12mo, [24], 369, [12] pp. With engraved title-page, woodcut printer's device on title and 6 folding engraved plates. Contemporary vellum (sl. soiled).
"Extremely rare. Ref. Ruinen A20; Landwehr, VOC, 233; Cat. KITLV p. 32. Levinus Bor entered Arnold de Vlamingh van Oudtshoorn's service as his assistant in 1650 and became his secretary later. Bor was a witness to the suppression of the rebellion in the Ambonese islands in 1651-1656. In his booklet, written in 1657, he sets out to give a report on the basis of the papers at his disposal of the Vlamingh's methods of warfare and of the latter's measures to safeguard the VOC's interest for a long time ahead. The entire work is suffered with a tone of approval and admiration for the feats of the extremely harsh de Vlamingh. Bor shows no understanding whatever for the motives inspiring the Moluccan rebels' (Polman, The Central Moluccas, p.21)"