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[WIC - COPYE]. - Copye. van seker articulen beraemt inde vergaderinghe vande bewindthebberen, ende gecommitteerde der hooft-participanten vande West-Indische Compagnie, binnen Amsterdam.[Amsterdam?], 1623. Small 4to. Sewn through 2 holes in a modern (ca. 1900?) reddish-brown paper wrapper.

Title: Copye. van seker articulen beraemt inde vergaderinghe vande bewindthebberen, ende gecommitteerde der hooft-participanten vande West-Indische Compagnie, binnen Amsterdam.[Amsterdam?], 1623. Small 4to. Sewn through 2 holes in a modern (ca. 1900?) reddish-brown paper wrapper.
Description: [8] pp.Fifth copy located of the first and only edition of an account of some additions made in 1623 to the 1621 charter of the Dutch West India Company (WIC), presented to encourage potential shareholders to join in the venture. In particular, it presents the suggestions made by the major shareholders who negotiated to convince the States General to make the additions. Facing the opening of the main text is a letter from the Hague, dated 16 May [1623] and referring to two publications (or two texts in a single publication) that had appeared in March: an expanded charter of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and a discourse inviting the shareholders of the VOC to also take shares in the WIC. It also refers to related meetings that are to be held on 1 and 18 July [1623]. It must therefore have been published around June 1623, about six months before the WIC’s fleet set off on its first major expedition, which led to the short-lived capture of Bahia in Brazil in 1624.Showing some wear in the gutter folds, but generally in very good condition. An extremely rare pamphlet showing early workings of the WIC, balancing the interests of the shareholders, directors and the Dutch government.l Alden & Landis 623/87 (2 copies); Knuttel 3427; Petit 1404; O. van Rees, Geschiendis der staathuishoudkunde in Nederland (1868), vol. 2, p. 131, note 1; Sabin 16731; STCN 861567641 (3 copies); WorldCat 71732970 (2 copies); not in Borba de Moraes; Bosch; Broekema; JCB; Rodrigues; Rogge; Tiele/Muller; Wulp; Zijlstra.

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Price: EUR 750.00 = appr. US$ 815.14 Seller: A. Asher & Co. B.V.
- Book number: ABC_47381