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Author: India. High Commissioner in the United Kingdom. Library
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Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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Author: Louisa Balk
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047421795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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The VOC (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the Dutch East India Company) was the largest of the early modern European trading companies operating in Asia. Its operations produced not only warehouses packed with spices, coffee, tea, textiles, porcelain and silk, but also shiploads of documents. Data on political, economic, cultural, religious, and social conditions spread over an enormous area circulated between the VOC establishments, the administrative centre of the trade in Batavia, now the city of Jakarta, and the Board of Directors in the Netherlands. The co-operation between the National Archives of Indonesia and the Netherlands resulted in this extensive catalogue of fifteen archives of VOC institutions in Jakarta. The VOC records are included in UNESCO ́s Memory of the World Register.

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ISBN: 9789061942580
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Günter Schilder
Publisher: Brill
ISBN: 9789061942603
Category : CD-ROMs
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company) was for a period of 200 years responsible for the navigation material for the journey between the Netherlands and the Far East and the inter-Asian trade. This book presents a never published before overview of chart material used on a VOC ship. The introduction provides information on the history of the VOC, the chart makers, the routes, and the navigation and instruments. All navigation charts of the VOC in the seventeenth and eighteenth century are drawn on vellum, and described and analyzed in an illustrated cartobibliography. Extracts of the 'groot-journalen' of the 'Kamer Amsterdam' are also included, providing a unique view of the total expenses of the VOC on navigation. Sailing for the East is part ten of the Utrecht Studies of the History of Cartography. Includes 600 full color images, CD-ROM with appendices.Gunter Schilder graduated from Vienna University and has worked in the Netherlands at the Utrecht University on the history of cartography since 1971. In 1981 he was appointed professor of the history of cartography, a position he continued until his retirement in 2005. Schilder has written numerous publications on the history of Dutch cartography and discoveries, and as a result has agumented the knowledge of and appreciation for Dutch cartography in its Golden AgeHans D. Kok attended the Dutch Government Civil Aviation Flying Training School and later joined KLM- Royal Dutch Airlines. His interest in navigation and maps stems from his early days of navigating across oceans and polar areas, practising the old techniques, using sextants and other specific navigational instruments. His map collection comprises maps and charts from 1560 till 1800, focusing on the sea-routes from Amsterdam to Jakarta, formerly Batavia, in the Dutch East Indies. He is currently on the Board of Editors of Caert-Thresoor in Holland, and is the Chairman of IMCoS, the International Map Collectors' Society in London.

Author: Isaac Titsingh
Publisher: Hotei Publishing
ISBN: 9789050630528
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Isaac Titsingh (1745-1812) was Director of the VOC (Dutch East India Company) in Japan, where he was detached to the island of Deshima. Titsingh owned the first extensive collection of Japanese artefacts in Europe, and wrote a trilingual series of studies on Japan, thereby becoming the first Dutch Japanologist. The two volumes contain 300 of his letters.

Author: Barbara Dossi
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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"The Albertina in Vienna, which houses one of the most significant collections of graphic art in the world, is rightfully famous for the unsurpassed quality of its pieces. The Collection comprises some 65,000 drawings, almost one million prints, and countless other works on paper, ranging from the Late Gothic period to the present day. The eventful history of the Graphische Sammlung Albertina, founded by Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen, spans more than two hundred years, and passed into the public domain in 1919."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Languages : en
Pages : 156

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