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Below is a list of my stock of old secondhand and antiquarian books on Curacao for sale.
Books for sale on the Netherlands Antilles, made up of Bonaire, Curacao, Saba and St Eustatius and also Aruba.
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CURACAO Bibliografie van de Nederlandse Antillen. Unknown. 1975. 271pp, fine in card covers. CURACAO001467 £16
DE LOOS Dr D. Voortbrengselen van Nederlandsch West-Indie. Haarlem. 1900 (circa). 105pp. 1st ed., fine in damaged paper covers. Listing of plants on the islands.DELOOSDR008251 £15
HALL E.T. The Spanish Main; or, thirty days on the Caribbean. Courier Co., Buffalo. 1888. 139pp. 1st ed., lacking f.e.p. otherwise clean in worn pictorial cloth. Much on Curacao and a chapter on Caracas. Many fine engraved views of Curacao.HALLET009004 £150
HISS P.H. Netherlands America. The Dutch territories in the West. Duell, Sloan & Pearce, New York. 1943. 225pp + many photo plates. 1st ed., fine in orig. blue cloth. Description and history of Dutch colonies with many fine photo plates. Recommended.HISSPH011590 £25
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.MARTINK005485 £100
ROBINSON W. A Flying Trip to the Tropics. A record of an ornithological visit to the United States of Colombia, South America and the island of Curacao, West Indies in the year 1892. Cambridge. 1895. x + 194pp + 4 coloured plates and many line drawings and two folded maps. 1st ed., fine in worn originial pictorial cloth, slightly shaken. Includes 4 fine coloured chromolitho plates. Much on Curacao including fine folding coloured map and some photo plates of island views.ROBINSON018164 £350
VAN BALEN W.J. Ons Gebiedsdeel Curacao. Haarlem. 1938. 148pp + plates and ads. Lacking front e.p., otherwise fine in orig. cloth. Well illustrated guide.VANBALEN005793 £16
VAN KOL H. Naar de Antillen en Venezuela. Leiden. 1904. 551 large pp + 3 folding maps. 1st ed., fine in orig. cloth. Description of the Caribbean, mostly on the Dutch islands with photo illusts.VANKOLH005512 £90