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180420204AB1804. Vienna Doll 1804. 21 : 135 cm. Titel 452 pages 2 engraved platges 1 many-folded map. Contemporary boards 2 back labels. First German edition of the Account of the Island of Ceylon 1803. Published at the same time as the Weimar edition but with the addition of the two engravings depicting the natives and pearl fishing. - "Percival lived in Ceylon for three years as an English colonial officer. Here he provides a regional description of the island covering the nature of the country as well as the population and economy and the colonial history to date" Griep/L. Includes an addition by the translator on pearl fishing.- Binding stained and rubbed inside fine. hardcover
62771c.1875. . Albumen print. Very good tonal range and in good condition pasted on original mount. Dimensions: 214 x 269mm. 8.5 x 10.6 inches.<br /> <br /> [c.1875]. unknown
260101964 to 1972. Cymru Plantation Dimbula Ceylon Sri Lanka. The Cymru Estate in Dimbula was established in 1870. The invaluable ‘History of Ceylon Tea’ website only has data regarding the estate up to the year 1929. The present item provides a mass of statistical information for the years 1964 to 1972. It is entirely in manuscript in several hands and comprises 73pp 16mo written with portrait orientation in a 12.5 x 8 cm ruled notebook with 69pp in blue and red ink at the front and the other four pages in pencil at the back. In rough black cloth with brown patterned endpapers and cloth pencil-holder. Internally in good condition lightly aged in heavily-worn covers. The plantation was clearly a substantial concern: at 1 May 1964 the number of ‘Workers on Cymru’ is given as 737 with breakdown for ‘U. D.’ meaning unclear and ‘LD’ i.e. ‘Labour Day - Fridays’ and with a similar breakdown for ‘Non-Workers’ total 527 and details of ‘Labour per acre’ and ‘Workers live room’. A further breakdown of men and women workers UD and LD is given on 29 February 1968 with a total of 352 men and 322 women. The final page gives a useful list under the heading ‘OUTPUT’ ‘Optimum Crop 12000 lbs.’ of the aspects involved in the running of such a concern. These include spreading tatting rolling roll breaking fermenting sifting packing stencilling also ‘On overtime’. The notebook is entirely statistical in nature apart from a four-page list of instructions for the cultivation of ‘Coffee Arabica’ a page of ‘Bees Instructions’ and a page headed ‘Formula for pre-mix for light traffic’ as well as lists of native names of native ‘Field Staff’ both on ‘Labour. Day.’ and ‘U. D.’ Also several lists of names of employees with job descriptions planting mistblowing compost pruning storekeeper field officer ‘Creeper’ ‘Sen. Asst Clk - Rice store’ ‘Driver Cymru’ ‘boys weeding’ with some marked as ‘Ret’ retired or ‘Dis.’ dismissed. Although the information relates to the Cymru Estate mention is made of Kangales and Tangakelle. Details are given of employment wages ‘Bonuses - Excess Rates’ manuring including breakdowns for various ‘Manure Mixtures’ pruning weeding plucking nursery planting sifting estimates. Numerous tables including two full double-page ones: ‘Cymru - Manuring / Pruning Programme 64 1964’ and ‘Manuring & Pruning Programme 1965’. Also a two-page table of ‘Clonal Clearings’; four pages of statistics on ‘Sifting Gookookoya’; and full-page tables for ‘Rolling Programme’ and on adjoining pages ‘Lower Division’ and ‘Upper Division’ with nine columns headed: Fld Acs Weed Contr Jat. date of Prune Total Nitro AM Due in pencil: ‘Urea / April’ Last Yield Weed. Another table of ‘Plucking Cost Per M. T. / Yield Ra.’ Loosely inserted are two leaves one on a page torn from a calendar dated 31 March 1973. 1964 to 1972. Cymru Plantation, Dimbula, Ceylon [Sri Lanka]. hardcover
189044332London 1890. Small 12mo pp. 40; lexicon in triple column; original glazed pictorial wrappers; adverts on endpapers and lower cover - that inside the upper cover an ad for Mazawattee Coffee. Very good. The lexicon occupies 38 pages triple column. The last leaf contains the essay "The Truth About Tea." Wellcome Library only in OCLC with variant wrappers. No other editions located. Not in Vancil. unknown
201195483Damiani. New. 2011. Hardcover. 8862081731 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in Turkish and English. 184 pp. With 63 col. Ills. -- with a bonus offer-- . Damiani hardcover
1800ABC_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
1699ABC_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
2009018683Istanbul: NTV Yayinlari 2009. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. Original bdg. In the original case. Oblong elephant folio. 49 x 34 cm. In English and Turkish. Very heavy volume. 1000 copies were printed. Numbered edition. Panoramic photographs of Turkey by Nuri Bilge Ceylan between the years 2003 and 2009 has been published by NTV in December 2009. Turkey cinemascope.= Sinemaskop Türkiye. Text by Yildirim Türker. Album of photographs. <br/> <br/> NTV Yayinlari hardcover
173218171Batavia 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
1903LCCDKE4XUWG9Batavia: 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
