Willem Usselinx; Founder of the Dutch and Swedish West India Companies (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1887. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... and 47 respectively. Of the first, second, and fourth of them in the reprint, he says, in the passage (p. 85) already referred to: "As far as we know, these are the only remains of the existence of these pamphlets, which are now neither rare nor unique, but absolutely and totally lost." As will have been seen, I have had the good fortune to find that there are in the Royal Library at Stockholm copies of the original editions of all four. But, as the notes appended in the case of each will have shown, they contain virtually no new material; for they are, with but slight exceptions, merely separate issues of parts of the Argonautica, which Marquardus added to his reprint of the latter in ignorance or carelessness of the fact that he was thus repeating. ii.--writings not pr1nted. Under this head are included writings of Usselinx not printed by him or in his lifetime. In designating the copies of some of them at Albany I have used the notation of a provisional calendar of them which I left-there after concluding my examination of them. Excepting these fifteen (eleven of which are printed in Van Rees), and Nos. 3, 67, and 70, all the following are described from copies in'my own possession. In a few cases, it will be seen, there may be a doubt of authorship; I have had only copies by which to decide. 1. A brief memorial or request to the States General; undated, but of about the year 1617. Rijksarchief, Hague. 2. A brief memorial or request to the States of Holland; undated, but of about the autumn of 1617. Rijksarchief, Hague. 3. The draft of a charter prepared by Usselinx. 1619. Rijksarchief, Hague. Printed by O. van Rees, Geschiedenis der Staathuishoudkunde in Nederland tot het Einde der achttiende Eeuw, ii., pp. 384-408. 4. Corte aenwysinge van de voornaemste ver...