dutch East Indian commercial bank at Batavia and president of the Javanese bank. The report discusses various aspects of tea and its cultivation including the geographic dissemination different kinds of tea seeds the conservation of tea seeds the process of drying tea leaves and the arrangement of tea factories. But the book also describes some remarkable things that caught Netscher and Holles attention of during their journey. They write for example about sugar and elephants. Nevertheless the main purpose of their report was to gather information on British-Indian tea cultivation especially regarding competion on the world market.The 22 albumen photographs in the present copy inserted through the whole book show mainly the tea gardens of Assam and Ceylon but also elephants and landscapes Netscher and Holle saw on their journey. A sign for that at least some of these photographs are contemporary is that they refer to their own train on one of the pictures. These pictures give this extensive and important report on tea cultivation enriching insights into the tea cultivation in British-India and Ceylon ca. 1900.Presentation copy from the Cultuur Maatschappij Parakan-Salak to Norbert Pieter van den Berg with some bolts at the end of the book unopened. Head and foot of spine slightly rubbed corners bumped some stains on the boards. Slightly browned not affecting the text otherwise in very good condition.l WorldCat 9 copies not noting the albumen prints; for Netscher & Holle: All about tea p. 128; Performing otherness: Java and Bali on international stages 1905-1952 p. 15; for Norbert Pieter van den Berg: Biographisch woordenboek der Noord- en Zuidnederlandsche letterkunde pp. 55-56. G. Kolff & Co., hardcover
1732Best.-Nr. 18171Batavia 1732. Contemporary blue wrappers. 4to. Rare first edition probably printed in Batavia of the sentence against Mr. Petrus Vuyst Governor of Ceylon between 1726 and 1729 pronounced by the Council of Justice at Batavia on 19 May 1732. Vuyst had sentenced 19 innocent people to death and mistreated and tortured many others. He faced trial for these severe charges was found guilty and consequently executed at Batavia's castle on 3 June 1732.Three other editions appeared in Holland all printed after this original edition "Na een origineel Copy van Batavia zoo en gelyk het den gevangene is voorgelese" Landwehr 1012-1014. Very good copy.l Landwehr & V.d. Krogt VOC 1011; STCN 2 copies; cf. Knuttel 16915-16916. unknown
1697Best.-Nr. F7UEAGCAXE78Copy imprint: The Hague: widow and heirs of Hillebrandt Jacobsz. van Wouw 1697. Modern plain-paper wrapper attached with 3 copper staples. 4to. With the woodcut arms of the States General lion with sword and 7 arrows in an elaborately decorated cartouche with military attributes on title-page and 1 woodcut decorated initial. A late edition copying the original 1645 imprint of a provisional agreement made between the Dutch States General and the Portuguese ambassador Francisco de Zousa Continho on the jurisdiction and territory of Fort Galle one of the most important outposts in Ceylon Sri Lanka one of the most important outposts both strategically and as a trading centre. The Dutch had captured it from the Portuguese in 1640 and they had been fighting in the region since that time. As the Eighty Years' War was nearing its conclusion the present treaty was written in an attempt to settle the dispute. The dispute in fact continued beyond the peace of 1648 until the Dutch managed to drive the rest of the Portuguese out of Ceylon by 1658. The treaty notes the losses and battles caused by the dispute between the two powers and the demands made by the Dutch government to secure their position in the East Indies. This includes their demand for a yearly supply of cinnamon through which the Portuguese are to pay off their debt and restitution by both parties for the losses they caused one another. The parties agree to honor the treaty and not trespass on each other's rights and territories. Copies were to be sent to the Viceroy in Goa and to various governors in the East Indies.With library stamps. In very good condition.l STCN 2 copies; cf. Knuttel 5202 & 5202b other eds.; Landwehr 242 other ed. widow and heirs of Hillebrandt Jacobsz. van Wouw, unknown
Best.-Nr. 3738627383.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2021Best.-Nr. DADAX1913087026Edward Everett Root 2021-03-31. hardcover. New. 6.29x0.77x9.48. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Edward Everett Root hardcover
Best.-Nr. DADAX3631644582Peter Lang Gmbh Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften 2014-06-16. New. hardcover. New. 5.83x0.75x8.27. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften hardcover
Best.-Nr. 46050London : CIGM c.1920. Wooden box 152 x 80 x 70 mm with chromolithographic label on five sides one illustrated; surface wear commensurate with extensive use. The Ceylon and India General Mission CIGM was a non-denominational organisation founded in 1892. Initially its evangelical work was carried out among Ceylon’s Sinhalese Buddhists and Tamil Hindus but its operations soon expanded from Ceylon into South India and then throughout whole of the subcontinent. Eventually missions were established as far away as the Philippines. CIGM merged with the Poona & Indian Village Mission PIVM to become the International Christian Fellowship ICF which in turn merged with SIM in 1989. unknown
