KROHN, Deborah L. & Peter N. MILLER. (Ed.). - Dutch New York between East and West. The world of Margrieta van Varick.

New York, The New-York Historical Society, a.o., (2009). 4to. Original cloth, with dust-jacket. With many coloured illustrations. XXI,399 pp. 'This book explores the world of a fascinating woman, her family, and the possessions she accumulated over an eventful lifetime. Margrieta van Varick was born in 1649 in the Netherlands, but she spent many years at the extremes of the Dutch world - in Malacca on the Malay Peninsula and in Flatbush, now part of Brooklyn. She arrived in New York in 1686 with her husband, a Dutch reformed minister, and set up a textile shop. She brought an astonishing array of Eastern goods, many of which were documented in an inventory made after her death in 1695 '.

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