Rost, Johannes Leonhardus.
Beginselen der waare sterrekunde: Door welke men niet alleen op eene zeer gemakkelyke wyze komen kan tot de kennis dier noodige wtenschap; Maar tegelyk ook tot een regtmatig begrip van den waaren grondslag der Geographie, en Zeevaart.
Haarlem; 1748; Jan Bosch. Full calf binding; spine with gilt red label and five raised bands.Compartments with gilt floral ornaments. Title page printed in red and black; 26 folded plates with 115 illustrations; marbled endpapers(24), 484, (46) pp.
Very rare and well preserved first and only Dutch edition, translated from German: "Atlas Portatilis Coelestis, oder compendiöse Vorstellung des gantzen Welt-Gebäudes in den Anfangs-Gründen der wahren Astronomie".
[34742]Roscoe, Theodore.
United States Operations in World War II.
Annapolis; 1950; United States Naval Institute; hardbound cloth; quarto; designed and illustrated by Lieut. Comdr. Fred Freeman, USNR, photographs by the U.S. navy; third printing; index; XX, 575 pp.
Near fine copy. Inscription on title page.
[37436]Roelink, J. Vlissinger Michiel. Nijkerk; z.j.; G.F. Callenbach; illustraties van Jan Lutz; 93 p. [2361]
Quellenburghs, Henrick van.
Vindiciae Batavicae ofte Refutatie van het Tractaet van J.B. Tavernier, Chevalier, Baron d'Aubonne &c. In de welcke niet alleen de valsheydt van veele Lasteren ende leugenen, den Staet, de Ed. Hoogh Achtb. Compagnie ende de natie aangevreven, werdt aengewesen, maar oock light gegeven in veele saecken in d'Asiatische Gewesten voorgevallen, welcke kennisse geven aen die geene die haer vermaeck ende nut soecken te trecken uyt het lesen der Indische Voyagien
Amsterdam; 1684; Jan Bouman. Engraved frontisp.; vellum; (60, 318 (2) pp. With large folded map of Batavia.(repaired tear in upper left corner). Landwehr, VOC, 1577; Tiele 1081. Refutation of J.B. Tavernier's "Historie van 't Beleit der Hollanders in Asia", a chronique scandaleuse of some Governors-General and other VOC officials, a chapter of "De zes reisen "the Dutch edition of the French original, published in 1682" (Landwehr)
Partly foxed but otherwise a very good copy of a rare work.
[38579]Prins, J.W.P..
De nautische veiligheid en vlotheid en de maritieme toegankelijkheid in het Schelde-estuarium; bestuur, beleid en beheer met betrekking tot de zeescheepvaart en de vaarwegen in een maritiem overgangsgebied tussen zee en rivier.
IJzendijke; 2003; eigen beheer; softcover; academisch proefschrift; ill., grafieken, tabellen; 375 p.
[28917]Posthumus Meyjes, R..
De reis van Joris van Spilbergen door Straat Magalhães naar Oost-Indië en terug rond Zuid-Afrika in 1614-1617.
Amsterdam; 1952; J.H. de Bussy; goudbedrukt linnen; 8vo; bevat het journaal der reis van 1614/7, overgenomen uit "den Oost ende West-Indische Spiegel"; meest uitslaande, platen en kaarten; persoonsregister; XXXIX, 239 p.
2 Bladzijden los in de band. Ex libris aan de binnenkant van de band.
[28084]Pielat, Barthelemy. La vie et les Actions memorables du Sr. Michel De Ruyter, Duc, Chevalier, & Lieutenant Amiral General des Provinces Unies. Sur l'Imprimé à Amsterdam. Rouen; 1678; (second edition); Jacques Lucas; with woodengraved portrait; gilt printed leather; (16), 362, 192 pp. 2 Parts in one binding. Binding with signs of wear. Rare biography which appeared before the famous biography of Gerard Brandt (in 1687)! [17507]
Personeelsorgaan der n.v. Koninklijke Maatschappij 'De Schelde' te Vlissingen 28 juni 1957. Vlissingen; 1957; Kon. Mij. De Schelde; ill.; 24 p. Extra nr. t.g.v. de De Ruyter-herdenking. [4687]
Penning, L.
Het leven van Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruyter aan het Nederlandsche volk verhaald.
Rotterdam; zonder jaar; J.M. Bredée; harde kaft, gebonden in linnen; ill. in zwart wit; afstammingslijst; 309 p.
Goed exemplaar. Lichte rimpeling onderzijde voorplat en bovenzijde achterplat.
[37195]Ottsen, Hendrik & J.W. IJzerman.
