Author: SWALUE, E(delhardus) B(ernardus). Title: De daden der Zeeuwen gedurende den opstand tegen Spanje.
Description: Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, 1846. Later half morocco, spine gilt. XVI,374,(1) pp. Edelhardus Bernardus Swalue (1806 - 1865) work was originally written for a competition of the Zeeuwsch Genootschap in 1837. It was not awarded a prize but was reworked and published in 1846. Mainly dealing with the Dutch West India Company. 'On the part the Zealanders had in the grand feats of this period, I need only mention the exploits of Banckerts and Evertsch on the Spanish Silverfleet, those of Ita, Banckerts and Callenfels at Olinda, the colonisation at the Wiapoco in Guyana, Tabago, etc. by the chamber of the West Ind. Company at Middelburgh, etc. - to show the interest of this volume for American history' (Muller, America, 3066). - (Age-browned). Cat. NHSM I, p.385.
Keywords: America WIC West India Company wic general
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