Author: MARRE, Jan de.
Title: Batavia, begrepen in zes boeken.
Description: Amsterdam, Adriaan Wor en de Erve G. Onder de Linden, 1740. 4to. Later vellum. With engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved title-vignette by J. Punt, engraved portrait after J.M. Quinhart by J. Houbraken (dated 1745), and folding plan of Batavia by J. van der Laan. (36),320,(6) pp. First edition. - Historical and topographical poem on the town of Batavia by Jan de Marre, who made a number of voyages to the East over a twenty-three year period for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Jan de Marre 'is wel de meest representatieve Companjiesdichter geworden onder allen, degeen wiens naam onmiddelik op de lippen komt, wanneer van deze bizondere poëzie sprake is, zoiets als de Valentijn van de gebonden taal' (Du Perron, Jan Companjie, p.153). Landwehr, VOC, 1547; Cat. KITLV p.260; Nieuwenhuys, O.I.Spiegel, p.47.
Keywords: Batavia Dutch travel Indonesia Indonesia belletrie Java
Title: Batavia, begrepen in zes boeken.
Description: Amsterdam, Adriaan Wor en de Erve G. Onder de Linden, 1740. 4to. Later vellum. With engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved title-vignette by J. Punt, engraved portrait after J.M. Quinhart by J. Houbraken (dated 1745), and folding plan of Batavia by J. van der Laan. (36),320,(6) pp. First edition. - Historical and topographical poem on the town of Batavia by Jan de Marre, who made a number of voyages to the East over a twenty-three year period for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Jan de Marre 'is wel de meest representatieve Companjiesdichter geworden onder allen, degeen wiens naam onmiddelik op de lippen komt, wanneer van deze bizondere poëzie sprake is, zoiets als de Valentijn van de gebonden taal' (Du Perron, Jan Companjie, p.153). Landwehr, VOC, 1547; Cat. KITLV p.260; Nieuwenhuys, O.I.Spiegel, p.47.
Keywords: Batavia Dutch travel Indonesia Indonesia belletrie Java
Price: EUR 1375.00 = appr. US$ 1494.41 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 7279
- Book number: 7279