DU BOIS (J.-P.-I.) - Lot 52

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DU BOIS (J.-P.-I.) - Lot 52
DU BOIS (J.-P.-I.) Lives of the Governors General, with the Abstract of the History of Dutch Settlements in the East Indies. The Hague, Pierre de Hondt, 1763. In-4 de IV, 351, (1), 48 pp., 32 plates without print. (out of 34), modern half-basane (Lobstein-Laurenchet). First edition. Important history of the Dutch East India Company through the lives of the 28 Governors General who succeeded each other at the head of this company from Peter Both (1609) to Jacob Mossel (1752). At the end is an interesting treatise on the present state of the Company of the United Provinces by the former governor Gustaaf Willem, Baron d'Imhoff, appointed in 1740 and who resided in Batavia from 1742 to 1750, text translated from Dutch. The work is richly illustrated with 32 (out of 34, the plan and view of Amboony is missing) maps, plans and views (Java, Batavia, Ceylon, Bali, Australia, etc.), most of them leaflets, an inscription plate, as well as finely engraved in-text portraits of the 28 governors general, all by the Dutch engraver Jacobus van der Schley, a pupil of Bernard Picart.
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