2014Best.-Nr. __6055815338Dirimart 2014. Hardcover. New. special edition. 100 pages. 4.92x7.99x1.90 inches. Dirimart hardcover
1938Best.-Nr. A64521Colombo: Ceylon Government Press 1938. Second Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket. Hardcover Hardcover. Good. Second Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket. 8vo. Commonwealth Office Library copy with copious correction slips and notes added in and with corrections and updates in ink in text. Ex British Foreign Office library with a few library markings else VG. Ceylon Government Press, hardcover
2011Best.-Nr. C105764Bologna / Istanbul: Galerist And Damiani 2011. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. 184 pages; in English and Turkish. Photography some erotic. Copiously illustrated in colour. Original publisher's white boards lettered silver on cover. Clean very good indeed in similar jacket. Bump at lower corner with some slight creasing topage corners not affecting text or illus. Galerist And Damiani, hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1845646304.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 631441924. Oblong folio. 19.5 x 29 cm. Contemporary grey cloth grey endpapers spine with manuscript title "Ceylon II". Each page with date February-April 1924. 95 black & white photographs including one panoramic view of Galle on 12 leaves of card each photograph with manuscript captions and measuring c.6 x 10 cm. The final 30 photographs being of Egypt and Europe. Some minimal fading to photographs generally a very handsome album. The photographs depict show a variety of subjects including ancient ruins natural scenery schools the native population and colonial past times like tennis and the races. 1924. hardcover
1900Best.-Nr. 316899London: Sampson Low Marston and Company Limited St. Dunstan s House 1900. First Edition. Illustrated with photos by the Author and full-page partially colored map. xii 474 ii pp. 8vo. Bound in half brown polished calf marbled paper sides red leather title label a.e.g. Fine. First Edition. Illustrated with photos by the Author and full-page partially colored map. xii 474 ii pp. 8vo. Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited, St. Dunstan s House unknown
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2018Best.-Nr. 053036Erzurum: Atatürk Üniversitesi Yayinlari 2018. Hardcover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original bdg. HC. 4to. 28 x 20 cm. In English and Turkish. 295 9 p. many unnumbered color and b/w plates and maps. Kars fortresses in ancient time.= Eskiçag'da Kars kaleleri. Atatürk Üniversitesi Yayinlari hardcover
2018Best.-Nr. 053035Erzurum: Atatürk Üniversitesi Yayinlari 2018. Hardcover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original bdg. HC. 4to. 28 x 20 cm. In English and Turkish. 176 12 p. many unnumbered color and b/w ills. and maps. Igdir fortresses in ancient time.= Eskiçag'da Igdir kaleleri. Atatürk Üniversitesi Yayinlari hardcover
2018Best.-Nr. 053034Erzurum: Atatürk Üniversitesi Yayinlari 2018. Hardcover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original bdg. HC. 4to. 28 x 20 cm. In English and Turkish. 467 19 p. many unnumbered color and b/w plates and maps. Ancient time fortresses of Erzurum.= Erzurum'un eskiçag kaleleri. Atatürk Üniversitesi Yayinlari hardcover
2020Best.-Nr. 053023Istanbul: Dirimart Yayinlari 2020. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original bdg. HC. 4to. 29 x 23 cm. In English French and Turkish. 224 p. b/w photographs. Turkey cinemaskope.= Turquie cinemascope.= Sinemaskop Türkiye. 100 panoramic photographs of Turkey by Nuri Bilge Ceylan between the years 2003 and 2009. Second Edition. Dirimart Yayinlari hardcover
1994Best.-Nr. 144424New Delhi: Asian Educational Services 1994. 1st ed. thus. Nice copy. octavo. laminated boards xvi 424 viii 432pp. fldg. map appendix indexes Facsimile near reprint of the 1876 original. Usual Indian quality but quite a nice copy Asian Educational Services hardcover
2012Best.-Nr. 042933Kirsehir: AEÜ: Ahilik Kültürünü Arastirma ve Uygulama Merkezi 2012. Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Roy. 8vo. 24 x 17 cm. Papers in English and Turkish. 2 volumes set: xLix viii 1037 p. The 2nd International Symposium of Akhism. Proceedings.= II. Uluslararasi Ahilik Sempozyumu. Bildiriler. 19-20 Semtember 2012 Kirsehir - Türkiye. 2 volumes set. AEÜ: Ahilik Kültürünü Arastirma ve Uygulama Merkezi paperback
2009Best.-Nr. 024421Istanbul: Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi 2009. Limited Edition . Soft cover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Paperback. Pbo. 4to. 29 x 23 cm. B/w and color ills. 256 p. In Turkish and English. 1000 copies were printed. Exhibition's Exhibition. Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum 1937 Opening Collection.= Serginin Sergisi. Istanbul Resim ve Heykel Müzesi 1937 Açilis Koleksiyonu. TURKISH PAINTING History of arts Exhibition. Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi paperback
