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MULLER, S. - Geschiedenis der Noordsche Compagnie.

 1567992314,
Utrecht, Gebr. van der Post, 1874. Later half cloth (with small label and tape on frontcover). With folding coloured map. X,435 pp. The Northern Company, was a Dutch cartel in the whaling trade, founded by several cities in the Netherlands in 1614 and operating until 1642. Soon after its founding, it became entangled in territorial conflicts with England, Denmark, France, and other groups within the Netherlands. Contains its organization, whaling and trading activities in Greenland and West Spitsbergen, being an outline of Netherlands'explorations and whaling in Arctic seas in the 16-17th centuries. The appendices contain documents and extracts from logs. - (Library stamp). - Scarce. Tiele 774; Cat. NHSM II, p.902; Arctic Bibl. 11844.
EUR 192.50 [Appr.: US$ 225.89 | £UK 167.25 | JP¥ 33234] Book number 9443

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