Reizen in Zuid-Afrika in de Hollandse Tijd. Eerste deel: Tochten naar het Noorden 1652-1686. Met 3 kaarten en 9 platen. Tweede deel: Tochten naar het Noorden 1686-1806. Met een kaart en 12 platen. Derde deel: Tochten langs de Z.O.-Kust en naar het Oosten 1670-1752. Met 6 kaarten en 8 platen. Vierde deel: Tochten in het Kafferland 1776-1805. Met 1 kaart en 13 platen.
's-Gravenhage; deel 1, 2, 3: fotomechanische herdruk 1976; deel 4:1932; Martinus Nijhoff; deel:1, 2, 3 & 4 uitgegeven door E.C. Godée Molsbergen; deel 3:met inleiding van R. Posthumus Meyes; werken uitgegeven door De Linschoten-Vereeniging; deel XI, XII, XX, XXVI; deel 1: 3 uitvouwbare kaarten; deel 2: 1 uitv. kaart; deel 3: 3 uitv. kaarten; deel 4: 1 uitv. kaart; goud- en blindgestempelde linnen band; 17x25 cm.; 254, 306, 368, 366 p.
Vlekje op rug deel 3. Deel 4: hoeken vertonen lichte slijtage, schutbladen verkleurd, stempel op schutblad en titelpagina.
[17493]Oss, F.van (translater).
Christoffel Columbus en de Ontdekking der Nieuwe Wereld.
Brugge / Amsterdam; 1892; Desclée, De Brouwer & Cie / G. Borg; translated from french by F. van Oss; preface by J.W. Brouwers; ills. in b&w; 1 map in colour; gilt and blind stamped cloth; 16x24 cm.; 194 pp.
Cloth showes slight traces of wear. Stamp on endpaper.
[17888]No author.
The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. XCV- from January to June 1903.
London; 1903; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: express locomotive South-Eastern and Chatham Railway (Mr. Harry S. Wainwright, Ashford, engineer), with a folding supplement with plans and fig.; Messrs. Yarrow and Company's Works at Poplar, with ills.; Dover harbour works, with ills.; horse ploughs, with ills.; the Great Eastern Railway Company's Works at Stratford, with ills.; London United Electric Tramways Limited at Chiswick, with ills.; South African railway men, with ills.; H.M.S. "Commonwealth" (the Fairfield Shipbuilding Company, Glasgow, builders), with ills.; the Paderno viaduct, with ills.; French racing motor cars, with ills.; bridges destroyed by the Boers, with ills.; express locomotive Midland Railway (Mr. Samuel Johnstone, Derby, engineer), with a folding, woodengraved, view of the locomotive; 5,000 horse-power quadruple-expansion engines of the Orient-Pacific Liner "Orontes", with a folding, woodengraved, view of the engines; index; XVI, 664 pp.
Former library copy. Upper left corner backcover chipped.
[26217]No author.
The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. XCIX- from January to June 1905.
London; 1905; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: the Baltic fleet, some typical vessels, with ills.; the building of the Japanese battleship "Kashima" (Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne, builders), with, i.a., a double page supplement with ills.; Larkhall and Stonehouse viaducts, Caledonian Railway, with folding supplement with plans and fig.; compound express locomotive, Great Northern Railway (Mr. H.A. Ivatt, Doncaster, engineer), with a folding, woodengraved, view of the locomotive; Cargo Fleet Ironworks Furnaces and Coke Ovens, with double page supplement with ills.; four cylinder compound express locomotive Bavarian State Railways (Herr J.A. Maffei, Munich, engineer), with a folding, woodengraved, view of the locomotive; Hotchkiss six-pounder semi-automatic gun (Hotchkiss Ordnance Company, London, engineers), with ills.; Italian battleship "Regina Margherita", with a folding, woodengraved, view of the ship; index; XVI, 662 pp.
Former library copy.
[26221]No author.
The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. XCIII- from January to June 1902.
London; 1902; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: six-coupled express locomotive, Eastern Railway of France (M.L. Salomons, engineer, Eastern Works at Epernay, builders), with a double page supplement with a woodengraved view of the locomotive; twin-screw triple-expansion engines, s.s. Arundel (William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, engineers), with a folding, woodengraved, view of the engines; metre-gauge Fairlie engines, Burma Railway Company (the Vulcan Foundry Company, Newton-le-Willows, engineers), with a folding, woodengraved, view of the engines; peat fuel works, Stangfiorden, Norway, with ills.; eight-coupled coal engine, North Eastern Railway, with a folding, woodengraved, view of the engine; Electrolytic Alkali Works at Middlewich, with ills.; His Majesty's first class battleship "Queen" (constructed at Devonport dockyard), with a folding plate with a view of the ship; French self-propelled lorries, with ills.; compound narrow-gauge locomotive, Indian-Netherlands Railway, Java (Mr. B.A. Gratama, Java, engineer), with a view of the locomotive; index; XVI, 640 pp.
Former library copy.
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