Author: GELDER, R. VAN,
Title: Het Oost-Indisch avontuur. Duitsers in dienst van de V.O.C. (1600-1800). Orig. edn.
Description: Nijmegen, SUN, 1997. Original coloured partly illustrated limp glossy wrappers. 335pp. Black/white illustrations in text, reproduced after old engravings, incl. portraits, some tables and graphs in text, sketch-maps in text, full-page and 1 double-page with extensive legenda, double-page diagram with table at tail listing 50 voyages of german East India Company voyages, appendices (bio-bibliography of 48 german East India Company servants; table of historigraphic studies on subject-matter), list of abbreviations used, sources and literature consulted, register of personal names, table of contents. A very well documented dutch language study into life and times of some 50 german servants to the Dutch East India Company V.O.C., their voyages by command of the V.O.C. during the seventeenth and eighteenth century in Southeas Asia under V.O.C. charter. Few studies on subject-matter are available, of great importance. Very good copy. (some minimal chafing to tail margin of front cover).

Keywords: v.o.c. voc dutch india company german servants voyages history culture heritage indonesia southeast asia ceylon coromandel servants