John Landwehr - VOC: A bibliography of publications relating to the Dutch East India Company 1602-1800. Edited by Peter van der Krogt. Introduction by C.R. Boxer. [...]

John Landwehr - VOC: A bibliography of publications relating to the Dutch East India Company 1602-1800. Edited by Peter van der Krogt. Introduction by C.R. Boxer. Preface by G. Schilder - Utrecht - HES Publishers - 1991 - 1st edition - xlii, [18], 840 pp - Cloth binding with dust jacket - 20 x 28 cm. - Design: Fred van den Berg.

Condition: As new - UNOPENED in plastic (!) and in the original publisher's cardboard box.

Bibliographic standard work with an overview of publications on the 'Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie'. Illustrated with reproductions (title pages, printer's marks) in colour and black and white. With literature-list., check-list of booksellers, publishers and printers, chronological list of Batavia imprints, alphabetical list of titles and general index. Text in English.

Hardback edition. Only one print-run was issued. This was the magnus opus of the Dutch bibliographer John Landwehr (1924-2015), who also compiled bibliographies on cookbooks and emblem books.

¶ The 'Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie' was a private trading company from the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, known as the first multinational (founded 1602). With a monopoly on overseas trade with Asia (Dutch East Indies, Japan), it was the largest trading company in the world at the time. The VOC concluded contracts with Eastern potentates and princes, but also had its own army and warships to force trade with the local population if necessary. This first public company with freely tradable shares was so powerful that it even minted its own coins. However, after the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780-1784) it went downhill and in 1800 the curtain fell.