Author: HUIJBERS, H.F.M.,
Title: Een Kranig Hollander. Jan Pieterszoon Coen. De stichter van Batavia. Original edition.
Description: Rotterdam, Bolle, [circa], 1895. Small 8°., original cloth, title printed on front boards withing a broad elaborate decorated coloured border. 203pp. Frontispiece (portrait of Coen). [Bruna's historische Bibliotheek]. Biography to Jan Pieterszoon Coen, 3rd. appointed Governor-General to seventeenth century Indonesia under V.O.C.-charter. Founder of Jacatra [Batavia] and what's more stimulator of the presence of the Dutch East India Company in Indonesia, strong opponent of the British East India Company, securing V.O.C. monopolies of the spice-trade. A much underestimated and neglected nineteenth century biography. Very fine copy in orig. decorated publ. cloth.

Keywords: batavia jacatra coen history biography dutch east india company v.o.c. voc heritage charter rule governor colonialism indonesia southeast asia