Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien, vervattende een naaukeurige en Uitvoerige Verhandelinge van Nederlands Mogentheyd in die Gewesten, benevens eene wydluftige Beschryvinge der Moluccos, Amboina, Banda, Timor, en Solor, Java, en alle de Eylanden onder dezelve Landbestieringen behoorende ; het Nederlands Comptoir op Suratte, en de Levens der Groote Mogols ; als ook een keurylke Verhandeling van 't wezentlykste dat men behoort te weten van Choromandel, Pegu, Arracan, Bengale, Mocha, Persien, Malacca, Sumatra, Ceylon, Malabar, Celebes of Macassar, China, Japan, Tayouan of Formosa, Tonkin, Cambodia, Siam, Borneo, Bali, Kaap der Goede Hoop en van Mauritius. Te zamen dus behelzende niet alleen eene zeer nette Beschryving van alles, wat Nederlands Oost-Indien betreft, maar ook 't voornaamste dat eenigzins tot eenige andere Europeers, in die Gewesten, betrekking heeft ...

Joannes van Braam & Gerard Onder de Linden, printers and booksellers

Amsterdam, Netherlands Dordrecht, Netherlands

1724-1726

Dutch

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1st edition

deel 1, stuk 1. Nederlands mogentheid. stuk 2. Moluccos. Molukse zaaken -- deel 2. Amboina. Ambonsche zaaken -- deel 3, stuk 1. Amboina (cont.) Boomen, planten, dieren, etc., van Amboina. stuk 2. Boomen, etc., van Amboina (cont.) Banda. Bandasche zaaken. Solor en Timor. Macassar. Macassaarsche zaaken. Borneo. Bali. Tonkin. Cambodia. Siam -- deel 4, stuk 1. Java. Bantam. Batavia. Levens der opper-landvoogden. stuk 2. Javaansche zaaken. Suratte. Levens der Groote Mogols. Tsjina. Tayouan of Formosa. Des schryvers uyten t'huysreyze -- deel 5, stuk 1. De kust van Choromandel. Persien. Malakka. Sumatra. Ceylon -- deel 5, stuk 2. Malabar. Japan. Zaaken van Japan. De Kaap der Goede Hoope. Zaaken ven de Kaap der Goede Hoope. Zaaken van het eyland Mauritius.
(Translation; part 1, piece 1. Dutch power. piece 2. Moluccos. Moluccan affairs - part 2. Amboina. Ambon affairs - part 3, piece 1. Amboina (cont.) Trees, plants, animals, etc., from Amboina. piece 2. Trees, etc., from Amboina (cont.) Banda. Bandanese affairs. Solor and Timor. Macassar. Macassaric affairs. Borneo. Bali. Tonkin. Cambodia. Siam - part 4, piece 1. Java. Bantam. Batavia. Lives of the Supreme Governors. piece 2. Javanese affairs. Suratte. Lives of the Great Mughals. China. Taiwan or Formosa. Des schryvers uyten t'huysreyze - part 5, piece 1. The coast of Choromandel. Persia. Malacca. Sumatra. Ceylon - part 5, piece 2. Malabar. Japan. Business of Japan. The Cape of Good Hope. affairs at the Cape of Good Hope. affairs of the Mauritius island.

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Franτois Valentijn (17 April 1666 - 6 August 1727) was a Dutch minister, naturalist and author whose Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiδn ("Old and New East-India") describes the history of the Dutch East India Company and the countries of the Far East.
Franτois Valentijn was born in 1666 in Dordrecht, Holland, where he lived most his life; however, he is known for his activities in the tropics, notably in Ambon, in the Maluku Archipelago. Valentijn read theology and philosophy at the University of Leiden and the University of Utrecht before leaving for a career as a preacher in the Indies.
In total, Valentijn lived in the East Indies 16 years. Valentijn was first employed by the V.O.C. (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or Dutch East India Company) at the age of 19 as minister to the East Indies, where he became a friend of the German naturalist Georg Eberhard Rumpf (Rumphius). He returned and lived in Holland for about ten years before returning to the Indies in 1705 where he was to serve as army chaplain on an expedition in eastern Java. He finally returned to Dordrecht where he found time to write his Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiδn (1724-26) a massive work of five parts published in eight volumes and containing over one thousand engraved illustrations and some of the most accurate maps of the Indies of the time. He died in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1727.
Valentijn probably had access to the V.O.C.'s archive of maps and geographic trade secrets, which they had always guarded jealously. Johannes van Keulen II (d. 1755) became Hydrographer to the V.O.C. at the time Valentijn's Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiδn was published. It was in the younger van Keulen's time that many of the VOC charts were first published, one signal of the decline of Dutch dominance in the spice trade. One uncommon grace afforded Valentijn was that he lived to see his work published; the VOC (Dutch East India Company) strictly enforced a policy prohibiting former employees from publishing anything about the region or their colonial administration. And while, as Thomas Sußrez notes, by the mid-18th century the Dutch no longer feared sharing geographic secrets, E. M. Beekman notes how "the execution of this policy was erratic and based on personal motives".
While Valentijn's maps and diagrams were prized possessions, his scholarship, judging by 21st-century standards was unscrupulous. Valentijn's use of the products of other scientists' and writers' intellectual labour, passing it off as his own, reveals a penchant for self-aggrandisement. Beekman nevertheless cites him as an important figure and, given his writing style, diction and aptitude for narrative, one of the greatest Dutch prose writers of the time - going so far as to suggest comparison between one of the various stories in his work and a Chaucerian tale.'--Wikipedia, August 2019.

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