Author: BUYSKES, A.A.
Title: Academisch Proefschrift over de Weeskamer en het Collegie van Boedelmeesteren te Batavia. [Original thesis Leyden University].
Description: Leyden, Gebrs. van der Hoek, 1861. Slim 8°, original printed wrappers, cover title printed within a broad decorative border. Hftitle (printer's imprint on verso). [2], 122, (18)pp., list of ordinances and special regulations for Trustees, errata on verso of final unnumbered leave, extensive footnotes, illustration of Pallas Athenae on lower outer cover. Scientitic dutch language inquiry into Batavia Orphan's Court and Trustees, including ordinances and regulations under V.O.C. Charter. Very good untrimmed copy. Scarce.

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