Author: WEVER, D. DE (INTRODUCTION/COMMENT),
Title: Rijklof van Goens; Javaense Reyse. De bezoeken van een VOC-gezant aan het hof van ataram 1648-1654. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Amsterdam, Terra Incognita, 1995. Original coloured and illustrated limp glossy wrappers. 133pp. Black/white facsim. illustrations in text, including some portraits, after old engravings, facsim. plans (a.o. Craton ruins) and sketch maps in text and full page with legenda and keys, full page sketch map of java with legenda, notes to text, lists of sources consulted, incl. Archivalia, facsims. of original 1667 ti.-p. inside covers and in text, glossary javanese-dutch, including Royal javanese titles as noted by Van Goens, facsim. abstracts in seventeenth century dutch after the original publication, table of contents. Two original dutch planguage illustrated press clippings, reviews, loosely inserted. Dutch language assessment and comment to Javaense Reyse, reports by a famous seventeenth century Dutch East India Company emissary, Rijckloff Volkertsz. Van Goens, to the Mataram Court (Amenkurat I), including comments to facsim. abstracts after the original 1667 publication, e.g. 4 major components from Javaense Reyse, Amengkurat I, his principality and major policies in historic perspective, women at the Mataram Court, characteristics of the Javanese, Van Goens' admiration of the Javanese landscape, VOC policies. Very fine copy.

Keywords: dutch eastindia company voc policy emissary history amengkurat mataram java politics administration women courtlife craton kraton abstracts characteristics colonialism indonesia southeast asia