A Collection of Voyages Undertaken by the Dutch East-India Company: For the Improvement of Trade and Navigation ... Together with an Historical Introd (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781275641181)

Title: A collection of voyages undertaken by the Dutch East-India Company: for the improvement of trade and navigation ... together with an historical introduction, giving an account of the rise, establishment and progress of that great body.Author: Constantin de RennevillePublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP00962500CollectionID: CTRG93-B272PublicationDate: 17030101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Translation of Constantin de Renneville's compilation Recueil des voyages qui ont servi a l'etablissement et aux progres de la Compagnie des Indes orientales, which itself was translated mostly from Izaak Commelin's compilation Begin ende voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie. Cf. BM. The four voyages here given correspond to the first four in Commelin's compilaton.Collation: 32], 336 p., 10] leaves of plates: 10 maps; 20 cm

Author: Constantin De Renneville
ISBN-10: 1275641180
ISBN-13: 9781275641181
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Language: English
Published: 02/21/2012
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.79d