"2 vol. in-4to, VI, 351; 48 pp., with title-page printed in red and black, 27 engraved vignette portraits of the Governors-General and 34 engraved folding maps, plans and views after Jacobus van Schley. Including plans and views of Deshima, Batavia (slaughter of the Chinese), Ternate, Galle, Malacca and maps of Java, Australia, Ceylon, Cape of Good Hope, Bali, etc. Large paper copy. Title page of the atlas volume is a fac-simile of the general title page, in black. Contemp. roan with gilt fillet round sides, spine richly gilt, atlas volume is slightly larger: modern half red morocco, spine gilt"
"Much improved edition of volume XX of Prévost's Historische beschrijving der reizen. Enlarged with an important treatise on the actual state of the Dutch East Indies Consideration sur l'état présent de la Compagnie hollandoise des Indes Orientales by the ex-Governor General Baron d'Imhoff. Interesting description of the lives of 27 Governors General from Pieter Both in 1609 up till Jacob Mossel in 1752 and all the events relative to the affairs of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) from the Cape of Good Hope to Indonesia, India, Ceylon, Australia, Formosa and Japan during a period of ca. 150 years. Ref. Landwehr, VOC, 1502; Cat. KITLV p.236; Cordier, B.I., col. 1490; Bastin-Brommer N17; Mendelsson I, p.488-489; SAB II, p.108"
