Author: PAKHAN (= HAN DEHNE],
Title: Jan Stolze: Kapitein-Luitenant ter Zee bij de Koloniale Marine 1795-1854. Een tijdsbeeld van zijn leven in de Bataafsche Republiek en Nederlands Indië. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Heerhugowaard, GigaBoek, [..], 2007. Small 8°. Original limp glossy wrappers, Covertitle, coloured portrait and an illustration. 145pp. Many captioned monochrome facsim. illustrations, incl. family portraits, some facsim. sketch-maps in text, 1 full page facsim. map, list of literature consulted, synopsis printed on lower outer cover Dutch language 'biography' in which a picture is painted of Jan Stolze Dutch colonial Navy Officer, serving under the rule of the Batavian Republic and King William I, in the Dutch East Indies, commodore of a flotilla of warships in the fight against buccaneers, which includes his position of a hydrographed discovering a STrait later named after him:Stolze Strait. An interesting piece of dutch Southeast Asian maritime history. Very fine copy.

Keywords: dutch maritime history stolze biography navy officer commander piracy buccaneers discovery lifetime bataatsche republic colonialism navy naval indonesia southeastasia hydrography hydrographer strait