Author: CONSCIENCE, HENDRIK (1812-181893),
Title: Batavia. Historisch tafereel uit de XVIIe eeuw. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Antwerpen, Van Dieren, 1858. 3 vols. Small 8°, marbled boards, cloth spines, 174, 140, 107pp., 3 frontisps. & 9 other plates, all after drawings by ED. DUJARDIN.fBUUR, PD., 68. Novel on the history of the foundation of Batavia by the Dutch (:=Jacatra), by J.Pzn. Coen, the siege of Jacatra by Sultan Agung (:Mataram). Rare. (some pp. of vol. 1 loose, occas. foxing throughout).

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