Author: HABIBOE, R.R.F.,
Title: Tot verheffing van mijn Natie. Het leven en werk van François Valentijn (1666-1726). [Eerste druk/first edition].
Description: Franeker, Van Wijnen, 2004. Narrow folio, original printed boards, large circular portrait of François Valentijn in centre of front boards. 158pp. Many black/white illustrations in text, full-page and double-page, incl. some portraits, all facsims. after old eighteenth century engravings, table of contents to Valentijn's magnum opus Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën(Amsterdam/Dordrecht, 1724-1726), archivalia, list of literature, notes to general text, list of abbreviations used, concise index to geographical- and personal names appearing in main work, name-list of subscribers to the facsim. reprint edition of Valentijn's magnum opus, table of contents. This supplementary volume can be considered as a supplement and a concise index to the facsim. reprint edition of François Valentijn's Magnum Opus Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën orig. publ. Amsterdam-Dordrecht, 1724-1726. (Franeker, 2002). It contains an extensive biography to Valentijn, a dutch protestant minister. Besides an extensive review of Valentijn's working life and travels to and fro dutch colonial Indonesia, it contains chapters of his missionary work on the Moluccas, Batavia and Eastern Java, the [theological] controversy between Valentijn and Leydecker, his dismissal as a protestant minister, Valentijn's literary work and the publication of Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën, plagiarism or compilation, other literary production, auction-catalogue of Valentijn's private library. Fine copy.

Keywords: françois valentijn biography life literary work mission moluccas batavia java theology religion christianization history culture heritage colonialism voc indonesia southeast asia dordrecht