Author: LOUWERSE, P.,
Title: Krijgsman en Koopman of hoe het eiland Formosa voor de O.-I. Compagnie verloren ging. Geschiedkundig verhaal voor oud en jong Nederland. First edn. [with a preface by author].
Description: Leiden, A.W. Sijthoff, s.d. [..], 1894. small 8°. Orig. cloth, elaborate gilt decorations, incl. title, on front boards, within a broad black ornamented border, title in gilt on spine. Hftitle (verso with col. lithographed frontispiece), (viii), 188pp. coloured lithographed frontispiece, 3 other col. lithographed plates, table of contents. BUUR, I.J. 0148 (Calls for a xeroxed copy in the holdings of the Royal Institue of Linguistics and Anthropology, KITLV, only). SCAN AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. The story of the loss of Formosa (Taiwan) for the Dutch East India Company, V.O.C., as told for dutch juveniles and grown-ups, being the life and times of Frederick Coyett, last Governor-General of Formosa. The second edition of 1895 is listed in dutch National Bibliography, Brinkman only. Another edn, circa 1900, is called for in KITLV-holdings, in which author's preface is suppressed. A very nice copy in attractive orig. publ. cloth. Rare.

Keywords: formosa history dutch east india company juvenile youth literature v.o.c. coyett taiwan colonialism compagnie trade commerce war asia buur 19thc