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[email protected] Visit our Web-page at http://www.gertjanbestebreurtje.com CATALOGUE 166: SUMMER MISCELLANEOUS Illustration on cover no.39: EXQUEMELIN, Alexandre Olivier. Historie der boecaniers, of vrybuyters van America. Amsterdam 1700 1 MUSEE DES FAMILLES. LECTURES DU SOIR. Tome 34. Paris, Bureaux de l'Administration, 1866-1867. 8vo. Contemporary half red morocco. With numerous woodengravings and 10 coloured fashion-plates. 380;94 pp. (p. 225 with tear). € 65,00 € 65,00 2 AHLBRINCK, Willem Gerardus. Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, behelzend taal, zeden en gewoonten dezer Indianen. Amsterdam, Koninlijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, 1931. Original printed wrappers (spine sl. damaged). With 160 pages with drawings by E. la Rose and photographic illustrations (some in colours). XIV,555 pp. € 375,00 € 375,00 Standard reference work on the Carib Indians living near the Marowijne/Maroni River in Suriname. - Scarce. 3 BAILEY, Rosalie Fellows. Pre- revolutionary Dutch houses and families in Northern New Jersey and Southern New York. With an introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt. New York, William Morrow & Company, 1936. 8vo. Original cloth. With 171 photographic plates. 612 pp. € 175,00 € 175,00 First edition. - Record of the manner of life of the early Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam. A large part of the text is devoted to the builders and inhabitants of their houses, to their births, marriages and deaths, to the size of their families, in other words to the genealogical side with occasional biographical sketches. - Printed in a limited edition of 666 numbered copies, prepared under the auspices of The Holland Society of New York.