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![]() | HEUVEL, Eric and MOK Ineke Quaco. Leven in slavernij. Zutphen, Walburg Pers (2015) 64pp. Fine in card covers. Cartoon strip story. Quaco was a boy when he was kidnapped and sold to the captain of a slave ship. He landed in Paramaribo on the estate of the wealthy plantation owner and administrator Walter Kennedy. Quaco became Kennedy's footboy and was later 'lent' to the army captain John Gabriel Stedman, whose task was to hunt down runaway slaves. | £7.00 |
![]() | VAN BINNENDIJK Chandra and FABER Paul Twenty Years of Visual Art in Suriname 1975-1995 Amsterdam (1995) 112 large pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £18.00 |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | HALBERSTADT A. Kolonisatie van Europeanen te Suriname. - Opheffing van het Pauperisme, ontwikkeling van Handel en Industrie, met ongeveer 90 platen. Leiden (1871) xi + 130 large pp + index (2) + with 49 lithographed plates by Madou and Lauters after P. J. Benoit. 1st ed., some light foxing but overall clean in old quarter cloth with marbled boards, rebacked with new end papers. Fine views of daily life in Suriname including street scenes and local businesses. Very scarce. | £1,200.00 |
![]() | FORTMAN B. DE and MENKMAN W.R. & HUMMELINCK P.W. De West Indische Gids. - April, July and October 1951 and July 1959 issues. Martinus Nijhoff (1951-9) 4 magazines, clean in card covers. 192 + 76pp + plates. Artilces on Curacao and Suriname. | £16.00 |
![]() | FORTMAN B. DE and MENKMAN W.R. & HUMMELINCK P.W. Overdruk uit De West Indische Gids. - Deel 32 Afl 3, 33 Afl 3-4, 35 Afl 3 and 37 Afl 2-4 Martinus Nijhoff 4 magazines, clean in card covers. 35pp. Artilces on Suriname. | £6.00 |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | STEDMAN Cap. J.G. Narrative of a five years' expedition against the revolted negroes of Surinam - in Guiana on the wild coast of South America from the years 1772 to 1777. Elucidating the history of that country and describing its productions.. London (1806) 2 vols. 4to, 2 engraved titles both with handcoloured vignettes of ships at sea and 81 coloured engravings including 3 plates engraved by William Blake. 2nd ed., large paper copy. Very fine in contemporary tree calf, rebacked with old backs laid down, red and black letter pieces. (Watermarks on paper: text 1796, plates, 1794, J. Whatman paper). The Large Paper copy of which only a few were printed was published coloured at £5.5s as opposed to the plain issue on ordinary paper at £3.3s. Abbey 719, Sabin 91075 | £14,000.00 |
![]() | KISSACK Report for the year 1913 on the trade of Surinam. - Edited at the Foreign Office and the Board of Trade. H.M.S.O. (1915) 10pp. Two small library h/s's otherwise clean in paper covers. | £8.00 |
![]() | SURINAME Netherlands Guiana Tourist Association for Netherlands Guiana at Paramaribo (n.d.) 36pp + ads. Mostly clean in pictorial card covers. Guide to the colony with many photo illustrations. | £32.00 |
![]() ![]() | VILLIERS-STUART H. Adventures amidst equatorial forests and rivers of South America; - Also in the West Indies and the wilds of Florida. To which is added 'Jamaica revisited.' John Murray, London (1891) 268 + xxi pp + plates and folding map. 8vo. Slightly shaken in original very worn pictorial cloth. The author was a liberal politician and an adventurous traveller. This volume covers his travels in Surinam, the Orinoco, Florida and the Caribbean with much on Jamaica. Attractive line drawings. | £100.00 |
![]() ![]() ![]() | WEISS H. Vier maanden in Suriname. Nijkerk (1915) viii + 166 + folding map. 1st ed., clean in original cloth. Fine illustrated guide to the former Dutch colony with many attractive photo views. | £55.00 |
![]() ![]() ![]() | WEISS H. Vier maanden in Suriname. Nijkerk (1915) viii + 166 + folding map. 1st ed., clean in original worn card covers. Fine illustrated guide to the former Dutch colony with many attractive photo views. | £35.00 |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | MARTIN K. Westindische skizzen. - Reise-erinnerungen. Leiden (1887) 186 large pp + 22 tinted litho plates and folding map. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Expedition through Suriname, Curacao, Aruba, Bonaire and Venezuela with much on flora and fauna and archaeology illustrated with lovely tinted plates. | £50.00 |
![]() | IJZERMAN Dr R. Outline of the Geology and Petrology of Surinam (Dutch Guiana). Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague (1931) xv + 519pp + 48 photo plates + 2 folding maps in rear pocket. 1st ed., very fine in original red. cloth. | £85.00 |
![]() ![]() | MORPURGO E.J. Surinaamshce Almanak - voor het jaar 1895. Paramaribo (1889) 222pp + xxii advertisments. 1st ed., fine in orig. decorated cloth, shaken with two loose pages. | £125.00 |
![]() ![]() | MORPURGO E.J. Surinaamshce Almanak - voor het jaar 1890. Paramaribo (1889) 175pp + xxxxvii advertisments. 1st ed., fine in orig. decorated cloth, shaken. | £125.00 |
![]() | GEIJSKES D.C. and PAIN T. Suriname freshwater snails of the genus Pomacae. Utrecht (1957) 8pp + 3 plates. Clean in card covers. | £4.00 |
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