- 3167
Havart, Daniel (c. 1656-1715).
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1,200 - 1,800 GBP
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Description
- Op-en ondergang van Cormandel: in zijn binnenste geheel open, en ten toon gesteld. Waar in nauwkeurig verhandeld word. Amsterdam: Jan ten Hoorn, 1693
4to (202 x 151mm.), [28], 232, 242, 94, [16]pp., illustration: additional engraved title-page by J. Woolaston, 23 engraved maps, diagrams, plans and scenes (9 folding), woodcut initials, binding: contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments, additional engraved title-page stained and torn with repair to verso, final leaf stained and creased, damp staining to upper corner of some leaves, some small marginal chips not affecting text, upper hinge cracking, binding worn, edges stained with paint
Literature
VOC 559; Tiele-Muller 458; Sanjay Subrahmanyam, "Rural Industry and Commercial Agriculture in Late Seventeenth-Century South-Eastern India" Past and Present 126 (1990), 76-114
Catalogue Note
According to Donald F. Lach's exhibition catalogue, Asia in the Eyes of Europe: Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Chicago, 1991) this is "the best book on northern Coromandel (the south east coast of India) and on the sultanate of Golconda in its dying years". In addition to a detailed description of the region, there is extensive information on Dutch trade and the factories of the East India Company.