Author: OTTOW, W.M.,
Title: Rijckloff Volckertsz. van Goens. De Carrière van een Diplomaat, 1619-1655. [Original thesis Utrecht University].
Description: Utrecht, Pressa Trajectina, 1954. Original printed wrappers. 248pp. Frontispiece (portrait of Van Goens, tipped-in by previous owner), 3 track-maps, extensive footnotes, appendices, registers, conclusion in english and tuch, table of contents. The diplomatic career of Rijckloff Volkertsz. van Goens, a top-emissary in the service of the Directors of the Dutch East India Company, who, for instance, suggested to abandon the Coromandel Coast settlements in favour of a new station at Jaffnapatma, Ceylon. This studu pursues the question, amongst politic recommendations, why, nevertheless, Van Goen's plans for Ceylon miscarried, is not answered in this study. Fine copy. (name-entry with an inventory number, on refct of f.e.p.).

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