Aubert de La Chesnaye Des Bois, François-AlexandreLivre Rare Book
DU BOIS, Johann Peter IsaakBiblio.com
Vies des gouverneurs généraux avec labrégé de lhistoire des etablissements hollandois aux Indes Orientales; .Including: IMHOFF G.W. van. Considerations sur l'etat present de la compagnie hollandoise des Indes Orientales.
1763H6HAYCWCZD01The Hague: Pieter de Hondt 1763. 19th-century half cloth marbled sides. Royal 4to 27.5 x 22.5 cm. With 34 engraved plates namely 25 maps and plans 20 folding including plans of Nagasaki incl. Deshima Batavia Amboina and maps of Java Australia Ceylon the Cape of Good Hope Bali etc. 8 folding views of Ternate Neira Amboina Point de Galle Malaka Samboupo Batavia and the slaughter of the Chinese at Batavia and 1 giving the text of the Lord's Prayer in Sinhalese; 1 engraved allegorical headpiece and 28 numbered headpieces with portraits of the Gouvernors-General of the Dutch East Indies. All plates were drawn and presumably engraved by the artist and engraver Jacob van Schley 1715-1729. First edition of a richly illustrated history of the Dutch East Indian Company including the lives of all 28 Dutch Governors-General arranged chronologically from Pieter Both appointed in 1609 to Jacob Mossel appointed in 1752. The book ends with an interesting treatise on the actual state of the Dutch East Indies the VOC and the means to redress the causes of its decline in the last 50 years or so by the late Governor-General Gustaaf Willem Baron d'Imhoff 1705-1750 who was appointed Governor-General in 1740 and stayed in Batavia from 1742 to his death. The many interesting portraits maps plans and views are by the artist engraver and print-seller Jacobus van der Schley 1715-1779 a pupil of Bernard Picart. The book gives a wide variety of contemporary information on the Dutch East Indies as well on other Dutch colonies such as Ceylon Formosa Australia and the Cape of Good Hope. With an owner's stamp on the title-page. The title-page browned and with a small waterstain at the lower margin of the last 8 pages. Binding somewhat worn at the edges with two tears in the cloth on the back. Otherwise in good condition.l Cordier Indosinica cols. 1489-1490; Landwehr & V.d. Krogt VOC 1502; South African bibliography II p. 108. Pieter de Hondt, hardcover
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