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[WEST INDIES, DUTCH]. Kort discourse, ofte naardere verklaringe van de onderstaende V. Poincten. 1. Aengaende de verlichtinghe die desen staat heeft ghenooten, door de oprechtinghe en oorloghen van de West-Indische Compagnie… 8vo (in 4s), pp. [36], disbound. [Amsterdam:] Netherlands, Gedruckt voor een Lief-bebber van't Vaderland, 1644. Only Edition. A "short discourse" set down in 5 points about trade and commerce in the Dutch West Indies and the new American settlements, at a time when the West India company had, as Robert Benaway Brown wrote about another 1644 pamphlet on the same subject in, The Netherlands and America: A Clements Library Bulletin Prepared on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Establishment of the City of Holland in Michigan (Ann Arbor: 1947), #17: "come to the sad but inevitable conclusion that war was not a paying proposition…Seeking any kind of an out, a union was… Read More
